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Since 2008 Crown Commercial Service Supplier

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That Empowers

Seriously-fast, secure & ultra-reliable hosting backed by 24/7 expert UK support.

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"Excellent service - went above and beyond what they are required to do, and helped tremendously with supporting our migration. Thank you!"
Adriana J | June 2025

Top-rated UK Web Hosting Provider

Top-rated UK Web Hosting Company
Free website migrations, unlimited free SSL certificates, lightning-fast WordPress & Woo, DDoS & malware protection all powered by an auto-scaling cloud platform.

Top-rated UK Email Service Provider

Top-rated UK Email Service Provider
Secure, business-class email with flexible & expandable mailbox limits and easy, unlimited free email migrations from your current host on all mailboxes - included with all hosting.

Top-rated UK Cloud Computing Service

Top-rated UK Cloud Computing Service
Every single aspect of our cloud hosting platforms have been carefully planned and implemented to provide 99.99% uptime with unmatched security, reliability and speed.

Top-rated UK DNS Provider

Top-rated UK DNS Provider
We've built our entire domain DNS platform on the same infrastructure as Google. Google's global fibre network is industry-leading and ensures quick, scalable and stable response times.

Find your perfect hosting plan

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    Web Hosting

    Web Hosting

    First Month £1
    No Minimum Contract

    Super-fast, affordable and secure UK Web Hosting with 24/7 top-rated support.

    Web Hosting

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    WordPress Hosting

    WordPress Hosting

    First Month £1
    No Minimum Contract

    Lightning-fast WordPress Hosting with security built-in and expert UK support.

    WordPress Hosting

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    Council Hosting

    GOV.UK

    Managed Registrations
    Managed Transfers

    800+ councils, government and education departments trust us as their partner.

    Council Hosting

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    Reseller Hosting

    Reseller Hosting

    First Month £1
    No Minimum Contract

    Host unlimited sites. Ideal for web design professionals - backed by in-house support.

    Reseller Hosting

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    Unmanaged VPS

    Unmanaged VPS

    From Only £14.99/pm
    No Minimum Contract

    Our cloud-based VPS puts you in full control of your server on your favourite OS.

    Unmanaged VPS

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    Domains

    Domains

    From Only £7.99/pa
    No Minimum Contract

    Find your perfect domain name and pay the same at renewal as at registration.

    Domains

Migration Centre

Unlimited FREE WordPress, Website & Email migrations from your current host.
Quick, easy, hassle free & no downtime.

Migration Centre

Cloud Next

Our hosting plans guarantee

  • No Minimum Contract. Other hosts want 12 months payable in advance or force you into multi-year contracts and renewals - We don't and never will, with a 30 day money back guarantee.
  • No Shock Price Hikes. Other hosts hike your renewal price when you renew - We don't and never will. The price you pay on sign up is the price you pay at renewal.
  • When We Say It's Unlimited, It Is. Other hosts say it's unlimited when it isn't unlimited with hidden terms and costs - We don't do that.
  • Green Hosting. Our hosting is powered by 100% green and renewable energy. Together we reduce the cost of hosting on the environment.
  • 99.99% Uptime. Through our constant innovation and investment in our platform, we can guarantee 99.99% uptime for all of your hosted sites.
  • 24/7 UK Support. Our expert in-house UK support team are available 24/7 to help with any questions you have. You will be contacting real people and not robots!

Council, Government & Education Website and Email Hosting

With 24/7 In-house UK Support

We are here to help you get your .gov.uk, .gov.wales, .llyw.cymru, .gov.scot, .ac.uk and .sch.uk domain registered and your website hosting and email setup. Our specialist team will guide you through the whole process. As a member of Nominet and JISC, we can register, transfer and manage the renewal of any of these domains.

Included with your domain, website and email is the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) portal - MyNCSC. Designed to improve an organisation's approach to cyber security and managed by Cloud Next on your behalf.

We are recognised as one of the largest independent hosting companies in the UK specialising in council, government & education email and web hosting. We currently provide domains, hosting and email to 800+ councils, government and education departments and adding more every day.

Learn More
For a limited time, eligible Parish & Town Councils can receive £100 + VAT towards a new .GOV.UK domain registration and/or web hosting & email package.
NEW: Eligible Parish & Town Councils get the first year FREE. Any email/hosting package AND a .GOV.UK domain free for the first year (worth up to £200 + VAT).
Cloud Next are an Approved Parish Council Helper Service Registrar
Cyber Essentials Certified

Cyber Essentials Certified

Demonstrating our commitment to cyber security

At Cloud Next we take cybersecurity seriously. We continuously work to ensure we provide fast and secure web hosting for all our customers. We are certified by the UK Government-backed Cyber Essentials accreditation, demonstrating that we adhere to recommended IT security practices to keep customer data safe and protect against the most common cyber attacks.

Why you should host your sites with us.

Speed

Speed

Our entire hosting platform is built and hosted with Samsung enterprise SSDs, guaranteeing fast hosting. With no single point of failure and multiple 10Gbps Network connections, your sites will load and perform as fast as if they were on their own server.

Our Platform
Reliability

Reliable & Secure

Our Auto-scaling Cloud Platform means every site hosted with us has access to the resources of the entire Cloud platform. Our platform makes sure your hosted site has access to all required resources and our load balancing ensures 99.99% uptime.

Secure Hosting
Expandability

Expandability

When you need to host multiple sites, our unique additional hosted sites feature allows you to expand seamlessly. Every additional hosted site you add has a totally separate control panel, FTP and email providing hosting for one site or multiple sites to meet your needs.

WordPress Hosting
100% UK 24/7 Support

100% UK 24/7 Support

Our in-house UK support team are available 24/7 through our online support ticket system to answer and help with any questions you have. We have an average response time of 5 minutes for all support ticket responses.

Customer Reviews
Migration Centre

Migration Centre

Our automatic & free Migration Centre allows you to easily move from your current host. We seamlessly move your files, databases & email, which includes WordPress sites and migrations from control panels including cPanel/WHM, Plesk & DirectAdmin.

Migration Centre
Experience

Experience

Cloud Next has been providing hosting for over 16 years and we love what we do! The experience and continued investment has allowed us to provide cutting-edge hosting technologies and an industry-leading hosting platform.

About

Hosting you wish you had discovered a long time ago.

Auto-scaling Cloud Hosting
Auto-scaling Cloud Hosting

All our hosting platforms utilise auto-scaling, meaning that if your website has a surge of traffic, we automatically scale up the resources needed so that your site stays online and still loads just as quickly for every user.

Linux & WordPress
Linux & WordPress

Choose our Linux platform to utilise our 80+ one-click installs, 10 x PHP versions & MySQL or our WordPress platform dedicated to the performance and security of WordPress sites.

Fast 100% SSD
Fast 100% SSD

Our entire hosting platform is built and hosted with Samsung enterprise SSDs, guaranteeing fast hosting. This isn't just limited to our web servers, but all platform servers use SSD for performance and speed across the network.

Global CDN
Global CDN

Our CDN is a global network of physical, optimised servers across the world that cache the content of your website served from our platform. This provides faster load times and better SEO - included free on all packages.

Google DNS
Google DNS

We've built our entire DNS platform on the same infrastructure as Google. All domains hosted with us and using our name servers are served from Google DNS for rock solid performance and security from any where in the world.

Green Hosting
Green Hosting

The core of our green credentials is in our energy efficient technology & platform - powered by 100% renewable energy including wind, solar & hydro. Your site will be "carbon-reducing" when hosted on our platform.

Customer Success Stories

Our customer success stories

Latest News & Updates

Timeline Backups

Updated Hosting Timeline Backups

26th June 2025

Protecting your data is easier than ever with the new Timeline Backups interface. Snapshot types are now better organised into separate Webspace, Databases, Mailboxes and Recent Activity sections. There's a convenient new 'Last Snapshot' date column and you can now show/hide Deleted Items.

Default PHP Version Now Set to 8.3

Updated Hosting Default PHP Version Now Set to 8.3

3rd June 2025

All new hosted sites added to our WordPress and Linux platforms now default to PHP 8.3. You can upgrade existing hosted sites from the Change PHP Version tool in StackCP, or from the PHP Version Manager in your Account Control Panel.

StackCache

Updated Account Control Panel Labels

15th May 2025

Thank you to your feedback, we've made a couple of changes to Labels that can be applied to both hosting packages and domains. You can now search for a specific Label in both Hosting Overview and Domains Overview, and Labels will now be displayed next to their associated package in Manage Renewals. Start adding and managing Labels now in your Account Control Panel.

Over 16 Years of Hosting

Web Hosting, WordPress, VPS & Domains since 2008

Cloud Next was launched in 2008 with a mission of making hosting accessible to everyone, whatever their budget. Through a long term commitment to let innovation drive our business we have achieved this mission and continue to innovate and invest to this day.

We are privately owned and our directors have over 45 years of hosting experience. Learn more about us and why we LOVE what we do. We're always keen to hear from you; contact our sales team on 0333 202 1032 now or send us a message.

We look forward to welcoming you to seriously-fast, secure & ultra-reliable hosting, backed by 24/7 expert UK support.

The Cloud Next Team

Our Home in Derby
5 Stars

Five star customer support

Here when you need us

We provide 24/7 UK in-house Next Level Support from your Account Control Panel with our support ticket system.

Our secure support ticket system allows you to contact us with any queries or issues you are having at any time. Our fast response times (generally within minutes) means a faster resolution to your query.

There is no limit on the number of support tickets you can have open or the number of times you contact us. Simply make contact anytime you have a question, query or if you are experiencing an issue you need help with. Our team of experienced, enthusiastic top-rated support agents will be able to help.

What our customers say about us.

Our Customers
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    Trustpilot
    Emma F
    January 2025
    5 Stars
    Thanks Cloud Next!
    I have lost count of how long I have been with Cloud next but I began moving all my web projects over to them when I realised how good their customer service is! I am forever having new ideas and ...


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  • RM
    Trustpilot
    Richard M
    January 2021
    5 Stars
    Cannot fault their customer service
    Cannot fault their customer service and speedy response times. Always friendly and willing to help.


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    Trustpilot
    Graham
    February 2022
    5 Stars
    Quick and straightforward
    Quick and straightforward transfer of domain and website. Your support team were exemplary in sorting out the small number of glitches I had after the transfer.


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    Trustpilot
    Ali
    June 2023
    5 Stars
    Cloudnext is one of the best
    Cloudnext is one of the best web hosting companies I have ever come across. They are helpful - super helpful actually - fast to respond, and will do whatever they can to help.


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  • CM
    Trustpilot
    Carl M
    March 2024
    5 Stars
    Cloud Next have been absolutely superb
    Cloud Next have been absolutely wonderful compared to the host I left before migrating all my sites to Cloud Next. Great dashboard, support is just down the road in Derby and super fast, all in all 10 out of 10..!!!


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    Trustpilot
    Heidi
    May 2023
    5 Stars
    Fast, friendly and helpful
    Fast, friendly and helpful service as always.


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  • RA
    Trustpilot
    Reza A
    June 2021
    5 Stars
    Great customer service and responsive.
    Great customer service and responsive.


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  • AD
    Trustpilot
    ARK of Devon
    April 2023
    5 Stars
    Top marks every time
    CloudNext's speedy and always helpful support ensures that they stand out in the crowd, and is the reason why I've been with them now for years. Top marks every time.


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  • RP
    Trustpilot
    Richard P
    June 2025
    5 Stars
    Quick and Efficient
    They always deal with my queries quickly and effectively.


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  • SR
    Trustpilot
    Stephen R
    November 2021
    5 Stars
    Great
    Greatly helpful resource


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Web Hosting

Web
Hosting

Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

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First Month
Then from £4.99 /pm.
No minimum contract.
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WordPress Hosting

WordPress
Hosting

Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

£1

First Month
Then from £4.99 /pm.
No minimum contract.
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Reseller Hosting

Reseller
Hosting

Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

£1

First Month
Then £23.99 /pm.
No minimum contract.
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100% Green Hosting Provider

Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

Our green credentials mean the practices and policies we follow ensure your sites are greener and together we reduce the cost of hosting on the environment.
Green Hosting
Green Energy

Green Energy

We are one of the first hosting providers to be Powered by 100% Renewable Energy; not just carbon offsetting. This means a direct relationship between our datacentre's and the power they use to ensure it is from 100% renewable sources.

Green Ethos

Green Ethos

Our ethos and green credentials provide you with the knowledge that when you have your hosting with us, you are in a small but very important way helping to battle climate change. Our team have the opportunity to enrol in a Cycle to Work Scheme and we operate a Paperless Office.

Green Data Centre

Green Data Centre

PuE (Power usage Effectiveness) is the ratio of the energy used by our Data Centre against the energy used by our Data Centre to deliver its services. The PuE is higher for more inefficient Data Centres and our PuE is on average 1.12 (very efficient).

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR GREEN HOSTING

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