Cronos Internet

What Cronos Internet does

Cronos Internet Ltd is a privately-held UK enterprise cloud hosting provider founded in 2012 by hosting industry veterans who had worked together since 2003, headquartered in Rochford, Essex. The company sells a proprietary platform called CronoSphere, built on VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and assembled from Dell PowerEdge servers, Pure Storage all-flash arrays, EMC SAN, Arista Networks 10GbE switches, and VMware NSX. It offers public cloud hosting (virtual servers with elastic scaling), private cloud hosting (dedicated VXLAN-isolated virtual datacentre with dedicated firewalls and IPsec/SSL-VPN), VMware Zimbra-based cloud email, and managed services including Veeam-powered backup, 24x7 service monitoring, and systems administration. Differentiation rests on a 100% uptime track record, low hypervisor overhead (claimed ~2% versus ~25% for competitors), SSD-accelerated storage, and a personal, referral-driven service model.

The company operates a sales-led, enterprise-focused go-to-market with virtually all new business sourced via customer recommendations. Pricing is quote-based, monthly recurring, and pay-as-you-go across CPU, RAM, and storage resources. The customer base is UK-centric, spans roughly a dozen named enterprise and mid-market logos across telecoms, e-commerce, publishing, veterinary, and IT services verticals, and is supported by an extensive testimonial corpus emphasising longevity ('once customers find us, they never leave'). The company is ISO 27001:2013 certified, holds Microsoft Silver Hosting, VMware vCloud Air Network, and Veeam Gold Cloud Provider partner statuses, and operates as a bootstrapped, founder-owned firm with no disclosed external funding or acquisition activity.

Cronos is small (1-10 employees), UK-only in operating geography, and runs a lean infrastructure business anchored by deep VMware and partner certifications rather than scale advantages. The model depends on high-touch service quality, vendor partnership credentials, and a referral flywheel rather than capital-driven growth, with no public revenue, no headcount growth signals, and no documented expansion beyond the initial platform, email, and managed-services lineup established in 2013-2014.

Name

Cronos Internet

Legal name

Cronos Internet Ltd

Website

https://cronosinternet.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cronos Internet is a UK-based, founder-owned enterprise cloud hosting provider offering VMware-based CronoSphere public and private cloud, Zimbra email, and managed services to a small base of UK enterprise and mid-market customers via a referral-driven, pay-as-you-go model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Rochford

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Cloud Hosting Services: Monthly recurring fees for public and private cloud hosting services including virtual machines, storage, networking, and infrastructure access. Charged based on resources consumed (CPU, RAM, storage) with flexible pay-as-you-go scaling.
2. Managed Services: Additional recurring fees for managed backup, service monitoring, and systems administration services. Offered as optional add-ons to core hosting services.
3. Cloud Email/Collaboration: VMware Zimbra-based email hosting with Business and Professional editions, providing recurring revenue from email and collaboration services.
4. Domain Name Registration: Domain registration services acting as agent/reseller for registrars like Nominet and ICANN, with registration and renewal fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Cronos Internet operates the CronoSphere Enterprise Cloud Platform, providing UK-based enterprise cloud hosting on VMware vSphere infrastructure built from Dell, Pure Storage, EMC, Arista, and Juniper components. The company sells Public Cloud Hosting (virtual servers with elastic scaling) and Private Cloud Hosting (dedicated virtual datacentre with VXLAN network isolation) under monthly subscription, alongside managed services (Veeam-powered backup, 24x7 service monitoring, systems administration) and VMware Zimbra-based cloud email and collaboration services.

Product overview

Cronos Internet is an enterprise cloud hosting specialist offering a unified platform called the CronoSphere Enterprise Cloud Platform. The core offerings consist of Public Cloud Hosting (virtual servers with elastic scaling) and Private Cloud Hosting (dedicated virtual datacentre with VXLAN). Additional managed services include Managed Backup (Veeam-powered), Service Monitoring (24x7), and Systems Administration. Cloud Email is provided via VMware Zimbra. Platform services include Load Balancing, Firewalling (NSX), and Network & Security. All services share the same underlying high-performance infrastructure built from VMware, Dell, Pure Storage, EMC, Arista, and Juniper technologies, with a documented 100% uptime SLA.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CronoSphere: The CronoSphere Enterprise Cloud Platform is their proprietary cloud hosting platform built from VMware, Dell, Pure Storage, EMC, and Arista technologies.

Products and services

• CronoSphere Enterprise Cloud Platform Proprietary enterprise cloud platform built from VMware, Dell, Pure Storage, EMC, Arista and Juniper technologies that provides the underlying virtualised infrastructure for all Cronos Internet cloud hosting services with no single point of failure and a 100% uptime SLA.
• Public Cloud Hosting
• Private Cloud Hosting Dedicated virtual datacentre with a 10Gbit private VXLAN network, dedicated firewall with unlimited rules, IPsec VPN, SSL-VPN, scalable load balancing, and 24x7 monitoring for customers needing an isolated, compliance-grade cloud environment.
• Cloud Email (VMware Zimbra) Enterprise email, calendar and collaboration service based on VMware Zimbra, available in Business Edition (SMTP/POP3/IMAP, webmail, spam filtering) and Professional Edition (full collaboration, Outlook integration, mobile sync with remote wipe).
• Managed Backup
• Service Monitoring 24x7 application and infrastructure monitoring with deep inspection, anomaly detection, and immediate engineer notification covering web availability, CPU/memory/disk utilisation, and quality of service.
• Systems Administration Expert technical administration including free migration, infrastructure re-architecture, application optimisation, and database tuning services delivered by VMware, Microsoft and Linux certified engineers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% uptime maintained since platform launch including through infrastructure upgrades
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• VMwarecoreTechnology or IntegrationCore technology partner providing the vSphere hypervisor platform. Cronos uses all VMware Enterprise Plus feature sets. The company is an authorised VMware vCloud Air Network Partner with all technical staff VMware Certified Professional accredited.
• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationCertified Microsoft Partner with Silver hosting competency. Staff hold certifications in Active Directory, Windows Server, SQL Server and other Microsoft technologies used in customer deployments.
• VeeamcoreTechnology or IntegrationVeeam Gold Cloud Provider partner. Cronos uses Veeam Backup & Recovery software for managed backup services, leveraging features like Changed Block Tracking, direct-SAN access, and vPower instant VM recovery.
• DellcoreTechnology or IntegrationPrimary server hardware vendor providing Dell PowerEdge 12G range servers with Intel Xeon processors, 512GB RAM, and 10Gbit networking. Dell's specialist hosting division provides warranty and support services.
• Pure StoragecoreTechnology or IntegrationAll-flash storage arrays used for extreme performance tier. Pure Storage provides flash arrays with Samsung and ZeusIOPs SSDs, delivering stellar I/O performance with consistent low latency for demanding database workloads.
• EMCcoreTechnology or IntegrationSAN storage vendor providing flash-accelerated storage optimised for VMware environments. EMC SANs power the capacity and performance storage tiers with features like Fully Automated Storage Tiering and SSD cache.
• Arista NetworkscoreTechnology or IntegrationNetwork switching vendor providing 10Gb datacentre switches with lowest latency available. Arista EOS environment used with MLAG for high availability. Arista and VMware co-authored the VXLAN standard which Cronos implements.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Storm Internet: UK-based managed hosting and cloud services provider focused on SME and enterprise customers with VMware-based infrastructure, managed support, and UK datacentres. Similar customer profile and product mix to Cronos.
• Hyve Managed Hosting: UK-based managed hosting and cloud provider with global datacentres, offering dedicated servers, private/public cloud, and managed services. Comparable UK-rooted mid-market enterprise hosting specialist.
• Rackspace Technology: Global managed cloud services company and the named competitor in Cronos's positioning. Offers multi-cloud managed services, VMware-based private cloud, and migration services to mid-market and enterprise customers — directly overlapping Cronos's value proposition.
• Memset: UK-based managed hosting and Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider serving SMEs and mid-market with private/public cloud, dedicated servers, and managed services from UK datacentres. Closely comparable scale and geography to Cronos.
• ANS Group (UKFast): UK-based managed cloud and hosting provider offering public/private cloud, managed services, and colocation from Manchester datacentres. Directly comparable as a UK-focused mid-market enterprise hosting specialist competing for similar customers.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Azure: Hyperscale cloud platform with deep enterprise penetration, including Azure VMware Solution that directly competes with Cronos's VMware-based private cloud. Cronos's Microsoft Silver Partner status places it in Azure's ecosystem as a complementary rather than competing provider.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Global hyperscale cloud platform competing for the same enterprise workloads Cronos targets, with overwhelming scale, service breadth, and pricing power. Cronos explicitly positions against commodity hyperscaler offerings.
• Vultr: Global cloud computing provider offering virtual machines, bare metal, and managed databases. Comparable to Cronos's public cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings, with a broader geographic footprint.
• OVHcloud: European hyperscale cloud provider offering dedicated servers, private cloud (VMware-based), public cloud and hosting services. Competes with Cronos on price-sensitive European hosting workloads at significantly greater scale.
• DigitalOcean: Public cloud provider serving developers and SMBs with virtual machines, managed databases, and simple hosting. Overlaps with Cronos's public cloud and developer-adjacent workloads but at very different scale and price points.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cronosinternet
• Facebookfacebook.com/cronosinternet
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cronos-internet-ltd

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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