About Two Small Clouds

The Drupal hosting platform I always wanted to build.

I’m Jamie Wiseman. I built Two Small Clouds because hosting should be simple, pricing should be understandable, and Drupal developers should be free to focus on Drupal—not the minutiae of keeping its hosting alive.

Loki and Fenrir, two white Japanese Spitz, stretched out together on a dark leather sofa.
The original two small clouds.

Why I’m building it

Focused hosting, built on solid foundations.

I’ve spent more than 20 years working with Linux, PHP and open source, 15 years in professional hosting, and over a decade with AWS. In that time my hosting work has included large public bodies, central government, councils and research organisations—including the IAEA, Welsh Government, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Westminster City Council, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Wellcome Trust and the Francis Crick Institute.

That experience taught me that a good platform does not have to be a homogenised answer to every possible problem. It should work to the strengths of its cloud provider, do one thing well, and provide a complete, sensible baseline of safety.

Two Small Clouds applies that focus to Drupal. The aim is to take care of the operational detail without hiding what matters, so the people building and maintaining sites can spend their attention on the work only they can do.

You can find more of my open-source history on my Drupal.org profile.

The company behind it

Backed by more than two decades of hosting experience.

Two Small Clouds is run commercially by Reality42 Ltd, an independent hosting and IT services company. Reality42 has spent more than two decades hosting websites and supporting the people responsible for them.

Two Small Clouds is a new, deliberately focused Drupal platform. It brings that long, practical experience into a modern service built specifically for Drupal—without pretending the platform itself has been around for all of that history.

How I want to work

Honesty, loyalty and enough fun to stay human.

These are not slogans for the footer. They are the standard I want product decisions, support conversations and working relationships to live up to.

Put the customer first
Start with the real site, the people responsible for it and the outcome they need—not the machinery we happen to sell.
Insist on the highest standard
Build complete solutions with a reasonable baseline of safety, then be candid about limitations and the work still to do.
Keep things understandable
Prefer focused tools, clear choices and transparent pricing to complexity that makes the service harder to trust.
Build a safe and inclusive workplace
Treat care, respect and belonging as part of doing excellent technical work—not as an extra once the product is finished.

The name

Meet the two small clouds.

Two Small Clouds is named after my two Japanese Spitz, Loki and Fenrir—with a cheeky nod to the cloud hosting underneath the service. They bring rather more personality to the name than an infrastructure diagram ever could.

Loki, a white Japanese Spitz, standing in a leafy garden.

Loki · Japanese Spitz

The sassy queen.

Loki knows what she wants and is often the ring leader. She loves a cuddle, firmly on her own terms, and has perfected a look that can make almost any decision feel subject to review.

Fenrir, a white Japanese Spitz, looking to the side with his tongue out.

Fenrir · Japanese Spitz

The pure-hearted one.

Fenrir is innocent, trusting and very direct about making friends. He introduces himself by jumping into your lap, curling up, or laying his head on you. When no lap is available, almost anything will do as a place to rest his chin.

What comes next

Small by design. Serious about the work.

Two Small Clouds is early and deliberately focused. I’m building from a strong foundation, listening closely, and adding what makes Drupal hosting safer and calmer—not complexity for its own sake.