Nimbus Hosting UK Helium, £ 39.00/mo. on Linux Cloud

Helium has been updated on September 26, 2025 (added January 8, 2021)

💪 CPU/Cores :	4 cores
🔋 RAM :	3000 MB
🆓 free domains :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
🔧 Category :	BackupWordpressFully Managed
✍️ Support Options :	EmailPhone / Toll-FreeLive Chat
⚑ Targeting :	UK

screenshot of Helium from nimbushosting.co.uk

See also initial Helium plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

Helium is the starter managed hosting plan aimed at beginners or anyone running a small handful of WordPress sites. The spec card shows 50 GB SSD disk, 3 GB RAM, 4 CPU cores and an allowance of roughly 100k monthly page views. SSL is included, backups are retained for 14 cycles and on-demand backups are available from the dashboard. The service runs on the Nimbus Platform with carbon-neutral hosting and includes free site migrations. Team features listed on the grid include unlimited users, granular user permissions, email notifications and Slack notifications so agencies can collaborate safely. Developer tools available on Helium include site clone, Git deployment, WordPress tools and a Power Boost toggle (4 levels) to temporarily add extra oomph during updates or traffic spikes. Client-management features highlight multi-website management from one login and website stats. E-commerce helpers (PCI, WooCommerce, Magento, Elasticsearch and Varnish) start at the higher tiers, so Helium focuses on lean, secure WordPress with guided support for chat/phone/email and a knowledge base.

All Nimbus managed plans share the same operational model: UK-based managed WordPress hosting on the Nimbus Platform with carbon-neutral data centres, free migrations, automated and on-demand backups, integrated SSL, agency-friendly team management, developer tooling (Git deploy, staging/clone, Power Boost) and multi-site administration. Support channels shown are phone, email, live chat and documentation/KB; plans scale by SSD space, RAM/cores and recommended monthly page views.

📄 Editorial Review

Nimbus Hosting UK positions itself as a managed hosting platform for agencies and developers that need speed, reliability, and hands-on help. They focus on PHP-based sites (not just WordPress) and pair 100% root access with a managed layer: server maintenance, nightly offsite backups, proactive capacity alerts, and an operations-friendly dashboard. They lean heavily into performance — touting 400% better traffic-spike handling than typical providers — and sustainability, running their UK data centres on 100% renewable energy.

They report 99.995% uptime, reinforced by enterprise hardware, NGINX acceleration, and platform tooling aimed at shaving time off everyday tasks. Agencies get workflow integrations (GitHub, Bitbucket, Slack), single-pane portfolio management across clients, and collaboration controls for teams. Developers can pre-install recipes for WordPress, enable 1-click SSL, use caching via NimCache Ultra, and harden sites with NimShield. Support is UK-based, pragmatic, and fast — with most tickets answered inside an hour — and the platform currently underpins 14,000+ websites.

Product highlights

Managed WordPress – Performance-tuned WordPress with NGINX caching, offsite backups, capacity notifications, and migration help. They claim 88% of sites run faster post-migration.
UK web hosting platform (managed PHP hosting) – One dashboard to manage all servers/sites/clients, host any popular PHP CMS/framework (WordPress, Laravel, ExpressionEngine, etc.), and integrate version control and CI-style deploys.
Reliable server hosting – High-performance, fully configured servers for WordPress, Magento, and custom PHP stacks; designed to absorb traffic spikes gracefully.
Managed Magento / eCommerce – Varnish cache (quoted at up to ~100k req/s), PCI-aware environment, and the same 99.995% uptime target.
Secure PHP & MySQL / Managed Laravel – Linux frameworks, SSH/SFTP/FTPS, preconfigured upload limits, and agency-friendly SLAs; they cite rapid response metrics (e.g., ~60-second call answer / ~67-minute average resolution).
Reseller hosting for agencies – White-label portfolio management on the Nimbus platform.
Secure managed VPS – HPE ProLiant Gen10, Intel® Xeon®, enterprise SSDs, UK location, scalable resources with heads-up capacity alerts and the option to spread clients across multiple VPSs or step up to dedicated.

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