What is the difference between the shared and dedicated database?
Every site always gets its own isolated database and database user. That never changes. The difference is where it runs. On the shared tier, your database lives on our managed MariaDB server, which serves multiple sites and suits most sites well. On the dedicated tier, a private database server runs inside your site's own container with its own reserved RAM. It is included on Pro, Studio, Agency and the Solo plans, or £6/month per site as an add-on. Switching is one click from the dashboard: your site stays up in read-only mode for under a minute, and if anything fails the switch rolls back automatically.
The dedicated tier suits busy shops and databases under sustained write load: the database has its own reserved RAM inside your container, so query performance is yours alone.
For sites that must stay up, dedicated MySQL high availability adds a standby copy on a second server with automatic failover: £9/month per site, included on Solo HA (£99/month).
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What databases are available?
Every hosted site gets its own MariaDB database: one per site, never shared. Managed PostgreSQL 15 and Redis 7 instances are available as add-ons from the Business plan up. phpMyAdmin and WP-CLI are included, and Pro adds a private network between your services.
Full answerDo you guarantee uptime?
We commit to 99.99% uptime, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee rather than a service-credit scheme. You also get per-minute uptime monitoring with email, webhook and Slack alerts sent to you as well as us, a live standby copy of your database on a second machine, and an architecture where your site keeps serving even if our control system goes down.
Full answerWhat can I host on G7Cloud?
WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, WHMCS, Ghost, Directus and custom PHP (7.4 to 8.4), plus git-deployed apps in 14 frameworks: Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Remix, Vite (React/Vue/Svelte), Bun, static sites, Strapi, Medusa, Payload and custom Docker. Node 18, 20 and 22 are supported.
Full answerCan I run WordPress and Next.js on the same plan?
Yes. A hosted site slot runs any supported type. There is no separate WordPress pricing or app pricing. A Business plan could run one WooCommerce shop, one WordPress site and one Next.js app side by side, each in its own container.
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