This is an operating record, not a founding myth. From 1995 to today, across the web's biggest platform breaks, one team kept its customers running: through the Perl-to-PHP crossing, every Drupal generation since, and every end-of-life the industry scheduled along the way. We don't strand the people who trusted us. Here is the record that earned that sentence.
Web hosting was being invented, and we were in it. Adgrafix, founded by the self-taught programmer Robert "Bo" Bennett, shipped the first web-hosting control panel anyone had built, written entirely in Perl. We built on it for nearly a decade: a shopping cart, marketing tools, and the earliest ancestor of BOA, all of it in Perl.
Being early only counts if you stay. Nearly everyone who was hosting websites in 1995 has since vanished. We are still here.
Then the ground moved. The web left Perl for PHP, what we still consider the single largest discontinuity in its history, a whole-language break that made every tool written before it obsolete. We did not restart and abandon the people already on our platform. We carried them across, out of the pre-CMS web and into Drupal, the same standard intact on the far side.
The lesson: we changed the language and kept the customers. This is the proof under everything else on this page. We had already moved a whole customer base through a technology-generation break far larger than any Drupal version bump, decades before "continuity" became our word for it.
We chose Drupal – going on ~19 years with it now – for the same reasons we had chosen everything before it: open source, structured content, owner-controlled, and made to last. It was never the biggest platform on offer, but its values matched ours for the longest stretch.
Ægir, the open-source Drupal control panel, became the engine, and going on ~16 years of Ægir-based hosting now sits at the centre of what we do. In the Drupal 5-to-6 era we took an unforgiving young Ægir and made it easy, and it has run the platform ever since.
Then Drupal 8 moved to Symfony and left the Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 base with no viable upgrade path. Overnight, a large, serious, security-sensitive population was told its platform had an end date and no bridge. We took them in, and every transition still to come sends more.
Platforms get end-of-lifed on someone else's schedule. Carrying people past that date is the business we chose.
The instinct that refuses to strand a customer also refuses to be captured by a vendor. When Red Hat's systemd was imposed, we moved to Devuan, the systemd-free Debian fork built by Debian veterans. When MariaDB drifted from MySQL compatibility, we moved to Percona. When Redis relicensed to a restrictive corporate model, we adopted the open Valkey fork the moment it existed.
The whole stack is open source and runs on almost any server, in any country, with no Docker or Kubernetes required and no single cloud to be locked to. So leaving is always possible. That is exactly what makes staying something you choose freely rather than something you are locked into.
The loop runs both ways. We won't drag you off a cliff, and we won't let Oracle, Red Hat, or an investor's licence change drag us off one either. For universities, NGOs, and sovereignty-sensitive businesses, that two-way independence is the product. We gave it a page of its own: sovereignty, in full.
Many people believed Ægir 3 would never run Drupal 9. We made it work, then Drupal 10, then Drupal 11, each called impossible at the time. Rather than fork-and-flee, we took over the technical stewardship of Ægir 3 itself. Choose us and you are choosing the people who keep the platform alive, rather than a reseller of someone else's work.
The same continuous line now runs Drupal 11 and the brand-new Drupal CMS 2.0 on Ægir, alongside the legacy platforms we never retired. The breadth is deliberate: each platform is the promise made good, and a latest-only host has no such list to show.
When we move a site onto any of it, a living copy of the whole site comes up in 3–6 minutes, not an afternoon.
The stack is hardened and self-managing by default. An in-house intrusion-detection and abuse-guard layer plus firewall integration drop hostile traffic before it reaches your site. Self-healing watchdogs restart a crashed service on their own, a load auto-pause ladder sheds a traffic storm and recovers itself, and SKYNET applies emergency patches with zero touch. The hardening and the self-healing are standard on every install. On the hosted plans, backups run every 6 hours and are kept for 90 days.
The through-line is boring, on purpose. Think of us the way you think of your electricity provider: you know we're there, running quietly in the background, and you almost never have to.
We would rather show than claim. Our security hardening, an intrusion-detection toolchain rebuilt from legacy Perl into modern shell, cross-repository vulnerability disclosures and their fixes, SSH hardening across the fleet, and a full product documentation site are all published in the open. We disclose and fix rather than bury, and the durable version of the work lives at docs.boa.io.
We are the managed safe harbour for structured-content platforms built to last: Drupal and Drupal CMS, Pressflow 6 and Drupal 7, Backdrop, Textpattern, Grav. "Drupal hosting" is too small a label for that.
For years we called ourselves "100% Drupal-focused." Said plainly, that always undersold it a little. What stayed constant across every platform was a standard: software that is open, answerable to its owner, quick, structured, and built to outlast fashion. Drupal is simply the platform that has served that standard best, for the longest stretch.
Our customers are security- and compliance-sensitive, need real hardening and deep platform knowledge, and stay for years. We sell managed risk mitigation and continuity. Entry plans carry the legacy platforms – Pressflow 6 and Drupal 7 – and modern Drupal 10+ runs on the Advanced and Pro tiers. If the platform your organisation depends on must still be running, protected and yours a decade from now: that is the entire job, and we are built for it.
omega8.cc is Omega8cc Ltd, a UK limited company (Company No. 13092061), registered in London, with a European office in Warsaw. One focused team, no private-equity owner, no rebrand carousel, no pivot. The same team that carried customers across Perl-to-PHP still runs it today.