Certa Hosting Certa Lite, £ 4.99/mo. on Linux/Windows Shared

Certa Lite has been updated on May 27, 2026 (added December 1, 2018), Aggregate Rating (7.8 out of 10 from 4 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	1
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
🔧 Category :	BackupCDNWebsite BuilderDDoS Protection
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	United Kingdom
⚑ Targeting :	UK
💰 Money-back guarantee :	30 days
🚀 Uptime :	99.9 %

See also initial Certa Lite plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Certa Hosting is a UK-focused hosting provider operating as a brand of Ocean Telecom (UK) Ltd, an English company incorporated in 1999. The Certa Hosting brand has a longer hosting identity of its own, with hosting-industry coverage placing the brand around 2007. The business is based in Oswestry, Shropshire, and Ocean Telecom (UK) Ltd trading as Certa Hosting also appears as a Nominet-accredited UK registrar.

Their product portfolio is broad enough for small businesses, agencies, resellers and more technical customers. Services include Domains, Shared Hosting, cPanel Hosting, WordPress Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS, Private Cloud / Cloud Servers, Dedicated Servers, Premium Email Hosting, Hosted Exchange, Microsoft 365, DNS management, SSL certificates, website migration, one-click application installs, and application-focused hosting for Magento, Drupal, Joomla, PrestaShop, Concrete5 and OpenCart.

The strongest part of Certa Hosting’s offer is its practical UK hosting profile. Their hosting plans combine NVMe / SSD storage, daily backups, SSL, DDoS protection, email filtering, website security tools, and UK-based support. Their cPanel hosting and reseller hosting are especially relevant for agencies and customers who prefer a familiar Linux hosting environment with cPanel / WHM, while the VPS and dedicated server ranges suit customers needing root access, custom operating systems, larger resources or isolated infrastructure.

The shared and WordPress hosting plans work well for customers who want managed convenience rather than a purely self-service cloud console. WordPress hosting includes daily backups, staging tools, mailboxes, SSL, security protections, and UK/USA data center availability on the listed WordPress packages. Their reseller hosting is also fairly complete, with white-label hosting, custom nameservers, WHM, cPanel accounts, JetBackup / R1Soft-style restore options, CloudLinux-style resource isolation, LiteSpeed, free SSL, and migration support.

There are a few caution points. Some legacy legal wording still uses Certa Internet Limited, although that company is dissolved and the current trading reference is Ocean Telecom (UK) Ltd. A few areas of the customer-facing documentation also feel older than the main hosting offer. This does not automatically reflect service quality, but it does mean customers should verify the final contract name, billing terms and plan details at checkout. The website is in English, and prices are shown in GBP.