How RapidLayer hosting fits together
Every time someone visits your website, their request passes through several layers. Each one has a job to do. Here is a plain-English tour, from the visitor’s browser to your backups.
Layered by design
Each layer has one job
UK hosted
Close to your visitors
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Your visitor
Requests start in the browser and travel to our UK hosting.
Network
Traffic is routed to the right server.
Security
Firewall and malware protection filter what arrives.
Web server
LiteSpeed serves your pages efficiently.
PHP
Dynamic pages are built by modern PHP.
NVMe storage
Files and databases are read quickly.
Backups
Daily copies, ready if you need them.
Support
People who understand every layer.
The journey of a request
- 1. Your visitor: Someone types your address or follows a link. Their request heads to our UK hosting over the internet.
- 2. Network: The request reaches our network, which routes traffic to the right server.
- 3. Security: Firewall filtering and malware protection help keep unwanted traffic and malicious files away from your website.
- 4. Web server: LiteSpeed receives the request and serves your page efficiently, using caching where your application supports it.
- 5. PHP: If your website runs on PHP, such as WordPress, LiteSpeed hands the request to PHP to build the page.
- 6. NVMe storage: Your files and databases live on NVMe storage, so they can be read quickly.
- 7. Backups: Daily backups keep a recent copy of your website, so it can be restored if something goes wrong.
Ready to put it to work?
Every shared hosting plan runs on this stack.
