Web Starter
Everything one small website needs.
£2.99/month inc. VAT
or £29.90 a year, two months free
- 1 website
- 10 GB SSD storage
- 10 email accounts
- Free SSL and 6-hourly backups
CDN web hosting
UK web hosting with a free CDN
Your website lives on our servers in Manchester. Put Cloudflare’s free CDN in front of it and copies of your images, styles and scripts are served from Cloudflare locations around the world, close to each visitor. It works on every plan and takes about 20 minutes to set up.
Works on every plan · Free SSL at both ends · 60-day money-back guarantee
Runs on
- cPanel
- Let's Encrypt
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- PHP
- MySQL
- Git
Pay by
- Visa
- Mastercard
- PayPal
- Stripe
- Direct Debit
- ISO 27001 certified data centres
- PCI-DSS certified data centres
- UK company no. 10816828
- 60-day money-back guarantee
Plans and pricing
Hosting plans that work with a CDN
Every plan works with Cloudflare in the same way. Choose by the number of sites and how much storage you need.
Web Plus
Room for a few sites, and email for the whole team.
£4.99/month inc. VAT
or £49.90 a year, two months free
- 5 websites
- 50 GB SSD storage
- Unlimited email accounts
- Free SSL and 6-hourly backups
Web Pro
For busier sites, agencies and growing businesses.
£7.99/month inc. VAT
or £79.90 a year, two months free
- Unlimited websites
- 100 GB SSD storage
- Unlimited email and databases
- Priority UK support
Prices include VAT. No setup fee, no contract, and a 60-day money-back guarantee. Compare every feature ↓
What a CDN adds
What changes when you put a CDN in front of your site
Faster for distant visitors
Files travel a shorter distance.
- Images, CSS and JavaScript are cached at Cloudflare locations worldwide
- A visitor in Sydney or Toronto gets those files from a nearby city instead of Manchester
- Pages still come from your hosting, so your content is always current
Less work for your hosting
Cached files never reach the server.
- Fewer requests count towards your account’s resource limits
- Busy days, such as a mention in the local paper, are easier to absorb
- Cloudflare compresses files on the way out
Another layer of protection
Traffic passes through Cloudflare first.
- Large floods of traffic are absorbed by Cloudflare’s network
- Our own Imunify360 firewall still checks every request that reaches the server
- Your server’s IP address is hidden from casual lookups
SSL at both ends
No mixed messages in the browser.
- Cloudflare gives visitors a certificate at the edge
- Our free AutoSSL certificate covers the link from Cloudflare to your site
- Use the Full (strict) mode so the whole path is encrypted and checked
Setting it up
Add the CDN in four steps
You need a free Cloudflare account and access to your domain. Our help guide takes you through each step.
- 01
Add your site to Cloudflare
Sign up for the free plan and add your domain. Cloudflare copies your existing DNS records.
- 02
Check the records
Make sure your website records are orange (proxied) and your email records are grey (DNS only).
- 03
Change your nameservers
Swap our nameservers for the two Cloudflare gives you, in the client area or wherever your domain is registered.
- 04
Set SSL to Full (strict)
This uses our free certificate behind Cloudflare’s, and avoids redirect loops.
Plain answers
Do you need a CDN?
Not always. A CDN shortens the distance between your files and your visitors. Our servers are in Manchester, so if nearly all of your customers are in the UK, the distance is already short and a CDN makes only a small difference to speed.
When a CDN is worth it
- Visitors from abroad. If you sell to customers in Europe, North America or further away, they’ll notice the difference most.
- Image-heavy sites. Galleries, portfolios and shops with lots of product photos benefit from having those files cached.
- Spikes in traffic. A sale, a newsletter or a post that gets shared can bring a lot of visitors at once. The CDN takes most of that load.
- You want extra protection. Cloudflare’s network sits in front of your site and soaks up large attacks before they reach us.
What a CDN won’t fix
- A slow WordPress site. If pages take a long time to build because of heavy plugins or a slow theme, the CDN doesn’t change that, because on the free plan Cloudflare caches files, not your pages. See how to make WordPress faster.
- Very large images. Resize and compress photos before you upload them. A CDN delivers a 5 MB photo faster, but it’s still 5 MB. Our image size calculator shows what size to aim for.
- Email. Mail doesn’t go through a CDN. Keep your email records grey in Cloudflare so mail keeps arriving.
Do you have to use Cloudflare?
No. Other CDNs work too, and many WordPress plugins can send your images through a CDN of their choice. We suggest Cloudflare because the free plan covers what most small business websites need and it works with our hosting without any changes on the server. If you’d rather not change your nameservers, you can leave the CDN off and still have a fast site from Manchester.
CDN hosting questions
Is the CDN included in my hosting?
The CDN is Cloudflare’s free plan, which you set up with your own Cloudflare account. It works with every one of our hosting plans and doesn’t cost anything extra.
Will Cloudflare break my email?
Not if the email records stay grey (DNS only). Cloudflare only proxies website traffic. Our Cloudflare guide lists the records to check.
Can I still edit DNS in cPanel?
Once your nameservers point at Cloudflare, you edit DNS records in Cloudflare instead. Changes in cPanel’s Zone Editor no longer have any effect.
Why do I get 'too many redirects' after turning on Cloudflare?
Usually because the SSL mode is set to Flexible. Change it to Full (strict). See how to fix too many redirects.
How can I check Cloudflare is working?
Run your domain through our DNS checker. If the nameservers show Cloudflare, your site is going through it.
Does a CDN help with Google rankings?
Page speed is one of many things Google looks at, so a faster site can help a little, especially for visitors outside the UK. Useful content and a site that works well on phones matter far more.
Fast UK hosting, with a CDN when you want one
From £2.99 a month, with free migration and no contract.