neutrality of this article is disputed . relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met . july 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message bytemark ltd. industry internet cloud computing founded july 12 2002 ; 14 years ago 2002 07 12 founders matthew bloch peter taphouse headquarters york north yorkshire u.k. area served worldwide services internet hosting service website https bytemark.co.uk bytemark is a uk based server hosting and datacentre provider 1 headquartered in york united kingdom . 2 founded in 2002 as bytemark computer consulting ltd 3 bytemark was the first provider citation needed of virtual machines and cloud hosting through user mode linux in 2003 . 4 in 2012 bytemark launched bigv 5 their public cloud platform designed completely in house using open source software . in 2013 bytemark moved in to their own 1.2 million datacentre and headquarters in york yo26 . 6 the datacentre uses fresh air cooling not common in the uk 7 and was shortlisted for innovation in medium data center at the datacenterdynamics awards emea 2013 . 8 in 2014 bytemark was named one of the top 50 fastest grown tech companies in the north 9 at the northern tech awards 10 with revenue growth of 44 % . financially bytemark turned over 2.5 million in 2013 . 11 in 2014 this grew to 3 million . 12 bytemark has a history of contributing to and support free software . bytemark offer an ongoing discount to free software publishers of at least 5 % . 13 bytemark support libreoffice 14 through provision of a build server . 15 in 2009 bytemark became a supporter of xbmc 16 with the same . in 2012 bytemark started supporting cyanogenmod with build servers . 17 in 2013 bytemark contributed hosting services worth 150 000 to the debian project 18 having used debian since the company was founded . bytemark also supports openstreetmap with dns services and servers to support version control mailing lists and help pages . 19 bytemark also support projects for social good including sponsoring servers for mysociety including fixmystreet theyworkforyou and whatdotheyknow . 20 references edit bytemark hosting invests in data centre . york press . retrieved 12 september 2014 . is ancient york poised to be the uk s next digital success story prolific north . prolific north . retrieved 12 september 2014 . bytemark computer consulting ltd in north yorkshire company information . retrieved 12 september 2014 . bytemark . free software magazine . retrieved 12 september 2014 . what small cloud players can offer to compete with the giants . techrepublic . 9 october 2012 . retrieved 12 september 2014 . bytemark moves into new 1.2 m data centre . york press . retrieved 12 september 2014 . bytemark hosting s york datacentre up for global award . york press . retrieved 12 september 2014 . the 2013 datacenterdynamics emea awards finalists are here . prweb . 1 november 2013 . retrieved 12 september 2014 . 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