Shared, managed or high-frequency hosting
Most business sites belong on standard hosting. Move up only once you have measured a real problem - and check the site itself first.
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High-Frequency Hosting: when half a second costs you the sale
Most business websites never need this. Some do – the shop with three thousand products, the booking page that gets hammered at nine on a Monday, the site where a customer waiting is a customer gone.
This tier puts your site on processors with a higher clock speed, keeps a copy of your pages sitting near the visitor before they ask for one, and adds more capacity to build pages the moment demand climbs.
Slow pages don't complain. They just cost you.
Nobody rings to tell you the product page took four seconds. The basket gets abandoned, the enquiry form never gets filled in, and the number at the end of the month is quietly lower than it should be.
The gap widens as the business grows. Every product you add, every search a visitor runs, every plugin doing work in the background – a site that felt quick at launch gets heavier without anyone deciding it should.
Standard hosting is fine right up to the point where it isn’t. This page is about what happens after that point.
What you get
Higher clock speed
Processors that run faster than the ones under standard hosting, so all the work behind a page finishes sooner and the page appears sooner.
Pages ready before they're asked for
Your content is cached in advance on a content delivery network (CDN), so visitors get a copy from near them rather than a return trip to the server.
Workers that multiply under load
The PHP workers that build your pages scale automatically with demand, so fifty people checking out at once aren’t queuing behind each other.
Room that arrives on its own
When traffic climbs, resource climbs with it and then steps back down. No cap to hit on the day a campaign lands.
Who this is for - and who it isn't
It’s likely worth it if you sell online and the traffic is steady rather than occasional; your catalogue runs into the thousands; visitors lean heavily on search and filters; you run campaigns that land a lot of people at once; or pages that used to be quick simply aren’t any more.
It’s likely not worth it if you run a brochure site with modest traffic, or the site is mostly static pages and a contact form. Standard Web Hosting → serves those quickly, and this tier would be headroom you’d never touch.
We’ll tell you which one you are, and we’re happy for the answer to be “stay where you are”. Nobody enjoys paying for speed they can’t measure.
If that list does not obviously describe you, shared, managed or high-frequency hosting works through the cheaper options first.
Where this sits
Web Hosting
The standard tier, and where most businesses should start.
Managed Cloud Hosting
The tier above this one, fully looked after, with a choice of cloud platform.
Our Hosting Platform
The hardware, data centres and failover sitting under all of it.
Hosting Security
The certificates, firewall and scanning that protect the site while it runs.
Working with us
Your website isn’t a separate relationship here. It sits with the same team that looks after your computers, your Microsoft 365 and your network – one number to ring, one set of people who already know your setup.
That matters most when a site is slow, because slow is rarely one thing. It can be the hosting, the code, an image nobody compressed, a database query doing far too much, or a connection at your end. A host will tell you it isn’t them. An IT partner who can see all of it will just find it.
Engineers in Bournemouth, looking after businesses across Dorset and the South Coast.
Is your site slow enough to be costing you?
Tell us the address and what it runs on. We’ll tell you whether high frequency hosting would make a difference you can measure, or whether the problem is somewhere else.
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