A server that restarts itself on another host
From £18.89/mo on annual billing
then £31.49/mo — £377.88 every 12 months
A Cloud VPS is the same server as our VPS, except a second copy of its disk is kept on another physical machine in our Derby data centre — so if the machine running it fails, your server restarts itself on the other one within minutes, with the same address and your files as of a few minutes before, instead of waiting for an engineer.
The price shown is the price you pay — no VAT is added.
How it works
Two physical hosts in our Derby data centre, one copy of your disk on each, and a server that restarts itself on the surviving one. That is the whole mechanism — here it is, step by step.
1The copy
Your server runs on one host. Every 5 minutes, a copy of its disk is refreshed onto a second physical host in the same Derby data centre. Nothing changes for you — same address, same server.
2The failure
If the host running your server fails, that copy is the one that survives: your files as of the last refresh, so up to 5 minutes of writes can be lost.
3The restart
Your server restarts on the other host automatically, with the same IP address, typically within minutes. No ticket, and no waiting for an engineer to repair the hardware first.
Planned maintenance
When we need to work on a host, your server is moved live to the other one without a reboot, using the same second copy of its disk. Where a reboot is unavoidable we announce it at least 48 hours ahead, and that window is excluded from the uptime commitment.
What it is not
The second copy is not a backup. It mirrors the disk as it is, so a deleted file, a ransomware encryption or a bad deploy is copied across just as faithfully, within 5 minutes. The 7 daily restore points, kept on the other host, are what cover those: roll the server back by ticket to any of the last 7 days.
Build Your Own Cloud Server
Pick the vCPU, RAM and storage you actually need — the price updates as you choose, with the renewal price beside it, on annual billing. The four packages below are points on the same dials. Switch to VPS to see what the same build costs without the second copy of your disk.
Your cloud server
Real Pricing – No more Renewal Shocks2 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB storage
This is our Cloud Starter plan — same price, whichever way you get to it.
£226.73 today for 12 months · save 40%
then £31.49/mo — £377.88 every 12 months
A second copy of your disk on another host in Derby, refreshed every 5 minutes, and an automatic restart there if the host fails · 7 daily restore points included · 99.9% monthly uptime with credits · full root access · 1 IPv4 address included · unmetered bandwidth on a shared 1 Gbit/s port, fair use · UK-based support in UK business hours
Up to 5 minutes of writes can be lost in a host failure. The uptime commitment and its credits are on the service level page.
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Pick a cloud package
Four packages, each an exact point on the Build Your Own Cloud Server dials — the price is the same whichever way you get there.
What every plan includes
- A second copy of your disk on another host, refreshed every 5 minutes
- Automatic restart on the other host if yours fails — same address, your files as of the last copy
- 7 daily restore points, kept on the other host, included
- 99.9% monthly uptime with credits (see service levels)
- No setup fee
- No minimum term on monthly
- 4 GB RAM per vCPU
- Full root access
- 1 IPv4 address included; additional addresses £2.00 a month each (up to 3)
- Unmetered bandwidth on a shared 1 Gbit/s port, fair use (what fair use means)
- Scale up any time from your client area, pro-rata; downgrades take effect at your next renewal; storage never shrinks
- Hosted in Derby, United Kingdom — your data stays in the UK
- UK-based support in UK business hours, by ticket
Need a different shape? Build your own cloud server — same dials, same prices. The price shown is the price you pay — no VAT is added.
Where we stand
Where we sit, and what you actually get for the money — vCPU, RAM, whether a failed host restarts your server elsewhere, and renewal prices side by side, with nothing kept back until checkout.
How we compare
Everyone’s month-to-month price, side by side with the vCPU and RAM it actually buys and whether a failed host restarts your server somewhere else. No introductory rates on either side.
Cloud Professional · 4 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 200 GB storage · £50.99 a month standard, £30.59 a month on 12 months (£367.13 for the term, then £50.99/mo — £611.88 every 12 months)
Prices are each provider’s own published month-to-month price, ex VAT, checked 1–2 October 2026. Only cloud-labelled servers with root access are listed; managed cloud platforms such as Hostinger Cloud and 20i Managed Cloud are left out because they sell a managed hosting account, not a server you administer. IONOS and Fasthosts bill by the minute: IONOS’s figures are its hourly rate over a 720-hour month, Fasthosts’ are its published monthly figures, which cap its per-minute meter. “Restarts on another host” is each provider’s own claim on its own page, not a test we have run. Introductory offers are excluded on both sides — our £50.99 is what Cloud Professional costs every month and what it renews at, and a 12-month term renews at £611.88 a year. The price shown is the price you pay — no VAT is added.
Cloud VPS or plain VPS?
The same server, the same dials, the same data centre. A Cloud Starter is £31.49 a month against £17.99 for the same build as a plain VPS — about 75% more. Here is what that buys, and when you do not need it.
What the extra buys
- A second copy of your disk on another physical host, refreshed every 5 minutes.
- An automatic restart on that host if yours fails — same address, your files as of the last copy — instead of waiting for an engineer to repair the hardware.
- 7 daily restore points, kept on the other host, included — a plain VPS sells daily snapshots as an add-on.
- An uptime commitment: 99.9% monthly, credited at twice the pro-rata price of any shortfall, capped at one month’s fee (see service levels). A plain VPS carries no percentage.
When a plain VPS is enough
- A short outage while we repair failed hardware is acceptable to you — a staging server, a development box, an internal tool.
- You already keep your own backups somewhere else and can rebuild from them.
- The application does its own resilience — several servers behind your own failover — so one host restarting itself adds little.
- The money matters more than the restart. It is the same server, the same support and the same Derby data centre at the lower price.
See the VPS plans — and if you change your mind later, we migrate the data across with you by ticket.
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Choose Your Operating System
Choose your operating system at checkout and we install it for you. Windows Server will be offered as a priced add-on once its licence line is in place.
Ubuntu
Most popular Linux distribution
AlmaLinux
RHEL alternative