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That Empowers

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

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"Cloud Next are just amazing. They are quick to respond and always helping"
Mr W | October 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

Our customers say Excellent 5 Stars Trustpilot
Migration Centre

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

Migration Centre

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.

Learn More
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.

Our Platform
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.

Secure Hosting
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.

WordPress Hosting
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.

Customer Reviews
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.

Migration Centre
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.

About

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

'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.

Labels

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!

Labels

New Account Control Panel Labels

19th November 2024

Labels can now be applied to hosting packages and domains to help identify and categorise them. Labels are shared across Hosting Overview & Domains Overview, making it easier for you to organise all your services with consistent labelling. You can also choose the colour palette you would like assigned to the label! Get started now.

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

Our Home in Derby
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
  • AJ
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    Andrea J
    September 2023
    5 Stars
    My queries were responded to very quickly
    My queries were responded to very quickly and the team kept trying until the problem was resolved. I felt genuinely supported.


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  • RS
    Trustpilot
    Roland S
    November 2022
    5 Stars
    Highly recommended!
    Cloud Next have, this afternoon, completed a transfer of a new site from a temporary location to the root directory. Just twelve minutes from raising the ticket to a reply that all done. Absolutely first rate service. Never failed me ...


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  • S
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    Sue
    November 2021
    5 Stars
    I'm really happy
    I'm really happy with my hosting with "Cloud Next", I am really impressed whenever I have a problem they have always sorted it immediately!


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  • S
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    Steven
    January 2023
    5 Stars
    Issue resolved quickly and on a weekend
    Issue resolved quickly and on a weekend


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  • NB
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    No Fluff Books
    November 2023
    5 Stars
    Stress free hosting for sure!
    I have used Cloud Next with hosting and domains for a number of years now. Over that time the platform has improved its user interface and customer support is excellent. Cannot thank them enough for their continued assistance with my ...


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  • GP
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    Gloriya P
    January 2023
    5 Stars
    Excellent customer service
    Excellent customer service. Providing quick support and clear answers.


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  • DW
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    Derry W
    February 2021
    5 Stars
    5 Star Help
    We receive 5 Star help from Cloud Next Staff everytime we have a query and need anything sorted.


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  • J
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    James
    March 2021
    5 Stars
    Great service to over 80 Bedfordshire sites
    Great service from the team and helped lots of Bedfordshire Councils out getting hosting and Government domains sorted. Having all those email accounts has been a big boon.


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  • SM
    Trustpilot
    Simon Smallboxes Media
    April 2021
    5 Stars
    Excellent service
    CloudNext uses a support ticket system instead of phone calls and it's excellent. Fast and friendly responses from people who actually do the work. I've never been left waiting long. Would highly recommend.


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  • SP
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    Stuart P
    April 2023
    5 Stars
    Excellent service every time
    Excellent service every time, with superb support, been using cloud next for 8 years for a very good reason!


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Web Hosting

Web
Hosting

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£1

First Month
Then from £4.99 /pm.
No minimum contract.
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WordPress Hosting

WordPress
Hosting

Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

£1

First Month
Then from £4.99 /pm.
No minimum contract.
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Reseller Hosting

Reseller
Hosting

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£1

First Month
Then £23.99 /pm.
No minimum contract.
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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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