Overview

Cloud hosting uses clusters of servers to deliver a stable and reliable platform capable of handling sudden visitor and increases in demand.
Instead of buying a fixed, capped amount of space and bandwidth on a physical server, cloud hosting clients are purchasing a monthly allowance on a cluster of servers at a fixed price with any overage charged at the end of their current billing period.

If you're thinking this sounds like the model used by your mobile phone company, you'd be spot on.

Deploy Windows 2008 and Linux files on a single site

With SiteHQ cloud hosting, site developers are no longer constrained by the choice of operating system, the cloud allows you to Windows and Linux technologies side by side.

(See below for more details of support technologies)

A viable alternative to a dedicate server

With ultra-low charges for additional bandwidth and disk space and a robust network infrastructure, Cloud Hosting is ideal for sites which are outgrowing shared hosting but do not need, or maybe do not generate the revenue to support, a fully dedicated server.

No minimum terms

There are no minimum term contracts for our monthly cloud packages, if you no longer need the service all we ask is that you give us thirty days notice to cancel your account.

Technologies supported on the cloud

Every site hosted on the cloud can use both Windows and Linux technologies side by side, we've listed some of the most widely used below:

Linux Technologies
  • Debian / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Apache v1.3 and v2.2
  • PHP 5
  • MySQL 5
  • Perl v5.8
  • Python v2.3
  • Mod Rewrite
Windows Technologies
  • Windows 2008 Server
  • IIS 7
  • .NET v2, v3 and v3.5 SP1
  • AspUpload
  • ASPJpeg
  • Microsoft URL Rewrite
  • MS SQL 2005 (additional fees apply)

Cloud Hosting Packages

MINI CLOUD
  • 200MB Diskspace
  • 4GB Monthly Bandwidth
  • 350 Computing cycles
  • 2 MySQL Databases
  • 5 Email Accounts
£44.95 per year
CLOUD 2
  • 2GB Diskspace
  • 10GB Monthly Bandwidth
  • 800 Computing cycles
  • 5 MySQL Databases
  • 10 Email Accounts
£14.95 per month
CLOUD 5
  • 5GB Diskspace
  • 25GB Monthly Bandwidth
  • 1500 Computing cycles
  • 5 MySQL Databases
  • 20 Email Accounts
£24.95 per month
CLOUD 10
  • 10GB Diskspace
  • 40GB Monthly Bandwidth
  • 2500 Computing cycles
  • 10 MySQL Databases
  • 40 Email Accounts
£39.95 per month

Extra resource charges

Because it's designed to scale with your site's use, our cloud hosting service won't suspend your site if it exceeds the resouce quotas in your monthly plan. Any additional usage will be charged at the following rates:
  • Bandwidth 1GB £0.50
  • Disk space 1GB £1.00
  • Computing cycles Each £0.05
  • MS SQL Databases 50MB £5.00
Quoted prices are monthly and will be applied to your next month's invoice. MS SQL Databases are an optional extra and are not included in plans as standard.

What are Computing Cycles?

A traditional physical server contains a number of processors, just like your desktop or laptop computer. Traditionally a shared hosting provider host limits the amount of processing resources your site can use. Because it's designed to 'scale up' with your site's popularity cloud hosting imposes no such limits, so users are charged for processing resources - known as 'Computing Cycles' - in the same way as disk space and bandwidth.