Shared web hosting is as the name suggests ‘shared’. This means your website will reside on a server with other websites each sharing the RAM, CPU and Disk. Shared hosting comes with its own inherent risks as you could be the best behaved website in the server keeping all your scripts up to date etc but another site on the same server (the bad neighbour) could have a malware infested website that could send spam or cause other issues on the same server. Whilst we do take steps to protect against this there is increased risk on shared web hosting by the very nature it is shared. Shared hosting works well for many clients and will continue to do so. However, we’ve seen a growing number of business clients contact us to ask if they can move their website to a private server as part of their internal preparations for GDPR. If you are one of those clients who is looking at a more secure hosting environment for your company website after GDPR then we feel this cost effective plan could work really well for you.

It’s rare we charge for moving a website into us unless it is super complicated in a very small percentage of cases. As long as we have access to generate a database backup (or you can provide one) and have access to get your web files (or your old host can provide them) then we should be able to move the website for no charge. If you need us to migrate emails and if we need to do IMAP Syncs then there will be a nominal charge for every email account to cover staff time but we can discuss that on a case by case basis depending upon how many email accounts you need to move in.

It’s easy. Just click the link above to sign up for this plan and once the order is processed a member of our team will reach out to you via the helpdesk to arrange to have your server built and your website moved across.

With a cPanel server it will be ready the same day. With a non cPanel server we ask you to give us 72 hours to get everything ready for you.

Your company GDPR policy may require you to have your backups located on a private server that is subject to the same lock down processes as your main server and is not accessible to anyone other than your IP ranges. With a shared backup server although it is locked down access may be granted to other clients to access their backups only. Whilst this should not pose any security risk we’ve been seeing that some company backup policies require a private backup server.

Yes there will be but bear in mind cPanel is a licensed product that we need to pay for so any discounts will be subject to that restriction. However if you feel you need to host multiple websites on private servers we are more than happy to come to an arrangement. If you are a reseller or current server owner with us and feel you can sell this product on to your clients we want to have a chat too as we can make sure there is a markup for you on this.