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Cheap, reliable UK hosting at less than £25 a year?

Hosting prices have dropped massively over the years, it is possible to get hosting for less than £5 a year from Ebay or sites such as WebHostingTalk (shared hosting offers).

However, most of these are US based, you are given a very small amount of server resources and you could wake up tomorrow and your site and the server could have vanished. But they can be good for blogs and learning etc.

Can anyone recommend a reliable web host that is UK based, been around for a few years and offers a yearly plan for under £25 a year suitable for a low traffic business site or blog?
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  • ClarkeKent
    ClarkeKent Posts: 336 Forumite
    edited 23 August 2016 at 7:58PM
    After checking the cheapest price at a host I previously used, Jolt (the former UK arm of the popular WebhostingBuzz) I saw a remarketing ad for a coupon with 75% off. 75OFF - making it £9.90 for a year!

    Hope that is useful to someone. Definitely worth a try with hosting go and then give it a few days to see if any coupons appear.
  • debitcardmayhem
    debitcardmayhem Posts: 13,640 Forumite
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    ClarkeKent wrote: »
    After checking the cheapest price at a host I previously used, Jolt (the former UK arm of the popular WebhostingBuzz) I saw a remarketing ad for a coupon with 75% off. 75OFF - making it £9.90 for a year!

    Hope that is useful to someone. Definitely worth a try with hosting go and then give it a few days to see if any coupons appear.
    yes but next year it will be 39.60 so it does not fall within your <25, ergo you will be back:p
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  • Sooler
    Sooler Posts: 3,115 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    https://www.penguin-uk.com/

    Package Budget
    Web Space 500Mb
    Data Transfer 5Gb
    Price / Year £21.27
    All prices exclude VAT
  • deskhelp
    deskhelp Posts: 122 Forumite
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    Rightly said debitcardmayhem, make sure they offer you recurring discount or else you can try few host I used personally which can offer hosting in your budget :

    https://www.webhost.uk.net/web-hosting.html

    https://www.rshosting.com/web-hosting/
  • Lambyr
    Lambyr Posts: 439 Forumite
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    TSO Host do a £14.99 per year package that gets you 500MB space, 5GB per month bandwidth, 10 mailboxes and easy installation of something like Wordpress.

    You'll need to buy your own domain name.
    She would always like to say,
    Why change the past when you can own this day?
  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    Lambyr wrote: »
    TSO Host do a £14.99 per year package that gets you 500MB space, 5GB per month bandwidth, 10 mailboxes and easy installation of something like Wordpress.

    You'll need to buy your own domain name.

    There's also a referral code in the referrers forum here for 10% off, should you go TSO. I use them for my site and 2 clients, perfectly happy.
  • chunter
    chunter Posts: 2,031 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    http://www.inventivehosting.co.uk/
    Bronze package, £12 a year, no discounts, no nonsense.
    1gb space, which means suitable for IMAP.

    I hada single website with them for a couple of years, no problems whatsoever.
  • ClarkeKent
    ClarkeKent Posts: 336 Forumite
    paddyrg wrote: »
    There's also a referral code in the referrers forum here for 10% off, should you go TSO. I use them for my site and 2 clients, perfectly happy.

    Just be aware they charge £25 to install 3rd party SSL certs, 167% more than the plan price for a year. But if you don't anticipate using SSL, it is a good price as they offer shell access too.
  • ClarkeKent
    ClarkeKent Posts: 336 Forumite
    edited 9 September 2016 at 8:25PM
    Whilst registering for a cheap domain, Namecheap also do first year offer of around £7 for a full year with £1.50 SSL cert!
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 33,080 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    50webs here, up for renewal.

    £40 for unlimited storage and unlimited traffic, 12 used domains out of my 20 allowed and upto 200 sub domains.

    Anything better?
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