Fully Managed (the way it's meant to be!)

You're the experts in your business, but not web server administration and security. Don't struggle with the complexities of server administration; you have more profitable uses for your time!

Most managed hosting providers only provide management Monday - Friday, during "office hours" leaving you with serious problems overnight and at weekends when you're still trying to make money, not to mention having to schedule maintenance during peak trading! Layershift's in-house server experts deliver comprehensive server management 24 hours every day of every week; they tune your servers for best performance, proactively apply system security updates (in accordance with your care pack), monitor system health, and if you hit any server errors they'll be on top of it troubleshooting those too.

You run your business, and we'll run your servers!

Get Well Connected

All Layershift servers have multiple high speed Internet connections, including direct links into regional and international network operators, major Internet backbone networks, and key Internet exchanges. This super fast and reliable network connection between your website and visitors is essential to your conversion rate.

Regular Backups

Most providers only perform a daily backup (often at additional charge) - potentially 23 hours of lost data! You need to spend a lot of time reconstructing orders, chasing lost customers, trying to recover valuable work and revenue! Plus the legacy tape backup systems used by many other hosting providers can take a huge amount of time to restore, increasing downtime and damage to your brand.

Layershift take 4 backups per day as standard; that's every 6 hours, and can rapidly restore a single file/database or your entire server to recover as quickly as possible.

Security

Keep your server secured using an industry standard firewall included on every Layershift Cloud VPS. Simple and effective to configure; apply server-wide rules at the touch of a button!

Pro-active security patch updates are applied in accordance with your care pack, and critical system kernel security updates are applied seamlessly without any service downtime or disruption within a maximum of 72 hours (24 hours for Enhanced care pack customers) from vendor release.

Learn more about how we protect your servers on our Infrastructure page.

Your Own Resources

Don't let other customers disrupt and degrade your service! With a Layershift Cloud VPS your system has its own dedicated resources exclusively for your use.

Built for Performance

Modern websites read and write a lot of data to disk for every website visit. Many hosting providers' intense focus on profits causes them to cut costs on this aspect of their service, but this makes your website slow!

Layershift Cloud VPS exclusively use fault-resistant arrays of enterprise grade high speed disks to give you and your visitors the best performance. If any disk develops a fault your server immediately uses a fully synchronized live copy of your data from other disks until the faulty disk is replaced - zero downtime.

Expecting the Unexpected

Avoid downtime from unexpected traffic surges! Every Layershift Cloud VPS includes a free extra allocation of emergency server resources to keep your server running safely. We'll even proactively notify you if your server persistently uses these resources so you know an upgrade may be needed.

Live Upgrades

Our competitors make you take your site offline temporarily (up to days!) to upgrade to a higher specification. With Layershift Cloud VPS your server is dynamic - grow and shrink at any time as your needs change. The upgrade takes seconds. Your sites stays online, and all software versions, settings, and configuration stay in place. Absolutely no service disruption as you grow!