Cloud servers that scale with your business

What is a cloud server?

A cloud server is a virtual machine that runs on shared physical hardware in a data center. It behaves like a standalone server — its own operating system, its own IP address and full root access — but its CPU, memory and storage are allocated by software, so they can be changed without replacing hardware.

That flexibility is the main reason businesses choose cloud servers, sometimes called cloud VPS hosting. You can start with a small instance, grow it as traffic increases, clone it for staging, or spread an application across several servers behind a load balancer.

• Websites and ecommerce stores
• Web applications and APIs
• Staging and development environments
• CRMs, ERPs and internal tools
• AI application back ends
• Email and collaboration servers

Managed or unmanaged cloud servers

With an unmanaged server you get the infrastructure and handle everything above it: updates, security, backups and troubleshooting. It suits teams with their own system administrators.

With a managed cloud server, our engineers take on that operational work. We harden the system, apply security patches, monitor services, tune performance and respond when something breaks. Most businesses without a dedicated operations team choose managed, because the cost of one serious outage is far higher than the cost of management.