Guides and How Tos
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What Is a DDoS Attack and How Do Hosts Mitigate It?
A plain-English guide to DDoS attacks: volumetric, protocol, and application-layer types, how they differ from a genuine traffic spike, and…
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Why AOIT
Premium features. Included, not an add-on.
Autoscaling, daily backups, DDoS protection and UK-based support all come standard, so you’re not paying extra just to get what you actually need.
Backups, every day
A full snapshot of your site is taken daily, so restoring from a bad day is one click, not a panic.
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Nobody’s outsourced. You’ll speak to someone here who actually knows the platform, not a queue and not a chatbot.
Protected as standard
DDoS protection and malware scanning are included on every plan, not sold as an add-on.
Built to scale quietly
Your site draws on the resources of the whole platform, not a fixed slice of one server, so busy days aren’t a crisis.
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Every site gets a free Wildcard SSL certificate and edge caching from a global CDN, automatically.
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Web Hosting Pricing
Pricing that’s actually simple.
Already hosted elsewhere? Our team will migrate your site over for free and make sure it’s all working, we don’t just hand you a tool and hope.
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Personal
A solid start for a first blog or portfolio.
£4.57
per month, billed £54.89 a year
£4.37
per month, billed £104.79 every 2 years
£4.99
per month
- 1 domain
- 10GB SSD space
- Unlimited bandwidth
- 1 MySQL database
- 10 mailboxes
- Daily backups
- Free SSL
- 100% green hosting
- No LVE limitsAn LVE limit is a cap some hosts put on the CPU and memory a single account can use. We don’t apply one, so your site can use what it actually needs.
- 1 Tbps+ DDoS protection
- Free assisted migration
Professional
Most popular
For a small business with more than one site.
£6.41
per month, billed £76.89 a year
£6.12
per month, billed £146.79 every 2 years
£6.99
per month
- 3 domain
- 50GB SSD space
- Unlimited bandwidth
- 10 MySQL databases
- Unlimited mailboxes
- Daily backups
- Free SSL
- 100% green hosting
- No LVE limitsAn LVE limit is a cap some hosts put on the CPU and memory a single account can use. We don’t apply one, so your site can use what it actually needs.
- 1 Tbps+ DDoS protection
- Free assisted migration
Unlimited
Room to grow, however many sites you add.
£9.16
per month, billed £109.89 a year
£8.74
per month, billed £209.79 every 2 years
£9.99
per month
- Unlimited domain
- Unlimited SSD space
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited MySQL databases
- Unlimited mailboxes
- Daily backups
- Free SSL
- 100% green hosting
- No LVE limitsAn LVE limit is a cap some hosts put on the CPU and memory a single account can use. We don’t apply one, so your site can use what it actually needs.
- 1 Tbps+ DDoS protection
- Free assisted migration
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Cloud Web Hosting
Perfect for blogs, portfolios and small business sites. Autoscaling, daily backups and free SSL come as standard, so you’re covered from day one.
WordPress Hosting
Tuned for WordPress, with staging and one-click updates. Automatic core updates and built-in caching keep things fast without extra plugins.
Windows Hosting
For sites and apps built on Windows technology. Full ASP.NET support, on the same autoscaling platform and UK support as everything else we host.
VPS Hosting
Your own private server, for when you need more control. Full root access, a choice of operating systems, and genuinely unlimited bandwidth.
Managed Cloud Hosting
A private server, fully looked after by our team. We handle the updates, monitoring and backups, so you can focus on your site.
Managed AWS Hosting
The same fully managed hosting, on Amazon Web Services infrastructure, with 27 real AWS regions to choose from.
Unlimited Hosting
Unlimited sites and space, one flat monthly price. Perfect if you’re running several projects and don’t want to think about limits.
App hosting
Hosting tuned for your app
Managed Cloud Hosting, pre-configured for the platform you run, with the caching and search technology each one needs already set up.
Magento Hosting
Optimised with Redis and ElasticSearch, on Medium tiers and above.
WooCommerce Hosting
Redis and ElasticSearch, plus every WordPress control panel tool.
Laravel Hosting
An Artisan runner, error logs and ENV editor, built into the control panel.
Joomla Hosting
Joomla! sites with Redis object caching, pre-configured.
Drupal Hosting
Autoscaling hosting for Drupal sites and agency multi-site setups.
OpenCart Hosting
An autoscaling platform tuned for checkout speed.
Node.js Hosting
Redis and ElasticSearch included, with Git-based deployment.
And more
Included free, or added only if you need it
Every plan includes the essentials. These go further, one free with every plan, two optional upgrades.
Website Builder
A free drag and drop website builder with hundreds of templates, included with every hosting plan.
Website Turbo
High-frequency CPUs up to 4.20GHz and CDN pre-caching, an optional upgrade for sites that need every millisecond.
Premium Email
50GB mailboxes with calendar and contact sync, £55 per mailbox, per year.
From the blog
Guides from the people who run the platform.
Practical write-ups on DNS, email authentication, SSL and running your own server, written by our team rather than farmed out. See all posts →
Guides and How Tos
5 min read
Understanding HTTP Status Codes: 200, 301, 404, 500 and 503 Explained
A clear guide to the HTTP status codes you see most often, what each one actually means, and why 301…
Guides and How Tos
5 min read
Understanding Backups: Full vs Incremental, and the 3-2-1 Rule
A plain-English guide to full, incremental and differential backups, plus the 3-2-1 rule for keeping your data genuinely recoverable.
Guides and How Tos
5 min read
robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt Explained
How robots.txt, sitemap.xml and the newer llms.txt file each guide web crawlers, and why llms.txt should still be treated as…
Guides and How Tos
4 min read
MySQL and MariaDB Basics: Users, Privileges and What phpMyAdmin Does
A beginner's guide to how database users and privileges work in MySQL and MariaDB, and what phpMyAdmin actually is (and…
Emails
4 min read
Email authentication explained: how SPF, DKIM, DMARC and DNSSEC fit together
A plain-English guide to how SPF, DKIM, DMARC and DNSSEC each play a different role in protecting your domain and…
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All customers get the same pricing and treatment, regardless of size.
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