Colin Richardson: We’re Bigfork. We create websites and digital products with a particular focus on B2B customers. We pride ourselves on our strong technical skills, our high level of customer service, and offering a great user experience. We offer a range of services for digital products, from initial build through to long-term hosting and support.

We work with modern tech stacks and have experience with most JavaScript frameworks for the front end. We use a range of technologies to best suit our needs, and for the back end we use PHP, primarily a framework called SilverStripe.

We found out about Cloudways through somebody in the SilverStripe community. We loved how competitively priced they were. We were looking for a reliable, flexible hosting solution, and Cloudways fit the bill. Cloudways hosting is great. They’re really, really great. They’re amazing. Cloudways are great.

They have 24/7 support available should we need them. We don’t have to worry about any security updates or any downtime because their servers are very reliable, and they even offer a migration service to help you move applications from your old hosting.

Cloudways are different from other hosting companies because setting up and maintaining projects is so simple and intuitive. It takes less than 10 minutes to get a server up and running. They’re not tied into using a specific vendor. You can deploy applications through DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, or even AWS without the complexities that normally come with that.

Our favorite bit of kit is SilverStripe, which is a PHP framework that we’ve been using extensively for nearly a decade. SilverStripe is really flexible. As developers it gives us the power to create whatever we want, and for the customer it’s simple to use and it lets them manage their own content. Cloudways and SilverStripe work really well together. We’ve moved many SilverStripe sites onto Cloudways. You can definitely notice the improved performance, it just works. Also, with their high-performance PHP hosting, Cloudways is an excellent place to deploy SilverStripe applications.

I would absolutely recommend Cloudways to others. I’ll definitely recommend them. Cloudways are one of the best hosting experiences I’ve ever had. Loads of flexibility, great support, and a really well thought out offering. So of course we would gladly shout from the rooftops how much we recommend Cloudways.