The Fastest Website Hosting in Ireland
This is an old article and very focused on AWS. While I still work with AWS I am instead recommending DigitalOcean to my clients and I set up my projects on DigitalOcean by default.
No, I'm not lying. It really is the fastest hosting in Ireland. You see my website servers are located in Amazon cloud farms. Yes, the same Amazon as amazon.com, and they provided cutting edge cloud technology at their Dublin and Ireland based cloud farms, which you can read more about here. There are other cloud hosting services but AWS is unrivalled in Ireland.
The only problem with this amazing technology is figuring out how to utilise it. 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.
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.
Pricing
Please see my pricing page for my latest hosting prices.
WordPress
For WordPress websites I highly recommend you add my WordPress Management Services. This includes monthly WordPress Updates (theme & plugins) and bi-monthly backups. A WordPress website should always be managed due to it's tendency to attract malware and hacking scripts.
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Badly configured servers and outdated protocols.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.