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The price on the advert isn’t the price you’ll keep paying.
webs.me.uk is the UK hosting directory that leads with the renewal price. Every figure we publish is dated and linked to the page we read it from — and where we haven’t checked yet, we say so instead of guessing.
49providers listed
9prices verified
20UK companies
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The advertFasthosts · Start
Monthly£1.00
For3 mo
You notice£1.00
*** THANK YOU ***
The renewalmonth 4 onwards
Monthly£5.75
VATinc VAT
You pay£5.75
Checked 20 Sep 2026
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×5.8at renewal
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Renewal price firstThe second invoice is the one you live with. We show it before the advert.
Every price datedEach figure links to the page we read it from, and the day we read it.
Built for UK buyersUK data centres, VAT basis and sterling pricing called out explicitly.
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The Renewal Jump Index
How far the renewal price rises above the advertised one. ×1 means what you see is what you keep paying. Verified providers only.
Where to start
What are you actually trying to do?
Most hosting mistakes come from buying the wrong category, not the wrong company.
WordPress, managed for me
Someone else owns updates, backups, caching and security.
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I want to self-host
You are comfortable in a terminal and want your own server.
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No technical skills at all
Drag-and-drop and no server to think about — accepting the lock-in.
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An online shop
Carts and checkouts can’t be cached, so hosting matters more.
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WordPress.com or .org?
The most confusing question in hosting, settled on one page.
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The directory
All 20 UK hosts
UK hosting companies
British companies, verified prices first. Anything we haven’t checked yet is stamped as such.
Shared hosting
WordPress hosting
VPS
Green
UK businesses and agencies that want fast, ethically-run hosting with genuinely good support.
No renewal jump: £7.00/mo stays £7.00/mo
£7.00 /mo from
Checked 20 Sep
VPS
Dedicated servers
Shared hosting
Green
Developers and sysadmins who want IPv6-native UK VPS run by people who read the RFCs.
Not verified
Unverified
Cloud / IaaS
Dedicated servers
Managed hosting
Green
Regulated or high-traffic UK businesses needing managed private cloud with a real SLA.
Not verified
Unverified
Shared hosting
WordPress hosting
Reseller
Green
Resellers, web designers and agencies managing many client sites from one panel.
Renews at £10.00/mo — ×10 the advert
£1.00 /mo from
Checked 20 Sep
Shared hosting
WordPress hosting
VPS
Green
Agencies wanting hands-on managed UK hosting with a named account contact.
Not verified
Unverified
Shared hosting
WordPress hosting
Reseller
Green
People who want a small, human, Manchester-based host with strong WordPress knowledge.
No renewal jump: £11.95/mo stays £11.95/mo
£11.95 /mo from
Checked 20 Sep
Analysis
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From the blog
Who owns which host, what happened to the ones that disappeared, and where the marketing parts company with the invoice.
developers
What developers should check before choosing a host
10 September 2026
SSH, WP-CLI, Git deploys, staging, PHP version control and log access — the features that decide whether a host is workable, and who has them.
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industry
Who actually owns your web host?
6 September 2026
Four companies control a startling proportion of the hosting brands you have heard of. Here is the ownership map, and why it shows up in your support tickets.
3 min read
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review
GoDaddy, assessed honestly
30 August 2026
It is fashionable to sneer at GoDaddy. Some of that is deserved and some of it is snobbery — here is which is which, and when it is genuinely the right choice.
3 min read
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uk
Is UK hosting actually worth it? The latency numbers
20 August 2026
How much a London data centre is really worth in milliseconds, when a CDN makes it irrelevant, and the non-speed reason that matters more than either.
3 min read
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sustainability
Green hosting claims, ranked by how much they mean
12 August 2026
Almost every host now claims to be green. The claims are not equivalent — here is the hierarchy, from carbon negative to a certificate someone bought.
3 min read
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uk
What happened to Heart Internet, and what it taught UK hosting
4 August 2026
A major British host was acquired, wound down, and its customers migrated to a company founded by its own former team. The most instructive story in UK hosting.
3 min read
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Practical
All guides
Guides
Including the full walkthrough for self-hosting WordPress on your own server.
Beginner7 min
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org: which one do you actually need?
The single most confusing question in web hosting, settled in one page: the software, the company, the plans, and the point at which you should self-host.
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Advanced25 min
Self-hosting WordPress on your own VPS: a complete walkthrough
Ubuntu 24.04, nginx, PHP-FPM 8.3, MariaDB, Let's Encrypt, firewall, automatic backups and updates — from a bare £4/month server to a hardened WordPress site.
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Beginner8 min
Installing WordPress on shared hosting in ten minutes
The normal way most people should self-host: one-click installers, the manual five-minute install, and the six settings to change immediately afterwards.
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Beginner10 min
How to choose a UK web host without regretting it
What actually matters — data centre location, renewal pricing, backups, support hours, VAT and exit routes — and the marketing claims you can safely ignore.
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