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
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
- 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
We publish a price only once an editor has checked it against the provider's own pricing page and recorded the date.
| Plan | Type | Sites | Latest checked price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amethyst | shared | — | GBP 7 |
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Sources
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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