Flagship venture
Education technology that's reliable, private and built to scale.
Education Host is a specialist education hosting and software company. It designs, develops and operates secure cloud platforms for universities, colleges and schools, and has focused exclusively on education since 2011 — supporting institutions across the UK, North America and Europe.
I manage Education Host as Managing Director: strategy, products, infrastructure, operations, customers and growth, delivered with our developers and specialist partners. This page is the personal-site view of the company; the full picture lives at educationhost.co.uk.
Platforms
The platform portfolio
Governed student web hosting
Student Web Host Manager
Provisions, manages and governs student web hosting across courses, modules and teaching blocks — so every student gets industry-standard hosting without the governance headaches.
- Microsoft Entra sign-in with policy-aligned access
- Account lifecycles aligned to the academic calendar
- cPanel hosting with email, databases and WordPress
- Statistics and audit visibility across the estate
Browser-based teaching labs
Cloud Pulse
Browser-based computing labs for higher education. Lecturers design and deploy student-ready environments for Linux, Windows, AI, cyber security and web development — no local installs required.
- Reusable teaching templates deployed across cohorts
- Custom lab builder for multi-machine environments
- Live lecturer dashboard with environment monitoring
- Single sign-on with institutional identity providers, including Microsoft Entra ID
School cover management
Cover Manager
An MIS-integrated cover management platform for schools and colleges: absence requests, approvals and daily cover allocation in one clear morning view.
- MIS integration via Wonde (SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom, iSAMS and more)
- Morning cover view highlighting unallocated sessions
- Printable daily cover sheets and CSV export
- Microsoft Entra single sign-on
AI-agent teaching labs
AI Labs (OpenClaw)
AI and AI-agent lab environments for teaching, powered by Cloud Pulse — separate browser-based workspaces per student or group, with reusable lecturer templates and central controls.
- Powered by the Cloud Pulse platform
- Per-student and per-group isolated workspaces
- Reusable templates managed by lecturers
- Offered via pilots and institutional consultation
Services
Around the platforms
Education web hosting
Education-focused web and WordPress hosting on UK infrastructure.
Managed infrastructure
UK data-centre hosting, managed and monitored for education workloads.
Managed technical support
Hands-on support for education platforms, domains, SSL, DNS and security.
Consultancy
Education platform strategy, student hosting, cloud architecture, data and reporting, systems improvement, migration planning and project recovery.
Infrastructure & assurance
Run on our own estate
The company runs its services on its own hosting estate, including OpenStack cloud infrastructure operated with specialist consultancy support, in accredited UK data-centre facilities.
Education institutions run on trust, so the company treats security as table stakes. Education Host is cyber essentials certified, hosting on iso 27001-accredited uk data-centre infrastructure in a tier iii-aligned uk facility with 24/7 monitoring. As Managing Director, I hold overall responsibility for the estate and the operational standards behind it; the architecture detail itself stays private.