Kualo Premium EV SSL, £ 129.00/yr. on SSL Certificates

Premium EV SSL has been updated on November 18, 2025 (added May 14, 2020)

🔐 Domains protected :	1
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔧 Category :	E-Commerce
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
⚑ Targeting :	UK

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📄 Editorial Review

Kualo (est. 2000) is an independent, long-running hosting company with more than two decades of history in the industry. Jo Stonehouse is the Founder and Managing Director at Kualo. They host over 100,000 websites for customers in more than 90 countries and position themselves as a performance-oriented, environmentally conscious provider. The company’s mission is to deliver fast, secure hosting "with a green heartbeat", combining modern infrastructure with a strong emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility, including a dedicated charity-hosting initiative that offers lifetime free hosting to qualifying non-profits.

Product line is broad and tightly integrated. At the entry level, they offer shared hosting plans aimed at personal sites, blogs and small business projects. These plans run on SSD storage, include email accounts, free SSL certificates, a drag-and-drop site builder, a one-click app installer (Softaculous) and daily backups with retention for 30 days. Shared hosting can also be purchased as WordPress-optimized hosting, where the same Solo, Startup and Performance plan structure is tuned for WordPress, with automatic vulnerability patching, managed migrations and performance features such as LiteSpeed Cache, Redis and Memcached on higher tiers.

For busier or more demanding websites, Kualo promotes its Business Hosting range as a semi-dedicated platform. These Performance-branded plans allocate dedicated CPU and RAM per account, turbo SSD storage and caching layers (LiteSpeed Cache, Redis, Memcached, ElasticSearch on higher tiers), making them suitable for high-traffic sites and online stores that have outgrown basic shared hosting but do not yet justify a full server.

Developers, agencies and entrepreneurs are targeted with Reseller Hosting. Reseller plans allow customers to host and manage multiple sites under their own brand using branded nameservers and a white-label control panel. Features here include free SSL on all hosted domains, a site builder, reseller-level backups with self-restore options, LiteSpeed caching on mid and top tiers, WordPress Toolkit, Redis/Memcached support on the higher plan, and bundled billing software plus exclusive reseller discounts on the top Agency package.

Above shared and reseller tiers, Kualo offers Cloud VPS, dedicated servers and complex managed hosting. Cloud VPS servers are marketed as highly scalable, self-healing virtual machines whose resources are spread across multiple physical nodes, providing redundancy and "faster-than-SSD" underlying storage. They can be ordered unmanaged, basic managed or fully managed, and are available either as cPanel Cloud VPS or as generic Linux VPS (CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu and other distributions). Dedicated servers are described as bare-metal machines built to spec, intended for workloads that require very high CPU, RAM or disk resources, or strict hardware isolation. Complex managed hosting is Kualo’s bespoke enterprise solution, where multi-server architectures can be designed with load balancing, database replication, caching layers and hybrid cloud/dedicated stacks, all fully managed with an assigned account manager and enterprise SLAs.

Complementing hosting and servers, Kualo acts as a domain registrar, offering registration and transfer for hundreds of TLDs, along with domain privacy protection, DNS control and a domain discount club. They also provide email services via Zimbra Enterprise Email (with shared calendars, tasks and document features) and email marketing tools for sending newsletters. On the security and reliability side, the catalogue includes SSL certificates, CodeGuard cloud backups, SiteLock malware scanning, DDoS protection, and a global Content Delivery Network to accelerate websites and applications.

A key part of their identity is green hosting. Kualo operates entirely on renewable energy, invests in energy-efficient data-center designs, and partners with Ecologi to plant trees and fund Gold Standard certified carbon-offset projects. They position this not as a marketing add-on, but as a core value, highlighting concrete metrics such as Power Usage Effectiveness (PuE) in their UK facility and publishing details about their power, cooling and connectivity stack.

Overall, Kualo comes across as a mature, feature-rich provider that tries to balance technical depth (performance, redundancy, security) with accessible tooling (cPanel, Softaculous, site builder) and a well-defined ethical stance (green operations and charity support).