WordPress hosting UK from £3.99 a month

WordPress hosting is web hosting set up for WordPress sites. Our plans start at £3.99 a month for WordPress Starter, on servers in Manchester, with WP Toolkit Deluxe on every plan. There’s no setup fee and no contract, and we’ll move your existing WordPress site across for free.

What’s the difference from ordinary web hosting?

Underneath, it’s the same servers and the same security as our cPanel web hosting. What changes is the tooling. WordPress plans come with WP Toolkit Deluxe, which takes care of the jobs that usually eat up a WordPress owner’s evenings: updates, staging copies and security settings. Plans are sized by the number of WordPress sites rather than general websites. If you run a mix of WordPress and other software, web hosting may suit you better.

Staging: try changes on a copy first

A staging site is a private copy of your live site. With WP Toolkit you make one in a click. You can try a new theme, a page builder or a big plugin update on the copy, and your customers never see a broken page. When you’re happy, you push the changes to the live site. You can also clone a site, which is handy if you build a new site from an old one, or want a spare copy before a redesign.

Smart updates: what they actually do

Out-of-date plugins are one of the most common ways WordPress sites get hacked, but updating them can break things. Smart updates deal with both problems. When an update is due, WP Toolkit makes a hidden clone of your site, applies the update to the clone and takes screenshots of your pages before and after. If the pages look the same, the update goes on to your live site. If something has changed, the update is held back and you’re told, so you can look at it yourself. You choose which sites, plugins and themes are updated this way.

Security hardening

WP Toolkit checks each site against a list of common weak spots, such as file permissions, the database prefix and access to sensitive files, and fixes them in one click. It also tells you which installed plugins have known security holes. On top of that, Imunify360 scans your files for malware and blocks attacks at the server, and every site gets a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate that renews itself.

Which plan do I need?

• WordPress Starter, £3.99 a month: one WordPress site, 15 GB of SSD storage and 10 email accounts. Right for a single business site, such as a café in Ludlow with a menu and opening times.
• WordPress Plus, £6.99 a month: three WordPress sites, 50 GB of storage and unlimited email accounts. Good for a main site plus a WooCommerce shop or a blog.
• WordPress Pro, £9.99 a month: ten WordPress sites, 100 GB of storage, unlimited email and priority support. Built for designers looking after client sites and businesses with several brands.

All plans get 2 CPU cores and 4 GB of RAM, unmetered bandwidth and backups every six hours. Pay yearly and you get two months free.

Is it fast enough for WooCommerce?

Every WordPress account gets 2 CPU cores, 4 GB of RAM and SSD storage, running PHP 8. CloudLinux keeps each account separate, so a busy site on the same server can’t take your resources. That’s comfortable room for a WooCommerce shop with a few hundred products, a booking plugin or a page builder like Elementor. Bandwidth is unmetered, so a busy sale weekend won’t bring a surprise bill. If your shop grows, WordPress Plus and Pro give you more storage and more sites, and you can move up a plan without moving your site.

Email on your domain

Every plan includes email on your own domain, such as orders@yourshop.co.uk. WordPress Starter gives you 10 accounts, and Plus and Pro are unlimited. MailChannels filters outgoing email, which helps order confirmations and contact form messages from WordPress reach inboxes rather than spam folders. If you use Microsoft 365 or Gmail already, you can keep it.

Tools for developers

If you build WordPress sites for clients, you get SSH, WP-CLI, Git and Composer, and you can switch PHP version per site. WordPress Pro holds ten sites, so you can host clients’ sites under one account and manage all their updates from one WP Toolkit screen.

Backups and putting things right

JetBackup takes a copy of your account every six hours and keeps it off-site. If an update or a plugin clash breaks your site, you can restore the files, the database or the whole site from cPanel. Or open a ticket and our UK team will do it for you.

Moving your WordPress site to us

Migration is free. After you sign up, send us your current host’s details and we copy your WordPress files, database and email across. We check the site works on our server, then you point your domain at us. Most sites move with only a few minutes of downtime. Need a domain first? A .co.uk domain is £8.01 a year.

Would you rather not run WordPress at all?

WordPress is great if you enjoy looking after it. If you’d rather not think about plugins, updates or hosting, our managed website is £47 a month. We design it, write the words, host it on the same UK servers and make up to 10 changes a month when you email us.