Our Platform

A Web Hosting Platform Like No Other

Built by hosting experts for optimal website performance
Unique cloud technology unavailable anywhere else
Never standing still; always innovating
100% green hosting powered by renewable energy

Our Platform

A New Generation of Web Hosting

Every single aspect of our hosting platforms has been carefully planned, implemented, and reviewed to provide you with the best possible service. We’ve invested in top of the range hardware, technologies, and people to bring them all together into one incredible cloud-based solution.

Our hosting platform has been designed with a maximum use, no waste of resources mindset. Every aspect of our hosting platform is built to be as energy-efficient as possible. Hosted on our platform, your site operates on 100% renewable energy, actively contributing to carbon reduction. Learn more about our Green Hosting credentials.

Discover the Difference

What Makes Our Platform So Unique?

Our platform stands out with its blend of cutting-edge technology, unmatched reliability, and eco-friendly operations.

Autoscaling servers

Never run out of resources - We created a new kind of autoscaling, so your site gets the power it needs – however busy it gets.

Global CDN

A fast, reliable website, globally - Our free Content Delivery Network caches your content at data centres around the world.

Optimised PHP

Rapid server response times - Our custom code makes every website load faster. We aren’t subject to the limits imposed by old-school hosting.

Load balancing

Your site is always online - Our reputation for rock-solid server uptime is built on our innovative load balancing features.

Three platforms

Fast websites, whatever platform - Each sub-platform – WordPress, Windows or Linux – is optimised for stellar performance.

Google DNS

Your site is always accessible - We use the best technology available from Google to translate domain names through the Domain Name System (DNS).

High-Frequency Hosting

Our high-frequency hosting leverages cutting-edge high-frequency CPUs, which run at faster clock speeds, allowing for quicker data processing and significantly reduced latency.

SIRSTEVEHQ CP Hosting

Auto-scaling Cloud Hosting

Our SIRSTEVEHQ CP hosting utilise auto-scaling, meaning that if your website has a surge of traffic, we automatically scale up the resources needed so that your site stays online and still loads just as quickly for every user. Rather than being hosted on just one or two servers, your website can access the entire platform's resources, meaning that if you're experiencing a busy period or a server is struggling for some reason, another can step in to take its place with no interruption or degradation to your service. This also means no other users on the platform affect your website’s speed or performance even if their websites are busy.

Our powerful autoscaling is teamed with load-balanced servers and built-in redundancy to ensure optimal reliability that goes far beyond other shared web hosts – and we don’t charge you more for any additional resources you use. Using this system we can ensure our hosting has no LVE limits.

Better Performance

We Optimise PHP in a Unique Way

To remain the provider of the fastest shared hosting, it’s important that we use the latest technologies. So we investigate all the speed-boosting technologies available to other web hosting companies.

The problem with these ‘off the shelf’ products is that they don’t scale very well. They’re designed for small companies that use older, single-server technologies. To work with our autoscaling, we found that the better option was to write our own web hosting code - SIRSTEVEHQ CP.

Our developers have customised PHP-FPM and OPcache to ensure that your website gets the resources it needs, even if it’s really busy. Our code boosts performance for every website running PHP 5.6 or above. For more recent versions of PHP, the speed improvements are even more pronounced. As we’re not constrained by CloudLinux, we don’t have to impose limits on cores, memory, bandwidth and processes.

Your site stays fast, however busy it gets.

Load Balancing

Access to All Hosting Resources

Our advanced load balancing distributes traffic across servers, ensuring your sites remain online even under high demand. While many hosting providers offer basic load balancing to mitigate failover, switching your site to another server if one goes down, our solution goes beyond that.

Not only do we provide server redundancy, ensuring your site stays online during hardware failures, but our load balancing is designed to optimize performance at all times.

Our advanced global load balancing monitors traffic and dynamically distributes it across multiple servers when needed. This ensures that your site stays online and runs at top speed, no matter how much traffic it receives.

Optimized For Uptime

High-Availability Hosting

Our platform is built on fully redundant systems to ensure that your services always perform at their best. Whether it’s web hosting, databases, FTP, or email, each component is backed by multiple servers working in tandem. If one server encounters an issue, another immediately takes over, ensuring seamless operation with no downtime. This redundancy provides not only reliability but also enhanced performance. By distributing the load across multiple systems, we optimize response times and ensure a consistently smooth experience for your users.

Web Servers

Your websites are hosted on multiple servers, so if one goes down, traffic is instantly rerouted to another, keeping your site online.

Database Servers

Critical databases are mirrored across multiple servers to ensure data integrity and fast access at all times.

FTP Servers

File management remains smooth and reliable, with multiple FTP servers ensuring uninterrupted access for updates and backups.

Mail Servers

Email services are always available, with redundancy in place to prevent any delays or downtime in communication.

Data Center

Bought it, Racked it

Our data centres are kitted out with premium hardware and the latest and greatest security and environmental technologies. With technicians onsite 24/7 every day of the year and a resilient national network for ultimate reliability, you can rest assured that your websites are safe with us.

We’ve invested heavily in our hardware to ensure optimal performance and a faultless design with no single point of failure. Each server has Dual Intel Xeon Scalable 12-core processors with hyper threading, presenting 48 logical cores and 64GB DDR4 RAM. All MySQL and MSSQL databases are hosted on the same type of Intel Xeon servers, but with 192GB RAM and SSD storage.

We’ve developed an incredibly resilient high performance storage platform utilising 100% SSD storage arrays in a RAID 10 configuration, with battery-backed hardware RAID cards. Storage arrays are then replicated across multiple servers so in the highly unlikely event that disks, arrays or entire servers fail there will be no downtime or impact to your site. We also run our own bespoke Web Application Firewall that continually monitors and filters out threatening requests before they can even target your website. Our hosting servers run on 100% renewable energy, and have a power usage efficiency ratio as low as 1.12.

Reliable & Secure Hosting

99.99% Uptime Guarantee: Rest assured your websites will stay online and accessible.

DDoS Protection & Malware Scanning: Automatic security features to guard against threats and keep your sites safe.

Free SSL Certificates: All your sites benefit from secure, encrypted connections at no extra cost.

Free Migrations: Switching to our platform is easy with our migration service. Move your sites and data with no downtime or hassle.

LiteSpeed Hosting

LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server

When you power your sites with SIRSTEVEHQ and LiteSpeed Web Server, you measurably reduce response time and increase capacity. Our control panel plugins make configuration and deployment a breeze. Deliver blazing fast web applications with our cache solutions, and enhance security with built-in anti-DDoS features. LiteSpeed Web Server’s revolutionary architecture cuts server load in half and improves website TTFB by 3x.

QUIC is a new protocol designed by Google to make the web faster and more efficient. QUIC aims to be nearly equivalent to a TCP/IP connection but with much-reduced latency. It’s on by default in Google Chrome and used by a growing list of websites. LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is compatible with commonly used Apache features, including mod_rewrite, .htaccess, and mod_security.

SIRSTEVEHQ provides LiteSpeed Web Server as standard on all cPanel, DirectAdmin, Enhance, Plesk Linux and reseller web hosting

100% Green Hosting Provider

Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

Our green credentials mean the practices and policies we follow ensure your sites are greener and together we reduce the cost of hosting on the environment.

Green Energy

All our hosting is powered by 100% renewable energy, which means all your sites and apps are too. That's great news for you and the environment.

Green Ethos

Our ethos and green credentials provide you with the knowledge that when you have your hosting with us, you are in a small but very important way helping to battle climate change. Our team have the opportunity to enrol in a Cycle to Work Scheme and we operate a Paperless Office.

Green Data Centre

PuE (Power usage Effectiveness) is the ratio of the energy used by our Data Centre against the energy used by our Data Centre to deliver its services. The PuE is higher for more inefficient Data Centres and our PuE is on average 1.12 (very efficient).

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR GREEN HOSTING

Google DNS Platform

Fast, Secure & Stable DNS

The Domain Name System (DNS) protocol is an important part of the web's infrastructure, serving as the internet's phone book. Every time you visit a website or someone visits your website, the device you are using performs a DNS lookup.

We've built our entire DNS platform on the same infrastructure as Google. Google's global fibre network is industry-leading and ensures quick and stable response times and scales so we can handle a huge number of queries instantly.

All domains hosted with us and using our name servers are served from Google DNS - included as standard and at no extra charge.

Hosting Platforms

Not Only Powerful, but Versatile Too

You’re given the choice of what operating system or content management system you want to use: versatile Linux, Windows or super-popular WordPress.

Linux Platform

Our Linux platform is great for most types of websites. It’s the most versatile choice. Built for speed and security by our in-house experts, we’ve fine-tuned Apache for even better performance. It also offers over 80 one-click installs of popular open source apps, including Drupal, Joomla! & Magento.

Linux Web Hosting

WordPress Platform

Managed WordPress hosting, performance-tuned to make sites load up to 48 times faster. Features include: WordPress staging, automatic updates, plugin/theme monitoring, brute force login protection, timeline backups, code optimisation and our own exclusive StackCache speed plugin.

WordPress Hosting

Windows Platform

Windows Hosting provides a powerful and versatile hosting solution designed for websites and applications that rely on Microsoft technologies. With support for ASP.NET, MSSQL, and the latest Windows Server versions, Windows Hosting ensures seamless performance, compatibility, and security for your projects.

Windows Hosting

Worldwide CDN Nodes

Our powerful & global CDN is included free on our SIRSTEVEHQ CP hosting.

Give your sites a performance boost wherever your users are in the world. Configure edge-caching and 40+ speed optimisation settings.

Europe

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Frankfurt, Germany

London, UK

Madrid, Spain

Paris, France

North America

Ashburn, VA, USA

Chicago, IL, USA

Dallas, TX, USA

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Miami, FL, USA

New York, NY, USA

Seattle, WA, USA

Asia & Oceania

Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific

Mumbai, India

Singapore, Asia-Pacific

Sydney, Australia

Tokyo, Japan

Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

South America

Sāo Paulo, Brazil

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR CDN

Other Features

The Host with the Most

As we develop our own hosting products, we can give you better value. All web hosting includes:

100% SSD storage

Many hosting companies don’t invest in SSD storage, or if they do, they use the cheapest available hardware. It’s so they can keep ‘sticker-prices’ as low as possible. That’s not the case with us: we use Samsung Enterprise SSDs in our storage arrays.

Dual 12-core processors

Each Dell web server has two Intel Xeon Scalable 12-core processors with hyper-threading. This gives 48 logical cores per machine. These have access to plenty of fast memory: 64 GB 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM. Any of our web servers can serve any website we host at any time.

Data security and offsite backups

We bake-in security to every layer of our web hosting. Our storage is resilient to the level that – in a worst-case scenario – whole storage servers and disks can fail with no downtime. We take daily backups off-site for extra protection. But that’s not all – read more about our secure hosting.

Physical security

All websites and VPS are hosted in secure, state-of-the-art data centres. They’re manned 24/7 and include high-level physical security measures. These cover everything from backup power generators to advanced fire protection.

IPv6 and HTTP/2

Our hosting platform is built for the future. We support IPv6, which is the new standard for IP addresses. Our servers use HTTP/2 – a major revision of the HTTP network protocol – as standard. HTTP/2 means that browsers can request and receive more data than before. It results in faster loading websites and happier users.

Knowledgeable support

All our technical support staff are based at our Ogun State, HQ. They have ample industry experience, having worked with our directors for many years. If you have a really thorny issue, they have direct access to our developers in the same building. They’re available 24/7 through instant live chat and our email ticketing system.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our Platform FAQs

Frequently asked questions about our platform.

They both have the same effect: your website loads faster. However, they work in different ways. Autoscaling ensures that when your website gets busy, it has access to as much resource as it needs, so it doesn’t slow down. A single site can take advantage of a whole server or many servers.

Load balancing stops other busy websites on our shared platform having an effect on yours. It balances the traffic load between multiple servers. It also works as a safety measure: if in the unlikely event of a server failure, it can ensure that your site stays online.

Your website will be hosted in one of our origin data centres in Luxembourg, UK, or USA.

Your email is hosted on separate servers to the website, so that any problems or unexpected load from email doesn’t affect the performance of your site.

Yes, we include 1 Tbps+ anti-DDoS measures to protect your website from attacks.

This is free of charge with all hosting. For more security features, see our Secure Hosting page.

We have independent evidence from Loadimpact.com that our WordPress platform is up to 48 times faster than other NG web hosts. For our other sub-platforms, we’d encourage you to sign up and give us a test - we’ll give you your money back if you’re not satisfied.

Yes, all accounts are covered by two-factor authentication (2FA). If you’re a SIRSTEVEHQ Reseller, your customers will be covered by 2FA too.

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