Cloud Hosting

Our Cloud Hosting servers

Built on a VMware powered platform, our Managed Cloud Hosting servers draw from a pool of hosting resources to deliver the right amount of computing resources to your hosted applications.

Quickly scalable, a Managed Cloud Hosting server can grow and contract in line with your fluctuating hosting requirements. If you have seasonal peaks where increased server load is forecast, then we can add the necessary capacity in advance, thus ensure optimum performance.

The comprehensive service wrap includes monitoring, OS patching, Cloud server scaling, data back-up and direct engineer support. This means that you don’t need to worry about routine server management and maintenance.

Benefits of our cloud hosting services

• Quickly Scalable - Built around your specific requirements, a Managed Cloud server delivers the right amount of computing resources for your hosted applications. This means that you are better able to align what you pay for with what you need
  When you need more resources we can effortlessly add them to your cloud server. Conversely, if things quieten down then we can remove unutilised resources, thus reducing your Cloud server costs
• Highly Reliable - The cloud hosting platform is built on a cluster of resilient physical servers and powered by the virtualisation technology of VMware. This provides a highly stable and reliable environment for the hosted cloud servers
  The software intelligence of VMware makes the platform self-healing and self-aware; which means if a physical server in the cluster fails then the hosted cloud servers automatically move to another physical host with little, or zero downtime
• Fully Managed - Our Cloud servers come with a complete management wrap which goes beyond simply provisioning and resource scaling. We also look after the operating systems; ensuring they are hardened, patched, updated and secured
• Support for Linux & Windows Operating Systems - As well as offering flexibility and choice with the cloud server components, we also offer flexibility and choice with the operating systems too. Whether you need a specific Windows or Linux environment, we can supply and support both

Cloud Hosting features

• Choice of Windows or Linux operating systems
• 99.99% server availability SLA
• Scale resources up or down on request
• 20Mbps Internet connection
• Service includes firewalling, OS monitoring and patching
• Full data back-up and server recovery
• Direct engineer support (UK based)

Our network

• Resilient 100Mbps internet connection
• Flexible data transfer bandwidth allowances

Cloud hosting options

Tailor your cloud hosting server with upgraded storage, memory, CPU - to meet your specific requirements, all hosted within our own secure Greater Manchester data centre.

Some example specifications and pricing

• Linux Server with 1GB RAM, 25GB Storage and 100GB Bandwidth = £78.75 per month
• Windows Server with 4GB RAM, 50GB Storage and 150GB Bandwidth = £215.00 per month
• Windows Server with 8GB RAM, 100GB Storage and 250GB Bandwidth = £377.50 per month