--- title: "Secure hosting" description: "Upsun’s certified cloud, behind Cloudflare." url: https://www.pivale.co/services/hosting/ publisher: Pivale (https://www.pivale.co) --- # Secure hosting Bring every website off scattered providers and onto one managed platform: Upsun’s certified cloud, with Cloudflare in front as your CDN and firewall. We manage the infrastructure, security and compliance, so your sites stay fast, online and protected. | | | |---|---| | Platform | Upsun (formerly Platform.sh), where Pivale are Gold Partners | | Certified environments | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS L1 and HIPAA | | CDN and protection | Cloudflare CDN, WAF, DDoS and bot management | | Monitoring | Uptime checked every 60 seconds | ## The problem: Too many hosts, too little control. Each brand, campaign and acquisition added a website, and each one went wherever was quickest at the time. Now your estate runs on several providers and different set-ups, and nobody has the whole picture. Every outage, security review and renewal turns into a hunt. - **Too many moving parts:** Sites spread across hosting providers, servers, DNS accounts and contracts, each with its own set-up. - **Downtime:** Your customers tell you about outages first. - **No staging:** Your team tests changes on the live site. - **Hosts not up to scratch:** Your hosts can’t show the security and compliance standards your auditors and cyber security team expect. ## How we help: Security in layers. A hosting package alone won’t secure your application. You get protection at four levels: infrastructure, network edge, CMS and ongoing maintenance. 1. **Read-only deployments:** Release to tamper-proof environments on Upsun, with copies for safe testing. 2. **Edge protection:** Cloudflare’s CDN serves your pages from close to your visitors and blocks attacks, bad bots and traffic floods before they reach you. 3. **Hardened Drupal:** Fast patching, role-based access control and two-factor authentication. 4. **Audit-ready:** Regular updates, audits and privacy processes from day one. ## What changes: Secure, fast, consolidated. - **80%** hosting cost reduction for a multinational manufacturer after moving to an enterprise CI/CD platform - **60s** between uptime checks on the servers behind every site - **24/7** monitoring, with human response on higher support tiers ## Consolidation: Every site, one platform. We move your websites off scattered providers and onto one enterprise platform, site by site, with each one tested before it switches over. A multinational manufacturer who moved their websites from several hosting providers onto one enterprise CI/CD platform cut their hosting costs by 80%. - **Map the estate:** We list every site, domain, DNS record, certificate and provider, and who owns each. - **Move site by site:** Each site runs on a tested copy first, then switches over when you’re ready. - **One standard:** The same deployments, security, backups and monitoring on every site. - **One team:** One supplier for your hosting, with people who know each site. ## Lightweight hosting: Lighter sites, lighter hosting. A CMS comes with a database, server software and regular security updates, so it needs full application hosting such as Upsun. Lightweight websites are static, with no CMS or database, so they run directly on Cloudflare at the edge, served from close to your visitors with no servers for anyone to patch. - **Fast everywhere:** Pages served from Cloudflare’s global network. - **Nothing to patch:** No CMS, plugins or server software for attackers to target. - **Looked after:** Monitoring and security certificates included in hosting and technical care, with every change kept in version control so an earlier version can be restored. [Lightweight websites](https://www.pivale.co/solutions/lightweight-websites) ## Proof Virtus Health: Twelve sites, one family The problem: Fertility clinic websites in Europe, Australia and Singapore, each built and hosted its own way. The solution: One Drupal multisite platform with a shared pattern library, so each clinic keeps their own brand. The outcome: 12 consistent websites, the first seven built for half the cost of building them separately. Read the case study: https://www.pivale.co/work/virtus-health Virtus Specialist Day Hospitals: A clean bill of health The problem: Six separate day hospital websites, so every change and security update was made six times. The solution: One Drupal website on a new domain, with a reusable design system, hosted on Upsun behind Cloudflare. The outcome: One platform to manage, with new hospitals added without duplicating effort. Read the case study: https://www.pivale.co/work/virtus-specialist-day-hospitals ## Related - [Multisite management](https://www.pivale.co/solutions/multisite): Many brands, regions and sites on one platform. - [Lightweight websites](https://www.pivale.co/solutions/lightweight-websites): Professional websites for small businesses. We do the heavy lifting. - [Support & security](https://www.pivale.co/services/support): Responsive support that grows with you. - [Drupal development](https://www.pivale.co/services/drupal): Content management for ambitious enterprises. - [Audits & discovery](https://www.pivale.co/services/audits): Customer experience and website systems audits. Is your hosting keeping you up at night? Let’s move you somewhere calmer. --- Source: https://www.pivale.co/services/hosting/. Pivale is a UK digital consultancy. Book a 30-minute call at https://www.pivale.co/contact/ or email hello@pivale.co.