Fasthosts review
Long-standing UK host with its own Gloucester data centres
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Quick verdict
A solid UK-infrastructure option, particularly where data residency in the UK is a firm requirement.
A UK hosting and domain provider operating its own UK data centres, offering shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and cloud. Part of the GoDaddy-independent United Internet group.
Who it suits
- · UK-based sites and UK audiences
- · Small business websites
- · Sites that need their own resources
Who should look elsewhere
- · Control panel is less familiar than cPanel
- · WordPress-specific tooling is thinner than specialist hosts
- · Pricing is mid-market rather than budget
Hostoholic Score
How this rating is built
Weighted from six dimensions. Affiliate commission is not an input — there is no field for it in the calculation.
What you pay across the full term — including the renewal, not just the headline.
Channels offered, hours covered, and whether the answers are any good.
Staging, email, SSH, Git, database and security tooling included as standard.
Control panel, onboarding, migration and how much you need to already know.
Not yet assessed: Performance, Reliability. These are excluded and the remaining weights renormalised, rather than counted as zero.
What is good
- Owns and operates UK data centres
- UK phone support
- Full range from shared through to dedicated servers
- Useful where UK data residency is contractually required
What is not
- Control panel is less familiar than cPanel
- WordPress-specific tooling is thinner than specialist hosts
- Pricing is mid-market rather than budget
The detail
Features and specifications
Anything marked unknown has not been verified by an editor yet. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
Hosting and platform
- Control panel
- Custom / Plesk
- UK data centre
- Yes
- Data centre regions
- Gloucester, United Kingdom
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- Yes
- Free migration
- Unknown
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Unknown
- CDN included
- Unknown
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Yes
- Git
- Unknown
- WP-CLI
- Unknown
- Cron jobs
- Unknown
- PHP versions
- Unknown
- Node.js support
- Unknown
Ecommerce and security
- WooCommerce support
- Yes
- Malware protection
- Unknown
- Web application firewall
- Unknown
- DDoS protection
- Unknown
- Support channels
- phone, live chat, ticket, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
We publish a price only once an editor has checked it against the provider's own pricing page and recorded the date.
Renews at 5.75 — check the term length before committing.
| Plan | Type | Sites | Latest checked price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | shared | — | GBP 1 |
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Sources
Where this information came from
- Fasthosts hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- Fasthosts pricing page· Entry pricing · checked 17/08/2026
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