LCN Web Design Starter, £ 599.99 on Web Design

Web Design Starter has been updated on September 27, 2025 (added May 14, 2020), Aggregate Rating (2 out of 10 from 11 reviews)

💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
✍️ Support Options :	Help DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive Chat
⚑ Targeting :	UK

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LCN is a long-established British domain-registration, web-hosting and online-business provider whose origins go back to 1999, when the original business concentrated on web design. The LCN hosting and domain operation developed around 2000, and in 2019 LCN became part of the team.blue group.

The corporate structure has changed significantly. The historical LCN.COM LIMITED, company number 03877731, was incorporated on November 16, 1999 and voluntarily dissolved on December 30, 2025. LCN services continue under Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited, company number 03913408, an active UK hosting company incorporated on January 25, 2000. This company previously operated as Names.co Internet Services Limited and later Namesco Limited before adopting its present name in August 2024.

LCN now covers much more than conventional shared hosting. Its portfolio includes Domain Registration and Transfers, Shared Web Hosting, WordPress Hosting, Managed WordPress, Managed WooCommerce, Self-Managed VPS, Managed VPS, Email Hosting, Microsoft 365, SSL Certificates, Website Builder, Ecommerce Website Builder, Web Design, Online Booking, Online Compliance, accessibility tools, managed DNS, domain monitoring, brand protection and related services for businesses. AI-based tools have also become part of the range, including website creation, WordPress assistance and the Macaly AI environment for building websites, applications and other online tools.

LCN has served more than 100,000 customers, with hundreds of thousands of domains under management and tens of thousands of active hosting accounts. More recent figures exceed 450,000 managed domains and 70,000 customers. At corporate level, Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited had approximately 160 employees across Worcester, Reading and London during FY2026. The variation in customer and domain totals reflects different reporting periods and organizational scopes.

The main Web Hosting range is divided into Starter, Business, Professional and Expert packages. Starter supports one website with 25 GB storage, while Business increases this to five websites and 50 GB. Professional supports 25 websites and 75 GB, and Expert reaches 50 websites and 150 GB.

Resource allocations are also clearly differentiated. Business includes 2 CPUs and 2 GB RAM, Professional provides 3 CPUs, 3 GB RAM and 0.5 GB cache, while Expert receives 4 CPUs, 4 GB RAM and 1 GB cache. Bandwidth is unlimited subject to fair-use conditions.

Security Shield is included with shared hosting and combines malware scanning, IP logging and blocking, DDoS mitigation, firewall protection and account isolation. Professional and Expert additionally include automatic CMS security patching. Backup retention increases with the package, from one daily backup on Starter to 28 days of daily backups on Expert, while higher packages also benefit from rolling hourly backups.

The shared environment uses NVMe SSD storage, SFTP, SSH, phpMyAdmin, MySQL, OPcache and multiple PHP versions. Professional and Expert add technologies such as Varnish, Redis and RAMDisk to improve performance. One-click installations are available for popular applications including WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.

WordPress Hosting is offered in Starter, Professional and Premium configurations with 30 GB, 100 GB and 250 GB SSD webspace respectively. Database allowances increase from 1 GB to 5 GB and 10 GB, while mailbox capacity and backup retention also rise with the package. Varnish caching, SSL, a domain, test environments and security features form part of the WordPress platform.

Managed WordPress adds maintenance of WordPress, PHP, themes and plugin updates, automated hourly backups, one-click restoration and higher performance allocations. The managed Starter package receives a 256 MB performance allocation, Professional 512 MB and Premium 1024 MB.

Managed WooCommerce Hosting extends the managed WordPress environment specifically for online stores. Starter provides 30 GB SSD space, a 1 GB database and 14 daily backups. Professional increases this to 100 GB storage, a 5 GB database and 30 daily backups, while Premium reaches 250 GB, a 10 GB database and 30 daily backups. WordPress, WooCommerce and plugin updates are maintained as part of the service. LiteSpeed caching is used for the WooCommerce environment, with progressively larger caching allocations on the higher packages.

Customers needing greater server-level control can use PureSSD Self-Managed VPS. The XS configuration starts with 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 75 GB SSD storage and 2 TB bandwidth. The S configuration provides 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 150 GB SSD storage and 5 TB bandwidth, while the M and L servers scale further in CPU, memory, storage and traffic allowance.

PureSSD VPS backups run every four hours with nine retained backup slots, and a manual snapshot is also included. Supported operating systems include Debian, AlmaLinux, Ubuntu and Windows Server, making the platform suitable for both Linux and Windows workloads.

Managed SSD VPS takes a more traditional fully managed approach. VPS:25M provides 2 vCores, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD storage, 50 GB bandwidth and support for ten domains. VPS:50M increases the allocation to 4 vCores, 2 GB RAM and 50 GB SSD storage, while VPS:100M provides 8 vCores, 4 GB RAM and 100 GB SSD storage. The managed platform uses Dell server hardware, SSD storage in RAID 10 and Plesk administration.

LCN combines conventional Email Hosting with Microsoft productivity services. Standard email accounts include WebMail, calendars, contact management, spam filtering and antivirus protection, with mailbox capacities starting at 5 GB. Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard and Premium packages add Exchange email, OneDrive and Microsoft productivity applications, with Business Premium extending into additional security and device-management functionality.

Domain Registration remains a core part of the business. The catalog covers popular UK and international extensions together with hundreds of newer generic TLDs. Transfers of UK domains are generally free, while many international extensions carry a transfer charge and include an additional registration year. Other domain services include managed DNS, domain monitoring, acquisition assistance and online brand protection.

The Website Builder range incorporates AI-assisted site creation together with ecommerce functions. Starter is intended for small sites with up to five pages, while Standard supports 50 pages. Business and Ecommerce permit unlimited pages. Higher packages add AI content creation, multilingual functionality, membership tools and broader design capabilities. Ecommerce extends this further with product management, discounts, shipping options, multi-currency support and invoicing.

LCN also provides Web Design for customers wanting a website built with professional assistance rather than creating it themselves. Additional business tools include Online Booking, using SimplyBook.me technology for appointments, reminders, payment handling and booking widgets, together with Online Compliance for privacy and cookie-management requirements. Accessibility products are also available for businesses working toward website accessibility requirements.

SSL certificates use Sectigo technology and include Domain Validation, Organization Validation, Extended Validation and Wildcard options.

LCN remains strongly focused on the United Kingdom. The service is in English and commercial pricing is primarily in British pounds. Prices are generally displayed excluding 20% VAT, although VAT-inclusive values can also be shown.

LCN continues to maintain an active business-content section. Recent material has covered AI website creation, Macaly and other developments, including a September 29, 2026 announcement concerning B Corp certification.

An unusual benefit is available to qualifying UK charities. Eligible organizations can receive web hosting free for life together with a free two-year domain registration.

There is an administrative inconsistency in the current legal documentation. The active privacy, contact and service-level information uses Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited and company number 03913408, while some contractual text still contains the historical LCN.COM LIMITED number 03877731. The old company was dissolved in December 2025, while Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited is the current operating entity.