Fully Managed Private Cloud Hosting

Choosing private cloud hosting for your site

Private cloud hosting gives your site its own slice of a server instead of sharing every resource with hundreds of other accounts. That is why many growing sites move to private cloud hosting once shared plans start to feel tight.

With LiberationTek private cloud hosting you get a control panel, free migration, daily backups and U.S. support, as described on this page.

When private cloud hosting is the right fit

Private cloud hosting tends to suit you when:

• Your site slows down at busy times on shared hosting.
• You want more control over the server than a shared plan allows.
• You would like private cloud hosting that is fully managed, so you are not patching servers yourself.
• You run several sites and want them on one private cloud server.

If you are not sure yet, compare shared web hosting with private cloud hosting and pick the smallest option that fits.

Getting the most from private cloud hosting

Fast pages depend on more than the server. Google describes the metrics that matter in its Web Vitals guidance, and they apply to any private cloud hosting plan.

Keep your software updated, remove plugins you do not use and keep backups. Good private cloud hosting handles the server side, and you handle the site itself.

Planning a move? Our comparison pages show how private cloud hosting from LiberationTek stacks up, and we offer free migration from another provider. Pick a plan above to get started with private cloud hosting today.

Whatever you choose, make sure the private cloud hosting provider offers real support, because a server that is hard to reach is a problem when your site goes down.

Root access is a responsibility, not a feature

Private Cloud plans are advertised on resources — cores, memory, storage — and sold on the promise of root access. Root access is genuinely useful, and it is also the whole catch: it means the operating system is yours now. Whether that is an upgrade or a liability depends on exactly one thing, which is whether somebody is going to look after it.

So there is really only one question on this page: managed or unmanaged? On an unmanaged server you handle distribution updates, PHP and database versions, the web server configuration, the firewall, certificate renewal, and backups you have tested. That is a real saving when you or your team genuinely do all of it. It is a false saving when the server is configured once and then forgotten, which is the normal outcome.

The symptom to watch for is nobody being able to answer the question “when was this last patched?”. An unpatched internet-facing server is not a risk that builds slowly and politely — it is fine for a long time and then it is somebody else’s. If you cannot name the person responsible for updates, you want managed, whatever the price difference looks like on paper.

The second question is whether you need a private cloud server at all. A private cloud server makes sense when you need software a shared or managed plan will not run, when you want isolation from other customers, or when a specific configuration is required. It does not make a WordPress site faster by itself: an unoptimized site on a large private cloud server is slower than a well-configured one on managed hosting, and that is an expensive mistake to make.

We sell both and we will tell you which one you want. If the answer is that you need managed WordPress rather than a private cloud server, we would rather say so than take the larger order. Prices are published, support is based in the United States, and Website Migration is included with hosting, email and Hub plans. If you are not on a plan, or you want a one-off move, it is $250 if you are moving something in. Book a call and tell us what the server actually has to run.