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Web Hosting Like No Other
What makes our hosting platform so different?
- Built by hosting experts for optimal website performance
- Unique cloud technology unavailable anywhere else
- Never standing still, always progressing
- Green hosting powered by 100% renewable energy
Global CDN
Our free Content Delivery Network caches your content at data centres around the world.
Autoscaling Servers
We use a new kind of autoscaling, so your site gets the power it needs – however busy it gets.
Google DNS
The best technology available from Google to translate domain names through the Domain Name System.
Optimised PHP
Our custom code makes every website load faster. We aren’t subject to any limits when hosting.
Three Platforms
Each sub-platform – WordPress, Linux and Windows – is optimised for stellar performance.
Load Balancing
Our reputation for rock-solid server uptime is built on our innovative load balancing features.
Free CDN – for a faster site, anywhere in the world
Our Content Delivery Network will cache your WordPress website at different locations around the world, so that it loads faster wherever your users are. It’s free, and there are no bandwidth limits – so we recommend using it all the time.
- Amsterdam
- Frankfurt
- London
- Madrid
- Moscow
- Nottingham
- Paris
- Ashburn
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- New York
- Seattle
- Hong Kong
- Mumbai
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tokyo
- Johannesburg
- Sāo Paulo
Compress Code And Images, Automatically
WordPress Website Acceleration Suite
We created the Website Acceleration Suite as a way to get all sites to load faster. This is better for your users, and good for SEO: we know how much importance Google attaches to web page loading speed.
So our Suite optimises the things you might get warned-about in page speed scoring. Images are resized and compressed, and HTML, CSS and JavaScript is minified. That’s not all: there are over 40 performance-boosting features that you can use to fine-tune your website.
We also made a safe ‘one-click’ option for those who don’t have the time or inclination to get too technical. Toggle it on, and you’ll see immediate, dramatic improvements.
Autoscaling
Access to as many servers as your site needs
All our web hosting services use autoscaling technology. No other hosting company has access to this.
Autoscaling literally means that our resources scale automatically. Bandwidth, memory and processing power is scaled up or down instantly – depending on demand. This is what makes them true ‘elastic cloud’. If there’s a surge in traffic, your website will continue to offer the same fast experience for every user.
This is because a site isn’t hosted on one or two servers. Instead, it can access the whole platform’s resources: multiple servers. It’s what makes the our platform special.
If there’s a spike in demand and your shared hosting ‘neighbours’ become busy, it doesn’t affect your site speed. Busy sites are isolated from others.
This doesn’t happen at other hosting providers, as websites controlled by cPanel are restricted to single servers. With other hosts, if you share a server with a busy site, it will affect your site too.
PHP
We optimise PHP in a unique way
To remain the provider of the fastest shared hosting, it’s important that we use the latest technologies. So we investigate all the speed-boosting technologies available to other web hosting companies.
The problem with these ‘off the shelf’ products is that they don’t scale very well. They’re designed for small companies that use older, single-server technologies. To work with our autoscaling, we found that the better option was to write our own web hosting code.
Our developers have customised PHP-FPM and OPcache to ensure that your website gets the resources it needs, even if it’s really busy. Our code boosts performance for every website running PHP 5.6 or above. For more recent versions of PHP, the speed improvements are even more pronounced. As we’re not constrained by CloudLinux, we don’t have to impose limits on cores, memory, bandwidth and processes.
Your site stays fast, however busy it gets.
Load Balancing
Load Balancing Of A Different Calibre
Load balancing is about sharing traffic across servers. Other web hosts use load balancing – but not the kind we’ve developed. Their load balancing mitigates failover: if a server goes down, your site will be moved to another, so it stays online.
It’s a kind of disaster recovery. That’s expected: we offer that kind of server redundancy as well, even though we use some of the best hardware in the industry – thanks to our long-term partners at Dell – and a robust 10 Gb network.
Our global load balancing makes use of monitors that will respond to traffic load and balance it across multiple servers when needed. Many other providers don’t offer this. The consequence for you is this: with Cloud Supreme, your site stays online, and remains fast, whatever load the servers are under.
DNS
Google-based DNS
The Domain Name System (DNS) translates domain names – and email addresses – into IP addresses. So when you visit a URL, your browser knows the address of the server to download the page from. It’s an essential part of the internet – so it needs to be fast.
Google knows all about fast internet response times – as you’d expect! Their global fibre network leads the industry. It provides a quick and stable response regardless of traffic. So our DNS platform on the same infrastructure as Google.
All domains hosted with us benefit from Google DNS.
100% Renewable Energy
Green Hosting
The internet uses a lot of electricity, contributing to climate change. It’s estimated that it uses over 400 terawatt-hours a year*. That’s more than the whole of the UK, for example.
That’s why we’re committed to using 100% renewable energy in our web hosting, as well as ensuring that our data centres are as efficient as possible.
Our web hosting is powered by renewable energy: wind and solar. Our environmental award-winning data centres have a PUE (power usage efficiency) as low as 1.12, where elsewhere you may get PUE of 1.2 or more (lower is better).
Our autoscaling platform ensures that your website gets the resources it needs when it’s busy. That also means that we can save energy when websites aren’t busy.
Powerful And Versatile
Choose Your Operating System
You’re given the choice of what operating system or content management system you want to use: Linux, Windows or WordPress. If you want to use all three in one account please contact our sales team.
Linux Platform
Our Linux platform is great for most types of websites. It’s the most versatile choice. Built for speed and security by our in-house experts, we’ve fine-tuned Apache for even better performance. It also offers over 80 one-click installs of popular open source apps, including Drupal, Joomla! & Magento.
WordPress Platform
Managed WordPress hosting, performance-tuned to make sites load up to 48 times faster. Features include: WordPress staging, automatic updates, plugin/theme monitoring, brute force login protection, timeline backups, code optimisation and our own exclusive StackCache speed plugin.
Windows Platform
Our robust Windows web hosting is backed by a speed-boosting IIS cluster. This cluster provides redundancy: there’s no single point of failure. Our Windows platform is optimised to be fast and secure. It’s the perfect choice for sites that use ASP, ASP.NET, MS Access, or MS SQL.
Host With The Most
What makes our hosting platform so different?
As we use our own hosting products, we can give you better value. All web hosting includes: