{"id":20438,"date":"2026-09-16T13:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.20i.com\/blog\/?p=20438"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:42:12","slug":"10-years-of-20i-homepages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.20i.com\/blog\/10-years-of-20i-homepages\/","title":{"rendered":"A decade of 20i homepage designs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our homepage has changed a lot<\/em> over the past ten years! Join us for a trip down memory lane, courtesy of Wayback Machine<\/a>, and see how 20i.com was born, grew up, matured and occasionally dressed up for the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before 20i<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that 20i.com had a life long before we existed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you visited the domain in February 2001, you would have found a car search page, complete with dropdown menus for make and location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By May 2014, there was no car search to be seen as the domain was for sale for $8,800 which is around $12,400 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The following year brought a very basic placeholder, followed by a page saying the domain had “been reserved for future use”. Then, in January 2016, a recruitment page advertised for a mid-level PHP developer to join a \u201cnew business\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This job advert was a glimpse of what would come next.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our first hosting homepage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By October 2016, the first iteration of the 20i hosting website was live!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It introduced Reseller Hosting<\/a>, WordPress Hosting<\/a> and Web Hosting<\/a>, with domain search and StackCP all given prominent space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A large photographic hero section led into three dark product cards, followed by an explanation of our unique autoscaling cloud platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Further down the page, visitors could see StackCP running across desktop, tablet and mobile screens. StackCP would eventually develop into My20i, the control panel for 20i customers. The StackCP name lived on in the form of the fully Reseller-customisable control panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The page also introduced Tim and Jonathan Brealey as the founders behind Webfusion, 123 Reg and Heart Internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even at this early stage, the home page had several important jobs: to show the products, explain the technology and introduce the people behind a brand new company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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