UK WordPress Hosting
Our UK hosting with WordPress installed and kept up to date for you — a full DirectAdmin control panel, free SSL, free migration, mailboxes on your own domain and no cap on monthly visits. Not a managed WordPress platform, and priced accordingly.
What You Actually Get
The same UK platform our shared hosting runs on, with WordPress installed, updated and supported — and the renewal price printed next to the offer.
WordPress Set Up For You
We set WordPress up for you and keep the core up to date — you get a working site, not an empty server and a tutorial
DirectAdmin or cPanel
We run DirectAdmin and cPanel; new accounts are set up on DirectAdmin, with a one-click installer, PHP version switching, databases, DNS and SSL
No Cap on Visits
We do not meter visitors and there is no monthly traffic allowance to blow through. Bandwidth is unmetered; your plan is websites, storage and mailboxes
Free SSL and Login Protection
A free certificate on every site, renewed automatically, with brute-force protection and IP blocking managed from your own control panel
Backups You Can Restore
Automated snapshots you can restore yourself from the control panel. Free CloudBox Vault backup, synced automatically to storage away from the server it protects
Mailboxes on Your Domain
Business email on the same plan, with spam and virus filtering, webmail, and IMAP, POP3 and SMTP access from any client
What This Is — and What It Isn't
Most “WordPress hosting” on the market is shared hosting with WordPress preinstalled. So is ours, and we would rather say it here than let you find out from the invoice.
What you are buying
- Our UK hosting with WordPress installed and kept up to date for you
- A full DirectAdmin control panel, included
- Free SSL, free migration and free WordPress installs
- Free CloudBox Vault backup — synced automatically
- Mailboxes on your own domain, included in the plan
- No cap on monthly visits, and no list of plugins you may not install
- UK-based support
What you are not
- Managed WordPress in the WP Engine or Kinsta sense
- A bespoke WordPress platform with a caching layer of our own
- One-click staging environments
- A plan priced and throttled by monthly visits
This is not managed WordPress in the WP Engine or Kinsta sense. If your site is a high-traffic publisher or a store where an hour offline costs more than a year of hosting, buy a managed platform — WP Engine, Kinsta and Krystal Onyx genuinely sell one, and they charge for it. If you want a well-run WordPress site on a UK platform, with the work of installing and updating it done for you and the renewal price told to you up front, that is what this is.
Make Your Own Package
Pay for the websites, storage and mailboxes you actually need — nothing you don't. The price updates as you choose, with the renewal price beside it, on annual billing. We set WordPress up on whichever shape you pick.
Your plan
Real Pricing – No more Renewal Shocks1 website · 25 GB storage · 5 mailboxes
This is our Starter plan — same price, whichever way you get to it.
£50.33 today for 12 months · save 40%
then £6.99/mo — £83.88 every 12 months
Free CloudBox Vault backup, synced automatically. Free SSL. UK-based support.
Continue with this planAll prices shown are ex VAT — VAT is added at checkout (+ VAT).
WordPress Hosting Plans
Three ready-made points on the scale above — WordPress set up for you, DirectAdmin or cPanel on every plan, no hidden fees, a 45-day money-back guarantee and free migration included.
Starter
£50.33 for 12 months (save 40%) · then £83.88 every 12 months
£6.99 month-to-month
free domain with annual billing
One WordPress site, done properly
- 1 WordPress Site
- 25 GB storage
- 5 Email Mailboxes
- 5 Sub Domains
- 1 Database
- Free Domain*
- WordPress installed and kept up to date
- DirectAdmin or cPanel — your choice
- Unmetered bandwidth, no visit limit
- Free SSL Certificate
- Free WordPress migration
- Free CloudBox Vault backup — synced automatically
- UK-based support
Professional
£86.33 for 12 months (save 40%) · then £143.88 every 12 months
£11.99 month-to-month
free domain with annual billing
For businesses running a few sites at once
- 10 WordPress Sites
- 75 GB storage
- 25 Email Mailboxes
- 25 Sub Domains
- 10 Databases
- Free Domain*
- WordPress installed and kept up to date
- DirectAdmin or cPanel — your choice
- Unmetered bandwidth, no visit limit
- Free SSL Certificate
- Free WordPress migration
- Free CloudBox Vault backup — synced automatically
- UK-based support
Business
£129.53 for 12 months (save 40%) · then £215.88 every 12 months
£17.99 month-to-month
free domain with annual billing
For agencies and client portfolios
- 25 WordPress Sites
- 150 GB storage
- 50 Email Mailboxes
- 40 Sub Domains
- 25 Databases
- Free Domain*
- WordPress installed and kept up to date
- DirectAdmin or cPanel — your choice
- Unmetered bandwidth, no visit limit
- Free SSL Certificate
- Free WordPress migration
- Free CloudBox Vault backup — synced automatically
- UK-based support
None of these quite right? Make your own package — pick the websites, storage and mailboxes you need.
* Free domain registration or transfer applies to the first year on annual billing only, for .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .uk. The domain renews at our standard rate. Prices exclude VAT.
Why Choose The Email Shop?
Where we sit against the WordPress hosts you have been comparing — the ones selling shared hosting with WordPress on it, and the ones genuinely selling a managed platform — with allowances, terms and renewal prices side by side.
How we compare
Everyone’s month-to-month price, side by side with what it actually buys. No introductory rates on either side.
Two different products are on this table. GoDaddy, Bluehost, Hostinger, IONOS sell what we sell: shared hosting with WordPress set up for you. Krystal Onyx, WP Engine, Kinsta sell managed WordPress — they run the WordPress itself for you, at a price to match. Their rows are badged below. We are not claiming to be WP Engine for £11.99, and you should not buy us thinking we are.
Two things worth knowing all the same. WP Engine’s entry plan stops at 25,000 visits a month and bills about $2 for every extra 1,000 — we publish no visits cap at all. And managed hosts give you no control panel: with us you pick DirectAdmin or cPanel at checkout.
Professional · 10 WordPress sites · 75 GB storage · 25 mailboxes · £11.99 a month standard, £7.19 a month on 12 months (£86.33 for the term)
Prices are each provider’s own published month-to-month / renewal price, ex VAT, checked 23 September 2026; 34SP converted from their VAT-inclusive prices. Introductory offers are excluded on both sides — our £11.99 is what WordPress Professional costs every month and what it renews at, and a 12-month term renews at £143.88 a year. Rival rows show the website and storage figures each provider publishes for these plans. Bars share one scale across all three tabs, capped at £43.29; the managed plans above that are drawn full width and say so on their row.
WordPress Made Easy
The fiddly parts — installing it, updating it, moving it, keeping a certificate on it — done for you, without taking the keys off you.
One-Click Installer
WordPress, WooCommerce and hundreds of other applications install from your control panel in a click, on every plan.
Updates on Autopilot — or Not
Core, plugin and theme updates can run on their own, with a restore point taken first. Switch any of it off: it is your WordPress and you hold the administrator account.
PHP You Control
Pick the PHP version WordPress runs on from the panel, and change it back in a click if a plugin objects.
Databases and Mailboxes Together
MySQL and MariaDB databases and mailboxes on your own domain, managed in the same place as your files — no second provider to pay.
Perfect for Every WordPress Project
Whether you're starting a blog, building a business website, or looking after a shelf of client sites, this is the same platform underneath.
Blogs and Personal Sites
A WordPress site that loads quickly, renews at a price you were told up front, and does not bill you for a good month.
- WordPress installed for you
- Free SSL on every site
- Mailboxes on your own domain
Business Websites
Brochure sites and WooCommerce stores, with the email that goes with them on the same plan.
- WooCommerce ready
- Free migration from your current host
- UK-based support
Portfolio Sites
Image-heavy sites that need room to grow, on storage you choose rather than storage you are rationed.
- Storage you set yourself
- Any theme or plugin you like
- Unmetered bandwidth
Agencies and Multiple Sites
Several client sites on one account, each with its own database, domain and mailboxes.
- Separate database per site
- Set your own site count
- One invoice for the lot
Performance You Control
No platform caching layer of ours sitting between you and your site — the levers that make a WordPress site fast are in your panel and in your plugins, where you can reach them.
Storage You Choose
Pick the size on a package or set it yourself in the configurator above — and top it up later without moving your site.
PHP Version Control
Run the PHP version WordPress and your plugins are happiest on, and change it from the panel when you are ready to move up.
Caching Is Yours to Run
Install the caching plugin your theme expects — object cache, page cache, whichever you prefer. We do not block plugins or override them with a platform layer of our own.
Unmetered Bandwidth
No traffic allowance and no visit counter, so a month that goes well costs you exactly what a quiet one does.
Free WordPress Migration
Moving an existing WordPress site to us costs nothing. Our engineers copy your files, database and mailboxes, check the copy works, and only then switch DNS.
We Do It For You
Files, database, mailboxes and settings — you do not need a migration plugin
Your Site Stays Up
Your current site keeps serving traffic until the copy here is checked and working
Checked Before DNS
We test the migrated site on our platform first, then move the domain across