High-Performance Platform

  • Powered by Amazon AWS

    We run our web hosting services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is the most comprehensive and widely adopted cloud platform in the world. AWS provides premium availability and reliability, as well as one of the fastest networks available. We use distributed SSD storage for multiple redundancies, ensuring that your website and applications are always up and running.

  • Blazing Fast CDN

    Our cloud CDN service allows websites to run with blazing speed, caching their content on multiple servers across the globe and delivering it from the closest location to each visitor. It comes with an easy one-click set up, smart defaults and simple on/off management of key features.

  • LiteSpeed

    Enhance your website’s performance with Smarthost’s innovative LiteSpeed technology. This powerful web server technology delivers exceptional speed, scalability, and security, ensuring your website loads quickly and flawlessly for every visitor.

  • Brotli Compression

    SmartHost is proud to offer Brotli compression. Brotli is a powerful tool that can significantly enhance your website’s speed, reduce data usage, and conserve device battery life. Brotli compression is already enabled on all SmartHost hosting plans, so you can start enjoying the benefits right away.

  • Ultrafast PHP

    We developed a custom PHP implementation that significantly cuts the TTFB (time to first byte) and makes your pages load 30% faster on average. Our new PHP has lower memory usage and allows the server to process a bigger number of queries faster.

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Security-First Approach

  • Boost Your Protection With Site Scanner

    Site Scanner is our early warning malware detection system that regularly checks your website for domain blacklisting and other malicious software. Daily reports are available in the interface and immediate notifications are sent if a threat is detected, so you can have a peace of mind for your website’s safety and focus on what’s important – your business.

  • Comprehensive WordPress Security Plugin

    Meet our Security plugin – an all-inclusive, free plugin that protects your WordPress website from common hacks, bruteforce attacks, and malware. It’s a must-have for clients and non-clients alike.

  • Geographically Distributed Backups

    We launched geographically distributed backups that minimize the risk of data loss and аllows for fast data recovery even in case of a serious incident that may affect a whole data center.

  • Powerful AI Anti-Bot

    Each hour our AI antibot system blocks between 500 000 and 2 million brute-force attempts across all our servers. We not only prevent potential unauthorized logins, but also manage to save an enormous amount of server resources.

Friendly Client Area & Control Panel

We have built our own account management software to guarantee an outstanding user experience and efficiency of operations on our platform. All our tools aim for maximum simplicity and efficiency that save you time. They follow the same style guide to ensure a unified and consistent experience.

Sophisticated Collaboration Tools

Whether you are an agency building sites, a business client or a blogger, we have made it really easy for you to add experts on your team and manage your workflow. You can use our collaboration tools to have several people work on one site, easily transfer a website to a client, or even resell and manage white-label hosting service.

Exclusive Tools for WordPress

Since the large majority of our clients use WordPress, we have invested extra effort into building automations and management solutions for them such as the WordPress Migrator plugin to help transfer sites easily, the WP Starter to get a theme and essential plugins installed, as well as the staging tool that creates a copy of your live site in a sec and more.

Automatic Scaling on Cloud

We develop unique technologies that facilitate our clients in building and managing their websites. Start with our in-house developed site control panel and go through a wide range of tools for WordPress and other users such as the WordPress Starter, WP Migrator, the staging tool and more.

Frequently Asked Questions

Smarthost.ie is an Irish-owned and operated web hosting and domain registration company. We offer a wide range of hosting services, including shared hosting, WordPress hosting, reseller hosting, and cloud VPS. We also offer a variety of domain registration services, including .IE domains, .COM domains, and over 500 other domain extensions.

Smarthost.ie offers a number of benefits, including:

  • Fast and reliable hosting: Our servers are located in Ireland, ensuring that your website will have fast loading times for visitors in Ireland and the rest of Europe.
  • Expert support: Our team of experienced WordPress and web hosting experts is available 24/7 to help you with any questions or problems you may have.
  • Affordable pricing: We offer a variety of affordable hosting plans to suit all budgets.
  • Satisfaction Guarantee: We are so confident that you will be happy with our services that we offer a 30-day pro-rata satisfaction guarantee.

Smarthost.ie offers a variety of hosting services, including:

  • Shared hosting: Shared hosting is a good option for small businesses and websites that are just getting started. It is also a good option for websites that do not have a lot of traffic.
  • WordPress hosting: WordPress hosting is a specialised type of hosting that is designed for WordPress websites. It offers features such as automatic
  • WordPress updates, WordPress security, and WordPress-specific support.
  • Reseller hosting: Reseller hosting is a good option for businesses that want to resell web hosting services to their customers.
  • Cloud VPS: Cloud VPS is a more powerful type of hosting that is suitable for websites with high traffic or demanding applications.

A domain name is the address of your website on the internet. It is what people type into their web browser to visit your website. For example, the domain name for the Smarthost.ie website is “smarthost.ie”.

You need a domain name if you want to have your own website. A domain name makes your website easy to remember and find for visitors. It also helps to establish your brand and credibility.

When choosing a web hosting provider, you should consider the following factors:

  • Price: Web hosting plans can range in price from a few Euro per month to hundreds of Euros per month. Choose a plan that fits your budget and needs.
  • Features: Different web hosting providers offer different features, such as disk space, bandwidth, email accounts, and support for different programming languages. Choose a plan that offers the features that you need.
  • Reliability: Look for a web hosting provider that has a good reputation for reliability. This means that your website will be up and running most of the time.
  • Support: Look for a web hosting provider that offers good customer support. This is important in case you have any problems with your website or hosting account.
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Our team can help

Have further questions, or need some advice about hosting solutions for you and your business? 

Our team are on hand to assist you and get your business online. Why not give us a call on (01) 901 9700 or send us an email at support@smarthost.ie. We will get back to you as soon as possible.