Common Hosting Problem

Your Website Keeps Going Down - Here's Why, and the Fix

Repeated website downtime is almost always caused by oversold shared hosting. Switch to UK hosting with a 99.9% uptime SLA and free migration from £2.99/mo.

UK server infrastructure with reliable 99.9% uptime SLA

You're Not Alone

Your Website Keeps Going Down - Here's Why, and the Fix

A website that keeps going down in the UK is almost always a hosting reliability problem, and Glitch Servers provides the stable UK Enhance Panel hosting infrastructure that puts repeated downtime behind you. If you are experiencing hourly or daily periods where your website shows a 500 error, 503 service unavailable, or simply fails to load, the cause is almost certainly your current hosting provider overselling shared server resources - cramming too many websites onto a single server until the server runs out of memory, CPU capacity, or database connections. Legitimate UK businesses lose real money every time their website goes down: enquiries are lost, transactions fail, and repeat visitors lose confidence. A 99.9% uptime SLA means your site should be unreachable for no more than 8.7 hours per year - many budget hosts fail this standard routinely. Glitch Servers hosts your site on AMD Ryzen hardware, provides a genuine 99.9% uptime SLA, Corero Smartwall DDoS protection, and UK-based support that responds when things go wrong.

External resources: NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) and ICO (UK data protection authority).

Why This Happens

The Root Cause

What's really going on

Budget shared hosting providers oversell their servers - they put hundreds or thousands of websites on a single physical server knowing that most will be inactive at any given moment. When an unusually busy period hits, or when one badly-coded site on the server has a memory leak, the server runs out of resources and starts refusing connections to all sites hosted on it. This causes the 503 errors, timeouts, and blank pages that site owners mistake for their own software having a problem. MySQL database connection limits are also frequently hit on oversold servers - WordPress and other CMS platforms queue requests and time out when the connection pool is exhausted.

The Real Cost

What This Problem Is Costing You

This isn't just a technical inconvenience - it has measurable effects on your business.

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Lost Revenue

Every minute your site is down during business hours loses potential enquiries, orders, and leads to competitors whose sites are online.

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Wasted Time

Time spent raising support tickets, checking status pages, and worrying about whether your site is up - repeatedly, for months - is time taken away from running your business.

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Damaged Reputation

Customers who find your site down form a lasting negative impression and are unlikely to return - repeated downtime permanently erodes your audience.

A website that goes down during business hours loses every lead and enquiry that arrives during that window. For ecommerce sites, downtime during peak periods (evenings, weekends, sale periods) directly translates to lost orders. Customers who arrive during downtime do not come back - they search again and find a competitor. Repeated downtime also damages your Google search rankings, as Googlebot encountering 503 errors begins to crawl your site less frequently.

The Solution

How Glitch Servers Fixes This

Glitch Servers provides Enhance Panel hosting on dedicated AMD Ryzen hardware with NVMe SSD storage, backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA. Corero Smartwall DDoS protection prevents volumetric attacks from taking your site offline. UK-native routing through AS212868 and redundant LINX/LONAP peering ensures network-layer reliability. Our support team is UK-based and available around the clock - when something goes wrong, you reach a real engineer, not an offshore script reader. Migration is free and handled by our team with zero downtime during the switch.

What You Get

Why Glitch Servers Is Different

Infrastructure built to prevent these problems - not patch them after the fact.

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99.9% Uptime SLA

Glitch Servers provides a genuine 99.9% uptime SLA - backed by NVMe SSD hardware, redundant network uplinks, and Corero DDoS protection.

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Corero Smartwall DDoS Protection

Inline DDoS protection absorbs volumetric attack traffic before it reaches your site - keeping you online during attacks that would take down unprotected shared hosting.

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UK-Based Support 24/7

UK engineers available around the clock. When your site goes down, you reach someone who can diagnose and resolve it - not a first-line script reader who escalates for hours.

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Free Migration with Zero Downtime

Our team migrates your site, database, and email to Glitch Servers with zero downtime - your site stays live on the old host until we confirm the new environment is fully working.

Free Migration - We'll Move Everything for You

Switching hosts feels daunting, but we make it painless. Our team handles the full migration at no charge - your site, emails, databases, and DNS, with zero downtime during the switch.

  • Full website and file transfer handled by our team
  • All databases, emails, and DNS migrated correctly
  • Zero-downtime cutover - your visitors won't notice
  • Free for all new Glitch Servers customers
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Migration included free

One-Click Installs

Install WordPress in Under 2 Minutes - No Developer Needed

the one-click installer in the Enhance Panel installs WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and 400+ other apps in under two minutes. If migrating an existing site, our team handles the transfer.

All Glitch Servers Enhance Panel plans include one-click installation for WordPress, WooCommerce, and Joomla - free with every hosting plan.

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💬Joomla

Pricing

Web Hosting Plans - Simple, Transparent Pricing

Two straightforward plans - no hidden fees, no renewal price hikes. Cancel anytime.

Web 1
£2.99/mo

For sole traders and individuals

  • 1 Website
  • 10GB SSD Storage
  • 1 MySQL Database
  • 5 Mailboxes
  • Unlimited Bandwidth
  • Free SSL Certificates
  • DDoS Protection by Corero
  • One-Click WordPress Install

1 CPU core · 1GB RAM · 25 Entry Processes

Ideal for a sole trader whose business depends on a website that stays online during working hours.

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All plans include Enhance Panel, one-click WordPress/WooCommerce install, free SSL, and UK-based support. Free migration included for all new customers. Prices exclude VAT.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Budget shared hosting oversells server resources - too many sites on one server. When resource limits are hit, all sites on that server become unavailable. This is a structural problem with the hosting provider, not your website software.
A 99.9% uptime SLA means your site should be unreachable for no more than 8.7 hours total per year (about 43 minutes per month). Most budget hosts do not provide a genuine SLA and do not compensate for downtime.
Set up free uptime monitoring with a service like UptimeRobot (free tier monitors every 5 minutes) or StatusCake. These send email or SMS alerts when your site becomes unreachable. Monitoring data also helps you document downtime frequency when requesting compensation from your current host.
No. Our migration process runs your site on both the old and new servers simultaneously. We only update your DNS once we have confirmed the new server is working correctly. During DNS propagation (typically 1-4 hours), traffic gradually shifts to the new server with no visible interruption.
Yes. Corero Smartwall DDoS protection is included on every Glitch Servers Enhance Panel plan at no extra cost. It operates inline at the network level, absorbing attack traffic before it reaches your server.

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