Cloud hosting Ireland. Fast and affordable.

I offer high-speed cloud hosting starting at a very affordable €135* per year which includes SSL certificates.

The problem with shared hosting

Shared hosting can be painfully slow sometimes for a number of reasons:

• Hosting providers place too many of their customers and websites on a single shared server machine to increase their profit margins.
• Badly configured servers and outdated protocols. It's very labour intensive and problematic for shared hosting companies to update their platform when they have so many customers, many of which have websites built on old technologies.
• Viruses from other customers websites slow your website down as they are hosted on the same machine.
• Peak traffic levels are not considered so your website may run fine at midnight but horribly slow during the afternoon.

A dedicated server, one that is not shared with other customers, can solve this problem but they can also be extremely expensive. The solution to affordable hosting that is both fast and reliable is The Cloud.  

The cloud solution

Cloud hosting, in some ways, works similar to shared hosting, but in other ways it works like dedicated hosting. This solves all the problems of shared hosting above like so:

• Though many websites may be running on a single machine you are guaranteed a certain amount of processing power and RAM. If another customer's website is eating up it's processing allowance then it will not affect your website.
• Your website will have it's own virtual machine and all the software and hosting protocols are for your websites alone, meaning they can be easily kept up to date.
• Viruses cannot traverse from one virtual machine to another so your website is safe even if another website on the same machine gets infected. No matter what happens you are still guaranteed your share of processing power and RAM.
• Peak traffic levels become much more manageable since you now only have to consider your own website's traffic. Detailed graphs and stats will alert you if more cloud processing power is required at certain times of day.

Affordable cloud hosting for all

There are some big companies offering cloud hosting. Amazon, the same guys who deliver cheap household goods to your home, have built server farms all over the world, including Ireland. There are many other big cloud hosting companies but Amazon offer the widest array of cloud utilities at the more affordable prices. Prices are dropping as the competition increases.

The only problem now is figuring out how to utilise this amazing technology. You don't have to worry about it because I am a qualified web programmer with training in network configuration. I have been setting up websites on Amazon's Web Services (AWS) for a few years now. I can offer AWS cloud hosting to customers in Ireland, the UK, or anywhere in the world that is close enough to an AWS Availability Zone.

Pricing

Pricing guidelines, which include Amazon's fees as well as my own, are as follows:

EC2 Nano Instance:
For a website with roughly 500 visitors per day
€135 per year on a 3 year contract
€150 per year on a 1 year contract

EC2 Micro Instance:
For a website with roughly 1000 visitors per day
€180 per year on a 3 year contract
€200 per year on a 1 year contract

EC2 Small Instance:
For a website with over 3000 visitors per day
€255 per year on a 3 year contract
€280 per year on a 1 year contract

* Larger Instances Available

* These are only rough estimates calculated at the time of writing this article. Prices will be calculated on request and unusual website setups may incur additional fees. Visitor estimates are also very rough and entirely dependent on your website's architecture.

What's Included:

• High speed web hosting for a single website. Additional websites can be added to a single instance for €40 per year.
• Database hosting.
• SSL certificates for all domains and sub-domains.
• Troubleshooting and support for the duration.
• SFTP access to your EC2 instance if required.
• Database login credentials via PHPMyAdmin if required.

Please note that some websites may not be suitable for my hosting service and though I am usually available 7 days a week, I cannot provided 24/7 hosting support. I am however happy to provide partials refunds should our arrangement prove unsuitable for your website. Websites containing viruses can overload the cloud instance so performance will be affected. I do provide a website malware cleaning service at extra cost.