A young entrepreneur who started his tech business when he was still at school is investing in his company to win more clients.
Jaden Fyfe, 19, is the owner and founder of FyfeWeb, a website-hosting business in Whickham, Gateshead, which is responsible for keeping more than 300 websites online.
The company is now in its fifth year, having been launched by Mr Fyfe while he was still studying at school. Explaining how he got started, he said: “I was at Emmanuel College. I did a lot of network work for the school and that is how I got into it. I was doing work for the school and I would work on my own servers from school.
“In my lunch time I would work on my servers and there were about 60 to 70 websites I was looking after.”
“I started FyfeWeb from my parents’ garage in 2014 when I was 14 and this was when I got my first server.
"With this hardware, I started selling Web Hosting space and Virtual Servers to friends – all over a 50 Mbps upload internet connection.
“Surprisingly, this soon progressed into me expanding operations when I required more system resources as my customer base expanded.
"Over the past two years, I’ve rapidly developed FyfeWeb into a small yet successful business, with over 3Gbps of connectivity, and points of presence in multiple 海角视频-based data centres.
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“Our portfolio has expanded significantly too – now offering Plesk and cPanel web hosting, on-demand private cloud VPS servers, dedicated root servers, high-bandwidth ISP connectivity and co-location.”
Since then the business has continued to grow, with the company building a client base of around 300 customers. Many of these customers have their own clients who indirectly use FyfeWeb’s servers, meaning the company is responsible for many more websites.
And despite Mr Fyfe’s young age he has invested heavily in the business and this year spent £20,000 on infrastructure improvements.
Mr Fyfe works along side Connor McDonald, who works as the operations director. Mr McDonald was initially one of FyfeWeb’s customers but came on board in 2017 to help the business grow.
The pair are now working to futureproof the business and are investing in cloud server technology so that they can offer more products to their clients.
“We are putting a lot of our infrastructure into cloud servers as not everyone wants to deal with that themselves,” said Mr Fyfe.
“Companies just want to rent a little bit and tap into it as and when they need it. That service has been very popular over the last year.”