WEB HOSTING PLATFORM LIKE NO OTHER – BUILT FOR INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE

Unlike with other web hosts, your website isn’t tied to one single server but makes use of a whole platform, meaning that you get incredible reliability and speed at an unbelievably low price.

Traditional shared hosting performance is subject to how much traffic you get and what other users are doing, but our platforms are load-balanced and automatically scale to meet resource demands at no extra cost to you. Your website stays online and runs fast so you can concentrate on your business.

KEY FEATURES

– Choose from three powerful platforms: Linux, WordPress, or Windows
– Autoscaling and load-balanced
– Enhanced speed and security
– 100% SSD (solid state drive) storage
– Green hosting powered by 100% renewable energy
– IPv6 enabled
– Secure, state-of-the-art UK data centre
– Friendly UK support

CHOOSE A POWERFUL CLOUD HOSTING PLATFORM

All three of our premium web hosting platforms include our autoscaling and load balancing technologies.
Your choice is between what operating system or content management system you want to use: Linux, WordPress or Windows.

LINUX HOSTING

Our high-powered Linux platform is ideal for running everything from Joomla! to Magento, so if you like your software you’ll love this platform. If you’re not sure what kind of hosting you need or what kind of website you want, Linux is the best choice. It’s fantastic out of the box, but we’ve made it even better.
Optimised Apache with NGINX Edge Cache – We’ve fine-tuned Linux’s Apache and created our own superfast caching system so your website always runs at its best. It’s the perfect foundation to grow your website.
80+ one-click installs – Choose from a wide range of powerful free software titles and install them in seconds. With everything from invoicing to project management covered, you can install as many as you like as use them as much as you want. You can also install the world’s most popular content management systems and ecommerce software to create feature-rich websites at no extra cost.
Multiple Programming Languages – Our Linux platform allows you to make use of many different versions of PHP, ensuring greater flexibility for your website, frameworks, and scripts.

WORDPRESS HOSTING

If you run WordPress, you’ll want to take advantage of our bespoke WordPress platform. We don’t repackage standard shared hosting as ‘WordPress Hosting’; we’ve gone above and beyond to create a completely separate managed platform. It’s optimised specifically for WordPress speed and security with lightning fast StackCache caching, MySQL resource handling, and automatic WordPress core updates all backed by fantastic hardware and support.
Automatic WordPress updates
Always forget to update WordPress or simply have too many installs? Don’t worry, we automatically update your core WordPress installs with the latest security fixes and new features as soon as they’re released.
Built-in plugin monitoring – Our systems are always running checks to identify any potentially abusive plugins and automatically block any that may put your website at risk or have a significant impact on performance.
StackCache – This unique plugin enhances your website caching for consistently quick loading speeds. It works automatically, but you can manage it yourself directly from your WordPress Dashboard if you prefer.
WordPress Tools – Create WordPress staging sites in one click and manage your common WordPress tasks from your hosting account.

WINDOWS HOSTING

When you’re building websites using Windows languages, technologies, and software, you need a platform that can handle the workload. We’ve designed a solid Windows platform to meet all your web hosting needs.
Always up to date – We use only the latest Windows hosting technology for our platform to ensure you’re always benefiting from the latest features and improvements. Many hosts avoid this because of the resources and costs involved, but we believe in giving you the best for your website.
Optimised IIS performance – Rather than using Windows as-is, we’ve tweaked IIS to give you enhanced website performance, ensuring better page speeds, happier visitors, and support for all ASP and ASP.NET languages from 2.0 onwards.

SECURITY PROTECTIONS

Our hosting is packed with enhanced security features such as anti-DDoS protection, SSL certificates, a Web Application Firewall and two-factor authentication to ensure that both your site and your data is protected.  We also have Automatic Malware Scanning adds another layer of protection and alerts you if malware is detected.
These enchanced security extras are included free as part of your hosting package – with scanning going on behind the scenes..

DDoS PROTECTION

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are usually what has happened when it’s reported that a website has been ‘taken down by hackers’. It involves flooding a server with fake requests, as if millions of new people are visiting the site. This will prevent genuine users from accessing the site..
Our DDoS protection will filter-out DDoS attacks. It can handle attacks of over 1 terabit per second, so even the largest attacks will be mitigated.

WEB APPLICATION FIREWALL

Criminals might try to look for vulnerabilities in your applications: like your database, for example. Our web application firewall will help protect you by scanning for attempts to hack your site. It will look for attacks involving trojans, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, path traversal and other ways to gain access to your files. We use both commercial tools and bespoke rules written by ourselves. All this goes on behind the scenes and doesn’t affect performance

BRUTE FORCE LOGIN PROTECTION

Another avenue of attack is by ‘brute force’: using software to try multiple variants of common and short passwords in an attempt to guess the correct one. We have systems in place that will detect automated attempts at brute forcing passwords through trial and error, and use Google reCAPTCHA to detect genuine users.

TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

We offer the option to use two-factor authentication (2FA) for Hosting Account access.
2FA is a way to add an extra layer of security. Our 2FA provides you with a time sensitive single use code to enter as well your password. We also allow you to password protect certain areas of your website.
Our strong password generator will help you create difficult-to-guess passwords and you can lock FTP behind a password. 

EMAIL SCANS

Emails can be a security risk, so we scan incoming emails for viruses and similar malware, blocking them before they reach your inbox.
Spam is controlled by being filtered through anti-spam deny lists and content checkers. You’re given full control to allow certain emails from domains that might otherwise go straight in to your junk mail.
Emails also have another layer of security through DKIM authentication, protecting you and those you send emails to against impersonation. Our servers have a great reputation, so your mail will never have problems being delivered.
Fully configurable email filters:
We provide you with fully configurable filters, which you can control from your hosting account. So you can whitelist certain senders, domains and TLDs to bypass the content filter entirely. The same goes with blacklists: you can create your own from your hosting account.

PCI COMPLIANT HOSTING

If you sell online and your business takes card payments, PCI compliance is non-negotiable – your hosting must be PCI compliant (The PCI standards apply to all e-commerce businesses, regardless of size or sales volume).  PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard — the criteria your e-commerce site must meet to protect cardholder data and reduce card fraud.
Our servers are Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliant. This means that our hosting servers are certified to be safe for online stores taking card payments, and the undergo regular audits.
PCI standards are enforced through a group of major credit and debit card companies, like Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.
Our hosting platforms consistently pass these independent audits.

WHAT IS AUTOSCALING ?

Autoscaling means resources are scaled automatically. Bandwidth, memory and processing power is scaled up or down instantly – depending on demand.
Our unique autoscaling technology means your site isn’t just hosted on one or two servers, it has access to as many servers as it needs. Our platform automatically scales resources such as memory and processing power depending on the demand of your site.
Unlike competitors which confine your site to one server, you have access to the whole platform. This ensures that your site speed isn’t affected by the traffic of shared hosting ‘neighbours’ or an influx in demand

WHAT IS LOAD BALANCING ?

Load balancing is the distribution of website or application workloads across multiple servers.
Our load balancing will respond to traffic load and balance it across multiple servers when needed. With traffic spikes managed and balanced automatically, your site stays online and remains fast, whatever load the servers are under

SHARED HOSTING WITH A DIFFERENCE