Dedicated & Virtual
Secure Firewalls
Enterprise-grade firewall protection on the platform of your choice — Sophos XGS, pfSense or OPNsense. Self-managed for full control, or fully managed by our UK engineers, with built-in failover, IDS/IPS and free DDoS protection.
- Sophos XGS, pfSense and OPNsense supported
- Virtual or dedicated appliance options
- 1Gbps and 10Gbps network ports
- Multi-WAN load balancing & failover
- Free 600Gbps Corero DDoS protection
- 24/7 UK NOC and engineering support
Sophos XGS, pfSense and OPNsense
Choose from three powerful platforms — from a vendor-backed next-gen firewall to flexible open-source — all deployed and supported in our Cambridge data centre.
Sophos XGS
Enterprise next-gen firewall with deep packet inspection, hardware-accelerated TLS inspection, sandboxing and synchronised security across endpoints. Available as a managed dedicated appliance.
- XStream packet processing
- Synchronised Security
- Sophos Central management
- Available as XGS or UTM
pfSense
A mature, enterprise-grade open-source firewall on Netgate hardware or as a virtual appliance. No licence fees, huge plugin ecosystem and rock-solid stability.
- No licensing fees
- Snort/Suricata IDS/IPS
- Wide plugin catalogue
- Active community
OPNsense
A modern fork of pfSense with frequent updates, a clean web UI and rich reporting. Great for teams that want bleeding-edge features without a vendor licence.
- Weekly security updates
- Clean modern UI
- Built-in WireGuard
- Rich reporting
Security, routing, VPN and reporting in one
Our appliances ship with everything you'd expect from an enterprise security platform — and a few things you wouldn't.
Firewall
- Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
- GeoIP blocking
- Anti-spoofing
- Captive portal for guest networks
- Time-based rules & connection limits
- Inbound & outbound NAT mapping
Routing
- Policy-based routing
- Concurrent IPv4 & IPv6 support
- Configurable static routes
- IPv6 prefix translation & RAs
- Multiple IPs per interface
- Integrated PPPoE server
Attack Prevention
- Snort/Suricata IDS/IPS
- Layer-7 application detection
- Emerging threats & IP blacklist feeds
- Pre-set rule profiles per interface
- False-positive suppression
- Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
VPN
- IPsec, OpenVPN & WireGuard
- Site-to-site and remote access
- SSL encryption & split tunnelling
- L2TP/IPsec for mobile clients
- Multiple tunnels & VPN failover
- RADIUS / LDAP authentication
Proxy & Content Filtering
- HTTP/HTTPS proxy (transparent or not)
- Domain/URL & antivirus filtering
- SafeSearch enforcement
- HTTPS content screening
- Website access reporting
- DNSBL (DNS blacklisting)
Network Services
- Dynamic DNS (multi-provider)
- Integrated DHCP & DHCPv6 server
- DNS forwarding/caching with DNSSEC
- Conditional / split DNS & mDNS reflection
- Built-in NTP time server
- Multi-WAN load balancing & failover
Resilience & Reliability
- Optional multi-node HA clustering
- Multi-WAN load balancing & failover
- Reverse proxy with auto failover
- Bandwidth shaping & throttling wizard
- Bandwidth reservation & user quotas
- Configurable failover policies
Reporting & Monitoring
- Configurable dashboard widgets
- Local & remote logging
- Real-time traffic graphs
- SNMP & hardware monitoring
- Email/SMTP & Growl notifications
- Built-in network diagnostic tools
Access & Hardening
- Local user & group database
- External RADIUS authentication
- Group-based privileges & expiry
- Hardened web interface security
- DNS rebinding protection & HSTS
- Optional key-based SSH access
From office edge to multi-site failover
Office Edge Security
Replace ageing SonicWall or WatchGuard appliances with a managed Sophos, pfSense or OPNsense edge for your office.
Colocation Perimeter
A virtual firewall sitting in front of your colocated kit — segmenting VLANs, enforcing rules and terminating site-to-site VPNs.
Multi-WAN Failover
Bond DIA, broadband and 4G/5G into a single resilient WAN with policy-based routing and automatic failover.
Secure Remote Access
WireGuard, OpenVPN and IPsec remote access for hybrid teams — with RADIUS/LDAP integration for SSO.
At a glance
- Platforms
- Sophos XGS, pfSense, OPNsense
- Form factor
- Virtual appliance or dedicated hardware
- Network ports
- 1Gbps and 10Gbps interfaces
- VLANs
- Multiple 802.1Q VLANs supported
- VPN
- IPsec, OpenVPN and WireGuard
- IDS/IPS
- Snort / Suricata with curated rule sets
- High availability
- Multi-node HA clustering
- DDoS
- 600Gbps Corero SmartWall — included
- Management
- Self-managed or fully managed
- SLA
- 99.99% uptime with proactive credits
A predictable delivery process
- 1
Scope & design
We review your topology, throughput, VPN users and HA needs, then recommend the right platform and sizing.
- 2
Provision & licence
We provision the virtual or dedicated appliance, apply licences (where required) and stage the base configuration.
- 3
Configure & migrate
Our engineers build out rules, VPNs, VLANs and IDS/IPS profiles, then migrate cutover from your existing firewall.
- 4
Live & supported
Go live with 24/7 monitoring, optional managed-rule changes and a single UK NOC for everything firewall-related.
Related security & infrastructure
Pair your firewall with DDoS protection, colocation, cloud onramps or dedicated servers — all from our Cambridge facility.
Frequently asked questions
Platform choice, HA clustering, managed vs self-managed and cloud VPN termination — what customers ask before deploying a perimeter firewall with Fast2host.
- Sophos XGS, pfSense & OPNsense supported
- Multi-node HA & multi-WAN failover
- 600Gbps Corero DDoS included free
Need help choosing a platform?
Our UK security engineers will scope your topology and recommend the right appliance and HA design.
Talk to our security experts6 common questions