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What is UKFast
UKFast is a UK-based managed hosting provider that delivers managed cloud hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, and related infrastructure services. It targets organizations that want outsourced operation of hosting environments, including provisioning, monitoring, security controls, and support. The offering is oriented toward workloads hosted in UK data centers and customers that prefer a managed service model over self-managed infrastructure.
Managed infrastructure operations
UKFast provides managed services around hosting infrastructure, including provisioning, monitoring, and operational support. This can reduce the in-house effort required to run servers and hosting environments compared with self-managed hosting. It is suited to teams that want a provider to handle day-to-day infrastructure tasks rather than only supplying compute resources.
UK data center footprint
The service is positioned around hosting in UK data centers, which can help organizations with UK data residency preferences. This is relevant for workloads where location and jurisdiction are part of procurement requirements. It can also simplify contracting and support expectations for UK-based customers.
Broad hosting service portfolio
UKFast spans multiple hosting models, including dedicated servers, managed cloud hosting, and colocation. This allows customers to mix deployment types within one vendor relationship as requirements change. It can be useful for organizations migrating from legacy dedicated infrastructure to cloud-style environments while keeping some workloads on dedicated hardware.
Less focus on app platforms
Compared with specialized application platforms, UKFast is primarily infrastructure- and operations-focused rather than a full web experience or application delivery platform. Customers may need separate tooling for application lifecycle management, developer workflows, and higher-level web platform features. This can increase integration and vendor management effort for digital teams.
Geographic concentration in UK
Organizations needing a broad global hosting footprint may find the offering less aligned than providers with extensive multi-region coverage. International deployments can require additional planning for latency, redundancy, and regional compliance. This may be a constraint for products serving large audiences outside the UK.
Pricing transparency varies
Managed hosting and bespoke infrastructure configurations often require quote-based pricing and scoping. That can make it harder to compare costs quickly against more standardized self-serve hosting plans. Procurement cycles may be longer when requirements must be translated into custom proposals.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (usage-based)
Free tier/trial: eCloud VPC trial — up to 90 days with up to a31000 in credits (T&Cs apply).
Example costs / billing structure (from official docs):
- Compute: billed pro-rata hourly based on vCPU and RAM (per vCPU, per GB RAM).
- Storage: charged as a static monthly cost per GB (examples in docs cite illustrative values such as a320p per GB/month for example calculations).
- VPC: no charge by itself; instances, volumes and networking are charged per-resource.
Discounts / commitment options (official):
- Discount Plans (commit-to-spend) available for 12, 24 or 36 month terms that reduce PAYG rates across eCloud VPC spend. Example shown in docs (committing monthly PAYG amount reduces billed amount according to term).
Other products (managed services, DRaaS, FASTcloudbackup, managed Azure/AWS services):
- Pricing for many managed or specialist services is not published as fixed tiers on the public site and is provided via the portal/quote or through Sales/Account teams. Documentation references calculator/portal for PAYG rates or asks customers to contact sales for exact pricing.
Notes:
- ANS documentation points customers to the ANS Portal (calculator/pricing) for up-to-date per-resource rates; public-facing pages emphasise PAYG, calculator and contact-sales model rather than fixed tiered plans.
Seller details
UKFast.net Limited (part of ANS Group)
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
1999
Subsidiary
https://www.ukfast.co.uk/
https://x.com/ukfast
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukfast/
