Public Cloud Hosting
Our Public Cloud is built with speed, security, control and uptime in mind. We offer self-managed to fully managed solutions depending on your technical ability. We are ISO 27001:2013 accredited and privately own our Data Centres. Our support team are available 24/7 to ensure you have the best hosting experience.
Features
- Supreme UK Based 24/7 In-House Support
- Dell EMC Unity Enterprise Storage
- Scaleable resources on demand
- VM control panel integrated into our customer portal
- Secure Shell (SSH)/Remote Desktop and console access
- Hourly billing available
- We can install and support Windows and Linux operating systems
- We can install and support Plesk and cPanel/WHM control panels
- 100% Network Uptime Guarantees
- Automatic Provisioning
Benefits
- Experienced Technical Support Engineers are UK based and available 24/7
- EMC Enterprise Storage is used, giving you super fast performance
- Scale your resources on demand when required
- SSH/RDP direct server access gives you ultimate server control
- The ability to reboot/reinstall the server if required
- Our highly trained engineers support both Windows and Linux distributions
- Control Panels are user-friendly interfaces to help manage your hosting
- Relax, knowing that our network will be up 100%
- With automatic provisioning your server will be online in seconds
- Flexible billing options to suit your project needs
Pricing
£14.45 to £1,298.50 a virtual machine a month
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 11
Service ID
7 9 2 9 2 1 8 5 9 6 2 1 4 8 6
Contact
CWCS Managed Hosting
Karl Mendez
Telephone: 0800 1 777 000
Email: sales@cwcs.co.uk
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Planned maintenance may impact connectivity to the cloud but will be done outside of core hours and be kept to a minimum. Where possible we will provide notice of maintenance at least 5 days in advance.
- System requirements
- No specific system requirements
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Our UK based support team are available 24/7. We aim to respond to support enquiries within 90 minutes. We offer enhanced support packages that offer 15 minute response times.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- Our support chat is available online whilst customers are logged into their client area. Customers can simply start a chat with one of our support team 24/7. Customers cannot upload any documents, this is purely for contacting our support team for advice or highlight a support issue. Any detailed or sensitive information should all be made via our secure support ticket system.
- Web chat accessibility testing
- We have not completed any web chat testing with assistive technology users.
- Onsite support
- No
- Support levels
- At CWCS, we understand that many of our customers have various levels of technical ability. We offer various tiers of support, Standard (included), Silver (£25.00 per month), Gold (£65.00 per month) and Platinum (£144.00 per month). With all of our plans we offer 24/7 UK support, re-installs if required, basic server monitoring and control panel support. Our silver support is aimed at organisations that have time to handle the normal day-to-day tasks but would prefer to leave the security patching and backups to us. For companies who do not have access to professionals to manage a server, and need assistance with server patching, backups and ongoing technical support, our Gold support level would meet your needs. Our Platinum support is ideal for mission critical systems and is strongly recommended for anyone that has limited technical expertise or experience working with servers. With our Platinum support, you will also be assigned a Technical Account Manager (TAM), who will be your point of contact during core hours and will contact you to fully understand your business and server configuration. Any critical support tickets will be assigned to your TAM, and they will work to resolve the issue.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- We provide documentation and online training videos in our customer support portal and technical support.
- Service documentation
- No
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Via download / external backup prior to end of contract.
- End-of-contract process
- The service is provided up to the end date of the contract. Contract extensions, data transfer or anything else required after end date would be at additional cost.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Using the web interface
- Service portal offers users the ability to create, start/stop and destroy VMs, modify resource scaling and access the VM console.
- Web interface accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web interface is accessible
- Unknown.
- Web interface accessibility testing
- Not tested.
- API
- No
- Command line interface
- Yes
- Command line interface compatibility
-
- Linux or Unix
- Windows
- Using the command line interface
- Users can access the local console via our Service Portal.
Scaling
- Scaling available
- Yes
- Scaling type
- Manual
- Independence of resources
- Platform does not allow users to over-commit on compute resources or capacity. Capacity is actively monitored and managed by our system administrators and additional nodes are added to the cluster when resource usage hits predefined thresholds.
- Usage notifications
- No
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
-
- CPU
- Disk
- Memory
- Network
- Reporting types
- Real-time dashboards
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- None
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Supplier-defined controls
- Penetration testing frequency
- Never
- Protecting data at rest
- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
-
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Backup and recovery
- Backup and recovery
- Yes
- What’s backed up
-
- Files (block level)
- Virtual machines
- Databases
- Backup controls
- A control panel is available to manage backups, however they are routinely managed by our system administrators.
- Datacentre setup
- Multiple datacentres
- Scheduling backups
- Supplier controls the whole backup schedule
- Backup recovery
-
- Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface
- Users contact the support team
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- Private network or public sector network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Data protection within supplier network
-
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Financially backed 100% Network Uptime Guarantee. 1 day credit is available for every 1 hour of network downtime. Refunds are processed by requests in writing to our billing department.
- Approach to resilience
- Redundant hardware at each level, including multiple switches for network redundancy and multiple virtual host servers for compute and storage redundancy.
- Outage reporting
- Outages are reported on our status website. Customers can subscribe to email alerts though this system.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication
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- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Cloud administrative interface is not accessible by customers. Customers have access to virtual machine management interface only, via password protected module.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
-
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
- Devices users manage the service through
- Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- No audit information available
- How long system logs are stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Socotec Certification International
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 12/12/2017
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Our entire organisation is within scope for the certificate.
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
- Ultima Risk Management Ltd
- PCI DSS accreditation date
- 11/10/2018
- What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
- Requirements 1-8, 9.1.2, 9.5-9.9, 10.1-10.6.1, 10.7, 10.9, 11.1.1-11.6, 12.3.9-12.3.10, and 12.8
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
-
Our ISMS is based on an information risk management strategy to identify and treat risks that could impact the CIA of information 'assets', selecting appropriate controls from ISO27001:2013 Annex A or other sources. These include an information security policy, access control, HR security, asset management, physical security, operations security and change management, supplier relationships and incident and business continuity management.
Internal audits are performed to a planned schedule which takes into account any areas of high risk. 2nd party audits may be used on an ad-hoc basis and 3rd party audits are performed annually as part of the certification body's monitoring process.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- We operate a formal change management process to ensure that unplanned/uncontrolled changes have no impact on production systems. Changes must include an impact/risk assessment and anything carrying an element of risk must be approved by an appropriate member of the management team.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Information on vulnerabilities is obtained via the platform supplier and underlying operating system supplier. Both avenues are checked daily and patches applied immediately. If required, reboots are performed in a timely manner during maintenance hours.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Systems are used to monitor access and authentication to each part of the system. When alerted to a compromise, the offending service is immediately disabled until the cause has been identified and a resolution has been put in place.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
-
We have standardise processes for handling incident, these include handling spam/UBE, abuse complaints, DDoS attacks, compromised/rooted servers and system outages.
Users can report incidents to support via standard support avenues.
Incidents are investigated and RCA/RFO reports are provided on request.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Separation between users
- Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
- Yes
- Who implements virtualisation
- Supplier
- Virtualisation technologies used
- VMware
- How shared infrastructure is kept separate
- Virtual machines are kept isolated from each other through the deployment of the VMware hypervisor. This provides independent fault and security isolation at the hardware level.
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £14.45 to £1,298.50 a virtual machine a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- Free trials include a fully working system which is available for a time limited period which will be agreed by the account manager and end user.