CMS Live Web Hosting

Highly resilient and ultra secure enterprise-grade website hosting

We want all our clients to have every chance of success with their websites. To do this, CMS Live’s company mission is to give our clients access to the absolute best technology.

We do this by teaming up with a data centre who has unrivalled partnerships with leading vendors such as Microsoft and VMware, and our experience working with thousands of small and medium sized businesses.
With this solution, it is our aim to make sure you have the best possible enterprise-grade secure website hosting technology on which to build and grow your business.

Introducing private cloud website hosting

The last website hosting upgrade you’ll ever do!

Our virtual private cloud is built on the latest enterprise grade technology from Cisco, HPE and VMware which provides the highest standards of performance, automation and networking. Designed to deliver high availability immediately with security baked into every component from the beginning. CMS Live VPC web hosting is flexible and scalable.

With VPC website hosting we can manage every aspect of your cloud environment.

Scalable

Fully flexible to your businesses needs – Scale up to meet demand.

Enterprise grade cloud infrastructure

Never worry about upgrades again

Secure

Built using paramount hardware

Government level security

100% UK based, fully sovereign

Always up to date

What you get with CMS Live Hosting

Enterprise grade infrastructure

  • Built on high grade enterprise hardware, recognised for its reliability, performance and efficiency.
  • Latest generation HPE, Cisco and VMware technology, where our data centre is one of VMware’s largest cloud partners in Europe.

High availability

  • Highly resilient
  • N+2 redundant generators, diverse power feeds into the data centre, UPS battery backup ensuring you stay online in the worst case scenario
  • N+1 or above redundancy across all equipment
  • In the case of hardware fault, VM recovers automatically
  • Redundant power, networking, compute and storage

Geographical Separation

  • Data Centres in Manchester and London
  • 5 availability zones

Backup

  • Commvault, the world’s best backup platform, integrated fully into the solution
  • The best RPO & RTO, with 99% Faster recovery times compared to Dedicated
  • 28 day data retention as standard, compared to the 7 day industry standard

Built In Security

In a rapidly evolving cybercrime environment, your systems and data are in the safest of hands with CMS Live Hosting. Security is built into everything we do, every hosting product and service we provide and every website we build. Your data is only ever housed in ISO-accredited and ultra-secure UK data centres to guarantee 100% data sovereignty.

Security as standard

Security audits, maintenance and automated OS patching, monitoring, DNS management and managed firewall protection all come as standard with our hosting solutions. Unlike many other providers, there is no extra cost for these services. We also provide an outstanding range of additional, even more advanced security products and services, such as DDoS Protection, Web Application Firewalls. Plus, we deliver Managed Detection and Response.

You’re in safe hands

  • ISO 27001:2013, ISO 9001:2008 and PCI DSS
  • ISO 14001:2015 Environment Management System Carbon Footprint Assessed
  • Data centre that’s Staffed 24/7/365 by SIA-accredited staff Internal and external CCTV with over 60 cameras
  • 2.8 metre prison fencing and razor wire perimeter fence and guard house
  • Site-specific dedicated firewall technology NICEIC- approved contractor
  • Operating Power Utilisation Effectiveness (PUE) 1.35
  • Disaster recovery sites located on separated power grids away from our main data centre complex

Data Sovereignty

Built on enterprise-grade infrastructure for speed, resilience and flexibility, our UK-based data centres ensure your data will always be housed securely.

There is no complex supply chain to compromise your data security, or your compliance to the Data Protection Act. And with 100% power availability and built-in redundancy for all critical components, you can be assured that your operations will always be up, running and online.

Greater Sustainability

CMS Live’s VPC uses 100% carbon neutral power, whilst energy utilisation is up to 60 times more efficient than a dedicated server. This is because the VPC requires less hardware and consumes less energy due to the virtualisation and optimisation of hardware use.

This reduction in energy usage not only trims energy costs but also reduces the environmental impact on your IT infrastructure.

Data Centre Accreditations

  • Carbon footprint standard
    Our Data centre is certified by the Carbon Footprint Standard. We recognise the need to develop carbon-efficient hosting solutions to reduce our environment impact and that of our existing and future customers.
  • Cyber essentials
    Our Data centre meets the governments Cyber Essentials standard, so your organisation and clients are protected from the majority of common cyber attacks.
  • ISO 9001:2008
    Our Data centre has implemented an internal Quality Management System (QMS) — certified to ISO 9001:2008 standards — which is maintained and improved to ensure we meet your expectations.
  • GCloud 13
    Our Data centre is a government approved supplier through the G-Cloud 13 framework, enabling public sector departments to purchase our OJEU compliant hosting solutions with ease, speed and confidence.
  • ISO 27018
    Our Data centre provides secure public cloud computing environments for the protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), certified to ISO 27018:2014 standards. ISO 27018:2014 complements much of the data processing responsibilities set out by the GDPR in its aims to protect personal data in addition to EU requirements.
  • ISO 27001:2013
    Our Data centre provides secure web hosting worldwide, offering hosting services certified to the ISO 27001:2013 standard - ensuring the security of our customer’s data. ISO 27001:2013 certifies that we take information security seriously across all of our business operations.
  • ISO 14001:2015
    As part of our commitment to managing our carbon footprint, our Data centre is certified to the environmental standards of ISO 14001:2015.
  • PCI compliance
    Our Data centre is PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliant in operational business processes relating to the payment card industry.