Hosting run by people who also build the sites on it
We host our own websites on this server. That is the whole pitch, and it is the reason support is a conversation with someone who can change the thing that is broken rather than a ticket that gets escalated.
What this is
A small UK hosting service on a server we own and run. It is managed, which means the operating system, the web server, the certificates and the PHP version are our problem rather than yours.
It is deliberately small. We are not trying to be the cheapest, we have no control panel resale deal, and we will turn work away if your site needs something this setup is not right for.
- HostingWhat is actually included, what the server runs, and the questions worth asking any host before you move.
- MigrationsMoving an existing site across, and the part that is usually done badly: the redirects.
- SupportHow to reach a person, what we can fix, and what we will tell you is not worth fixing.
Our own sites are on it
This matters more than any specification. We run a number of our own websites on this server, so when something goes wrong we find out because our sites are affected too, not because a customer told us.
It also means the tooling exists. There is an automated check that runs every morning against every site on the box and reports what changed: a page that started returning an error, a certificate that did not renew, a site that quietly stopped deploying. That check was not built to sell hosting. It was built because two of our own sites silently stopped updating for a month and nobody noticed.
What is included
A free Let's Encrypt certificate that renews itself, PHP 8.3 where a site needs it, working outgoing mail from the server, and the web server configuration handled for you. No charge for SSL, because charging for a free certificate is one of the oldest tricks in this industry.
No prices on this site. What hosting should cost depends on what the site is, how much traffic it gets and how much of it we are looking after. We would rather ask and give you a real number than publish a headline price that turns out not to apply.
What we do not claim
Plenty of hosting companies publish an uptime percentage, a backup schedule and a support response time on the homepage. We have not published any of those, because we have not established figures we would be willing to be held to, and a number invented for a marketing page is a promise made to someone who is paying.
When those are settled they will appear here as specific commitments. Until then, ask and you will get a straight answer about what currently happens.
Ask what it would cost
Tell us what the site is and roughly how busy it gets, and we will tell you whether this is the right place for it.