We catch website
problems first.

CloudHost Test was built by developers who got tired of hearing "the checkout has been broken for three days and we had no idea." We decided to fix that problem.

Why we built this

It started with a conversation that still happens far too often. A small business owner calls their developer in a panic — checkout has been broken since a routine plugin update two days ago. Revenue is gone. Customers are frustrated. A simple automated test would have flagged it within minutes.

The tools that catch these problems have always existed — they're used by large engineering teams at big companies. But they're complex to set up, expensive, and assume you have an in-house DevOps team to manage them. Small and medium businesses are left unprotected.

CloudHost Test is our answer to that gap. A fully managed service that handles every technical detail — you just tell us what to test, and we keep watch. No dashboards to check, no scripts to maintain, no expertise required.

We're a small team of developers and testers based in the UK, and every customer gets a human point of contact who actually understands their site.

"Every hour a broken checkout goes undetected costs money. Our job is to make sure you're never the last to know your site has a problem."

JM
James Mercer
Co-founder, CloudHost Test

Make professional website testing accessible to every UK business

The same test coverage that protects a Fortune 500 e-commerce site should be within reach of a 5-person WooCommerce shop. We're building the service that makes that true.

UK-based team
UK data residency
UK phone support
UK monitoring nodes

The values that shape the service

Speed of detection matters

Every minute between a failure and an alert is a minute your customers are experiencing a broken site. We optimise hard for fast detection — 60-second uptime checks, immediate alert dispatch, no batching or delays.

Simplicity is a feature

We deliberately don't build dashboards you have to remember to check. The service should be invisible until it needs to speak up. Zero complexity for the customer — all complexity absorbed by us.

Real humans, not just tickets

Every customer has a named contact on our team. When you onboard, you talk to the person who sets up your tests. When something complex fails, the same person calls you. Support shouldn't feel like a chat bot.

Honest reporting

We don't polish failure data into vanity metrics. If your site had an issue, the report says so clearly and tells you exactly what happened and for how long. Accuracy matters more than a clean-looking dashboard.

We're proud to be boring

The best outcome for our customers is that they never hear from us — because nothing ever breaks. We measure success in incidents prevented, not tickets raised. Reliable, unglamorous, essential.

Always improving

Every time a test fails to catch a real issue, we learn from it. We improve our test coverage, tighten detection logic, and update our processes. Our test quality gets better with every customer interaction.

The people behind CloudHost Test

A small, focused team of developers, testers, and support specialists who genuinely care about your site staying healthy.

JM
James Mercer
Co-founder & CEO

Former web developer with 12 years building e-commerce platforms. Grew frustrated watching client sites break in silence and decided to do something about it.

KP
Kira Patel
Co-founder & CTO

Test automation engineer with a background in QA at a major UK retailer. Designed the core testing infrastructure that powers every check we run.

RS
Rob Stanton
Head of Customer Success

Spent 8 years in technical account management for SaaS companies. Ensures every customer onboarding runs smoothly and that nothing gets missed.

TL
Tara Lewis
Test Engineer

Playwright and Selenium specialist who configures custom test suites for each customer. If a website has an unusual journey to test, Tara finds a way.

How we got here

22
2022
The idea

James and Kira meet through a mutual client after independently diagnosing the same broken checkout on the same site. They spend three months building the first version of the test runner.

23
Early 2023
First customers

Five local businesses in Sheffield start using CloudHost Test during beta. Within a month, two login failures and one broken checkout are caught before customers see them. Word starts spreading.

23
Late 2023
Screenshot comparison launches

After several customers report layout breakages that functional tests missed, Kira builds visual regression testing into the platform. Business plan customers get it first.

24
2024
100 customers & growing

Rob and Tara join the team. The service expands to cover SMS alerts, performance monitoring, and broken link detection. Customer count hits 100 and climbs steadily toward 500.

25
2025
Today

Over 500 UK businesses rely on CloudHost Test every day. We're running more than 1.2 million automated test checks per month, and we're just getting started.

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if your site is working?

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