WordPress hosting
We provide managed WordPress hosting for faster WordPress sites.
Good hosting is critical to win new business from your website.
We provide managed hosting services for WordPress sites of all shapes and sizes, ensuring they run at top speed, are securely backed up, and are optimised.
If you’d rather your WordPress site were hosted by a team that takes it personally, we’re the agency for you.
We can help you with hosting, site migration, DNS, SSL certificates, optimisation, email, and everything website-related.
We host WordPress sites for people who would rather get on with managing their marketing or running their business – it’s a fully managed and monitored hosting service.
Why is WordPress hosting so important?
If your website hosting is not good enough, your website will be slow, and you will lose business: it’s that simple.
After spending time and money developing a new site and completing web optimisation, you shouldn’t stop there—your website hosting is just as important as your website.
If you’re wondering why your new site, with all its content and SEO, is failing to rank for even the simplest of keywords, your hosting arrangements could be to blame.
WordPress hosting packages
We’ll take care of every aspect of WordPress hosting for you.
Standard WordPress hosting
£35 per month + VAT
Your site will be hosted on servers managed by Toast and hosted in the UK on the server network. This is the most common form of hosting for smaller websites.
This hosting package includes:
- Premium cloud hosting (not entry-level shared)
- Daily backups (30-day rolling storage of site & database)
- Free SSL certificate included (worth up to £150)
- Advanced caching & performance optimisation
- Managed by Toast – no technical setup required
- Suitable for sites with up to 5,000 monthly visits and 3GB storage
- Scalable infrastructure to grow with your site
- Phone and email support during business hours
Performance Hosting
£45 per month + VAT
Your site will be hosted on servers located in the EU and managed by Toast, using a secure server network.
This hosting package includes:
- High-performance WordPress hosting on EU-based servers (Amsterdam)
- Isolated environment for better speed, security & reliability
- Daily backups (30-day rolling storage of site & database)
- Free SSL certificate included (worth up to £150)
- Advanced caching & performance optimisation
- Fully managed by Toast — we handle everything for you
- Ideal for sites with up to 5,000+ monthly visits and 3GB storage
- Scalable setup to support future growth*
- Phone and email support during business hours
Premium Hosting.
£55 per month + VAT
Ideal for high-traffic business websites, advanced marketing sites, and performance-critical platforms.
Your site will be hosted on WPEngine, using one of our dedicated shared servers, fixed-IP environments with enhanced speed, security, and caching.
These servers are exclusive to Toast-managed sites; we don’t host third-party or external websites, ensuring a faster, safer, and more stable environment.
This hosting package includes:
- Hosted on Google Cloud (London) with Cloudflare-managed DNS
- EverCache technology for speed & scale
- Daily backups (30-day rolling storage of site & database)
- Free SSL certificate included (worth up to £150)
- 24/7 malware scanning & DDoS protection
- Staging & development environments included
- 99.99% uptime SLA
- Fully managed by Toast – no setup or maintenance required
- Ideal for sites with 10,000+ monthly visits and up to 3GB storage
- Phone & email support during office hours + 24/7 live chat via WPEngine
Get a free hosting review.
Many clients we work with have inherited hosting setups and are often unsure about who their website is hosted with and all the details – we’ll complete a free review of your current set-up, including your hosting, DNS, email and domain.
Who do we host sites for?
We host sites for businesses that need reliability and peace of mind over their websites.
There is so much misinformation about hosting posted online through affiliate sites – best hosting provider lists litter the web, and they’re all clickbait.
The best hosting is never the cheapest, so we work with organisations of all sizes to help them get the right hosting for their website.
WordPress hosting that businesses trust
We’ve been hosting websites for over 25 years
Hosting for large and smaller businesses.
We host websites for sole traders and corporates alike, tailoring the right package for your business’s needs. Our servers are all managed and monitored by our team, so if you have a simple site, we can look after it, but if you need load balancing and redundancy, we’ve got that covered too.
We’ve hosted the Travelodge corporate site for over 2 years, providing hosting and WordPress support in one package.
What we do
Hosting can be complicated, so our managed service means one less thing to have to sort out.
We manage hosting for you.
We manage hosting for our clients. We’re not a hosting company, but as WordPress experts, we take care of all hosting-related services, such as websites, databases, DNS, and so on.
If you’re not technically-minded, we’re for you.
We work with SMES to take the hassle out of all website-related IT planning, setup, and management. If you’d rather work on your business than sort out SSL certificates, we can help.
We host over 230 websites.
We host every flavour of site, from small personal blogs to mission-critical corporate sites. We tailor the right host for your site, set everything up, migrate your site and optimise it. Job done.
With all the BS you read online about website hosting, it can be easy to choose the wrong host.
We manage hosting for our clients across proven hosting companies, including Pressable (WordPress’ hosting). Anyone can set up a hosting account, but do you want the hassle of managing it?
If you want your hosting looked after by an expert team, book a call with Dave. He’s been managing website hosting since 1997.
How to choose WordPress hosting.
There are thousands of options for hosting your website, so choosing the right hosting environment can be tricky.
There are a few basic questions to ask yourself when looking at hosting options:
- How important is my website to my business?
- How big is my website?
- Does my website have complex functionality?
- Where are my customers?
How important is your website?
In our experience, most businesses, no matter how small, consider their website to be extremely important to their business. Any downtime is seen as an issue, and the site must not be slow.
This suggests that all websites are important to their owners, and therefore, it is not logical to host such an important marketing tool on cheap hosting.
If you are paying less for your hosting than your mobile phone contract, you are doing something wrong.
How big is the website?
The larger the website, the more space you will need to host it, which can affect its performance.
Hosting companies that offer unlimited storage should be avoided. They offer this to everyone, which slows down servers.
If you have a large site with many pages or you host many files on your site, you will need a hosting account designed for this.
Many of the ‘pile it high sell it cheap’ hosting providers host 100s of sites on the same server: if one of them hs a problem, then your site has a problem – you don’t want that.
Is your website complex?
Complex websites with additional functionality, such as the excellent WooCommerce plugin, can be processor-heavy and need hosting to accommodate this.
Like your laptop, if you try to get your server to do too much, it can slow down and eventually crash; hosting is no different. Complex websites need better processors, more RAM and an advanced setup.
Ideally, you want hosting that can scale with demand, and this is something we can help with.
Where are your customers?
If your customers are mainly UK-based, you want your website hosted in the UK or at least a UK-based cache. Ideally, your site should be hosted in the same country as your customers, whilst this is not quite as important as it used to be (data centres are global), it can make a difference.
The main reason for this is to reduce latency and make your site load faster, but there are other benefits that we’ll cover.
Do you really want the hassle of managing your own hosting?
Hosting is easy when things go right, but like any software-based infrastructure, it can go wrong.
If it does, you will need some technical knowledge to fix it, which is why over 150 businesses of all sizes choose to have us manage their hosting.
Avoid getting put in the middle.
Some hosting companies have a favourite phrase:
If your website is down, you will need to contact your web developers.
This happens all too often on less reputable hosting—the hosting support team simply pushes you away to your website developers, who then push you back to the hosting company.
This inevitably puts you in the middle with no solution and seemingly no one to resolve the issue.
When we manage your hosting, we take it personally and get any issues fixed for you, fast.
Do you need hybrid hosting management?
For some larger clients, they own the server; we provide the management.
This arrangement works well when the site is larger or more complex, and our client wants to have the hosting contract under their management.
We have full server access to manage the server and charge a small monthly or annual fee to manage the hosting environment on their behalf.
Managed hosting is one less thing to stress over.
When hosting works, it works. It can take a lot of time to get things working when there’s an issue.
Rather than waiting for a reply to a support request or battling with an AI automated assistant, you just call us instead on 01295 266644, and we get everything sorted for you.
Hosting and website speed facts.
1 in 3 visitors
Will abandon your website if it takes more than 4 seconds to load.
46% of users
Will not come back to your website if it does not perform well.
64% of shoppers
Who are dissatisfied with their visit will shop elsewhere next time.
A one-second delay
Reduces customer satisfaction by 16%.
Loyalty reduction
A 2-second delay in load time during a transaction resulted in abandonment rates of up to 87%.
SERPs
Site speed is a factor in search engine rankings. Slow-loading sites may be penalised in ranking algorithms.
Bespoke hosting.
We offer more than simple off-the-peg hosting packages. If you have a larger, mission-critical website, we can tailor a package just for you on your own dedicated server.
As we build bespoke WordPress sites, we offer bespoke hosting to match.
Don’t use cheap or free hosting.
Why go to all the trouble of making your website as good as it can be to try it and host it on a cheap-as-chips account?
It’s well known that website speed is a key factor in Google’s algorithm when deciding which websites to rank.
Using cheap website hosting can mean that your site is facing an uphill struggle as free or cheap hosting accounts will affect the following:
- Time to first byte – this is how long it takes your server to deliver the first data to the visitor’s browser – this includes the time it takes to connect (the wait) and the time taken to respond
- Delivery of the data – how long it actually takes the server to serve up the files to the browser
- How well is your site ranked – is your site sitting on the same server as a load of spammy websites? Google will not like that.
Free migration.
Moving your site to our managed hosting could not be easier it’s free.
We’ll get your existing site, move it to our servers, test it, push it live and take care of all the DNS and post-migration checks as part of the service.
Best website hosting for WordPress and other options.
Regarding WordPress hosting, it’s best to have an agency that fully understands your WordPress install and a hosting company that understands the unique requirements of hosting WordPress websites.
When we host your website, your site will live on what we think is some of the best UK website hosting.
We use UK-based data centres (as well as global CDNs), and we are your first point of contact for anything hosting-related.
For non-WordPress sites, there are alternative types of web hosting available, so we can discuss the options – whatever your site is built with.
Why host with Toast?
We look after everything – from DNS and email to your website and the server. Should anything go wrong, you can call our team and we’ll get on it right away.
We also have our own server support staff that are responsive and (as we are a big customer) we get preferential treatment.
We’ve found that simply by moving sites to our hosting we improve the Page Speed score of that website by up to twenty points – good hosting really does make a difference.
Things to focus on for your website hosting.
Management.
If you’re a smaller business, you probably do not have a dedicated IT person, so is your time best spent dealing with hosting and ensuring everything is optimised and working perfectly? Probably not.
Speed.
It’s just got to be fast – there’s no other option regarding hosting. Slow sites rank poorly and bounce visitors, so all that hard work you put into getting the site live in the first place can be wasted by using inferior hosting.
Support.
As we host many websites, we benefit from queue-jumping if we need to contact the server techs. We also speak their language, so we deal with them if required, rather than you.
Uptime.
100% uptime is achievable, but servers need maintenance too, so most hosting companies are more realistic with 99%. Our servers monitor your site, so we’ll fix it quickly if it goes down.
Hosting should not be an afterthought.
Ever wonder why the best hosting companies don’t advertise on TV? Hosting providers like Ionos and GoDaddy invest in their marketing rather than their infrastructure.
The best hosting companies are not household names; they are seriously geeky, tech-driven companies that know they will go out of business if they don’t provide the best.
Your hosting can make or break your site, so investing more in properly managing it can pay dividends.
Who we host with.
We partner with the best hosting companies to provide the best hosting for your website.
With over 25 years of experience managing hosting, we’ve kissed many frogs, so we now only use the best for our managed hosting services.
The platforms we use to host sites all provide the following:
- Rolling 30-day backups with one-click backup and restore
- Multiple environments for testing and staging
- SSL certificates are included in the hosting fees
- Cloudflare integration
- Ultra-fast caching and optimisation
- Unparalleled technical support
- UK-based data centres or caches
For larger sites, there are lots more optimisation options, redundancy and bespoke hosting platforms.
We host many sites, from a large Housing Association with tens of thousands of monthly visitors to small personal blogs.
More than just hosting.
We also help clients manage their WordPress websites daily – we call this SiteCare.
Hosting is hosting; site management, technical support, and updates are different, so we provide a service called SiteCare to help our clients with their WordPress installation.
Charges start from £60 ex VAT per month.
WordPress hosting FAQs.
What is managed hosting?
Simply put, it’s where we look after everything for you. From migrating the site to keeping the hosting up-to-date. We do the lot, so it’s one less thing you need to be concerned with.
Do we host email?
No, we only provide website hosting and recommend to our clients that their email is best managed via another service like Google Workspace or Office 365.
Do we migrate sites?
Providing your site is WordPress, the migration to our servers is included in the cost of your hosting. There are no additional charges for migrating your site or updating your DNS.
Is an SSL certificate charged extra?
No, an SSL certificate for your site is included in your hosting package – there are no additional charges for certificates.
Do we provide different environments?
Depending on your package, you can have a production, staging and development environment for your site. The site can be pushed/pulled to each one of these environments at the click of a button.
Do we provide backups?
Yes. 30-day rolling site backups with one-click backup and restore options available.
Do we have hosting packages?
Yes, we have options for all sites, from the smallest brochure site to the largest mission-critical sites. We will suggest the best options for you based on your requirements.
Where are the servers?
We use Google Datacentres and Global Caches in London. Everything is served in the UK to reduce latency and increase speed. If your market is outside the UK, we can choose a more appropriate server location.
Can I access my own server control panel?
Depending on your hosting package, yes. You can access hosting, backups and even our hosting support chat. We keep everything open and accessible.
Isn’t it cheaper if I do this myself?
It can be, but when you take in the time and experience needed to manage hosting correctly, it doesn’t work out cheaper, especially if something goes wrong.
Doesn’t my hosting company support fix things?
Most hosting company support teams have one brief: push the issue back to the web developers. If your hosting company does this, you’ll also have to pay for your devs to fix hosting issues (that may not be their doing).
Can I have my own server but pay you to manage it?
We indeed can – we call this hybrid managed hosting. We’d have access to your server and manage it for you. If anything goes wrong, we will also liaise with your hosting support on your behalf.
