20i Autoscale (Plan 4), £ 200.00/mo. on Cloud Managed

Autoscale (Plan 4) has been updated on September 2, 2025 (added September 1, 2025), Aggregate Rating (10 out of 10 from 3 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	25
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
🔧 Category :	BackupCDNWordpressFully ManagedDDoS Protection
✍️ Support Options :	Help DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	United Kingdom United States
⚑ Targeting :	AU CA IN IE ZA UK US
💰 Money-back guarantee :	30 days
🚀 Uptime :	99.99 %

See also initial Autoscale (Plan 4) plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

20i is an independent UK-based web hosting provider that launched in 2016, founded by brothers Jonathan and Tim Brealey. The Brealey brothers are veterans of the hosting industry – back in 1997 they founded Webfusion, the first UK host to offer a custom control panel (the "Virtual Control Panel"), making hosting more accessible to novice users. In 2000 they also launched the domain registrar 123-reg, driving down the cost of UK domain names and becoming a market leader and in 2004 they started Heart Internet. After exiting their previous companies, the founders brought over 20 years of experience to 20i.com, aiming to "break the mold" of traditional hosting with a next-generation platform. Today, 20i positions itself as a premium hosting company offering cutting-edge technology, high performance, and a strong focus on reseller hosting and customer support.

History and Key Milestones

Despite its relatively recent start, 20i has rapidly innovated and expanded its services. Some key milestones in the company’s timeline include:
2016: 20i officially launches, leveraging the founders’ two decades of experience to offer a new kind of hosting service.
2017–2018: The 20i hosting platform is developed with an emphasis on exceptional website loading speeds. During this period, 20i introduced its first Virtual Private Servers (VPS) along with built-in DDoS protection and free on-demand malware scanning for all users.
2019: Launch of HostShop, a free white-label e-commerce and billing platform for reseller hosting, allowing resellers to automate sales (an alternative to WHMCS). 20i also rolled out advanced WordPress Tools – including one-click staging and cloning – and made over 1,000 updates to their control panel that year.
2020: Introduction of 20i’s free Content Delivery Network (CDN) with edge caching features comparable to paid CDNs like Cloudflare. 20i added 8 additional global edge nodes as part of this rollout. This year the company also achieved further platform resilience through load balancing, ensuring no single server could become a point of failure.
2021: Expansion beyond the UK with the opening of 20i’s first United States data center, enabling customers to choose US or UK hosting locations. This gave US-based users better performance and allowed existing resellers to host sites in both regions.
2022: 20i switched all of its hosting to be powered by 100% renewable energy, reinforcing its commitment to green hosting. The company’s data centers boast a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.2 (lower is better), reflecting world-class energy efficiency. Customers on 20i’s "green hosting" enjoy the same high performance, with the reassurance that their websites aren’t contributing to climate change.
2023: Launch of Managed Cloud Hosting – a flexible platform that lets users deploy and manage sites or applications across 20i’s own cloud as well as AWS and Google Cloud infrastructure. This gave customers the ability to choose from over 60 global data center locations and leverage multiple cloud providers for redundancy and speed.
2024: Introduction of Website Turbo, a performance-boosting add-on for reseller hosting. Website Turbo uses high-frequency compute and edge caching to significantly enhance website speed for reseller clients’ sites.
2025: Debut of Autoscale, 20i’s next-generation high-availability hosting platform. Autoscale combines true autoscaling (dynamic resource allocation across multiple servers) with high-frequency CPUs, enabling "unlimited" concurrent users and seamless handling of traffic spikes without slowdown. This platform was designed especially for demanding WordPress sites and large applications, featuring built-in staging, cloning, and a WordPress management dashboard. The launch of Autoscale exemplifies 20i’s continued focus on innovation and performance.

Throughout its growth, 20i has remained a privately-owned company and emphasizes that it will stay independent for the long term, avoiding the consolidation seen in much of the hosting industry. This independence, combined with continual improvements, forms a core part of 20i’s ethos.

Services and Hosting Solutions

20i offers a broad range of hosting services catering to different needs:

• Shared Web Hosting: Entry-level shared hosting plans suitable for individual websites, starting at around £4.99/month. Even the basic plans come with generous resources (e.g. 10 GB SSD space, 50 GB bandwidth on the Startup plan) and features like 70+ one-click installer apps, a free website builder, automatic daily backups on higher tiers, and integrated caching/CDN. All shared plans include free SSL certificates, malware scanning, and access to 20i’s Website Acceleration Suite for optimizing images and code at the server level. Shared hosting customers benefit from the same autoscaling platform – meaning their sites are not tied to a single server – which improves reliability and performance during traffic surges.
• Reseller Hosting: Reseller hosting is 20i’s flagship offering and the product in which the company’s heritage really shows. Uniquely, 20i provides a single, all-inclusive reseller plan (priced around £34.99–£39.99 per month) that allows hosting unlimited websites and clients under your own brand. This white-label platform includes StackCP (a customizable client control panel) and HostShop (a free integrated billing & automation system), enabling resellers to easily sell hosting plans with their own branding and automate customer sign-ups, billing, and support. The reseller hosting runs on 20i’s autoscaling cloud infrastructure, so each site gets allocated resources from a large pool of servers – not a single machine – ensuring consistent speed even if some sites experience high load. Key features include unlimited SSD storage and bandwidth, isolated accounts (no "noisy neighbor" issues), free wildcard SSL certificates for all sites, one-click migrations from other hosts, and exclusive reseller discounts on add-on services (like domains, VPS, and SSLs) to improve profit margins. Given that the 20i team originally created the first reseller hosting package back in 1998, it’s not surprising that their reseller solution today is regarded as one of the most robust and feature-rich on the market.
• Managed Cloud Hosting: A flexible cloud server offering where customers can deploy applications on 20i’s cloud or on third-party cloud infrastructure (AWS and Google Cloud) through the 20i interface. Managed Cloud Hosting plans come pre-tuned for various use cases – including optimized configurations for PHP/Laravel, Node.js, .NET Core, Magento, WooCommerce, and more – so developers can launch projects on enterprise-grade infrastructure without deep sysadmin knowledge. These plans bundle in features like business-class email, advanced DNS management, and all the security and backup features of 20i’s platform. Customers can choose from 60+ global data centers across the UK, Europe, USA, and Asia-Pacific when deploying cloud instances. The pricing is transparent (one monthly fee with no surprise costs for bandwidth or support), and 20i offers a 10% discount on Managed Cloud servers for existing reseller hosting customers.
• Managed WordPress Hosting: 20i’s WordPress-specific hosting is built on its autoscaling cloud but fine-tuned for WordPress performance and convenience. It includes all the same benefits (100% SSD, CDN, autoscaling resources) plus WordPress-centric tools: one-click staging sites, WordPress cloning (duplicate a site to a new domain or staging area), automatic core updates with integrity checks, the StackCache plugin for optimized caching, and a centralized WordPress Manager for handling plugin/theme updates across multiple sites. Developers also have access to WP-CLI, Git version control, SSH, and cron scheduling. This platform is designed to produce excellent Core Web Vitals and is suitable for everyone from bloggers to large WooCommerce stores. Notably, 20i’s WordPress hosting (and the new Autoscale platform) leverage high-frequency CPUs up to 4.2 GHz and an edge caching CDN, which can dramatically improve WordPress page load times.
• VPS Hosting: For projects requiring dedicated resources or custom server configurations, 20i offers Virtual Private Servers on 100% SSD storage. These VPS plans are unmanaged by default (giving full root access to the customer) but 20i also provides optional management services or paid add-ons like snapshot backups and cPanel licensing. The VPS range includes multiple tiers (from a 1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU plan at ~£9.99/mo up to 16 GB RAM / 8 vCPU plans and larger) and all include unmetered bandwidth on a 20 Gbps hypervisor connection, hardware RAID10 for data redundancy, and an out-of-band VNC console for emergency access. 20i’s VPS infrastructure comes with a 99.99% network uptime guarantee and 1 Tbps+ DDoS protection included, reflecting the same focus on reliability and security as the shared platform. Customers can choose the VPS location (UK or US data center) to keep data residency in their region.
• Domains and Other Services: 20i also functions as a domain registrar – customers can search and purchase domain names (with over 600 extensions available) via a fast, intuitive interface. Domain prices are competitive and 20i promises no steep renewal price hikes (what you pay initially is what you pay at renewal). For resellers, domain prices are discounted up to 30% to allow profit margin on domain resales. In addition, 20i offers ancillary services like SSL certificates, a website builder, and an Email Hosting option (though most hosting plans already include email features). One thing 20i notably does not offer yet traditional dedicated servers – their focus is on scalable cloud and VPS solutions rather than single-tenant physical servers.

Autoscaling Technology and Performance

At the heart of 20i’s platform is its autoscaling cloud architecture. Unlike traditional hosting (where a website lives on one server with fixed resources), 20i sites operate on a multi-server cluster that automatically allocates resources as needed. If a site experiences a traffic surge, the autoscaling tech can instantly tap into additional CPU, RAM, and PHP workers from the resource pool to keep response times fast. This means even shared or reseller-hosted sites can handle "unlimited" concurrent visitors without hitting a wall – a busy site isn’t constrained by the limits of any single machine. Once the traffic spike passes, resources are scaled back down so nothing is wasted. This dynamic scaling happens in real time (within milliseconds) and is completely seamless to the site owner.

High Frequency Hosting refers to the use of very fast processors in their infrastructure. The Autoscale platform, for example, runs on high-frequency compute nodes up to 4.20 GHz clock speed. These powerful CPUs, combined with optimized PHP-FPM configuration and dedicated OPcache, enable quicker execution of web applications – translating to snappier websites and the ability to process more requests in parallel. In practice, users report exceptionally quick page load times, and the company often touts that its platform performance leads to envy from competitors.

To further boost speed globally, 20i includes a free CDN (Content Delivery Network) with edge caching on all plans. Static content (images, scripts, etc.) is cached across multiple nodes worldwide, reducing latency by serving visitors from the nearest location. In 2020, 20i expanded its CDN with 8 new edge locations, and today their network spans North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The CDN integration is automatic – customers simply enable "20iCDN" and their content is distributed without any extra fees or complex setup. In combination with the CDN, 20i’s Web Acceleration Suite performs server-level optimizations like image compression, automatic resizing, code minification, and lazy loading of images for even faster delivery of webpages.

On the storage side, 20i uses a distributed storage cluster with 100% SSDs (Samsung enterprise-grade SSDs) for all hosting, rather than slower spinning drives. This all-SSD storage ensures high I/O performance (high IOPS), which benefits database-driven sites and any application that needs fast disk access. The heavy use of caching layers (OPcache for PHP, Redis/ElasticSearch for certain managed platforms, and the CDN edge cache) further reduces direct hits to the storage, keeping response times consistently low.

Overall, the combination of load-balanced clustering, autoscaling, high-frequency CPUs, and SSD storage means that 20i’s infrastructure is designed for both speed and reliability. There is no single point of failure – if a server in the cluster has an issue, traffic is automatically balanced to others. If a site suddenly needs more resources, it gets them; when it doesn’t, it doesn’t hog them unnecessarily. This is a fundamentally different approach from many traditional hosts and is a key differentiator for 20i’s service quality.