Bare Metal dedicated servers
A dedicated (Bare Metal) server gives you an entire physical machine to yourself, with full root access, predictable performance and no noisy neighbours. Here is what it is, how ordering and provisioning work, and what Silurian manages versus what stays your responsibility.
Read guide →Getting started with a dedicated server
Establish a secure administration path, record the delivered configuration and prove that backup and recovery work before putting a new server into production.
Read guide →Connect to a dedicated server with SSH
How to get secure command-line access to your dedicated server, switch to key-based login instead of a password, and recover access safely if you ever get locked out.
Read guide →Dedicated hardware and identity
How to confirm the exact hardware you were delivered, report a suspected hardware fault, and use Tags to keep multiple servers organised.
Read guide →Boot and operating system management
How to switch boot mode for rescue and recovery, and how to safely reinstall the operating system on your dedicated server.
Read guide →Remote console and recovery
Use an out-of-band IPMI session to diagnose boot and network failures when the operating system cannot be reached normally.
Read guide →Dedicated network and IP addresses
Assign public addresses, configure reverse DNS and firewall policy, interpret traffic and connect servers through a private network.
Read guide →Secondary DNS for dedicated servers
Add an authoritative secondary copy of a DNS zone, verify transfers and serials, and remove it without breaking delegation.
Read guide →Backup Storage for your dedicated server
Activate the included 500 GB backup target, restrict network access, size retention correctly and prove that data can be restored.
Read guide →Security and monitoring for dedicated servers
Combine platform reachability, application monitoring, firewall policy and DDoS protection without losing the administrator recovery path.
Read guide →Dedicated server activity history
Use the operation timeline as evidence during changes and incidents, correlate failures with service health and prepare auditable maintenance records.
Read guide →Dedicated server options and licences
Inventory active options and software licences, verify operating-system compatibility and change them without interrupting dependent workloads.
Read guide →Managed Web Hosting
Managed Web Hosting provides the shared Linux environment, storage, application runtime and supporting services needed to publish one or more websites without administering a server.
Read guide →How Managed Web Hosting works
Understand the technical parts of a hosting plan and how DNS, TLS, document roots, PHP, databases, email and backups work together to serve a website.
Read guide →Getting started with Web Hosting
Take a new hosting service from an empty account to a tested HTTPS website, with its files, database, DNS and recovery path in place.
Read guide →Hosting domains, DNS and TLS
Map one or more domains to website folders, change public DNS without unnecessary nameserver moves, and put every public hostname behind a valid TLS certificate.
Read guide →Manage hosting files and connect with SFTP
Publish and maintain website files safely with SFTP or Silurian File Manager, understand document roots and recover a damaged file tree.
Read guide →Hosting email and Silurian Webmail
Activate email for a hosted domain, create mailboxes, use Silurian Webmail and diagnose DNS, authentication and delivery failures.
Read guide →Databases, imports and recovery
Create and connect an included MySQL database, import application data, manage capacity and recover a consistent copy after a failure.
Read guide →Install and manage WordPress
Install WordPress into a clean document root, complete the essential site configuration and maintain files, database, mail and scheduled work as one recoverable application.
Read guide →Install and manage Joomla
Install Joomla in an isolated root, complete its system configuration and maintain extensions, cache, mail and backups safely.
Read guide →Install and manage PrestaShop
Install PrestaShop, complete the commercial and technical configuration, test the full order path and protect transactional data.
Read guide →Deploy a website from Git
Connect a public Git repository to a hosting document root, deploy a reviewed branch and verify each asynchronous release before it reaches visitors.
Read guide →Silurian Site Studio
Build, preview and publish a professional business website in minutes, included free with every Silurian Web Hosting plan - no separate licence, no extra charge.
Read guide →PHP runtime, environment variables and cron
Choose a compatible PHP environment, isolate application configuration and run scheduled scripts without exposing secrets or creating overlapping work.
Read guide →Security, performance and activity diagnostics
Separate DNS, TLS, hosting, runtime, database and application faults before changing a live website, and collect useful evidence when support is required.
Read guide →Google Workspace
How to buy or transfer a Google Workspace subscription through Silurian, manage licences and billing, and optionally connect your directory for day-to-day user administration.
Read guide →Silurian.email Basic and Pro
How to set up, connect and administer a professional email mailbox hosted in Europe by Silurian, from your first sign-in to configuring Outlook, mobile and webmail access.
Read guide →SMS Developer API
How to activate Silurian's transactional SMS API, send your first message, handle delivery callbacks, and keep your API credentials secure.
Read guide →Web security and performance
How Cloudflare-powered DDoS protection, a web application firewall and CDN caching work together to protect and speed up your website - and how to get your domain set up with it through Silurian.
Read guide →Zero Trust and workspace security
What Zero Trust actually means for securing your team's access to internal apps and the internet, the building blocks that make it up, and a sensible way to roll it out without disrupting your team.
Read guide →Network services and SASE
How to connect and protect offices, data centres and cloud networks at the network layer, and what to expect from a project like this versus a simple self-service order.
Read guide →Bots and access controls
How Cloudflare identifies and manages automated bot traffic, and how to build IP access rules without accidentally blocking real visitors.
Read guide →Cloudflare logs
How Cloudflare Logpush exports your traffic and security data to your own storage or analysis tool, and what stays protected along the way.
Read guide →Edge certificates
How TLS certificates protect the connection between your visitors and your domain, and what to check before making a change.
Read guide →Email routing
How to forward incoming email for your domain to another mailbox using Cloudflare Email Routing, and the DNS records it needs to work.
Read guide →Error pages
What Cloudflare's different error-page types mean, and what to consider before customising one.
Read guide →Rules
The difference between Cloudflare's modern rulesets and legacy Page Rules, and which one to use for a new configuration.
Read guide →Traffic analytics
How to read your domain's traffic analytics - requests, bandwidth, visitors and security threats - to spot problems early and measure the effect of a change.
Read guide →Traffic services
An overview of Cloudflare's traffic-shaping tools - smart routing, tiered caching, load balancing, health checks and waiting rooms - and when each one is useful.
Read guide →Workers routes
How Cloudflare Workers routes decide which URL patterns on your domain run custom code, and how to check your current routing safely.
Read guide →Zone settings
A guide to the TLS, security, performance, caching and network settings you can configure for a Cloudflare-protected domain, and how to change them safely.
Read guide →Managed Public Cloud
European cloud infrastructure for protected object storage, Linux instances, high-availability databases and managed Kubernetes, packaged under a fixed monthly Silurian contract.
Read guide →Developer platform
An overview of the Cloudflare Workers, Pages, R2 storage, Images and AI Gateway building blocks available from Silurian, and which one fits your project.
Read guide →Cloudflare AI Gateway
How Cloudflare AI Gateway adds logging, caching and rate limiting between your application and the AI models it calls, what it does and doesn't cover, and how to request it.
Read guide →Cloudflare Images
How to use Cloudflare Images to resize, optimise and transform images that are already hosted elsewhere, free for up to 5,000 unique transformations a month.
Read guide →Profiles and permissions
How your one Silurian login relates to the business (client) accounts you can access, and how to control what each team member is allowed to see and do.
Read guide →Billing and orders
How to find your orders, understand what each order status actually means, and know when it's safe to expect your service to be active.
Read guide →Invoices and payments
How to find your invoices, understand your outstanding balance, and pay an invoice by link without needing to log in.
Read guide →Checkout and payment
What happens between adding something to your cart and having a confirmed order - including why prices and availability are checked again at the very last moment.
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