Net Nerd Essentials Hosting, £ 29.99/yr. on Linux Shared

Essentials Hosting has been updated on May 27, 2026 (added May 3, 2021)

🔌 Hosted domains :	1
🆓 free domains :	1
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire Transfer
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
🔧 Category :	BackupWordpressWebsite BuilderDDoS Protection
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	United Kingdom
⚑ Targeting :	UK
💰 Money-back guarantee :	7 days
🚀 Uptime :	99.99 %

See also initial Essentials Hosting plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

NetNerd is a UK web hosting brand operated by Easy Internet Solutions Ltd, a British hosting company incorporated in 2003. The company’s hosting background goes back to the FreeVirtualServers.com era, with the business history connecting its hosting activity to 2004. The NetNerd concept appeared in 2018, followed by the brand launch in November 2018.

NetNerd works mainly as a low-cost UK hosting provider for customers who want familiar tools, cPanel access, WordPress performance features, and a practical upgrade path. Their portfolio includes Starter Hosting, Unlimited Hosting, Business Hosting, WordPress Hosting, Cloud Web Hosting, Business Cloud Hosting, PAYG Reseller Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Managed Cloud VPS, Domain Registration, Free Hosting, Hosted Exchange, Free Website Builder, Website Creation, SEO Services, Malware Cleanup, Website Optimization, and .GOV.UK domain services.

The entry-level hosting range is very price-aggressive. Starter Hosting begins at £10/year, with cPanel, email accounts, databases, free SSL, daily backups, and a website builder. The Essentials plan increases disk space and email capacity while keeping the service in the low annual-price range. This makes NetNerd suitable for small brochure websites, simple business websites, landing pages, and customers who mainly need UK-based hosting with cPanel at a very low entry cost.

The Unlimited and WordPress ranges are more practical for regular websites. They include unlimited bandwidth, free SSL, daily backups, WordPress optimization, one-click installers, LiteSpeed, object caching, and cPanel access. WordPress users also get useful tools such as staging/cloning, PHP controls, and performance-oriented server features without moving to an expensive managed WordPress platform.

For agencies and designers, NetNerd offers two reseller models. The fixed reseller plans package cPanel/WHM accounts with storage allocations, while the PAYG Reseller Hosting model is more flexible, using a base monthly fee plus per-account and per-GB charging. This is useful for smaller agencies that do not want to overbuy a larger reseller plan too early. WHM, white-label setup, custom nameservers, SSL, backups, and account-level deployment are part of the reseller offer.

Their Managed Cloud VPS range gives NetNerd a stronger upgrade path beyond shared hosting. VPS plans are fully managed and available with either Enhance or cPanel/WHM. The VPS infrastructure uses SSD storage, clustered redundancy, monitoring, patching, updates, and UK-based support. Bespoke VPS and dedicated server configurations can also be requested, although dedicated servers are not presented as a standard fixed-price product range in the same way as shared hosting and VPS.

Domains are also an important part of the platform. NetNerd handles common extensions such as .co.uk, .uk, .com, .net, .org, and others, with DNS management, forwarding, WHOIS privacy, and a domain control panel. Their .gov.uk service is especially notable because NetNerd operates as an approved .gov.uk registrar and offers .gov.uk registration, renewal, and hosting options for eligible UK public-sector organizations.

The public website is in English and prices are shown in GBP. The customer area supports multiple interface languages, but the main product content is clearly UK/English focused. The design is modern enough and easy to follow, although some service wording, uptime figures, and legal/contact addresses are not perfectly consistent across the site. Business customers should confirm the exact SLA, address, and terms during checkout or before placing a larger order.