Unlimited Webhosting UK SSL Starter (DV), £ 24.99/yr.

SSL Starter (DV) has been added on Aug 9, 2025, Aggregate Rating (2.5 out of 10 from 11 reviews)

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📄 Editorial Review

Unlimited Web Hosting is a UK hosting business established in 2009 and headquartered in Manchester, England. Service is supplied by Unlimited Web Hosting UK Limited, an active private company incorporated on January 8, 2009 under number 06786340. John Richard Ward is the person with significant control; he and Dr. Philip Anthony O'Malley are the current directors. The organisation has an estimated 11–50 employees and concentrates heavily on the domestic market through UK infrastructure, GBP billing, a UK support team and an accredited Nominet registrar relationship with its own ISP tag.

Its name reflects the shared-hosting roots, but the present catalogue is much broader. cPanel Hosting, managed WordPress Hosting, WooCommerce hosting, agency packages and an AI-assisted website builder cover conventional websites. White-label reseller service is available through cPanel and WHM, DirectAdmin or Plesk. Customers needing isolated resources can move to VPS or Dedicated Cloud, while supporting services include domain registration and transfer, SSL certificates, WHMCS licences and mail filtering. Separate solutions are available for Drupal, Joomla, Laravel, Magento, PHP and ecommerce workloads.

The shared platform uses SSD storage in the UK and includes SSL certificates, migration, mailboxes, MySQL databases, SSH, Git, Composer and one-click application installation. Annual packages include a .uk domain for the first year. The "unlimited" label does not mean the absence of all limits: accounts have defined CPU, memory and entry-process allocations. Solo supports one website with 10 GB of SSD storage; Standard increases storage to 20 GB and permits multiple sites; Premium increases processing resources and removes the stated storage cap.

Premium is also a functional upgrade rather than simply a larger quota. It adds six-hourly JetBackup copies, Imunify360 protection, PHP X-Ray, CloudLinux Pro and support for Python, Node.js and Ruby. Lower tiers retain daily backups and ImunifyAV+ scanning. MailChannels protects outbound mail reputation, while free SSL renewal and WordPress Toolkit reduce routine administration.

Managed WordPress packages combine AccelerateWP caching and optimisation with updates, backups and security. WooCommerce hosting adapts this stack for online stores, and Agency hosting gives teams a way to separate and maintain multiple customer sites. The builder combines responsive templates, drag-and-drop editing, AI content help, forms, galleries and SEO functions. Hosting, email, SSL and backup facilities remain included, making it a practical all-in-one route for users who do not want to assemble separate services.

The reseller range is notably flexible. All three control-panel families run on the same UK Linux SSD platform, and accounts can be presented under the reseller's own identity. Resources are assigned per customer, APIs can automate provisioning, and WHMCS is available as an extra for invoicing, sign-up, renewal, suspension and ticket handling. Free SSL, daily JetBackup protection, outgoing-mail filtering and more than 200 application installers are standard. Unlimited Web Hosting can migrate an existing reseller estate, but the reseller remains responsible for first-line support to its own customers.

Several platform details make the shared range more suitable for developers than the low entry price might suggest. SSH access, version control and Composer are available alongside familiar browser-based tools. Premium accounts can run additional language environments, while PHP X-Ray helps identify slow application code rather than treating every performance issue as a server-capacity problem. CloudLinux separates account resources, and the higher security tier adds a web application firewall and broader malware protection. These facilities cannot compensate for badly maintained code, but they give technically capable customers useful diagnostic and isolation tools.

Email is integrated into the hosting packages rather than sold as a mandatory extra. Customers can create mailboxes, use standard POP or IMAP access and benefit from an outbound gateway intended to protect server reputation. The practical limit is still governed by storage, resource and acceptable-use rules. Businesses for which mail delivery is critical should keep DNS records correct, use authenticated sending and clarify whether the optional filtering service is needed for inbound protection beyond the standard controls.

VPS hosting supplies SSD-backed virtual resources and root access for applications that need more control than shared hosting. Dedicated Cloud goes further with a single-tenant instance whose assigned processor, memory and storage are not shared with noisy neighbours. Resources can be scaled without abandoning the cloud model. Linux is the documented operating-system family; Windows users should verify current availability before committing to the service.

The company also acquires established UK hosting businesses and has migrated thousands of accounts through that programme. Preferred candidates have operated for at least two years, show stable or growing turnover, carry monthly supplier commitments and commonly use cPanel or Plesk with WHMCS. No reliable public inventory identifies every acquired brand and transaction date, so the programme is meaningful corporate context without supporting guesses about individual deals.

Customer scale is substantial for an independent regional provider. The current service footprint exceeds 9,000 customers, 69,000 websites and 24,000 domains. Those figures align with the need for automated provisioning and clustered infrastructure, while the Nominet accreditation is particularly relevant to customers managing British domain portfolios. Registration, transfer and renewal remain separate transactions from hosting, so retaining registrar credentials and accurate registrant data is essential even when a website is moved between packages.