WebHosting UK Linux Basic, £ 2.99/mo. on Linux Shared

Linux Basic has been updated on January 6, 2021 (added December 1, 2014)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Portugal
⚑ Targeting :	AE UK US

Original plan URL was https://www.webhostinguk.com/webhosting/shared-hosting.html

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

WebHostingUK.com is a UK-focused hosting provider established in 2007, serving individuals, developers, agencies, online stores, and businesses that want their websites hosted on UK infrastructure. The company has remained privately operated and independent, with a service portfolio built around managed hosting rather than unmanaged low-cost servers. The website is available in English, and hosting prices are primarily shown in GBP.

The main product range includes Cloud Web Hosting, Managed WordPress Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Managed Cloud VPS, domain registration, and SSL/security services. Dedicated servers also remain part of the broader service framework, although Managed Cloud VPS has become the more prominent server platform.

Cloud Web Hosting runs on SSD/NVMe-based infrastructure with cPanel, CloudLinux, LiteSpeed, and Imunify360. Starter supports one website with 10 GB storage, 1 CPU core, and 1 GB RAM. Growth increases capacity to five websites and 2 GB RAM, Business supports up to 20 websites, while Enterprise allows unlimited websites with 25 GB NVMe storage, 4 CPU cores, and 4 GB RAM. Bandwidth is unlimited across the range.

Shared hosting includes multiple PHP versions, email hosting, MySQL databases, Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, backups, malware protection, and website migration. Higher plans increase resource limits and backup retention. LiteSpeed improves PHP and WordPress performance, while CloudLinux provides account isolation and better resource control.

Managed WordPress Hosting adds a more specialized WordPress environment. WP-Starter supports one WordPress site with 10 GB NVMe SSD storage, 1 CPU core, and 1 GB RAM. WP-Growth supports five websites with 25 GB storage and 2 GB RAM. WP-Business and WP-Enterprise provide substantially larger cloud resources, reaching 4-8 CPU cores, 4-8 GB RAM, and 60-100 GB NVMe storage.

WordPress plans include WordPress Toolkit, staging, WP-CLI, Redis object caching, LiteSpeed caching, WebP image conversion, automatic updates, security scanning, and CDN functionality. SSH access is available where supported. Annual plans can include a domain name, while Let's Encrypt SSL and website migration are included. Regular snapshot backups add another layer of protection for active WordPress and WooCommerce websites.

Security throughout the WordPress platform combines Cisco ASA hardware firewalls, DDoS protection, Imunify360, and CSF firewall protection. This makes the larger WordPress packages particularly suitable for business sites and WooCommerce stores that need managed assistance together with stronger isolation and backup facilities.

Reseller Hosting is one of the stronger parts of the service portfolio. RH-Starter includes 10 cPanel accounts with 20 GB NVMe storage, 2 CPU cores, and 2 GB RAM. RH-Growth supports 25 accounts and 40 GB storage, RH-Business provides 50 accounts and 60 GB, while RH-Enterprise supports up to 100 accounts with 80 GB storage, 8 CPU cores, and 8 GB RAM.

Reseller packages include WHM/cPanel, private nameservers, a domain reseller account, white-label hosting, free migration, unlimited bandwidth, SSL, CloudLinux, LiteSpeed, Imunify360, and DDoS protection. End-user technical support is particularly useful for agencies and small hosting companies because many hosting-related support requests can be handled directly without the reseller maintaining a large technical team.

The higher-end platform is Managed Cloud VPS Hosting, built around high-availability cloud servers and distributed Ceph storage. CS-Starter provides 2 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM, and 40 GB SSD storage. CS-Growth increases resources to 4 cores, 4 GB RAM, and 60 GB storage. CS-Business provides 6 cores, 6 GB RAM, and 80 GB storage, while CS-Enterprise reaches 8 cores, 8 GB RAM, and 100 GB storage.

Every Cloud VPS includes a dedicated IPv4 address, unlimited bandwidth, managed administration, proactive monitoring, and migration assistance. Starter and Growth use high-speed network connectivity, while Business and Enterprise configurations can reach 10 Gbps connectivity. Distributed Ceph storage and high-availability architecture reduce dependence on individual storage devices or physical compute nodes.

Cloud VPS security combines dedicated Cisco ASA firewall protection, CSF, and DDoS protection. Daily snapshots operate at approximately 12-hour intervals, while the private-cloud disaster-recovery design adds further protection against larger infrastructure failures. cPanel, CloudLinux, Imunify360, and LiteSpeed are available as additional VPS options.

Domain Registration covers common generic and UK extensions including .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, and .org.uk, together with transfers and DNS administration. Domain privacy protection is also available. Domain provisioning has been associated with Enom, while UK namespace registrations are subject to Nominet policies.

Free Let's Encrypt certificates cover the normal SSL requirements of hosting customers, while commercial SSL options remain available for customers requiring paid domain validation, organization validation, extended validation, or wildcard certificates.

The primary control-panel environment is now centered on cPanel and WHM. Plesk also remains associated with some hosting configurations, while older service information included DirectAdmin. Customers ordering a specialized server configuration should confirm the exact panel included with the selected package.

The company website uses a modern layout and makes the core hosting services easy to locate, although some older content remains mixed with newer product information. The underlying service lineup itself is considerably more current, with NVMe storage, CloudLinux, LiteSpeed, managed WordPress tools, Ceph-based cloud infrastructure, and current security technologies now forming the main platform.