WEB HOSTING
Ultra Fast, High Availability hosting.
Web Hosting that’s designed to be super fast, with 100% uptime, packed with all the latest features including clustered SQL, SSD/NVMe storage, built-in security and load balancers. Not to mention award-winning support from a company with over 20 years experience in hosting.
Our website hosting is custom designed to be the best and fastest hosting on the planet – and we have hosting plans for every website & budget. For even faster speeds, Qfast hardware cache option for sub 200ms time-to-first-byte, delivering a better search engine ranking and experience for your visitors.
30 day money-back guarantee
30 day money-back GUARANTEE | Free website migration | 100% CARBON NEUTRAL hosting
HARDWARE CACHE
Our Qfast Turbo Boost is one of the best ways to speed up your site by over 200%. It works by pre-building optimised versions of each page
GOOGLE OPTIMISED
Sub 200ms TTFB speeds with our unique Qfast Cache means Google and other search engines will rank your pages higher
Backup & Restore
As well as automated 90-day backups, you can backup and restore your sites in our easy-to-use control panel. Backups are triple stored
Award-winning
Award winning help and support by phone, email, or chat online – from our super-friendly support experts
CLUSTERED SQL’s
Multiple SQL servers working together, optimised for speed to help your website hosting be as fast and reliable as it can be. Explore the details of our advanced high availability hosting platform
HIGH AVAILABILITY
Quadruple load balancing and firewalls to ensure 100% high availability of your website – see how our HA Hosting works
FAST SSD DISKS
The fastest SSD and NVme disks throughout mean up to 10x faster reads which means ultimate performance for your website visitors
80+ SCRIPTS
Easily deploy scripts like WordPress, Drupal, blog engines or other CMS’s with just one click
The best and fastest hosting for all site types
There’s a few ways to build your website including WordPress, Web Builder, Joomla, Drupal or hand-coded.
90 day hosting backups included
Wordpress
Over 80 one-click scripts
Free website migration
Take the hassle out of moving your existing WordPress site from your old hosting provider to WebMate with ZERO downtime and ZERO hassle. We do it all for you at no extra cost!
If you have emails you’d like to move too, we can migrate those just as easily without losing any emails or folders etc.
Easy-to-manage hosting
Our control panel for managing your websites, domains and email is a little different to other web hosts: it doesn’t require a degree in rocket science to navigate! Besides, Web Hosting doesn’t have to be complicated, so we’ve built our Control panel around you – to ensure it’s quick and easy. Or if you prefer, we can action any changes you need by phone or email – whichever’s easiest for you.
Supercharge your site by over 200% with our
Qfast TURBO BOOST
Qfast Turbo Boost cache is our unique, custom, super-powered way of ensuring your hosting is over 200% faster. It works by intelligently creating optimised static versions of your website pages and storing them in actual RAM on the Qfast load-balancers – meaning visitors don’t have to wait for WordPress to build the page for them – pages are pre-built and optimised ready and waiting to zip down your viewers in lightening fast speeds.
Sites we host, including our own, experience a massive 200-600% speed increase with Qfast Turbo Cache and produce First Byte speeds of less than 200ms consistently, and load times between 2 and 3 times quicker than without QFast. That’s an EPIC speed boost and quite possibly the fastest hosting on the planet!
Importantly, that means you can turn off those pesky, troublesome caching and accelerator plugins in WordPress too.
ULTRA-RELIABLE, fast website hosting you can count on – just £1 for first month…
We have three great value, feature-packed web hosting options to suit every type of WordPress site and budget. What’s more, web sites feature Instant activation and a 30 day money-back guarantee – together with expert help and support backed with over 20 years of hosting experience. Click to see full hosting specifications compared.
For advice on which hosting plan’s best for your new or existing website, contact us by email, phone or webchat (in the bottom corner).
WebMate LITE
£4.08 /month
when billed annually (£49 /year) or £1 for first month then £4.90 monthly
Perfect for lower traffic static or WebBuilder sites expecting less than 10,000 visits per month
WebMate PRO
£5.75 /month
when billed annually (£69 /year) or £1 for first month then £6.90 monthly
High-performance and highly resilient hosting suitable for any type of web hosting, including WordPress
WebMate PRO+
with q-fast turbo boost
£8.25 /month
when billed annually (£99 /year) or £1 for first month then £9.90 monthly
..with hardware caching for the fastest website performance and security available – recommended most for WordPress and content-rich sites
Standard Features
WebSpace
10GB
Backups
28 days snapshots, weekly
Bandwidth
UNLIMITED
MySQL Databases
None (no WordPress)
PHP Versions
5.6 to 7.3
Load Balancing and HA
Yes – Dual Redundancy
Malware + Virus Protection
Daily Deep Scan
Added Security
Basic DDoS and Firewall Protection
Everything on the Lite plan plus:
Backups
90 days snapshots
(double re-backed up offsite)
MySQL Databases
UNLIMITED
Load Balancing and HA
Yes – QUADRA
high availability cloud clustering
Caching
Opcode and PHP supported
Malware + Virus Protection
Active Defense & Daily Deep Scan
Added Security
1Tbps DDoS and Firewall Protection
WordPress Instant Install
Pre-configured for you or install later
80+ Free Script installs
Everything on the Pro plan plus:
Load Balancing and HA
Yes – QUADRA
high availability cloud clustering with full site caching on the load balancers.
Caching
Advance Qfast Turbo Boost caching engine for at least 200% acceleration.
Added Security
2Tbps DDoS and Inline Advanced Firewall with added WordPress protection and SSL hardening for ultimate website security.
Recommended for WordPress Sites or where increased Google search engine rank is important.
ULTRA-RELIABLE Web Hosting you can count on…
We have three great value, feature-packed hosting options to suit every type of website and budget. Instant activation and a 30 day money-back guarantee – together with expert help and support backed with over 20 years of hosting experience. Click to see full hosting specifications compared.
For advice on which hosting plan’s best for your new or existing website, contact us by email, phone or webchat (in the bottom corner).
WebMate LITE
£4.08 /month
when billed annually (£49 /year) or £4.90 monthly
Perfect for lower traffic static or WebBuilder sites expecting less than 10,000 visits per month
£1 for first month
- 10GB Webspace
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 28 days backup
- 2x Load Balancers
- FAST RAID HARD DRIVES
WebMate PRO
£5.75 /month
when billed annually (£69 /year) or £6.90 monthly
High-performance and highly resilient hosting suitable for any type of web hosting, including WordPress
£1 for first month
- 10GB Webspace
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 90 days backup
- 4x Load Balancers
- 1x 1GB Clustered SQL
- SSD HARD DRIVES
WebMate PRO
with QFAST TURBO BOOST
£8.25 /month
when billed annually (£99 /year) or £9.90 monthly
..with hardware caching for the fastest website performance and security available – recommended most for WordPress and content-rich sites.
£1 for first month
- 10GB Webspace
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 90 days backup
- 4x Load Balancers
- Unlimited x 1GB Clustered SQL
- SSD Hard Drives
- Hardware Cache
- Advanced Security
30 day money-back guarantee on all WebMate hosting plans. £1 for first month when billed monthly, cancel at any time, change to annual at any time. *Free domain can be a .com, .info, .net, .us, .me, .co.uk or .uk only and applies to domains transferred to us too in the form of a 1 year extension. All prices exclude VAT in the EU at 20%. US and rest of world, prices inclusive of all applicable taxes. Our “fastest webhosting” claim is based on our own thorough tests using exact copies of our own website hosted and optimised as high as possible on a range of other popular hosting companies best shared hosting plans with comparable features – our hosting consistently scored highest in each of the key tests (results available). Annual Plan pricing payable in advance and shown as monthly equivalent. Full T&Cs
FAQs – website hosting questions answered
Where are the servers located?
We manage our own network from our Telehouse London datacentre racks – the most secure and interconnected datacenter in the UK and one of the premium interchanges in Europe (home of LINX). We peer with all the major ISP’s in the UK and worldwide via our dedicated 10GB connections from providers like Cogent via 4 diverse feeds and dual power.
What servers do you use?
We use the very latest and fastest servers, routers and storage engines, each with high-availability built-in by design. Typically they are dual-processor, 24-40core XEON 2.6Ghz with 128GB of RAM and SSD system disks and quad 1Gbps network and dual 10Gbps fibre. The hosting system comprises over 16 servers per cluster – find more information on our Quadra platform here.
Can I try your hosting before I buy?
Sure, our 30 day money back guarantee is no-quibble but you’ll need to pay by card or Paypal. Most importantly, the reason is to avoid abuse by scammers who take advantage of free hosting periods and jeopardise the performance and reputation of our system, But, if you’re not happy for any reason, we’ll refund within 24 hours without question.
Can i host multiple websites?
Each package is for one website. It’s very high performance hosting – not the cPanel shared hosting systems you see elsewhere. If you need to host multiple websites on a budget, see our cPanel Hosting or contact us for partner discounts (5 sites or more)
Do I get root, SSH or cron access?
No. Because of the high availability of this level of hosting, we have to protect the stability and security of the shared servers. If you need this kind of access, you’ll need a VPS, which we can help with.
What payment methods do you accept?
You can pay by all major credit cards (including American Express) or Paypal. If you need to pay on account by bank transfer on account or cheque, let us know and we’ll set you up quickly.
How do you guarantee 100% uptime, everyone else just offer 99.9% max?
Our Quadra platform is designed to be extremely reliable and capable of 75% system outages before failing – and we have a backup in place that automatically switches if that fails. It means we can perform almost all maintenance and upgrades without downtime too. Other ISP’s 99.9% uptime guarantee usually exclude “scheduled maintenance”. After all, a well-maintained server should be updated and rebooted at least twice a month. We update and maintain servers several times a week sometimes, without any downtime!
What platform does your control panel use, Plesk or cPanel?
Neither. Both of those add too much lag to websites and hinder high-availability (in fact it’s not really possible with cPanel or Plesk properly). You get our own in-house designed control panel when you need to, but in reality, our hosting is fully managed, so if you need anything special with the configs, changes, restores or backups – just drop us a line and we’ll sort it for you!
Do you have a list of customer sites you host?
We do, we guard it with our lives! Security or data protection is very important to us so we’ll never share our customers information. This website is hosted on our WebMate Pro servers (and is quite a heavy WordPress Theme). We host sites for everyone from large multi-nationals, governments, police forces, well-known ecommerce giants as well as corner shops, cupcake makers, builders and independent consultants all over the World.
Do I need a CDN (Content Delivery Network)?
If your visitors are mainly in the UK or USA, a CDN may actually make your site slower as our servers are so fast. However, if your site is worldwide, then a CDN will help by keeping the images and cached content of your site local to the visitor better. Our links to the rest of the world are fast, but servers in the same country as the visitor will usually be much faster. We provide cost-effective CDN addons for all sites from Sitelock where necessary.
Do I need an SSL?
Nowadays, Yes. browsers and search engines can punish your site if it’s not secure – even if there’s no personal data being used. Customers are more comfortable browsing a site with a green padlock too. We can provide reputable SSL’s from just £20 / $30 /year. We don’t recommend or support LetsEncrypt certificates on our WebMate Hosting platform at present due to some issues they can present (but are supported free of charge on our cPanel hosting)
How do you claim to be the fastest website host?
It’s true, we put exact copies of our own website – a fairly plugin-heavy and high load website – onto various other popular shared hosting platforms and found that our WebMate Pro with Qfast Turbo Cache faster on all the key metrics. You can also check yourself, run a Google Pagespeed test on other ISP’s home page (we’d assume they’d use their own shared platform at least, although they often have a better dedicated system for their own site that they sell – we use our busiest server cluster for this site) We’re happy to prove it with free migration and a 30 day money-back guarantee too!
Google Reviews – 5 STAR
Based on 85+ verified reviews (4.9 average)
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I have been with WebMate since dial-up access days! Stayed with them mainly because of their excellent customer service – prompt, helpful, and knowledgeable. They even ring you back if their line is busy! What a relief not to have to deal with a far flung call centre or poorly informed staff reading from a script. Efficient service and staff very supportive, helpful and patient. Treated like a person as opposed to a number.
Jacmac
Great support as always from WebMate! I’ve used Webmate for about 8 years now and they are always superb at delivering, friendly, honest coherent support in a really timely manner! I don’t hesitate to recommend them. Thank you Pete, Charlie, Lewis and all the team!
Guy Press
Excellent Service. Webmate have always been helpful and prompt in dealing with queries and problems but they surpassed themselves with a recent issue I had. At all times they replied very quickly, sometimes in only a few minutes, and were very patient in finding a solution that was not obvious and hence took several attempts to sort out. I can’t see you getting this level of service from some of the larger ISPs.
Roger Adams
Webmate have been my preferred ISP for sometime. Consistently excellent service and superb uptimes.
They recently prepared a website for me. A superb job for the price.I cannot recommend them too highly.
Kieth Straughan
I have been with WebMate since 1998 and I cannot fault their excellent service and competitive rates for web-building and email hosting. No voice recognition frustration options when you call, but a familiar friendly voice to help you with any computer issues to hand.
Annabel Yates
Excellent service. The best Mac web provider out there. Any issues have been sorted extremely quickly and politely. Thank you. No holding on to phone lines for ever and ever. Quick response if even I’ve phoned. Tickets generated for problems sorted over night at the slowest.
Geoff Bridge
WebMate Shines. Best outfit out there… Always available, friendly, and knowledgeable; go out of their way to resolve any issues, both email and/or web support issues. Can’t say enough about these people.
Peter Streimac
A wonderful company – efficient, helpful and simply the best (my experience of 15 years impeccable service)
Stephen Frankel
I had no Broadband, so I phoned WebMate and I got the usual guy’s (based in Cornwall) to sort my problem within one day, I’ve been dealing with the same people for 20 years, that says everything! They got back to me to say that leave it with us, we’re working on it, and sure enough, it was fixed shortly afterwards. I truly believe that WebMate is the best and most honest company that I have ever dealt with, they are exceptional. Thank you all very much again.
Robert Irvine
A company that will actually talk to it’s customers. In a world where most companies seem to be set up to make it as hard as possible for you to talk to a real person, WebMate is a breath of fresh air. There are real, always helpful people just a phone call away. I have never for a moment regretted changing from the ever unhelpful BT. I don’t write reviews normally but this company deserves a bit of my time for going out of its way to be helpful to its customers rather than keeping them at arms length. I would highly recommend them.
