Our Platform
Autoscaling Cloud Platform
Unique cloud technology unavailable anywhere else
Here's what makes our platform so unique
Autoscaling servers
We created a new kind of autoscaling, so your site gets the power it needs, however busy it gets.
Learn moreGlobal CDN
Our Enterprise-level OSKAM Content Delivery Network caches your content at data centres around the world.
Learn moreOptimised PHP
Our custom code makes every website load faster. We aren’t subject to the limits imposed by old-school hosting.
Learn moreLoad balancing
Our reputation for rock-solid server uptime is built on our innovative load balancing features.
Learn moreThree platforms
Each sub-platform, WordPress, Linux and Windows is optimised for stellar performance.
Learn moreGoogle DNS
We use the best technology available from Google to translate domain names through the Domain Name System (DNS).
Learn moreOur Enterprise-level CDN for a faster site, anywhere in the world
The OSKAM Content Delivery Network will cache your website at different locations around the world, so that it loads faster wherever your users are. There are no bandwidth limits, so we recommend using it all the time.
Europe
London, UK
Paris, France
Frankfurt, Germany
Madrid, Spain
Amsterdam, Netherlands
North America
Dallas, TX, USA
Ashburn, VA, USA
Chicago
Los Angeles
Miami, FL, USA
New York
Seattle
Asia & Oceania
Hong Kong
Mumbai
Singapore
Sydney
Tokyo
Africa
Cape Town, SA
South America
Sāo Paulo
We also have origin data centres in the UK and the USA.
Compress code and images, automatically
We created the Website Acceleration Suite as a way to get all sites to load faster. This is better for your users, and good for SEO: we know how much importance Google attaches to web page loading speed.
So our Suite optimises the things you might get warned-about in page speed scoring. Images are resized and compressed, and HTML, CSS and JavaScript is minified. That’s not all: there are over 40 performance-boosting features that you can use to fine-tune your website.
We also made a safe ‘one-click’ option for those who don’t have the time or inclination to get too technical. Toggle it on, and you’ll see immediate, dramatic improvements.
Website optimisation
What is Autoscaling?
Autoscaling literally means that our resources scale automatically. Bandwidth, memory and processing power is scaled up or down instantly – depending on demand. This is what makes them ‘true elastic cloud’. If there’s a surge in traffic, your website will continue to offer the same fast experience for every user.
This is because a site isn’t hosted on one or two servers. Instead, it can access the whole platform’s resources: multiple servers. And we always keep dedicated resources in reserve to cope with traffic.
Also, it means that if there’s a spike in demand and your shared hosting ‘neighbours’ become busy, it doesn’t affect your site speed. Busy sites are isolated from others on their own servers. This doesn’t happen at most other hosting providers.
What is load balancing?
Load balancing is about sharing traffic across servers. Other web hosts may say they use load balancing – and indeed they do – but not the kind we’ve developed. Their load balancing mitigates failover: if a server goes down, your site will be moved to another, so it stays online.
It’s a kind of disaster recovery. That’s expected: we offer that kind of server redundancy as well, even though we use some of the best hardware in the industry and a robust 10 Gb network.
But Oskam load balancing is of a different calibre.
Our global load balancing makes use of monitors that will respond to traffic load and balance it across multiple servers when needed. Many other providers don’t offer this. The consequence for you is this: with Oskam, your site stays online, and remains fast, whatever load the servers are under.
Creative Use of PHP
To remain the provider of the fastest shared hosting, it’s important that we use the latest technologies. So we have investigated all the speed-boosting technologies commonly 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 technologies. Those that only offer the resources of a single server to busy websites. To work with our autoscaling, we found that the better option was to write our own web hosting software.
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 proprietary 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.
Global CDN
The Oskam Content Delivery Network will cache your website at different locations around the world, so that it loads faster wherever your users are. There are no bandwidth limits so we recommend using it all the time.
Also included is a comprehensive Website Acceleration Suite. This will help speed up the loading of your site by compressing images and code. You’re given complete control over 40+ performance-boosting features, so you can fine-tune your site as much as you’d like.
Of course, you may not have the time or inclination to fiddle with all these settings. We understand - so we’ve created a safe ‘one-click optimisation’, which you can toggle on or off. You’ll see immediate improvements in your pagespeed scores.
Choose a Powerful Cloud Hosting Platform
All of our premium UK web hosting platforms include our autoscaling and load balancing technologies. Your choice is between what operating system or content management system you want to use: Linux or 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 and Magento.
Linux Web Hosting
WordPress Platform
Managed WordPress hosting with performance tuning makes 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.
Managed WordPressOther Platform Features
We don’t cut corners. Our Linux and WordPress platforms include these extra features as standard.
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 2.2 GHz Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake) 12-core processors with hyper-threading. This gives 48 logical cores per machine. These have access to plenty of fast memory resource: 64 GB 2666 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 based in the Midlands, UK. 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 platform is built for the future of the web. We support IPv6, which is the new standard for IP addresses. Our servers use HTTP/2 – a major revision 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 UK support
All our technical support staff are based at our Eastbourne, UK HQ. They have ample experience, having worked in the industry for many years. If you have any issues, they have direct access to our developers. They can be contacted through our email ticketing system.
Google-based DNS platform
The Domain Name System (DNS) translates domain names – and email addresses – into IP addresses. So when you visit a URL, your browser knows the address of the server to download the page from. It’s an essential part of the internet – so it needs to be fast.
Google knows all about fast internet response times – as you’d expect! Their global fibre network leads the industry. It provides a quick and stable response regardless of traffic. So we built our DNS platform on the same infrastructure as Google.
All domains hosted with us benefit from Google DNS.