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Edge hosting

Hosting that's close to everyone, not just one region

Host your sites, apps and data across a distributed network instead of a single data centre. Faster for every visitor, resilient by design, and no egress fees, ever.
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Customers
3K+
Network uptime
100%
Egress fees
$0
To start, no card
Free

Trusted by teams like

  • XCOPY
  • Bauer Media Group
  • Perihappy
  • Ecohustler
  • Tinder
  • IGD
  • Minima

The idea

What is edge hosting?

Most hosting puts your website in one place: a data centre in a single region. Visitors nearby get a fast experience; everyone else waits while their requests cross oceans.

Edge hosting flips the model. Your content and applications are served from locations spread around the world, so every request is answered close to the person making it.

On Edge, that network is 988 locations run by independent operators rather than a handful of corporate data centres: genuine geographic spread and no single point of failure. On top sits a full hosting platform, with a CDN for delivery, VMs for your apps, S3-compatible storage for your data, and anycast DNS to tie it together.

Edge hosting at a glance

Hosting that behaves the way the internet should: fast everywhere, resilient to outages, and priced without bandwidth penalties.

  • 988 edge locations. Content served close to every visitor.
  • Zero egress fees. Bandwidth is never a line item.
  • Full-stack platform. CDN, compute, storage and DNS in one place.
  • No lock-in. Standard VMs, S3-compatible APIs, plain DNS.
  • Free to start. Free tiers across the platform, no card to sign up.

Why distribution matters

Why edge beats single-region hosting

Distribution isn't a nice-to-have. It changes performance, reliability and cost.

  • Lower latency

    Single-region hosting is fast near the data centre and slow everywhere else. Edge serves from 988 locations, so every visitor gets a nearby response.

  • Built-in resilience

    There's no single point of failure. If a node drops out, traffic routes around it automatically, so an outage in one place never takes your site down everywhere.

  • Zero egress fees

    Traditional clouds charge you to serve your own users. Edge doesn't: CDN bandwidth, storage egress and compute transfer are included at any volume.

What you can host

If it runs on the web, it runs on Edge

From a static landing page to a full production stack.

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How Edge hosting works

Four services, one platform

Use them together for a complete hosting stack, or pick only the pieces you need. In a typical deployment your domain resolves through Edge DNS, the CDN serves static assets from the nearest location, your app runs on a Compute VM, and uploads, media and backups live in Storage.
  • CDN: free SSL, image optimisation and zero egress
  • Compute: custom vCPU, RAM and NVMe, billed hourly from a prepaid balance
  • Storage: S3-compatible, all NVMe, no egress or per-request fees
  • DNS: fast anycast, free for up to 50 zones with unlimited records

Security

Secure by default, not by upgrade

Protection isn't a product tier on Edge. Every site gets the full security stack from the moment it's deployed.
  • DDoS protection as standard: attacks are absorbed at the edge, at no extra cost
  • Free SSL on every domain, provisioned and renewed for you
  • Free bot protection: Shield scores every visitor 1–100 and never shows a human a puzzle
  • No surprise bills: compute is prepaid and free tiers hard-cap by default
Learn about Edge Shield

The green cloud

Hosting that's 50% greener by design

Hyperscale data centres burn energy on idle servers and cooling. Edge runs on distributed nodes using spare capacity, and because content is served close to visitors, data travels half the distance, using roughly half the energy.
Less energy than hyperscale providers
50%
Shorter data paths
50%
Renewable energy, where available
100%
How Edge is better for the environment

Pricing

Pricing that stays predictable

DNS and Shield are free forever. CDN, Storage and Assist have free tiers. Compute is priced per resource and billed hourly from a prepaid balance, so a surprise bill is impossible by design. Exceeding a free tier pauses the resource; it never silently starts billing.
  • Compute from $0.004 per vCPU-hour
  • CDN: $0.25 per million requests after 500k free
  • Storage: $0.015 per GB-month after 5 GB free
  • Egress, at any volume: $0
Explore full pricing

Migration

Hosted somewhere else? We'll move you.

Our Expert Services team moves sites off legacy hosts and hyperscalers without downtime, from a single WordPress site to a full production stack. You'll get a clear plan before anything moves.
Talk to Expert ServicesRead the migration guide
  1. 01

    Free initial consultation

    Scope, timeline and costs agreed up front.
  2. 02

    Zero-downtime cutover

    DNS switches only once everything is verified.
  3. 03

    Senior engineers

    The same teams that take on full builds and integrations.
  4. 04

    Prefer to do it yourself?

    Standard VMs, S3-compatible APIs and plain DNS make self-migration straightforward.

Customers

What our customers say

  • “Edge enabled us to release in days and weeks, instead of weeks and months.”
    MHMatt HobbsCTO, Bauer Media Group
  • “Edge lets me focus on building, not infrastructure. That's exactly what I needed.”
    ARAndrew RobertsFounder, Code+Ink
  • “Edge gives us the global reach our audience demands without the complexity we dreaded.”
    MMonocleMedia & Broadcasting

Read the case studies:Bauer Media GroupCode+InkMonocle

FAQ

Edge hosting questions

The questions people ask before moving to the edge. Something else? Talk to us.
What is edge hosting?
Edge hosting runs your website or application across a distributed network of servers close to your users, rather than in one centralised data centre. Pages load faster, traffic spikes are absorbed across many locations, and there's no single point of failure. On Edge, that network is made of independently operated nodes around the world, coordinated into one platform covering CDN, compute, storage and DNS.
How is edge hosting different from cloud hosting?
Traditional cloud hosting places your workload in one region, say Virginia or Frankfurt, and every visitor connects there however far away they are. Edge hosting distributes delivery across many locations, so visitors in Sydney and São Paulo both get a fast, local response. It also changes the economics: centralised clouds typically charge egress to serve your own traffic, while Edge includes bandwidth at no cost. You still get on-demand VMs, object storage and APIs.
What does edge hosting cost?
Simple per-resource pricing with free tiers. DNS is free for up to 50 zones. The CDN includes 500k requests a month free, then $0.25 per million. Storage is free to 5 GB, then $0.015 per GB-month. Compute is billed hourly at $0.004 per vCPU-hour, $0.00256 per GiB of RAM per hour and $0.074 per GiB-month of NVMe disk, so a starter VM with 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM and 40 GB of disk is roughly $9.62 a month. There are no egress fees anywhere, and compute runs from a prepaid balance.
Can I migrate my existing site to Edge?
Yes. Edge is built on standards (full virtual machines, S3-compatible storage APIs and plain DNS), so most sites move over without changes to the application. Migrate yourself, or have Expert Services handle it end to end: scope and costs are agreed in a free consultation, and DNS switches only once everything is verified, so there's no downtime at cutover.
Do I need a card to start?
No. Signing up is free with no card required, and free tiers hard-cap by default: going over pauses the resource rather than starting to bill.

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