FXRM was founded in 2025 by Jon Morby. He was at Demon Internet when it had over 100,000 customers. He built and sold a hosting company. He tried retirement — bought a boat, started a YouTube channel, became an ordinary customer of the services he'd spent decades building. What he found was a market so broken he couldn't stay out of it. FXRM is the result.
Most hosting companies are founded by developers who got tired of bad hosts. FXRM was founded by someone who spent decades building the infrastructure those developers rely on — sold it, tried to stop, and found the market had become too broken to stay on the sidelines.
This was the DOS era — before Windows 3.11, before TCP/IP, before KA9Q. Jon Morby was active on Fidonet, the global bulletin board network, running nodes and moving echomail and netmail around the UK and across Europe. He then discovered UUCP as a way to carry mail across the emerging network and reduce the phone bills doing it. The fundamentals of networked communications, learned by necessity.
As the internet began to replace the BBS world, Jon set up fido.net in 1995 to support that community through the transition. Demon Internet MD Cliff Stanford saw what Jon was doing and recruited him to run Demon's Birmingham Point of Presence — while actively encouraging him to keep fido.net and fidonet.org running in parallel. Stanford knew exactly what he had.
Jon moved quickly from Technical Support into Operations, becoming responsible for the entire Demon Mail system — over 100,000 paying customers depending on it. By 1997 he was in the Senior Management team as Advanced Technologies Manager, with blue-sky thinking guiding company policy. When Demon was sold to Scottish Telecom (now Thus plc), Jon left.
Interactive Investor International needed someone who could operate internet systems where failure had direct financial consequences. Jon ran their website and trading infrastructure across the UK, Hong Kong and South Africa — real-time stock trading, stock alerts, no room for error.
As Head of European Operations at Redbus Interhouse PLC, Jon oversaw 14 data centres spanning 9 countries. Global infrastructure at serious scale. But hosting was always where his heart was, and it kept pulling him back.
In 2006, Jon left Redbus to return to fido.net and fidonet.com full time — building it into a professional ISP with a deliberate focus on B2B services and customer service that actually meant something. Spam filtering and virus scanning long before the industry considered either standard. A reputation built on doing the job properly rather than growing fast.
Jon sold FidoNet Registration Services Ltd and stepped back. He bought a boat, started a YouTube channel, and became — for the first time in decades — an ordinary customer of the services he'd spent his career building. What he found was grim.
Retirement didn't stick. As a prosumer, Jon discovered how difficult it was to do the simple things he'd taken for granted at fido.net — reliable hosting, straightforward DNS, email that just worked. Things that should be easy. He decided he had to come back to do it properly, for his own sanity and that of everyone he knows. FXRM is the result.
Every one of these is operated by FXRM engineers, not a third party.
Modern hosting control panel. No cPanel licensing. Full white-label for resellers.
Enterprise mail infrastructure. Every account gets DKIM, DMARC, SPF configured correctly.
KVM virtualisation for VPS hosting. Real dedicated resources, not oversold shared VMs.
DNS server with DNSSEC. Authoritative DNS for every domain we host.
Load balancing and proxying. Used for high-availability deployments.
IMAP/POP3 server running inside Enhance. When something goes wrong at the Dovecot level, we know what we're looking at.
Mail transfer agent used by Enhance. Understanding Postfix at the configuration level is how you diagnose real deliverability problems.
Alternative MTA used across many servers we migrate and support. We know both — whichever stack you're running, we've seen it.
— Jon Morby, 2003
UK-owned and UK-operated — no US parent company, no VC backing
Infrastructure decisions made for technical reasons, not investor returns
Phone support because it's the right way to treat professional customers
6 Hamm Beach Road, Portland, DT5 1DX — a real address, a real company
Jon Morby founded FXRM to do this properly — with the right stack, the right support model, and none of the compromises that accumulate when a company grows for the wrong reasons. He has been doing this since before the web existed, and has no intention of stopping.
Engineers, not a support department. When you call FXRM, you speak to someone who understands your infrastructure. We don't have a tier-1 triage team — our engineers are the support team.
Beyond hosting, FXRM builds software for the Blesta billing platform — a Zimbra provisioning module, a CRM system, Xero accounting integration, and Google SSO. We're not just operators. We're builders.
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