Krystal Hosting Emerald, £ 19.00/mo. on Linux Shared

Emerald has been added on Sep 17, 2025, Aggregate Rating (9.8 out of 10 from 6 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	1
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire Transfer
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
🔧 Category :	BackupWordpressWebsite BuilderE-CommerceDDoS Protection
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive Chat
🌏 Server Locations :	United Kingdom
⚑ Targeting :	UK
💰 Money-back guarantee :	60 days
🚀 Uptime :	99.99 %

See also initial Emerald plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Krystal Host (recently simple Krystal) is a UK hosting company founded in 2002 by CEO Simon Blackler. Over two decades they have cultivated a strong reputation for reliability and ethics, frequently highlighted as a top-rated UK host on Trustpilot. They position themselves as the UK’s largest independent hosting provider and a certified B Corp, with a clear sustainability mission: run infrastructure on 100% renewable energy, extend hardware lifecycles, and operate with minimal environmental impact. They also support charity initiatives and advocate for a more transparent, customer-first hosting market.

Their product line is broad and cohesive. Domains cover popular TLDs with straightforward management and privacy. Shared (cPanel) hosting targets personal and small business sites with a performance-first stack (LiteSpeed Web Server, HTTP/3/QUIC, CloudLinux isolation, PHP OPCache) plus automated malware scanning and backups. Business hosting builds on that foundation with PCI-DSS compliance and higher-touch support, suitable for e-commerce and heavier workloads.

Reseller hosting delivers white-label cPanel/WHM with private nameservers and granular account controls. Managed WordPress runs on Krystal’s Onyx platform, bundling edge/CDN and caching with a 30-day free trial to validate performance before committing. A no-code Website Builder provides drag-and-drop publishing with >190 responsive templates. For users needing raw control, VPS plans are backed by NVMe storage, multi-transit connectivity, DDoS protection, and daily backups; clusters and load balancers are supported. Dedicated servers add managed enterprise hardware for consistently high performance. Rounding out the portfolio, Managed cloud & consulting (including Krystal’s own Katapult, AWS, and Azure) cover migration, DevOps, hybrid architectures, and ongoing optimisation. A simple, low-cost CDN offers quick global acceleration.

Underpinning much of this is Katapult.io, Krystal’s in-house cloud platform engineered with distributed storage (multiple NVMe replicas), redundant components, and an emphasis on durability and performance. The platform ethos is "technology without compromise": over-engineered for resilience, renewable-powered, and designed to keep workloads online even during component failures.