Best hosting for small business
For a business site the priorities shift. Raw speed matters less than the site being up, the backups being restorable, and there being someone to call when it is not.
How this shortlist is built
- Reliable backups with a sensible retention period
- Support reachable quickly, ideally by phone
- Email hosting available on the same account
- Room to grow without a migration
Providers qualify by meeting the criteria, then sort by Hostoholic Score. Commission is not an input — see the methodology.
Ratings in progress: 5 of these 5 providers have full capability data but no numeric score yet, so ordering within the list is provisional. We would rather say that than publish a number we have not earned.
Some links here are affiliate links — if you buy through one we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes a Hostoholic Score.
Managed-feeling shared hosting with strong WordPress tooling
UK-owned hosting running on renewable energy
Long-standing UK host with its own Gloucester data centres
Large European host with aggressive entry pricing
Independent US host with a strong privacy stance
Side by side
At a glance
| Provider | Score | UK | Staging | SSH | Panel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SiteGround | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Site Tools (custom) |
| Krystal | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | cPanel |
| Fasthosts | — | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Custom / Plesk |
| IONOS | — | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Custom / Plesk |
| DreamHost | — | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | DreamHost Panel (custom) |
Before you choose
Worth knowing
Backups are the thing people skip
Check retention, and check whether you can restore yourself without raising a ticket. A backup you cannot restore at 9pm on a Friday is not a backup.
Still weighing it up?
Five questions and you get a shortlist matched to your situation.