Reviews and expert opinion Hyve

Hyve, also known as Hyve Managed Hosting, is a British company specializing in a wide range of hosting and web-related solutions. These include cloud hosting, dedicated servers, SFTP hosting, colocation, and several other services.

Hyve operates via 35 worldwide data center locations spread across more than 15 countries, including the U.S., Canada, Columbia, Brazil, the U.K., Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, and Australia.

Its website is informative (although it can be difficult to find what you’re looking for) and is only available in English. However, you can switch between websites in three different locations – the U.K., the U.S., and Switzerland.

Unlike most hosting providers, Hyve doesn’t offer fixed pricing plans. Instead, you can customize a plan according to your requirements. Nevertheless, all plans come with a set of standard features, including:

• DDS (DDoS Defence System)
• VMware Firewalls (a minimum of two per cloud server)
• Free SSL certificates
• Free migration
• 99.999% uptime guarantee
• SSD storage
• Automatic weekly full backups and daily incremental backups

Not only can you configure your own package, but you can also re-scale your resources on-demand to fit your up-to-date needs. With a simple click of a button, you can increase or decrease your account or server specifications to accommodate increased traffic.

All server scaling is rebootless, which means that it’s done without rebooting the server and so it doesn’t disrupt your website’s activity or your overall business operation.

All hosting servers are SSD powered, which performs much faster than traditional disk drives to boost your overall performance and improve page loading speeds.

Hyve supports the majority of OS and control panels, too, so you can build a server perfectly suited to your needs. It also uses a system called Reserved Instances, where you can save VM templates, helping with the rapid deployment of multiple servers.

Because Hyve is (mostly) a managed service, you don’t have to be a web developer to benefit from its plans – but it is more expensive than its competitors. If you’re looking for something you can manage yourself, at a lower price, you can always check out our top web hosting comparison.See full list of features

The website has an extensive Knowledgebase that’s packed with tutorials and articles covering almost all major topics. It’s well organized and easy to browse.

You can contact Hyve’s support team via live chat, phone, email, support ticket, and a contact form. Unfortunately, the live chat is not always available. I did manage to get to speak to a cloud hosting specialist who answered my questions rapidly and knowledgeably.

As previously mentioned, Hyve doesn’t have fixed price plans. To get a quote for a cloud hosting server, you’ll need to contact the sales team. All plans are bespoke, but I reached out to Hyve for some basic information about its pricing structure. The prices in the table below are approximate, and you can customize your plan to meet your exact needs (so you never pay for more resources than you need!) Plus, you can scale up (or down) easily, thanks to the one-click scaling feature.