Posts covering web hosting for schools, colleges and educational institutions
What a language school website needs from hosting: why a CDN matters more than server location when your audience is overseas, how a multilingual site multiplies load, enrolment peaks, and reaching agents’ inboxes abroad.
What an independent school website needs from hosting: why commissioned photography makes prospectus pages slow, keeping video off your own server, digital prospectus file sizes, and admissions forms that actually deliver.
Hosting for UK academies, free schools and multi-academy trusts: running several school sites from one account, meeting accessibility duties, handling admissions and results-day traffic, and keeping costs predictable.
What a nursery website needs from hosting: why room photographs make the site slow, what really happens when a parent withdraws photo consent, keeping the enquiry form short and working, and letting a management app hold the data.
What a special school website needs from hosting: why page weight is an accessibility barrier rather than an irritation, scanned PDFs as the biggest single failure, storage for alternative formats, and being able to fix problems quickly.
What a boarding school website needs from hosting: testing load times from the countries you recruit from, why a CDN is a requirement rather than a feature, keeping prospectuses under attachment limits, and email that arrives abroad.
Hosting for UK sixth form and further education colleges: course listings that update every year, applications and open events, accessibility duties, and traffic that peaks around enrolment and results.
What a code club or STEM group needs from hosting: giving students somewhere to publish their own projects, setting boundaries before they have access, building for a change of organiser, and what plan level fits.
What an international school website needs from hosting: why a CDN is essential for a distributed audience, how translation multiplies database load, forms that accept international details, and email that arrives abroad.
What a primary school website needs from hosting: surviving the snow day surge, why scanned PDFs are an accessibility failure, what actually happens when a parent withdraws photo consent, and letting third-party systems hold the pupil data.
A guide to choosing web hosting for schools in the UK, covering reliability, data protection, accessibility, and managing multi-site or multi-department setups, with links to guides for specific types of school.
What an art or music school website needs from hosting: why audio is the media type people wrongly self-host, upload limits for recorded auditions, surviving ticket release spikes, and what plan level fits.
