Backup & Storage
Automated backups on a schedule that matches how often your data changes, held in a second location. Restores are tested on a rota — a backup nobody has recovered from is only a hope.
Hosting
Seven ways to run a workload — one standard of care
The right hosting model depends on how much control you need and how unpredictable your traffic is. Below is the honest comparison, including the options where we earn the least.
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Compare the models
Hosting plans at a glance
Every plan is provisioned, monitored and patched by our engineers. Start on one tier and move up when the figures — not the sales pitch — say it is time.
| Plan | Best for | Included |
|---|---|---|
| FreeTrial | Prototypes, teaching projects and proving an idea before anyone commits a budget to it. | A single small container, a subdomain, TLS certificate and daily snapshots kept for a week. No card required and no advertising injected into your pages. |
| Shared | Brochure sites, blogs and small shops with steady, modest traffic. | Managed web stack on multi-tenant hardware, one-click TLS, mailbox forwarding, nightly backups with a thirty-day retention window and a fair-use CPU allowance. |
| VPSPopular | Applications that need root access, custom runtimes or their own scheduled jobs. | Guaranteed vCPU and memory, NVMe storage, private networking, snapshot rollback, firewall management and an operating system we keep patched on an agreed window. |
| Cloud | Products with uneven demand — seasonal peaks, launches, campaign spikes. | Auto-scaling groups behind a load balancer, infrastructure defined in code, multi-zone deployment, managed database options and monthly cost-optimisation reporting. |
| Dedicated | Heavy databases, sustained throughput and workloads with noisy-neighbour sensitivity. | A single-tenant physical server sized to your specification, out-of-band access, RAID storage, hardware replacement cover and hands-on remote assistance around the clock. |
| Colocation | Organisations that already own hardware or must keep data on equipment they control. | Rack space with redundant power and cooling, resilient carrier-neutral connectivity, cross-connects, audited physical access and our engineers available for remote hands. |
| Self-Service | In-house teams who want the platform and the console, and none of the meetings. | Full control panel and API access, per-hour billing, image library and documentation. Support is there when you ask for it, and otherwise stays out of your way. |
Not sure which row you belong in? Send us your current traffic figures and we will tell you — including when the answer is a cheaper tier than the one you are on.
Included in every plan
Three things you never have to negotiate
Whichever tier you choose, from the free trial to a full rack, these come as standard.
Bandwidth & Access
Generous transfer allowances on resilient, carrier-neutral connectivity, with TLS, DDoS filtering and IPv6 as defaults. Root or console access wherever the model allows it.
Expert Support
Named engineers who can read your architecture, reachable at any hour for anything affecting service. No scripted first line, no ticket that has to be escalated three times to reach someone technical.
Migration
Moving in is our problem, not yours
We plan the cut-over, run it outside your busy hours and keep the old environment warm until you are satisfied. If the migration is straightforward, we do not charge for it.