Web Hosting With a Difference
- Built by hosting experts for optimal website performance
- Unique cloud technology unavailable anywhere else
- Never standing still; always innovating
- 100% green hosting powered by renewable energy
- Backed up by one of the world’s top hosting companies
We have created our web hosting with authors in mind.
We know that you really don’t want to be looking a large selections of options for your web hosting, you just want to know what will work for you, and that is why we have just two options, one for Linux hosting (to cover all types of websites, including WordPress, and the other is WordPress hosting, which has been created to give you the very best from your WordPress website.
What makes us the best option for you?
Created with Authors in Mind
We keep things simple
You just want to get on with your writing, and you don’t want to deal with too much jargon.
Global CDN
Global CDN
The Sylv.net Content Delivery Network is included in the price, and caches your content at data centres around the world.
Optimised PHP
Rapid server response times
Our custom code makes every website load faster. We aren’t subject to the limits imposed by old-school hosting.
Load Balancing
Your site is always online
Our reputation for rock-solid server uptime is built on our innovative load balancing features.
Autoscaling Servers
Never run out of resources
We use a new kind of autoscaling, so your site gets the power it needs – however busy it gets.
Google DNS
Your site is always accessible
We use the best technology available from Google to translate domain names through the Domain Name System (DNS).
Our free CDN – for a faster site, anywhere in the world
The Sylv.net Content Delivery Network will cache your website at different locations around the world, so that it loads faster wherever your users are. It’s free, and there are no bandwidth limits – so we recommend using it all the time.
When you visit any website, it will be accessed from the nearest possible location. With many hosts, this is just one location, which can cause your website to be much slower, unless you pay extra to use their CDN, or you pay for a third party CDN.
Europe
Amsterdam
Frankfurt
London
Madrid
Reading
Paris
North America
Ashburn
Chicago
Dallas
Los Angeles
Miami
New York
Seattle
Asia & Oceania
Hong Kong
Mumbai
Singapore
Sydney
Tokyo
Africa
Johannesburg
South America
Sāo Paulo
Compress code and images, automatically
The Website Acceleration Suite is a way to get all sites to load faster. This is better for your users, and good for SEO: we know how much importance Google attaches to web page loading speed.
So our Suite optimises the things you might get warned about in page speed scoring. Images are resized and compressed, and HTML, CSS and JavaScript is minified. That’s not all: there are over 40 performance-boosting features that you can use to fine-tune your website.
We also made a safe ‘one-click’ option for those who don’t have the time or inclination to get too technical. Toggle it on, and you’ll see immediate, dramatic improvements.
Autoscaling:
Access to as many servers as your site needs
All our web hosting services use our proprietary autoscaling technology.
Autoscaling literally means that our resources scale automatically. Bandwidth, memory and processing power is scaled up or down instantly – depending on demand. This is what makes them true ‘elastic cloud’. If there’s a surge in traffic, your website will continue to offer the same fast experience for every user.
This is because a site isn’t hosted on one or two servers. Instead, it can access the whole platform’s resources: multiple servers. It’s what makes the Sylv.net platform special.
If there’s a spike in demand and your shared hosting ‘neighbours’ become busy, it doesn’t affect your site speed. Busy sites are isolated from others.
This doesn’t happen at other hosting providers, as websites controlled by cPanel are restricted to single servers. With other hosts, if you share a server with a busy site, it will affect your site too.
We optimise PHP in a unique way
To remain the provider of fast shared hosting, it’s important that we use the latest technologies. So we investigate all the speed-boosting technologies available to other web hosting companies.
The problem with these ‘off the shelf’ products is that they don’t scale very well. They’re designed for small companies that use older, single-server technologies. To work with our autoscaling, we found that the better option was to have custom-written web hosting code.
Our developers have customised PHP-FPM and OPcache to ensure that your website gets the resources it needs, even if it’s really busy. Our code boosts performance for every website running PHP 5.6 or above. For more recent versions of PHP, the speed improvements are even more pronounced. As we’re not constrained by CloudLinux, we don’t have to impose limits on cores, memory, bandwidth and processes.
Your site stays fast, however busy it gets.
Load balancing that does more
Load balancing is about sharing traffic across servers. Other web hosts use load balancing – but not the kind we use. Their load balancing mitigates failover: if a server goes down, your site will be moved to another, so it stays online.
It’s a kind of disaster recovery. That’s expected: we offer that kind of server redundancy as well, even though we use some of the best hardware in the industry – thanks to our long-term partners at Dell – and a robust 10 Gb network.
But Sylv.net load balancing is of a different calibre.
Our global load balancing makes use of monitors that will respond to traffic load and balance it across multiple servers when needed. Many other providers don’t offer this. The consequence for you is this: with Sylv.net, your site stays online, and remains fast, whatever load the servers are under.
Not only powerful, but versatile too
You’re given the choice of what operating system or content management system you want to use: versatile Linux or super-popular WordPress.
Linux Platform
Our Linux platform is great for most types of websites. It’s the most versatile choice. Built for speed and security by our in-house experts, we’ve fine-tuned Apache for even better performance. It also offers over 80 one-click installs of popular open source apps, including Drupal, Joomla! & Magento.
WordPress Platform
Managed WordPress hosting, performance-tuned to make sites load up to 48 times faster. Features include: WordPress staging, automatic updates, plugin/theme monitoring, brute force login protection, timeline backups, code optimisation and our own exclusive StackCache speed plugin.
Google-based DNS
The Domain Name System (DNS) translates domain names – and email addresses – into IP addresses. So when you visit a URL, your browser knows the address of the server to download the page from. It’s an essential part of the internet – so it needs to be fast.
Google knows all about fast internet response times – as you’d expect! Their global fibre network leads the industry. It provides a quick and stable response regardless of traffic, and our DNS platform is built on the same infrastructure as Google.