Cloud Hosting That Empowers
Since 2008 Crown Commercial Service Supplier

Cloud Hosting
That Empowers

Seriously-fast, secure & ultra-reliable hosting backed by 24/7 expert UK support.

Excellent
5 Stars
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"Cloud Next probably has the best support I have ever known from an IT company."
Carl M | November 2024

Top-rated UK Web Hosting Provider

Top-rated UK Web Hosting Company
Free website migrations, unlimited free SSL certificates, lightning-fast WordPress & Woo, DDoS & malware protection all powered by an auto-scaling cloud platform.

Top-rated UK Email Service Provider

Top-rated UK Email Service Provider
Secure, business-class email with flexible & expandable mailbox limits and easy, unlimited free email migrations from your current host on all mailboxes - included with all hosting.

Top-rated UK Cloud Computing Service

Top-rated UK Cloud Computing Service
Every single aspect of our cloud hosting platforms have been carefully planned and implemented to provide 99.99% uptime with unmatched security, reliability and speed.

Top-rated UK DNS Provider

Top-rated UK DNS Provider
We've built our entire domain DNS platform on the same infrastructure as Google. Google's global fibre network is industry-leading and ensures quick, scalable and stable response times.

Find your perfect hosting plan


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    Web Hosting

    Web Hosting

    First Month £1
    No Minimum Contract


    Super-fast, affordable and secure UK Web Hosting with 24/7 top-rated support.

    Web Hosting

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    WordPress Hosting

    WordPress Hosting

    First Month £1
    No Minimum Contract


    Lightning-fast WordPress Hosting with security built-in and expert UK support.

    WordPress Hosting

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    Council Hosting

    GOV.UK

    Managed Registrations
    Managed Transfers


    700+ councils, government and education departments trust us as their partner.

    Council Hosting

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    Reseller Hosting

    Reseller Hosting

    First Month £1
    No Minimum Contract


    Host unlimited sites. Ideal for web design professionals - backed by in-house support.

    Reseller Hosting

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    Managed VPS

    Managed VPS

    From Only £24.99/pm
    No Minimum Contract


    Ultra-fast Managed VPS gives you the power of a VPS, without the extra work.

    Managed VPS

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    Unmanaged VPS

    Unmanaged VPS

    From Only £14.99/pm
    No Minimum Contract


    Our cloud-based VPS puts you in full control of your server on your favourite OS.

    Unmanaged VPS

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    Domains

    Domains

    From Only £7.99/pa
    No Minimum Contract


    Find your perfect domain name and pay the same at renewal as at registration.

    Domains

Migration Centre

Unlimited FREE WordPress, Website & Email migrations from your current host.
Quick, easy, hassle free & no downtime.

Cloud Next

Our hosting plans guarantee

  • No Minimum Contract. Other hosts want 12 months payable in advance or force you into multi-year contracts and renewals - We don't and never will, with a 30 day money back guarantee.
  • No Shock Price Hikes. Other hosts hike your renewal price when you renew - We don't and never will. The price you pay on sign up is the price you pay at renewal.
  • When We Say It's Unlimited, It Is. Other hosts say it's unlimited when it isn't unlimited with hidden terms and costs - We don't do that.
  • Green Hosting. Our hosting is powered by 100% green and renewable energy. Together we reduce the cost of hosting on the environment.
  • 99.99% Uptime. Through our constant innovation and investment in our platform, we can guarantee 99.99% uptime for all of your hosted sites.
  • 24/7 UK Support. Our expert in-house UK support team are available 24/7 to help with any questions you have. You will be contacting real people and not robots!

Council, Government & Education Website and Email Hosting

With 24/7 In-house UK Support

We are here to help you get your .gov.uk, .gov.wales, .llyw.cymru, .gov.scot, .ac.uk and .sch.uk domain registered and your website hosting and email setup. Our specialist team will guide you through the whole process. As a member of Nominet and JISC, we can register, transfer and manage the renewal of any of these domains.

Included with your domain, website and email is the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) portal - MyNCSC. Designed to improve an organisation's approach to cyber security and managed by Cloud Next on your behalf.

We are recognised as one of the largest independent hosting companies in the UK specialising in council, government & education email and web hosting. We currently provide domains, hosting and email to 700++ councils, government and education departments and adding more every day.

For a limited time, eligible Parish Councils can receive £100 + VAT towards a
new .GOV.UK domain registration and/or web hosting & email package.
Cyber Essentials Certified

Cyber Essentials Certified

Demonstrating our commitment to cyber security

At Cloud Next we take cybersecurity seriously. We continuously work to ensure we provide fast and secure web hosting for all our customers. We are certified by the UK Government-backed Cyber Essentials accreditation, demonstrating that we adhere to recommended IT security practices to keep customer data safe and protect against the most common cyber attacks.

Why you should host your sites with us.

Speed

Speed

Our entire hosting platform is built and hosted with Samsung enterprise SSDs, guaranteeing fast hosting. With no single point of failure and multiple 10Gbps Network connections, your sites will load and perform as fast as if they were on their own server.

Reliability

Reliable & Secure

Our Auto-scaling Cloud Platform means every site hosted with us has access to the resources of the entire Cloud platform. Our platform makes sure your hosted site has access to all required resources and our load balancing ensures 99.99% uptime.

Expandability

Expandability

When you need to host multiple sites, our unique additional hosted sites feature allows you to expand seamlessly. Every additional hosted site you add has a totally separate control panel, FTP and email providing hosting for one site or multiple sites to meet your needs.

100% UK 24/7 Support

100% UK 24/7 Support

Our in-house UK support team are available 24/7 through our online support ticket system to answer and help with any questions you have. We have an average response time of 5 minutes for all support ticket responses.

Migration Centre

Migration Centre

Our automatic & free Migration Centre allows you to easily move from your current host. We seamlessly move your files, databases & email, which includes WordPress sites and migrations from control panels including cPanel/WHM, Plesk & DirectAdmin.

Experience

Experience

Cloud Next has been providing hosting for over 16 years and we love what we do! The experience and continued investment has allowed us to provide cutting-edge hosting technologies and an industry-leading hosting platform.

Hosting you wish you had discovered a long time ago.

Auto-scaling Cloud Hosting
Auto-scaling Cloud Hosting

All our hosting platforms 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.

Linux & WordPress
Linux & WordPress

Choose our Linux platform to utilise our 80+ one-click installs, 10 x PHP versions & MySQL or our WordPress platform dedicated to the performance and security of WordPress sites.

Fast 100% SSD
Fast 100% SSD

Our entire hosting platform is built and hosted with Samsung enterprise SSDs, guaranteeing fast hosting. This isn't just limited to our web servers, but all platform servers use SSD for performance and speed across the network.

Global CDN
Global CDN

Our CDN is a global network of physical, optimised servers across the world that cache the content of your website served from our platform. This provides faster load times and better SEO - included free on all packages.

Google DNS
Google DNS

We've built our entire DNS platform on the same infrastructure as Google. All domains hosted with us and using our name servers are served from Google DNS for rock solid performance and security from any where in the world.

Green Hosting
Green Hosting

The core of our green credentials is in our energy efficient technology & platform - powered by 100% renewable energy including wind, solar & hydro. Your site will be "carbon-reducing" when hosted on our platform.

Customer Success Stories

Our customer success stories

Latest News & Updates

Easier DNS Management

New StackCP Easier DNS Management

22nd January 2024

DNS zones in a BIND format can now quickly be imported via a .TXT file from the Manage DNS tool in StackCP for your domains. Easily populate records from an existing or previous provider, giving you easier DNS management.

'The Clerk' from SLCC

New Domains 'The Clerk' from SLCC

8th January 2025

Did you see our ad in the 'The Clerk' - the official magazine of the SLCC? For a limited time, eligible Parish Councils can receive £100 + VAT towards a new GOV.UK domain registration and/or web hosting & email package. Learn more about how we can help.

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Updated Account Control Panel Manage Renewals

27th November 2024

Thanks to all of your feedback, we've given Manage Renewals a major UI/UX upgrade. It is now faster to manage, search and view all of your packages, their renewal dates, renewal price and the Auto Renew status. Keep the feedback coming, we'd love to hear from you!

Over 16 Years of Hosting

Web Hosting, WordPress, VPS & Domains since 2008


Cloud Next was launched in 2008 with a mission of making hosting accessible to everyone, whatever their budget. Through a long term commitment to let innovation drive our business we have achieved this mission and continue to innovate and invest to this day.

We are privately owned and our directors have over 45 years of hosting experience. Learn more about us and why we LOVE what we do. We're always keen to hear from you; contact our sales team on 0333 202 1032 now or send us a message.

We look forward to welcoming you to seriously-fast, secure & ultra-reliable hosting, backed by 24/7 expert UK support.

The Cloud Next Team

5 Stars

Five star customer support

Here when you need us

We provide 24/7 UK in-house Next Level Support from your Account Control Panel with our support ticket system.

Our secure support ticket system allows you to contact us with any queries or issues you are having at any time. Our fast response times (generally within minutes) means a faster resolution to your query.

There is no limit on the number of support tickets you can have open or the number of times you contact us. Simply make contact anytime you have a question, query or if you are experiencing an issue you need help with. Our team of experienced, enthusiastic top-rated support agents will be able to help.

What our customers say about us.

Our Customers
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    Trustpilot
    Andrzej
    October 2023
    5 Stars
    Very Very nice service!!
    Very Very nice service!!! Good job. Excellent support! The conditions are very good! Thank You!


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    Trustpilot
    Chris L
    August 2023
    5 Stars
    The Technical Help Team - diamonds!
    The Technical Help Team continue to be the diamond in CloudNext services. Quick, efficient and understand what you need and get things sorted.


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    Trustpilot
    Robyn
    April 2021
    5 Stars
    So glad I went with Cloud Next!
    So glad I went with Cloud Next! Someone is always there if I need to ask a question- and I have had many as am pretty new to having a website. There are loads of features and I really like ...


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    Trustpilot
    Customer
    April 2021
    5 Stars
    Excellent service
    Excellent service and quick to respond to queries, thank you so much. Would recommend to others.


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    Trustpilot
    Client S
    April 2021
    5 Stars
    Congratulations - Cloud Next
    My website problem was dealt with speedily and efficiently. It was a great relief to me, and I congratulate Cloud Next for their excellent service.


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    Hannah
    November 2022
    5 Stars
    the staff couldn't be more helpful
    the staff couldn't be more helpful! thank you for all of your help over the years


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    Robin E
    April 2021
    5 Stars
    Quality Hosting
    Quality hosting with a full range of options including CDN and optimisations.


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    Trustpilot
    Colin S
    February 2022
    5 Stars
    Exceptional Customer Service
    I've often thought of writing a review as repeatedly Cloud Next return exceptional customer service. I changed over from a larger more well known provider and discovered a significant saving and considerably better service. Understated and probably under used and ...


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    Trustpilot
    Nick G
    April 2021
    5 Stars
    Usual excellent and speedy response
    Usual excellent and speedy response.


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    Tim
    August 2024
    5 Stars
    Highly recommended web host provider
    Have to say that having used a number of web hosting companies over the years, that Cloud Next have provided me the best service and whenever there has been an issue they react speedily and effectively.


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Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

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 Hosting
Green Energy

Green Energy

We are one of the first hosting providers to be Powered by 100% Renewable Energy; not just carbon offsetting. This means a direct relationship between our datacentre's and the power they use to ensure it is from 100% renewable sources.

Green Ethos

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

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).

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