Simple, Reliable Shared Hosting for Your Website

How shared hosting actually works

A website is a set of files, a database and a bit of software that answers requests from browsers. All of that has to sit on a computer that is switched on around the clock and connected to the internet through a fast network. Shared hosting means that one well-maintained server runs many websites at once, and each account gets its own private slice of it: its own folders, databases, email accounts and login. Your files are kept apart from everyone else's, even though the machine underneath is the same.

The reason it costs so little is simple. The expensive parts, the hardware, the network, the cooling, the operating system updates and the security monitoring, are paid for by many customers instead of one. You get a managed environment for a fraction of what a server of your own would cost, and you never have to patch an operating system or configure a web server.

The trade-off is that the server's processor, memory and disk activity are a shared pool. A well-run host spreads accounts sensibly and caps what any single account can use, so one busy site cannot starve its neighbours. For the large majority of small business websites, blogs, portfolios and stores, that arrangement is more than enough and it is the sensible place to start.

Choosing between Basic, Pro, Pro+ and Agency

Basic is for a single website. If you have one blog, one portfolio or one landing page and a small number of email accounts, it covers you completely. Pro adds room for five sites, more storage and a free domain, which suits a small company that also runs a separate shop or microsite.

Pro+ is the step we recommend for online stores: 50 GB of NVMe storage, 25 websites and more bandwidth leave space for product images and a growing catalogue. Agency is for people who host work for others, with 100 websites, 200 GB of storage and unlimited email and subdomains.

Your choice is not permanent. You can start small and move up as your site grows, and your content and domain come with you. Our web hosting page lists every limit side by side.

Keeping a site fast on a shared server

Because resources are shared, a lean site is a fast site. Compress images before you upload them, because oversized photos are the most common reason a page feels slow. Use caching: with LiteSpeed, the free LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress serves finished pages instead of rebuilding them for every visitor, which lowers load on the server and shortens the wait for your visitors.

Remove plugins and themes you do not use, keep the ones you do use updated, and avoid stacking several plugins that do the same job. Every extra plugin adds code that runs on each request. Check your site with a speed test after any major change so you notice a slowdown early, not when visitors complain.

If your traffic grows and the site still feels sluggish after these steps, that is a useful signal rather than a failure. It usually means you have outgrown the plan and a larger one, or a VPS, is the logical next move.

Security: what is covered and what is up to you

The server side is looked after for you: the operating system, the web server and the network protections. Every plan includes a free SSL certificate and DDoS protection. What remains with you is the website itself.

Use strong, unique passwords and two-factor login wherever it is offered, keep WordPress or any other application and its plugins up to date, delete anything you no longer use, and keep a recent backup somewhere outside the server. Think of hosting as the building and your site as the office inside it: we look after the walls and the lock on the front door, and you keep your own files in order.