BigWetFish.Hosting UK SERVER 1, € 209.00/mo. on Linux Dedicated

UK SERVER 1 has been added on Aug 11, 2019, Aggregate Rating (8.1 out of 10 from 10 reviews)

💪 CPU/Cores :	Intel Xeon E5 – 2430
🔋 RAM :	64000 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanelWHM
🔧 Category :	BackupFully Managed
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive Chat
🌏 Server Locations :	United Kingdom
⚑ Targeting :	IE UK

Original plan URL was https://bigwetfish.hosting/fully-managed-dedicated-solutions/

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Big Wet Fish Hosting is a Northern Ireland hosting company with a long-standing focus on managed web infrastructure, WordPress, agencies, and business customers. The company dates back to 2002, with Stephen Kinkaid as founder and CEO. The current legal entity, BWF HOSTING LIMITED, was incorporated in Northern Ireland on January 29, 2013 under company number NI616536. Its expansion in Carrickfergus included a £1.7 million investment program covering new premises, technical jobs, co-working facilities, and data-center infrastructure.

The hosting portfolio covers Business Hosting, WordPress Hosting, Multi-Site and Reseller Hosting, fully managed VPS, private cloud servers, dedicated servers, domain registration, domain transfers, business email, and the OPSSHIELD server-security platform. The overall service range is oriented more toward business hosting and managed infrastructure than ultra-low-cost commodity hosting.

The newer shared-hosting environment uses Enhance Panel, OpenLiteSpeed, Docker, Redis object caching, AMD EPYC processors, NVMe storage, malware scanning, bot protection, abusive-IP filtering, a Web Application Firewall, staging environments, and extended backup retention on supported packages.

Current Enhance-based Business Hosting starts with Lite at £7.95 per month. It includes one website plus a staging copy, 20 GB storage, 200 GB bandwidth, business email, MySQL databases, and alias domains. Business increases resources to 40 GB storage and 500 GB bandwidth for £14.99 per month, while Pro provides 100 GB storage and 1,000 GB bandwidth for £24.99 per month.

A WordPress-focused package costs £24.95 per month and includes WordPress maintenance features, Patchstack vulnerability protection, OPSSHIELD security, and additional security assistance. This makes the service particularly useful for customers who prefer a managed WordPress environment rather than maintaining security and updates independently.

Big Wet Fish continues to support both newer Enhance hosting and established cPanel environments. Some long-standing packages remain cPanel-based, while the newer hosting generation is increasingly centered around Enhance and OpenLiteSpeed. Existing customers moving from older infrastructure can therefore retain cPanel in appropriate cases or migrate to the newer platform.

Agencies and developers can use Multi-Site hosting plans designed for multiple independent websites. Enhance Multi Site packages range from five websites at £15 per month to 60 websites at £69.95 per month, with unmetered bandwidth and extended backup retention. Traditional cPanel reseller configurations are also available for customers who prefer the conventional reseller-hosting model.

The Fully Managed VPS range begins with Silver at £89.95 per month, providing 4 vCPU cores, 6 GB RAM, 100 GB storage, unmetered bandwidth, daily backups, 20 cPanel domains, SpamExperts filtering, an isolated environment, and 24/7 monitoring. Gold increases resources to 8 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, and 150 GB storage for £109.95 per month, while Platinum reaches 12 vCPUs, 12 GB RAM, and 300 GB storage for £129.95 per month.

These VPS products are considerably more expensive than unmanaged virtual servers because management, monitoring, backups, troubleshooting, and system administration form an important part of the package.

At the higher end, fully managed cloud infrastructure is available from approximately £109.95 per month, while dedicated servers begin around £159.95 per month. Dedicated configurations can include 32 GB or 64 GB RAM, SSD storage in hardware RAID 10, unmetered bandwidth, management, monitoring, backups, and an isolated server environment.

Business Email is available independently of web hosting. The platform uses dedicated mail IP ranges and supports webmail, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, DKIM, anti-spam, anti-malware, antivirus protection, audit logging, contacts, and mailbox administration. A Security Archive option can retain messages for as long as ten years.

The separate OPSSHIELD Server Security service combines malware detection and cleanup, ModSecurity Web Application Firewall rules, abusive-IP filtering, DoS mitigation, CSF firewall integration, brute-force protection, bad-bot blocking, reputation monitoring, CMS vulnerability information, and process monitoring. It can be used with cPanel/WHM, Plesk, DirectAdmin, Enhance, RunCloud, and standalone Linux systems.

Domain-registration and transfer services cover a wide selection of generic and country-code extensions, allowing hosting, domains, email, and managed infrastructure to be maintained under the same account.

The main company website is in English and has a modern layout. The client area provides considerably wider localization, including Arabic, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Persian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Billing is available in GBP, USD, and EUR.

Big Wet Fish remains a relatively compact hosting company despite its long history. This contributes to a service model centered around direct technical assistance and managed hosting rather than the heavily automated, self-service approach used by much larger hosting groups.