Business cloud hosting
Cloud hosting for businesses that want capacity to grow with demand and someone else to run it. Public, hybrid and enterprise cloud environments hosted in the UK and managed by our service desk.
Cloud hosting plans
All prices are per month excluding VAT, hosted in our London data centre. Longer terms reduce the monthly rate.
Business websites, WordPress, line-of-business web apps, CRM and light databases.
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- SuiteCRM
- Nextcloud
- Node and Laravel apps
Multi-application servers, e-commerce and mid-size databases.
- WooCommerce and Magento
- Custom PHP and Node apps
- MySQL and PostgreSQL
Heavier workloads, busy SaaS applications and larger concurrent user bases.
- SaaS back-ends
- Larger Postgres and MySQL
- Self-hosted GitLab
Windows line-of-business applications, Remote Desktop Services and SQL Server.
- Sage 50 and Sage 200
- QuickBooks Desktop
- Act!
- SQL Server
- RDS
Kubernetes and Docker workloads, microservices and CI runners.
- Kubernetes
- Docker Swarm
- Microservices
- CI/CD runners
Resource add-ons
- Additional storage£10 per 100 GB / month
- Additional memory£5 per GB / month
- Additional vCPU£7 per vCPU / month
Managed backup
- Up to 250 GB£18 / month
- Up to 500 GB£28 / month
- Up to 1 TB£45 / month
- Up to 2 TB£75 / month
Hosting service levels
Availability is measured monthly, excludes planned maintenance and is backed by service credits. Full detail sits in our published service level agreement.
| Service | Target |
|---|---|
| Hosting platform (compute, storage, hypervisor) Availability of the virtualisation platform in our London data centre | 99.95% |
| Data centre power and cooling A and B feed power to the rack, with UPS and generator backup | 100% |
| Network and IP connectivity Reachability at the platform edge across diverse carriers | 99.99% |
| Managed backup service Availability of the backup platform, with nightly job success reporting | 99.9% |
| Priority | Response | Fix target |
|---|---|---|
| P1 Critical Server or platform down, data loss risk, site unreachable | 15 minutes, 24/7 | 4 clock hours |
| P2 Major Severe degradation, failed backup job, resilience lost | 1 hour, 24/7 | 8 clock hours |
| P3 Minor Single non-critical fault or a performance question | 4 business hours | 2 business days |
| P4 Request Resource change, new virtual machine, scheduled maintenance | 1 business day | Agreed in the change window |
Service credits
- Below target but at or above 99.0%5% of the monthly charge
- Below 99.0% but at or above 98.0%10% of the monthly charge
- Below 98.0%20% of the monthly charge
Supported operating systems
- Ubuntu LTS (current releases)
- Oracle Linux (supported versions)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Windows Server 2019 and 2022 with valid licensing
Not supported under a management contract
- CentOS Linux 7 and earlier (end of life) - migration project only
- Windows Server 2016 and earlier
- Community-only distributions with no vendor support stream
About business cloud hosting
Cloud hosting suits workloads whose demand moves. Add capacity for a busy quarter, a new product launch or a seasonal peak, then release it again. You pay for the shape of the year rather than the worst day of it.
Hybrid is where most UK businesses actually land. Some applications move to cloud cleanly, others are tied to hardware, a licence or a supplier that has not modernised. A hybrid design lets both run properly, with consistent backup, monitoring and identity across the estate rather than two separate worlds.
Resilience is designed in rather than assumed. Workloads can be spread across availability zones, replicated between sites and backed by immutable backup with tested restore, so a failure is an inconvenience instead of an outage you explain to customers.
Cost control matters as much as capability. Cloud bills grow quietly when nobody is watching resources that were spun up for a project and never turned off. We report on usage, right-size instances and flag waste as part of the service.
Migration is planned around your trading pattern. We audit the estate, map dependencies, sequence the moves so nothing critical crosses over alone, and keep rollback available until you sign the environment off.
What's included
The capabilities included as standard with this service.
Elastic compute
Virtual machines sized and scaled to the application.
Resilient design
Multi-zone and replicated options for critical workloads.
Managed operating systems
Patching, hardening and monitoring included.
Backup and DR
Immutable backup, tested restore and cloud disaster recovery.
Identity and access
Integrated with Microsoft 365 and conditional access policies.
Migration services
Dependency mapping, rehearsed cutover and rollback planning.
Where this fits
Common scenarios where this service delivers measurable value.
Seasonal demand
Retail, events and campaign traffic that peaks predictably.
Application modernisation
Moving off ageing on-premise servers in stages.
Disaster recovery
Cloud as the recovery site for on-premise systems.
Multi-site businesses
Central hosting reached reliably from every location.
What you can expect to pay
From £29 per server / month
Managed Linux, Windows and container plans, priced by specification and term. All prices exclude VAT.
Indicative UK list pricing. Final quote depends on user count, sites, integrations and contract length. All prices exclude VAT.
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