Professional Hosting

Industry leading web hosting, powered by our Scout platform & 100% green energy

P1

A stepping stone for growing business sites

£15/month or pay £165 annually (saving 8%)
  • 30 GB SSD storage
  • 2 × Standard vCPUs
  • 4 GB dedicated memory
  • Daily & on-demand backups
  • Powered by Scout
  • 10 trees planted via Ecologi®

P2

Simply unbeatable performance for businesses and freelancers

£20/month or pay £220 annually (saving 8%)
  • 40 GB NVMe storage
  • 2 × Premium vCPUs
  • 4 GB dedicated memory
  • Daily & on-demand backups
  • Powered by Scout
  • 20 trees planted via Ecologi®

P3

Perfect for larger design agencies or ecommerce

£40/month or pay £440 annually (saving 8%)
  • 80 GB NVMe storage
  • 4 × Premium vCPUs
  • 8 GB dedicated memory
  • Daily & on-demand backups
  • Powered by Scout
  • 40 trees planted via Ecologi®

I've been hosting with CloudAbove (was SWB) for many years, they are a company I recommend to my clients on an almost weekly basis. I trust the team to give me the right advice, give great service to myself and my clients and be affordable. They have never let me down and in my view (having tried many) are the best web hosting service in the UK.
Andy Kinsey, 2022

  • First class customer support

    Direct access to UK based five-star rated phone, live chat and email support that goes the extra mile & truly understands the importance of your business.
  • Always-on website security

    The Scout platform's always-on security intelligently protects your websites from malicious activity & malware.
  • White-glove migration service

    We will carefully manage the entire migration of your sites and email at a date and time that's best for your business.
  • Easy to use site & hosting management

    Effortlessly optimise your website's performance, create a staging site, take backup or manage your site's features in just a few clicks
  • Transparent & honest

    Absolutely no hidden fees, contracts, cost increases or upselling. Only honest advice from a team that will do right by you.
  • ReliabilityStable & scalable

    Our self-healing hosting platform with built-in redundancy, automatic scaling & 24/7 pro-active infrastructure monitoring ensures that your websites are always online.

  • Data protectionDaily backups as standard

    We take daily offsite backups of your sites, ensuring that your business is completely protected against digital hiccups.

  • TechnologyModern hosting for the modern web

    All of our Professional plans are hosted on our in-house Scout platform that we built from the ground up using the very best software & hardware available to meet the ever evovling needs of our customers & the modern web.

  • PioneeringAlways improving & reinvesting

    We were amongst the first to offer free migrations, backups & SSL certificates — we're always going the extra mile for our customers by ensuring you have the very latest features at your finger tips.

A hosting platform that's designed for you.

With over a decade of experience in hosting, we built the Scout hosting platform to meet the real-world needs of our customers.

Whether you're a business owner or web developer, Scout has all the features you need to succeed.

  • Unbeatable website performance

    By pairing Scout's easy to use performance features with the fastest server hardware available, we guarantee nothing but unbeatable web performance for your projects.

  • Extra oomph when you need it

    Big sale or press release coming up? No problem, we'll make sure your site is ready & we'll upgrade you to any Pro plan for free for up two weeks.

  • Completely carbon neutral

    Let us help you meet your sustainability goals — all hosting services are powered by 100% renewable energy and we plant up to 40 trees per order.

The Breakdown

P1 P2 P3
Free temporary scaling
Temporarily upgrade your plan for free
Free SSL certificates
Powered by Let's Encrypt
Free phone & email support
100% UK technical support
Free website migrations
Let us take the stress out of moving hosts
Free daily & on-demand backups
Fully encrypted & offsite as standard
Scout platform
Our bespoke site & hosting control panel
Technical specification
Intel Xeon® Processors (CPU) 2 × 2.4 GHz+ cores 2 × 5 GHz cores 4 × 5 GHz cores
Dedicated RAM/memory 4 GB 4 GB 8 GB
Storage 30 GB SSD 40 GB NVMe 80 GB NVMe
Bandwidth Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Websites Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
MySQL databases Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Email addresses & forwarders
Why no email?
Extra features — included with every plan
Site staging & cloning
Monarx anti-malware
Website optimisation
Single click caching & image optimisation
WordPress vulnerability scanner
£15/month + VAT or £165/year + VAT £20/month + VAT or £220/year + VAT £40/month + VAT or £440/year + VAT

How do I transfer my site over?Simple, let us do it all for you.

Step 1Buy your required plan

Or contact us before to help you decide on the best plan for your website or project.

Step 2Get in touch with us

Let us know where your site is currently hosted and we'll gather everything we need to start making plans for the transfer.

Step 3We'll do the hard part

Using technical wizardry we'll transfer your websites and email in a jiffy with virtually no downtime and at a time that's best for you.

Step 4The finishing touches

We'll double check our work, audit the site's health, boost performance & ensure you have an SSL certificate in place

Get in touch

Need help deciding?

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Your hosting requirements may not be as complex as you think. We usually advise you to start small and upgrade as needed & don't worry, nothing is set in stone.

If you'd like to ask us more, please do! Speak to us by phone or email and we'll make a plan for you.

Scout is our in-house control panel that allows you to effortlessly manage your websites and hosting.

We couldn't possibly detail every feature on this page, head over to our Scout product page to learn more about how our platform will revolutionise your hosting experience.

Our Professional hosting plans are designed to deliver the very best website performance and unlike most Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions that run generic control panels such as cPanel and Plesk, we keep the server-side software as simple as possible, ensuring that all of your server's resources are dedicated to running your websites.

Your websites can still send email (e.g. contact form submissions, order notifications etc), we just don't provide traditional IMAP/POP email accounts on this service.

If you need basic POP/IMAP email, we would recommend pairing a Professional hosting plan with a Starter hosting plan. With this setup, you get all of the benefits of our Professional hosting, with a convenient email service.

All of our servers are based in the UK, we operate out of three Tier 3+ datacentres in Manchester, London and Maidenhead.

Each datacentre is ISO27001:2013, ISO9001, ISO50001 accredited and they're also enrolled in the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres. Being Tier 3+ facilities, they provide N+N redundant power and cooling, as well as VESDA fire protection and FM200 fire suppression. What's more, all three faciliites are powered by 100% renewable energy.

Absolutely. The large majority of the sites we host are WordPress based and whilst our hosting is compatible with basically any website, it's primarily designed for WordPress & WooCommerce.

From our control panel, you can easily install and manage your WordPress sites (updating, cloning & staging) and effortlessly boost performance using Scout's built-in optimisation features.

Our support team also have first hand experience with WordPress or PHP development, allowing us to provide expert WordPress support when you need it.

A processor or CPU's speed is measured in Gigahertz (GHz) and the performance of PHP based applications such as WordPress, Laravel & Magento is limited to the speed (GHz) of the CPU.

Most servers in the hosting industry have CPUs that run at 2.4 GHz (on average) and our standard hosting solutions such as Starter and Reseller are driven by these CPUs. Likewise, the P1 plan is driven by this class of CPU and we call this a Standard CPU.

We are one of the first companies to make use of 5 GHz CPUs for our P2 or higher Professional plans and as they're over 100% faster than the Standard CPUs, we can guarantee excellent out of the box website performance.

The P2 or higher plans also benefit from ultra fast NVMe storage which is 10× faster than SSD based storage.

We understand the importance of keeping your data safe and recoverable when something doesn't go to plan, that's why our Professional hosting plans are backed up every single day. Each backup is kept for a minimum of 7 days, allowing you to recover your website from any day in the last week.

You can also take on-demand backups (or snapshots) anytime you like, these are great for when you want to test an update and need to take a quick backup of your website before hitting the update button!