An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing and using the Internet.

Internet service providers may be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned.

Liverpool is a major city and metropolitan borough in North West England.

The estimated population of the city of Liverpool metropolitan borough was 478,580 in 2015, while Liverpool and its surrounding areas combine to form the fifth largest metropolitan area in the UK with over 2.24 million people in 2011.

The local authority is Liverpool City Council, which is the most populous local government district within the metropolitan county of Merseyside and the largest within the wider Liverpool City Region.

Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand.

It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in either privately owned, or third-party data centers that may be located far from the user–ranging in distance from across a city to across the world.

Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economy of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over an electricity network.

A leased line is a private bidirectional or symmetric telecommunications line.

between two or more locations provided in exchange for a monthly rent.

Sometimes known as a private circuit or data line in the UK.