Our web hosting platform | GrafixHost

Unique cloud technology

A web hosting platform like no other

What makes our platform so unique?

Global CDN

Our free GrafixHost Content Delivery Network caches your content at data centres around the world.

Autoscaling servers

We created a new kind of autoscaling, so your site gets the power it needs – however busy it gets.

Optimised PHP

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

Load balancing

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

Two platforms

Each sub-platform – WordPress or Linux – is optimised for stellar performance.

Google DNS

We use the best technology available from Google to translate domain names through the Domain Name System (DNS).

Global data centre locations

Our global data centres and CDN nodes deliver lightning-fast speeds wherever your traffic is coming from.

All Providers
GrafixHost
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform

Europe

London, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Paris, France
Frankfurt, Germany
Milan, Italy
Zurich, Switzerland
Stockholm, Sweden
Warsaw, Poland
Hamina, Finland
Madrid, Spain
Saint-Ghislain, Belgium
Eemshaven, Netherlands

North America

North Virginia, USA
Ohio, USA
North California, USA
Iowa, USA
South Carolina, USA
Virginia, USA
Texas, USA
Oregon, USA
California, USA
Utah, USA
Nevada, USA
Dallas TX, USA
Canada (Central)
Montreal, Quebec
Toronto, Ontario

Asia & Oceania

Mumbai, India
Delhi, India
Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific
Ningxia, China
Beijing, China
Taiwan, Asia-Pacific
Seoul, South Korea
Tokyo, Japan
Osaka, Japan
Singapore, Asia-Pacific
Jakarta, Indonesia
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia

Middle East

Bahrain, Middle East
United Arab Emirates
Tel Aviv, Israel

South America

São Paulo, Brazil
Santiago, Chile

Africa

Cape Town, SA

Europe

London, UK

North America

Dallas TX, USA

Europe

London, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Paris, France
Frankfurt, Germany
Milan, Italy
Zurich, Switzerland
Stockholm, Sweden

North America

North Virginia, USA
Ohio, USA
North California, USA
Iowa, USA
Oregon, USA
Canada (Central)

Asia & Oceania

Mumbai, India
Osaka, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Singapore, Asia-Pacific
Seoul, South Korea
Sydney, Australia
Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific
Jakarta, Indonesia

Middle East

Bahrain, Middle East
United Arab Emirates

South America

São Paulo, Brazil

Africa

Cape Town, SA

Europe

Warsaw, Poland
Hamina, Finland
Madrid, Spain
Saint-Ghislain, Belgium
London, UK
Frankfurt, Germany
Eemshaven, Netherlands
Zurich, Switzerland
Milan, Italy
Paris, France

North America

Montreal, Quebec
Toronto, Ontario
South Carolina, USA
Virginia, USA
Ohio, USA
Texas, USA
Oregon, USA
California, USA
Utah, USA
Nevada, USA

Asia & Oceania

Mumbai, India
Delhi, India
Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific
Seoul, South Korea
Tokyo, Japan
Osaka, Japan
Singapore, Asia-Pacific
Jakarta, Indonesia
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia

Middle East

Tel Aviv, Israel

South America

São Paulo, Brazil
Santiago, Chile

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.

Autoscaling: access to as many servers as your site needs

All our web hosting services use GrafixHost’s proprietary autoscaling technology. No other company has access to this.

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. It’s what makes the GrafixHost platform special.

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.

This doesn’t happen at other hosting providers, as websites controlled by cPanel are restricted to single servers. With other hosts, if you share a server with a busy site, it will affect your site too.

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.

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 that does more

Load balancing is about sharing traffic across servers. Other web hosts use load balancing – 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 – thanks to our long-term partners at Dell – and a robust 10 Gb network.

But GrafixHost 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 20i, your site stays online, and remains fast, whatever load the servers are under.

Google-based DNS

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.

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 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.

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.

Green web hosting powered by 100% renewable energy

We’re committed to making sure our hosting is as green as can be

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 Data Centre

Our data centre has an extremely low PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.12. Plus, our Autoscaling Cloud Hosting only uses the resources it needs, so no energy is wasted.

Low Carbon Footprint

Our office also runs on renewable energy with its own solar farm. We also have a paperless office, cycle to work scheme, and recycle all our waste.

FAQ about our platform

Most frequent questions and answers

What’s the difference between autoscaling and load balancing?

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.

Where is my website hosted?

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

Do you include DDoS protection?

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.

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