UK Managed

Website Hosting

What is website hosting and why it matters

Hosting is where your website lives on the internet. Think of it like a home for your website and emails. Hosting gives you space and the software needed to run your website and email accounts.

Good hosting keeps your website online and fast. If your website is down or slow, visitors leave and search engines notice. That can hurt your Google ranking. We make sure your site is online, secure and ready for customers.

Why choose our managed UK hosting?

We manage your hosting for you on our servers, balancing speed, security and reliability. After 20+ years of hosting websites we know what businesses need. We fine-tune performance so sites load fast and stay safe.

Every website package includes business email accounts and a free SSL certificate. That means secure email and secure site traffic from day one. We also take care of backups and security patches, so you don’t have to, saving you time and giving you peace of mind.

What our customers say

Below is just one of the many testimonials from long standing customers that have been happy with our service over the years. We have included other comments throughout our website.

  • Excellent Support

    “For over 10 years we have received excellent technical support for a wide range of issues, they will go the extra mile to make sure you are safe and give you the advice you need (even replying or calling back out of hours to make sure everything is okay) I would highly recommend them.”
    Eddie
    Quadraspire

Ready to switch to trusted UK hosting?

Get a secure, fast hosting plan today with any of our website packages. We’re local, friendly and have been trusted for over 20 years.

Select the website package that’s right for you!

Grow at your own pace, scalable hosting

Whether you have a small brochure website or a busy online shop, our UK managed servers can scale. Need more storage, more databases or more email accounts? We can increase resources quickly, so your site keeps performing as your business needs grow. We even allow a short grace period of overuse if your site data spikes unexpectedly, that’s all part of our service.

We only charge you for what you need, when you need it. Saving you spending unnecessary money on services you don’t need. All our packages include unlimited traffic, so you won’t be penalised for higher visitor numbers!

UK Hosting
that includes

  • Hosting support
  • Server security
  • Software updates
  • Google Friendly

Best reasons to expand or upgrade our hosting plans

All our packages come with 500mb of storage, unlimited traffic and up to 5 email address when setting up as standard. But if you need to increase your hosting as your business grows, we can also offer:

You might want to include videos, add more pages and files on your website or store more emails online so they are always available. Simply get in touch and we can increase your allocated storage to cover your needs.

All our websites packages come with a free SSL for security. If you require a higher-level SSL certificate for your business, simply get in touch and we can organise purchasing and setting up your higher-level SSL certificate for your website hosted with us.

Some additional upgrades such as add-ons that increase functionality to a website require additional databases to work. All our websites use one database for the CMS to run as standard, if you need more then simply get in touch to expand your databases.

Local UK businesses work very well with our local UK hosting, but for larger global businesses we offer an enhanced boosted global speed option with our custom package to further improve world wide speeds and security. Simply select the boosted global speed on our custom website packages and we can get this setup for your new website.

All our websites come with rolling seven-day backups, that means every night our sites are backed up and stored offline for safety and security, these backups are retained for 7 days, so our customers have peace of mind. As an upgrade we offer longer term monthly backups for websites that want enhanced backup retention.

Can poor hosting hurt your Google ranking?

In one word yes, poor hosting or a badly set up website can lower your Google ranking. Search engines want sites that are fast, secure and always available. If your hosting causes downtime, slow loading or security issues, this can push your site down the results. Below are the most common hosting and site-setup problems that harm search performance.

If a website server is often offline, search engines will find pages unavailable and most likely lower your rankings. This affects a search engine credibility, so if links don’t work from a Google results page, then a visitor won’t want to use Google search again, so Google will react quickly to poor issues like unavailable website or pages.

Search engines use web page and server response time as a factor to rank websites. So, you could have the best designed website in the world, but if Google gets a slow response, it will negatively factor this in to its rankings!

If you find your website slow then you might have a website located too far away from your audience. Simply put, a UK business serving UK customers would often have a slower website if it’s hosted in the USA (as it takes longer to send the page information from further away). Unfortunately, this can also affect your rankings as speed is taken into account with e.g. Google.

Unfortunately, very large images slow pages for visitors and degrade their experience (especially on a mobile phone with only a 4G connection). This can also make it harder for Google to crawl and index quickly. So, all our websites have automatic built in compression so only the smallest image is served to a visitor (so a mobile would have a smaller size image supplied to it compared to a laptop). For even larger files like videos, our system proactively aims to delay these files when the page is loaded so visitors have the best experience, and that works well for Google too!

Old versions of PHP, database engines or OS can allow hacks that damage your site and search visibility. Our managed hosting means we proactively keep updating these for you so you can focus on your business. You would only ever know there is an issue if third-party software was unable to upgrade to the latest hosting software.

All websites need an SSL, this helps stop third parties from seeing what your visitors are viewing or typing into your website. Websites without proper SSL are flagged as insecure in most browsers and are penalised by search engines.

A badly set up CMS, broken redirects, missing sitemap or poor plugins can stop search engines from indexing pages properly. Understanding these things is very important for ranking on Google. We have a solid CMS, sitemap and secure plugins all setup so you don’t have to worry. If you add content yourself, then learning how links work and how content on a page should best be setup will help you in the long term.

If you have an issue with a website, from corrupted data to security incidents, having poor backups cause downtime and ultimately damage credibility with visitors and search engine rankings.

FAQs about website hosting

There are many frequently asked questions that businesses ask about website hosting, below are just a few of the more common questions we are asked. If you have any questions, please contact us and we will be happy to help further.

Hosting is the space and software on a server that keeps your site and emails online 24/7.

UK hosting gives fast response times for UK visitors and helps local UK search performance. If you are a global company and need worldwide speed performance, click the option for boosted global speed for global customers on our custom pre-order forms.

All our websites include unlimited traffic allowance!

Unfortunately, we do not copy existing WordPress or other websites to our servers for security and performance reasons. We can easily rebuild most websites, either refresh your design or build a website close to your existing website design. All our websites come with Editor access so you can focus on the content, and we take care of the technical stuff in the background. This has proven to keep our customer websites stable, secure and ranking on Google!

As an example, you might hire more staff and need more mailboxes for them, these extra mailboxes will add more data (emails storage) to your hostplan. Alternatively, you might be uploading more photos, PDFs or videos to your website. All these use space on your website. If you go over your allowance, we will let you know and you have the option to reduce the files or pay for just the space you are using.

Yes, all our website packages include both POP and IMAP email functionality. See our email accounts page for more information about which type is best for you.

Yes, every website package includes a free SSL certificate for secure browsing. We can easily help setting additional enhanced SSL certificates if required. Simply select this additional option when ordering your website.

We use SSD storage and fine-tuned servers in the UK for fast, reliable response times. We bench-mark and test our website designs and setups with Google testing and performance figures. All this is taken care of so you can focus on your business and simply edit page content.

Yes all our websites are backed up every night and securely stored off site daily for 7 days and can restore data quickly if needed.

Absolutely, storage, databases and emails are all expandable at any time.

We tune server settings, setup automatic caching and image compression to make pages load fast. This is standard for all our website packages, plus if you find you are having issues, we are here to help review and help resolve any issues.

Choose your website package today and get our fast, reliable hosting support.