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UK Based Cloud Hosting Services
MANAGED CLOUD HOSTING
At Wirehive we are proudly agnostic when it comes to technology. Our ability to offer fully managed cloud hosting and shared hosting on every major platform, as well as a specialist public cloud means that we will always recommend the most appropriate solution and hosting plan for every individual project.
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We provide a high quality managed cloud service, delivered with our expertise and support. Whether you are looking to move away from in-house infrastructure, for a solution that integrates seamlessly with your existing business infrastructure, or simply want to get someone to support your current web hosting, we can help.
OUR SOLUTIONS
Professional IT Support
AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)
Starting From £500 per month
One of the major businesses to initially offer cloud hosting services, AWS is today one of the largest and most popular providers. The service supports a huge range of Windows and Linux servers and is split across multiple geographical regions. At Wirehive we have extensive knowledge and expertise working with AWS.
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GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM (GCP)
Starting from £500 per month
Choosing GCP means that you will receive web hosting from the same services that are used to power Google’s own search engine, as well as YouTube. The hosting solution can be entirely tailored around your business needs, with sophisticated networking allowing you to run private and public subnets.
MICROSOFT AZURE
Starting from £500 per month
Microsoft Azure has grown to become one of the largest and most renowned cloud providers with a full range of solutions on offer. Easy to use due to general familiarity with Windows and Microsoft products, Azure is a great choice for everything from start-ups to large enterprises looking to expand.
PUBLIC CLOUD
Starting from £400 per month
Our own public cloud platform is delivered using the highest quality machines running VM Ware in a number of data centres across the UK.
If you are looking for a robust and reliable hosting platform and don’t need the complex services avaialble on the hyperscale cloud platforms then this is the cloud platform for you.
PRIVATE CLOUD
£1850 per month
Often more suitable for larger organisations, a private cloud hosting plan can provide a business with services entirely based around their requirements. A perfect choice for companies with their own data centres looking to improve their infrastructure and expand, private clouds can offer increased security and privacy.
Let our experts take care of all your IT needs - contact us today to learn more about our comprehensive solutions.
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FAQ
WHAT IS CLOUD HOSTING?
Cloud hosting is a different way of hosting websites. Traditionally they would be hosted on a single server in a data centre somewhere. Cloud hosting however places them on a virtual machine that pulls its computing resources from a number of different physical machines in different locations.
Because of this, resources are not fixed, and can be scaled up or down according to the needs of the individual website. Also if a traditional hosting server fails everything on it goes down. If a cloud hosting server fails the slack is picked up by the other servers meaning the websites stay online.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLOUD HOSTING AND CLOUD COMPUTING?
In its purest form web hosting is a static process. The files needed to display a website are hosted on a web server. In cloud hosting this server is a virtual machine that draws its resources from a number of physical machines. Cloud computing covers cloud hosting, but also a vast amount of different services as well. Data is sent to a remote network – the cloud – and there it is stored, or processed. All sorts of innovative services can be utilised in cloud computing, from machine learning and artificial intelligence, through to the ability to access and integrate services like maps, or voice recognition.
WHICH CLOUD HOSTING SERVICE IS BEST?
That depends entirely on what you are trying to achieve. If what you are looking for is a simple static web hosting plan then you might look to something like our Public cloud. But if you are looking to develop and integrate innovative practices in your site, or would like to utilise things like auto-scaling then you would be better choosing something Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, of Google Cloud Platform.
IS CLOUD HOSTING BETTER THAN SHARED HOSTING?
That depends entirely on what you mean by better. Shared hosting remains one of the cheapest ways of getting a website on the internet, but cheaper does not always equate better. If you are judging on things like site speed, low downtime, or access to innovative services then yes, cloud hosting is better. So our advice is always to pick your hosting plan according to your specific needs, not just your budget.
WHAT IS A CLOUD SERVER?
A traditional server is a physical machine that lives in a single data centre. A cloud server is different. It is a virtual machine that draws its resources from a number of different physical servers in different locations. It is accessed remotely rather than by connecting directly to the machine itself. They are also sometimes called virtual servers.
IS CLOUD HOSTING MORE RELIABLE?
Yes. Because the computing resources are shared between a number of different physical machines in different locations cloud servers are much more robust and resilient to things like power outages, machine failures, and other common causes of outages. If one physical machine fails then the others pick up the slack until the first is brought back online.