Cloud Hosting Services

The cloud provides your business with the ability to focus on its ideas and growth rather than its IT infrastructure. Moving applications to the cloud delivers endless possibilities, building the best foundations for a scalable future. You and your team will have more time to concentrate on the projects that matter.

Frontline can help deliver a full cloud solution where we offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) across on-premises, private, public and hybrid cloud provision.

We work with a range of vendors in the cloud space so that we can offer Support, Service Delivery, administration and management services, to wrap around your cloud solution for maximum availability and support.

Some of the challenges that our customers face…

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The Challenge

Cyber attacks increased by over 300% in the last 12 months

More than 50% were aimed at small businesses ​

The average cost of a data breach to a small business is in the region of £100k

The Solution

Enhanced Security

Frontline Hosting provides multi-layered protection for your data and applications.

  • AI enhanced threat detection from Darktrace®, interrupts in-progress cyber-attacks in seconds, including ransomware, email phishing, and threats to cloud environments and critical systems
  • Hardened infrastructure built to ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus standards

The Challenge

Public Cloud Hosting costs rose by an average of 30% in 2023

The Solution

Competitive and Predictable Pricing

  • Frontline Hosting is a cost-effective solution offering good value and flexible service – Frontline Hosting is benchmarked against Public Cloud offerings to ensure best value
  • Public Cloud pricing is presented as the minimum you will pay in the calendar year – Public hosting cost fluctuate based on external factors (cost of power for example) and exchange rates
  • Frontline Hosting provides a fixed cost for a fixed term – Allowing for greater assurity of budgetary requirements whilst reducing administrative overheads

The Challenge

Public Cloud Hosting services are often subject to expensive, fixed scaling options

Pre-defined scaling of infrastructure, with significant gaps between the tiers, leads to wasted capacity and stranded costs

The ability to integrate with existing infrastructure, can be limited by what is supported by the vendor organisation

The Solution

Scalable and Relevant solutions

Through early engagement, Frontline can identify your specific needs, integrations and usage patterns by offering:

  • A tailored service to make sure that every penny spent, is directly attributed to a customer valued outcome – capacity can be added in small increments and removed just as easily
  • A scalable hosted solution, comparative to any public cloud offering – but unlike public cloud, any additional capacity (whether for short or long-term use) does not come at a significant premium
  • A standard or bespoke solution, minimizing the impact of change to your ongoing business operations and procedures
  • Integration with existing infrastructure and application – making the solution simpler to deliver and support than public cloud
  • Know where your data is

Unlike Public Cloud, Frontline customers influence the services and solutions we offer as important stakeholders

Frontline Hosting Services

Private Cloud

Frontline’s private cloud hosting service provides a dedicated and secure cloud-based environment delivered as Platform as a Service (PaaS). Here are some key features and benefits:

Value for money: Use Frontline’s investment in our enterprise datacentre with Frontline Cloud. Pay as you consume, rather than investing in an underutilised infrastructure

Enhanced Security: Private clouds can offer higher levels of security and privacy, making them ideal for industries with strict regulatory requirements, such as finance and healthcare

Customization and Control: Organisations have full control over their cloud environment, allowing for extensive customization to meet specific business needs

Scalability: Private cloud solutions can be scaled to accommodate growing business demands, ensuring that resources are available as needed

Compliance: They help organizations meet compliance requirements more easily, as the infrastructure can be tailored to adhere to specific regulations

Public Cloud

Frontline’s public cloud hosting service provides cloud-based resources such as servers, storage, and applications over the internet, accessible to multiple customers. Here are some key features and benefits:

Scalability: Public clouds offer virtually unlimited scalability. You can quickly increase or decrease resource usage based on demand without worrying about running out of capacity

Cost Efficiency: Public clouds operate on a pay-as-you-go model. Instead of investing heavily upfront in hardware and infrastructure, you pay only for the resources you use, which can lead to significant cost savings

Accessibility: Resources are accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, making it easy for teams to collaborate and access data and applications remotely

Reliability: Public cloud providers invest heavily in infrastructure and maintain multiple data centres worldwide, ensuring high availability and reliability

Advanced Technologies: Public clouds provide access to cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics, which might be cost-prohibitive to implement on-premises

Frontline works with popular public cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

Frontline’s hybrid cloud hosting service combines the benefits of both private and public cloud environments, allowing data and applications to be shared between them. Here are some key features and benefits:

Flexibility and Scalability: Hybrid clouds allow businesses to scale their resources according to demand. They can use the public cloud for high-volume, less-sensitive tasks while keeping critical, sensitive operations on a private cloud

Cost Efficiency: By balancing the use of public and private clouds, organizations can optimize costs. They can take advantage of the cost-effectiveness of public clouds for general workloads while using private clouds for more secure and sensitive data

Enhanced Security: Sensitive data can be kept on private clouds with robust security measures, while less critical data can be stored on public clouds. This ensures a higher level of security and compliance

Business Continuity: Hybrid clouds provide better disaster recovery and business continuity options. If one environment fails, workloads can be shifted to another, minimizing downtime

Optimized Performance: Organizations can run workloads in the most suitable environment, improving performance and efficiency. For instance, low-latency applications can be run on-premises, while other applications can leverage the scalability of the public cloud

Co-location Services

Frontline’s co-location hosting service, often referred to as “colo,” involves renting space in one of our Tier 3 data centres to house your own servers and other computing hardware. Here are some key features and benefits:

Space Rental: You lease physical space, such as racks, cabinets, or cages, within our data centre to store your equipment

Infrastructure Support: Our data centre provides essential infrastructure, including power, cooling, and network connectivity. This ensures your hardware operates efficiently and reliably

Security: Our colo facilities offer robust physical security measures, such as surveillance, access controls, and security personnel, to protect your equipment

Redundancy: Our facilities have redundant power supplies, cooling systems, and network connections to ensure high availability and minimize downtime

Cost Efficiency: By using our colo service, you avoid the significant capital expenditure required to build and maintain your own data centre. Instead, you pay for the space and services you need

Scalability: Our colo services allow you to scale your infrastructure easily by adding more hardware as your business grows

In House Support and Skills development

Frontline only implement a solution into our Data Centre when we know that we are capable of successfully supporting the technology

As we own, operate and control all equipment, any unforeseen challenges are always in our remit to rectify

  • Single point of contact for the customer
  • Direct control updates/upgrades to Infrastructure and Servers
  • Customers business priorities and operations are the driving force behind our efforts to resolve any issues
  • All services are backed up by standardised Service Level Agreements

Fully Managed, UK based Data Centres

Our Data centres are either wholly owned by Frontline or trusted specialist hosting organisations

  • All ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus compliant
  • Multiple Tier 3 data centre options available
  • Backup options to meet needs and budget
  • Disaster Recovery options with near-time recovery point objectives

Choosing Frontline hosting delivers piece of mind through investment in industry leading infrastructure platforms – designed to be highly available, robust and reliable

Discover how Hybrid Cloud solutions can transform your business

Speak to one of our team today to find out more.