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
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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
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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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