How much does web hosting cost in the UK?

Web hosting for a small UK business typically costs between six and thirty five pounds a month, with dedicated servers running into the hundreds. Shared hosting sits at the bottom of that range, managed WordPress and business hosting in the middle, and dedicated hardware at the top. Where you land depends on what your site does, how much traffic it gets, and how much handling you want the host to do for you.

That is the honest range. The confusing part is that most hosts advertise the bottom of it and charge somewhere in the middle once the introductory offer ends. Below is what several UK hosts charge today, checked directly against their pricing pages, so the real numbers are visible before you sign up.

Web hosting fees at a glance

Tier	What it suits	Typical ongoing monthly cost
Shared hosting	One small site, modest traffic	around six to fourteen pounds
Managed WordPress or business hosting	A growing site needing more storage, speed or compliance	around fifteen to thirty five pounds
Dedicated hosting	High traffic, heavy custom software, or strict data isolation	a hundred pounds and up

These are renewal prices, not the flashy first-month figure most hosts put above the fold. Krystal, 20i, SiteGround and IONOS all publish current UK pricing, and the pattern is consistent: a low headline number for the first term, a higher one once you renew.

Hosting is only one line on a website's running costs. For the wider picture, including design, build and content, see our guide to how much a website costs in the UK.

How much does it cost to host a website on shared hosting?

Shared hosting means your site sits on a server alongside dozens or hundreds of others, splitting the cost of that server between everyone using it. It is the cheapest way onto the web, and for a simple brochure site or a blog it is often enough.

20i's entry-level Startup plan runs at a pound for the first month, then ten pounds a month ongoing, for one website, 10GB of storage and 10 mailboxes. SiteGround's StartUp plan lists at around two pounds a month with a steep introductory discount, renewing at just under fourteen pounds a month for one site with unlimited traffic. IONOS prices its Standard plan at three pounds a month for the first six months, renewing at six pounds a month, with 100GB of storage but only one email address included.

The gap between those renewal prices, from six to nearly fourteen pounds a month for broadly similar shared hosting, comes down to what is bundled in: storage, email allowances, backup frequency, and how much support you get when something breaks.

Managed WordPress and business hosting costs

Step up from basic shared hosting and you are usually paying for one of two things: a platform tuned specifically for WordPress, or a plan built to handle a growing site with more visitors and stricter security needs.

Krystal lists Web Hosting from seven pounds a month, purpose-built WordPress Hosting from fifteen pounds a month with an AI site builder included, and Business Hosting from nineteen pounds a month aimed at sites that need PCI compliance for taking card payments. SiteGround's GrowBig plan renews at just under twenty four pounds a month with unlimited sites and 50GB of storage, and its GoGeek plan renews at just under thirty five pounds a month with 100GB and a staging environment for testing changes safely. IONOS's Premium and Ultimate tiers renew at sixteen and twenty four pounds a month, adding more storage, extra email addresses and a content delivery network.

This is the tier most small businesses with an active, growing site settle on, once they outgrow the cheapest shared plan. The step up to somewhere around twenty to thirty five pounds a month buys real capacity: more storage, more mailboxes, faster processing, and in most cases a support team willing to dig into a genuine problem rather than point you at an article.

If you are choosing between hosts rather than tiers, our guide to the best website hosting for small businesses sets out how to compare them properly.

Dedicated hosting prices, and who actually needs one

A dedicated server gives you an entire physical machine, with no other customer's traffic or software sharing it. Fasthosts prices its dedicated servers from a hundred pounds a month for an Intel Xeon machine with 32GB of RAM and NVMe storage, rising to four hundred pounds a month for a high-spec AMD EPYC server with 256GB of RAM and 32 cores.

Very few small business websites need this. Dedicated hosting earns its keep for high-traffic ecommerce, applications running heavy custom software, or businesses with a specific regulatory reason to keep their data on hardware nobody else touches. A site built from service pages, a blog and a contact form has no use for a hundred-pound-a-month machine sat mostly idle. Managed WordPress or business hosting covers the vast majority of small business sites at a fraction of that price.

Hosting charges to question on your bill

The advertised price is rarely the price you end up paying long term, so it is worth checking a few things before you commit or renew.

The introductory-to-renewal jump is the biggest one. SiteGround's plans carry discounts as steep as 85% for the first term, then renew at several times that figure. IONOS runs a similar structure, with its Plus plan priced at a pound a month for the first year before renewing at nine pounds a month. Neither host hides this, but it sits in the small print rather than the headline, so check the renewal price before you sign up, before the first invoice at the full rate arrives unannounced.

Beyond the renewal jump, watch for backup fees charged as an add-on rather than included, migration charges to move your site away if you leave, SSL certificates billed separately (most hosts now include these free, so question any host still charging for one), and support tiers that put phone or live chat behind a pricier plan. None of this is necessarily unreasonable, but it should be visible before you pay, rather than discovered afterwards.

What cheap hosting costs you in practice

The cheapest plan on any host's page is cheap because the server is doing the same job for many more customers at once. When one of those other sites gets a traffic spike, or runs a badly written plugin, everyone sharing that server can feel it, your site included. That shows up as slow loading, occasional downtime, or a database error at an unhelpful moment.

It rarely shows up as a large bill. It shows up as customers leaving before a page finishes loading, or a contact form that quietly stops working during a busy spell because an overloaded server dropped the request. If your site does real work for the business, knowing it is up and taking enquiries matters more than shaving another pound off the hosting cost. Our guide to how to check your website is working covers the basic checks worth running on a regular schedule.

Paying more for managed or business hosting buys headroom for traffic spikes, faster page loads, and a support team more likely to resolve a genuine fault quickly, rather than a fancier name on the invoice. For most small businesses, that trade is worth making once the site is doing more than sitting there.

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