Krystal review
UK-owned hosting running on renewable energy
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Quick verdict
The pick if you want a UK company, UK servers and UK support with a real phone number — and are willing to pay a little more for it.
A long-established independent UK host with UK data centres, cPanel-based shared hosting and a strong reputation for support. Runs on renewable energy and is an employee-owned B Corp.
Who it suits
- · UK-based sites and UK audiences
- · Small business websites
- · People who want support that answers
- · Reducing hosting carbon footprint
- · WordPress sites
Who should look elsewhere
- · Costs more than the international budget hosts
- · Fewer global regions if your audience is outside the UK
- · Smaller company, so less third-party tutorial coverage
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What is good
- UK company, UK data centres, UK-based support
- Renewable energy and B Corp certification
- cPanel, so migrating away later is straightforward
- Email hosting included rather than farmed out
What is not
- Costs more than the international budget hosts
- Fewer global regions if your audience is outside the UK
- Smaller company, so less third-party tutorial coverage
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
- cPanel
- UK data centre
- Yes
- Data centre regions
- London, Manchester
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- Yes
- Free migration
- Yes
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Yes
- CDN included
- Yes
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Yes
- Git
- Yes
- WP-CLI
- Yes
- 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
- live chat, phone, ticket, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
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| Plan | Type | Sites | Latest checked price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amethyst | shared | — | GBP 7 |
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Where this information came from
- Krystal hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- Krystal pricing page· Entry pricing · checked 17/08/2026
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