Web Hosting

FREE Domain Name*

Get a FREE .uk .co.uk, .me.uk, .org.uk or .online domain name registered for 1 year with any of our Web Hosting plans.

Hosted Websites

Each hosted domain on your package equates to hosting for 1 website. Our Business, Professional and Expert plans allow for multi-domain (or multi-website) hosting in one plan.

Website Storage

Your storage space is the amount of space allocated on our Shared Hosting Server, for you to store your website files, images, videos and any other content for your website.

FREE SSL Certificates

A free Lets Encrypt SSL certificate is provided for each hosted domain

Security Shield

All Web Hosting plans include our in-house Security Shield, a complete and powerful defence system that work together to protect your website from malware and attacks.

Bandwidth

Unlimited data traffic to and from your website, subject to our fair usage policy. We've never restricted any customer's bandwidth to date.

1-click Installs

Simple installation of WordPress, Joomla or Drupal CMS

File manager link

A tool within your Online Control Panel that allows you to view and manage your website files, without the need for any additional software.

SSD NVMe Storage

The disks used in our Web Hosting plans for file storage, for lower latency and faster performance.

CPU Cores

A CPU provides the web server with the power it needs to operate your website. Larger and busier websites benefit from having more power available to them.

RAM

Temporary memory on the server into which files are stored whilst someone is viewing them. Websites with lots of, or particularly large files, will benefit from having more RAM available.

Varnish Cache

Create a stored local copy of any static files, such as images, so that they can be loaded much quicker for website users.

Redis

Temporarily store website information in server memory for fast access and loading.

RamDisk

Temporary storage of website files in for faster access and loading.

Cronjobs

Customisable, automated processes that are available to you. For example, you might want to use software that automatically backs up your website every week; this would require its own cronjob.

MySQL Databases

Databases enable fast and efficient storage and retrieval of data for web applications such as CMS, blogs, forums and ecommerce tools.
The more databases you have, the more applications you can run on your website simultaneously. Blogging tools such as WordPress require a MySQL database for example.

Database Users

Create users that will allow access to managing your website files using FTP software.

FTP Users

Database users allow administrators to connect directly to the database and manage the records that it contains.

SSH

Allows advanced users to manage the website via a simple but powerful command line interface. Not recommended for website beginners.

PHP Version

Effortlessly switch between PHP versions 7.4/8.0/8.1/8.2/8.3

PHP Memory Limit

The maximum amount of memory that PHP files are able to access. This amount is shared across all PHP files on the website.

Firewall

Our network and servers are protected by robust firewalls and intrusion detection systems, keeping them secure and alerting our security team to any suspicious activity immediately.

DDOS protection

Automatic detection and blocking of malicious traffic attacks, to prevent negative impact on your website’s performance and to keep it online.

Malware scanner

Regular scanning of your website(s) to detect and quarantine any malicious or infected files

Logging tools & IP blocking

We analyse logs and autoblock requests from untrusted IP addresses, user agents (bots) etc.

Jailing

An isolated environment to run your website in so there's no way that other shared hosting customers cannot access your files

Autopatching

Security updates for CMS software such as WordPress or Joomla will be monitored and automatically patched.

Daily Backup Retention

The amount of time that our automated website backups will be available within the Control Panel.

Hourly Backup Retention

Hourly backups are rolling hourly backups kept for 12 hours or 24 depending on your Web Hosting plan e.g. Starter plan has 1 daily backup and the last 12 x hourly backups available.

Database Backup Retention

The amount of time that our automated database backups will be available within the Control Panel.

Protected Directory

Create secure parts of your website which are protected with a username and password login prompt.