Kieran Jones - Freethought

Kieran Jones

Freethought and Jolt merge

Freethought and Jolt merge

We are thrilled to announce that Freethought has merged with fellow hosting provider Jolt under the new banner of Freethought Group.

Proud to pay tax

Proud to pay tax

Anyone who knows Freethought knows that we strongly believe in doing the right thing. This is reflected in every facet of our business; from how we treat our customers, to the impact our business has on our environment, all the way through to how much tax we pay.

Striving for a #HungerFreeFuture

Striving for a #HungerFreeFuture

Thousands of families throughout the UK face impossible choices this winter; pay for heating, or pay for food? Should they forgo presents for children in favour of having food on the table? Sadly this is the reality that many face, not in some far flung developing country, but right here in the UK.

#DontManUpSpeakUp

#DontManUpSpeakUp

Here at Freethought we have a history of supporting mental health, and after the last few years the need for mental health support has never been greater. We are thrilled to be supporting the amazing work Menfulness do to support and bring men together to improve their physical and mental health.

Is unlimited ever truly unlimited?

Is unlimited ever truly unlimited?

We see the word "unlimited" a lot in the hosting industry, it feels like it's everywhere and most frequently of all it is used to describe how much disk space a hosting account has included.

Get the most out of video conferencing

Get the most out of video conferencing

Working from home isnt going away, even though we are well on the road to recovery (hopefully!), so I thought it would be a great time to look at ways to ensure that everyone is making the most out of their video conferencing.

Restoring Nominet to a public benefit organisation

Restoring Nominet to a public benefit organisation

For many years, we here at Freethought have been voicing our concern about the way in which the UK registry operator Nominet has been run, which is why we are proud to lend our support to the Public Benefit campaign.

Paying a fair wage, a living wage.

Paying a fair wage, a living wage.

We believe that being ethical means being kind to the environment, and paying our fair way in tax to the society in which we operate. We also believe it means being fair and kind to our employees and so today we are delighted to announce that we are officially a Living Wage Employer.

Introducing Freethought Services

Introducing Freethought Services

Freethought have been providing web hosting, domain names, and managed solutions for over 17 years. We are delighted to announce the launch of Freethought Services. The same principles, the same level of care and attentive support, but for your home and office.

Saying what we pay

Saying what we pay

We are excited to announce that we have successfully secured Fair Tax Mark certification, independently recognising our commitment to pay the right amount of corporation tax in the right place, at the right time.

Planting trees every month 🌳

Planting trees every month 🌳

Having planted 5000 trees in December, and another 700 in January, we are now making our tree planting pledge a permanent feature. We'll plant trees for every order placed, and have planted another 459 - taking our total number of trees planted to 6,300 trees!

Tips for working from home during isolation

Tips for working from home during isolation

Read our top 10 tips for working from home if you're isolated during the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus

Over the coming weeks and months coronavirus is going to have an increasing impact on everyone's day-to-day lives. We wanted to take a moment to just clarify how we forsee Freethought continuing to provide what are increasingly critical online services to our customers.

Christmas at Freethought, a year in review.

Christmas at Freethought, a year in review.

Once more we find ourselves at the end of the year with the festive season rapidly approaching and so we wanted to post a little update to tell you about some of what we're up to and what we have planned. We're a family run business so think of it like a good ol' fashioned family newsletter!

Planting not just trees but forests

Planting not just trees but forests

With our new partner Offset Earth we've planted 5000 trees and are funding projects to remove 100 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. And from today until the end of January 2020 every time you make a purchase from us we're going to plant even more trees!

Domain pricing changes

Domain pricing changes

As a general rule we try to avoid increasing our prices. Unfortunately, between price increases by registries and the current economic and political landscape, regrettably we are forced to adjust our pricing.

Brexit and .eu domains

Brexit and .eu domains

Important advice for registrants of .eu domains when preparing for Brexit

Ethical Consumer scores Freethought 14.5 out of 15

Ethical Consumer scores Freethought 14.5 out of 15

Read about how Freethought's ethical business policy was screened and scored 14.5 out of 15 by Ethical Consumer

Freethought gains ISO 9001 and 27001 certification

Freethought gains ISO 9001 and 27001 certification

Freethought is thrilled to announce that we are now certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 standards for quality management and information security.

Hosting Advice profiles Freethought

Hosting Advice profiles Freethought

Freethought sits down with Hosting Advice to talk about how family values still drive the business to this day.

Speed up your website with these 6 easy tips

Speed up your website with these 6 easy tips

Increase your conversion rate and reduce abandonment with these 6 simple tips to boost your site speed.

Introducing Node.js, Ruby, and Git

Introducing Node.js, Ruby, and Git

We're delighted to announce that with the latest update to the Plesk control panel our standard web hosting and ULTRA hosting services now have native support for Node.js, Ruby (both Rails and Sinatra), and Git.

Introducing Let's Encrypt

Introducing Let's Encrypt

We are delighted to announce that we have enabled support for Let's Encrypt across our entire range of shared and reseller Linux hosting services (we haven't quite got Windows working yet, sorry).

Brexit and Freethought

Brexit and Freethought

We address some of the more obvious questions that relate to Freethought and the UK vote to leave the EU.

Keeping the internet safe at Freethought

Keeping the internet safe at Freethought

As a provider of many internet services we take our responsibility to keep our customers and the wider internet safe, very seriously.