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Business Smart - Launch
Monthly Plan
£5.99
For 6 Months
£5.99 payable today
(Then 24.49/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Launch
1-Year Plan (Save 30%)
£16.80
equiv. Per month
£201.59 payable today
(renews @ £24.00/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Launch
3-Year Plan (Save 50%)
£11.74
equiv. Per month
£422.50 payable today
(renews @ £23.47/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Develop
Monthly Plan
£6.99
For 6 Months
£6.99 payable today
(Then £27.49/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Develop
1-Year Plan (Save 30%)
£18.90
equiv. Per month
£226.79 payable today
(renews @ £26.90/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Develop
3-Year Plan (Save 50%)
£13.25
equiv. Per month
£476.99 payable today
(renews @ £26.50/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Growth
Monthly Plan
£7.99
For 6 Months
£7.99 payable today
(Then £31.49/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Growth
1-Year Plan (Save 30%)
£21.67
equiv. Per month
£260.39 payable today
(renews @ £31.00/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Pro - Success
3-Year Plan (Save 50%)
£15.25
equiv. Per month
£549.00 payable today
(renews @ £30.50/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Success
Monthly Plan
£8.99
For 6 Months
£8.99 payable today
(Then £33.49/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Success
1-Year Plan (Save 30%)
£23.10
equiv. Per month
£277.19 payable today
(renews @ £33.00/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Business Smart - Success
3-Year Plan (Save 50%)
£16.25
equiv. Per month
£585.00 payable today
(renews @ £32.50/mo. Prices ex. VAT)
Suitable For:
Launch or transfer your business website. Great for sites with a large number of customers.
Develop your business website to cope with a higher number of customers and bandwidth.
Grow your business to include digital services, downloadable purchases and media rich content.
Websites for successful business that load quickly without delay.
Example Customers:
Small Legal Firm, Marketing Agency, Business Coach, Online Forum, SME CRM hosting
Contract Termination, Jewellry Shop, Wooden Toy Shop, Online Advice Site, Popular Blog
Photographer, Clothing Shop, Accountancy Firm, Elearning Services, Mobile Services
Accountant, Legal Firm, Financial Services, Competition Site, Car Accessories Shop
WordPress Optimised
Instant Provision
Free Hippo Pro Email
6 Mailboxes
8 Mailboxes
10 Mailboxes
12 Mailboxes
Free Website Migration
hippoPanel
Enhanced Webserver
NVMe SSD Storage
AMD EYPC CPU Cores
1
2
3
4
NVMe Storage Space
Unmetered
Unmetered
Unmetered
Unmetered
VPS Technology
Not Quite Right For You?
Take a look at our other hosting options.
Hippo Shared
Our great value shared hosting plans are the perfect way to get started online. Fast, reliable and secure, with a FREE domain name, email and SSL
Business Smart
The natural step when you outgrow our Hippo Shared Hosting. This managed platform, gives to VPS performance, without the hassle.
Hippo VPS
Our cloud based Virtual Private Servers (VPS), give you unrivalled performance and maximum flexibility to deploy any kind of web based application.
Web Designer Club
Our exclusive club for Web Designers, Developers & Agencies. Tailor your hosting requirements to your customer, and save up to 50% on our services. Plus loads of other great benefits.
Business Smart—Launch
Plan Details
Launch or transfer your business website. Great for sites with a large number of customers.
- Unmetered NVMe SSD †
- 1 vCPU Core (AMD EPYC)
- 1GB Dedicated RAM
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Free Domain Name †
- Free SSL
- Free Email (6 mail boxes) *
- Free Website Migration †
- Free Hippo
- WordPress Optimised
- Ultra Fast VPS Technology
- hippoPanel Control Panel
- Unlimited Databases †
- Platinum Support
*for first year
† additional terms and conditions apply
Business Smart—Develop
Plan Details
Develop your business website to cope with a higher number of customers and need greater bandwidth and payment gateways.
- Unmetered NVMe SSD †
- 2 vCPU Cores (AMD EPYC)
- 2GB RAM
- Unmetered Bandwidth †
- Free Domain Name †
- Free SSL
- Free Email (8 mail boxes) *
- Free Website Migration †
- Free Hippo
- WordPress Optimised
- Ultra Fast VPS Technology
- hippoPanel Control Panel
- Unlimited Databases †
- Platinum Support
*for first year
† additional terms and conditions apply
Business Smart—Growth
Plan Details
Grow your business to include digital services, downloadable resources and media rich content.
- Unmetered NVMe SSD †
- 3 vCPU Cores (AMD EPYC)
- 4GB RAM
- Unmetered Bandwidth †
- Free Domain Name †
- Free SSL
- Free Email (10 mail boxes)*
- Free Website Migration †
- Free Hippo
- WordPress Optimised
- Ultra Fast VPS Technology
- hippoPanel – Control Panel
- Unlimited Databases †
- Platinum Support
*for first year
† additional terms and conditions apply
Business Smart – Success
Plan Details
Websites for successful business that load quickly without delay. Great for high traffic sites, with lots of content.
- Unmetered NVMe SSD †
- 4 vCPU Cores (AMD EPYC)
- 8GB RAM
- Unmetered Bandwidth †
- Free Domain Name †
- Free SSL
- Free Email (12 mail boxes)*
- Free Website Migration †
- Free Hippo
- WordPress Optimised
- Ultra Fast VPS Technology
- hippoPanel Control Panel
- Unlimited Databases †
- Platinum Support
*for first year
† additional terms and conditions apply
The Business SmartProcess
We work with you to make the onboarding process of your business pro account as simple as possible.
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1) Domain & Hosting
2) Configure Your Hosting
3) Choose Add Ons
4) Deploy Site & Launch
Datacenter Location
During the order process you can choose where you want your hosting to be located. It is always best to choose the site closest to your main website audience.
Automatic Backup
For ultimate peace of mind, the Automated Backup operation takes all the stress of out generating backups, allowing them to be restored with a few clicks.
SnapShot
Capture an image of your installation at a given time. This option is easy to use, and perfect for quickly restoring your whole installation or securing it before you make changes.
Advanced DDOS Protection
Add an additional layer of protection to keep your service online and operating normally even when they are the target of attacks. It stops attacks in minutes, making your website secure, with no decrease in speed.
Choice of Control Panels
Choice of Control Panel, OS or Application
There are a huge range of control panels, operating systems or applications that are installed instantly when you provision your server. Your configuration will be ready for you to use in just a few minutes. Talk about hassle-free!
Business Smart is Faster!
Our latest server hardware is optimised to give you up to 40% improvement in website performance. Your customers won’t be hanging around waiting for your pages to load, so they wont be tempted to go elsewhere!
What gives our servers the performance edge?
AMD EPYC Processors
These are specifically designed for the most demanding server applications and offer exceptional performance. They are also the most energy efficient processors, so they are better for the environment too!
NVME SSD drives (Non-Volatile Memory Express Solid State Drives)
These offer up to 7x the data throughput over standard SSDs. By using these, even the most resource intensive websites fly along!
Optimised Web server
Our optimised Apache/nginx web server, with ultra efficient caching, ensures that your webpages are always ready to serve to your clients.
Top Notch Support
The Hippo Helpers will be there when you need us responding quickly to your support needs.
Faster Processors
Faster Storage
Faster Web Server
Hipposerve - The Best Solutions
for your Business
Why do people choose Hipposerve? It's because we are great at what we do and fantastic value too. Just look at the headline stats below.
Domain Names
Hosted Websites
Email Accounts
Hours Downtime
Transfer your Website
to us for Free!
We understand that transferring a website isn't an easy process. This is why we offer a FREE website transfer service, to move your website, email, and other online services to Hipposerve. No website is the same, so we work with you to develop a web transfer plan and timescale.
In addition, we:
Liaise with your existing provider to give you a seemless transfer
Audit and optimise your existing website where possible
Transfer domains, emails and other associated services.
Anything Else?
Business Smart Hosting FAQ's
Here are some answers to Frequently Asked Questions.
What's the Difference between Hippo Hosting and Business Smart?
Hippo Business Pro plans use VPS technology. VPS stands for Virtual Private Server meaning that the entire file system of the machine is yours. Unlike our Hippo Hosting packages, all of the disk space, RAM, virtual CPU cores, etc. will be dedicated for your use.
Is Business Smart hosting set up instantly?
Yes! Your server will boot up as soon as your invoice is paid. After your chosen control panel will be installed. This typically takes a few minutes, and then you can start using your Business Smart hosting.
Will I need a domain name for my Business Smart Hosting?
Yes, in order for people to be able to find your website or online application you will need a domain name. The good news is you can get a FREE domain name (certain TLD's only) for one year. (See our T&C's for full details)
What control panels does the Business Smart hosting come with?
Business Smart hosting comes the robust and versatile HippoPanel, which is based on the easy to use, yet powerful Webuzo Control Panel.
Does my Business Smart plan come with SSH access?
No, Business Smart is a managed service that provides Hassle Free hosting with the power of a VPS server. If you would like to have full root access to the inner workings of your own VPS, we recommend that you look at our Hippo VPS plans.
How many websites can I Host on my Business Smart hosting?
You can have as many domain names as you like linked to the account. However, as this is a managed plan, we recommend only hosting one website per account. Hipposerve are unable to manage multiple websites on one account. If you need to run multiple websites, we recommend you choose one of our VPS hosting options.
Can I host adult content on my Business Smart Hosting?
No, Hipposerve has a very strict, zero tolerance adult hosting policy. We do not allow any content that could be considered adult or X-rated.
Please check your Acceptable Use Policy for full details of prohibited content.
What happens if I use up all of my storage space?
First of all, this is very unlikely as all our plans have generous storage space. The average website is less on 1GB in size!
If you do run out of disk space, your VPS will not be able to complete all its tasks properly, and you will start to get errors.
Don't worry, though, we are able to add additional storage space from as little as £1 per 40 GB per month.
Just contact our support team here, and we will be happy to discuss your options with you.
Do you offer a backup service?
Yes. During the sign-up process you’ll be able to order back up services for your server.
We will automatically back up everything once a day and these can be restored by contacting our support team, who can get you up and running.
If you do not choose a backup option, it is up to you to secure your data, or you can purchase one of our Hippo Care Plans and we will mange this for you.
What billing cycles do you offer?
On most of our products we offer monthly, annual or 3 year billing cycles.
In most cases, the longer the billing cycle, the more money you save.
What payment methods do you accept?
We accept all major credit cards, direct debit and more than 50 different cryptocurrency coins.
We are also able to accept BACS payments by arrangement for annual or 3 yearly billing cycles only.
Can I resell my Business Smart Hosting space?
We offer specific hosting plans for web designers and developers who want to publish more than one website.
Significant savings can be had by signing up to one of these packages.
The more sites you add, the cheaper each site becomes!
We also take care of all the techie work, so you can get on with your design business
Can I have additional domains pointed at my account?
Yes, we actually recommend it. The more versions of your business name that you have parked or being used as an alias, the less chance there is of someone else using that name and passing themselves off as you.
All our packaged allow multiple domain name parking and our technical team will help you set it up.
Can I run an ecommerce site?
Of course, we support and are able to offer advice on a range of E-Commerce solutions.
