Website Hosting

Fast, High Availability & Reliable UK Web Hosting.

Website Hosting engineered to be the very best solution for any website, small or large: super fast, ultra-reliable and supremely secure – with 100% uptime. Packed with the latest features including: clustered SQLs, fast NVMe storage, a self-healing 40Gbps network, built-in QuadraShield WAF security and ultra-fast load balancers. Not to mention award-winning support from a company with over 25 years experience in UK web hosting services.

WebMate do web hosting a little differently to other ISP’s: rather than cramming thousands of websites on a shared server, ours is a fully managed hosting service utilising the latest servers, storage and RAM-based Qfast Turbo Cache option for sub 200ms time-to-first-byte – delivering a better search engine ranking and experience for your visitors. Above all, our team of experts are always available to help and advise wherever needed. What’s more, our hosting is great value for any size business with hosting plans starting from just £49 per annum.

WEB HOSTING

Ultra High Availability,
Super-fast Web Hosting.

The very best hosting solutions: NVme storage, SQL clusters, RAM-based caching, self-healing servers, load balancing and security built-in, complete with award-winning support.

ULTRA-RELIABLE | FASTEST HOSTING PERFORMANCE | AWARD WINNING HELP & SUPPORT

Qfast Turbo Cache

This custom caching engine speeds up your site by over 200% by pre-building optimised versions of each page and delivering it direct from RAM on the edge of our ultra-fast, network. This ensures TTFB of <100ms - ensuring your site loads at lightning fast speeds - a huge boost for your Google rank.

Free SSL Certificate

Every Pro hosting site comes with a free 256bit encrypted SSL certificate for rock-solid security and trust for your visitors. As an added security layer, our system also automatically renews this every 90 days to help prevent phishing and site hijacking.

90 day backups

As well as automated 90-day backups, 4 hour SQL backups and daily snapshots, you can backup & restore your sites using our easy-to-use control panel in just one click. All replicated both locally in our primary network and to our secondary secure network.

Award-winning

Award-winning help and support by phone, email, or chat online – from our super-friendly support experts. Our web hosting has also won and is a regular finalist of the coveted “Best Web Hosting” award from ISPA – the UK’s Internet Service Providers Association.

Clustered SQL

Multiple SQL servers working together, optimised for speed to help your website hosting be as fast and reliable as it can be. Read more: advanced high availability hosting platform

Ultra High Availability

We employ four load balancers for High Availability, faster speeds and increased security of your website. These distribute visitors more efficiently to backend web servers and reduce maintenance downtime – see how our HA Web Hosting works

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Fast NVMe SSD’s

We use the fastest all-NVMe SSD storage throughout for speeds of up to 40Gbps & 90k IOPS/sec to ensure maximum speeds for your web hosting, with 40Gbps networking.

QuadraShield WAF

Every website is protected by a unique 4-level protection system we call QuadraShield, combining a sophisticated WAF (Web Application Firewall), regular deep virus and malware scanning and active protection with human monitoring.

Feature-packed, insanely fast Website Hosting

  • 90-days of automatic website backups included

    HA website host backupOur hosting platform creates daily, weekly and monthly backups of your website automatically – stored securely on multiple drives locally and remotely. You can never have too many backups!

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    SecureEnhanced Security Built-in as standard

    Your website is fully protected with our enterprise-grade 4-level protection against malicious activity, viruses and malware – with 24/7/365 expert monitoring. The WAF (Web Application Firewall) inspects and protects all traffic and is updated hourly with over 1000 malware and attack vector signatures. In addition to this, we have active malware scanning, deep malware scanning as well as DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection.

  • Over 80 one-click install scripts

     

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    WordPress? Web Builder? Drupal? Joomla? Have your favourite CMS or script pre-installed ready for you or add multiple scripts at any time – with just one click.

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    qfast speed up your websiteMake your website even faster – with QFAST

    QFAST is a custom, high-performance load balancer which store optimised versions of your pages in RAM right on the edge of our network – so it can be delivered to your visitors at over twice the speed! That means you can turn off those clunky caching plugins!

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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.

easy to manage website hosting control panel

Easy-to-manage control panel

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.

Self-healing, cloud hosting platform

Our Quadra Platform makes 100% uptime HA hosting a reality

Engineered over 20 years, our Quadra hosting platform is meticulously designed to be ultra-fast, robustly secure and to provide 100% uptime – even during maintenance. With multiple tier-1 internet feeds, QuadraShield WAF, Active Monitoring, Clustered SQL Servers, NVMe storage and backup engines and more…

Ultra-Reliable, fast website hosting you can count on

 – from just £49 per year –

We have three great value, feature-packed web hosting options to suit every type of website 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 25 years of hosting experience.

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AnnuallySAVE 17%
  • Hosting

  • Main Spec
  • Recommended use
  • Webspace
  • Bandwidth
  • MYSQL Databases
  • PHP versions
  • Security
  • QuadraShield WAF
  • Malware / Virus Protection
  • Hack Repair Assistance
  • DDoS Protection
  • Performance
  • Qfast RAM cache
  • Memcache and Opcode Cache
  • Load Balancing / High Availability
  • Clustered SQL
  • Backups
  • Backup Frequency
  • Backup retention
  • One-click backup/restore
  • Extras
  • Pre-Installed Scripts
  • 30 day money back guarantee
  • Easy to use control Panel
  • FREE 360° Monitoring
  • FREE Migration Assistance
  • CDN and Managed WordPress Options
  • LITE
  • WebMate Lite

  • £ 4 .90 /month
    £ 49 /year
    plus VAT

  • Main Spec
  • Recommended use
    Hobby / Non-commercial static Sites
  • Webspace
    10 GB
  • Bandwidth
    UNLIMITED
  • MYSQL Databases
    none
  • PHP versions
    5.6 - 8.1
  • Security
  • QuadraShield WAF
  • Malware / Virus Protection
  • Hack Repair Assistance
  • DDoS Protection
  • Performance
  • Qfast RAM cache
  • Memcache and Opcode Cache
  • Load Balancing / High Availability
  • Clustered SQL
  • Backups
  • Backup Frequency
    Weekly
  • Backup retention
    30 days
  • One-click backup/restore
  • Extras
  • Pre-Installed Scripts
    WebBuilder only
  • 30 day money back guarantee
  • Easy to use control Panel
  • FREE 360° Monitoring
  • FREE Migration Assistance
  • CDN and Managed WordPress Options
  • GOOD
  • WebMate PRO

  • £ 7 .90 /month
    £ 79 /year
    plus VAT

  • Main Spec
  • Recommended use
    General Business Sites
  • Webspace
    100 GB
  • Bandwidth
    UNLIMITED
  • MYSQL Databases
    1
  • PHP versions
    5.6 - 8.1
  • Security
  • QuadraShield WAF
  • Malware / Virus Protection
  • Hack Repair Assistance
  • DDoS Protection
  • Performance
  • Qfast RAM cache
  • Memcache and Opcode Cache
  • Load Balancing / High Availability
  • Clustered SQL
  • Backups
  • Backup Frequency
    Daily
  • Backup retention
    90 days
  • One-click backup/restore
  • Extras
  • Pre-Installed Scripts
    80+
  • 30 day money back guarantee
  • Easy to use control Panel
  • FREE 360° Monitoring
  • FREE Migration Assistance
  • CDN and Managed WordPress Options
  • BEST
  • WebMatePRO Qfast

  • £ 10 .90 /month
    £ 109 /year
    plus VAT

  • Main Spec
  • Recommended use
    WordPress and sites requiring better search engine rank
  • Webspace
    100 GB
  • Bandwidth
    UNLIMITED
  • MYSQL Databases
    5
  • PHP versions
    5.6 - 8.1
  • Security
  • QuadraShield WAF
  • Malware / Virus Protection
  • Hack Repair Assistance
  • DDoS Protection
  • Performance
  • Qfast RAM cache
  • Memcache and Opcode Cache
  • Load Balancing / High Availability
  • Clustered SQL
  • Backups
  • Backup Frequency
    Daily
  • Backup retention
    90 days
  • One-click backup/restore
  • Extras
  • Pre-Installed Scripts
    80+
  • 30 day money back guarantee
  • Easy to use control Panel
  • FREE 360° Monitoring
  • FREE Migration Assistance
  • CDN and Managed WordPress Options

For advice on which hosting plan’s best for your new or existing website, contact us by email, phone or webchat (in the bottom right corner).

30 day money-back guarantee on all WebMate hosting plans. All prices exclude VAT in the EU at 20%. US and rest of world, prices inclusive of all applicable taxes. 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, 24-64 core XEON Silver 2.6Ghz with 256GB of RAM and NVMe disks. These feature multiple 10-40Gbps networking interfaces to local storage and multiple self-healing 1-10Gbps internet feeds. 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), Apple Pay or Paypal. If you need to pay on account by bank transfer or cheque, let us know and we’ll set you up quickly. Once your first monthly or annual payment is made, you can switch to easy Direct Debits (UK only).

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 can provide cost-effective CDN addons at checkout from just £7.50 per month.

What SSL certificate does the web hosting come with?

Pro and Pro with Qfast websites come with a 256-bit encrypted domain validated certificate as standard, which auto-renews every 90 days for added security. OV (Organisation Validated) and EV (Enhanced Validation) are also available and are recommended for ecommerce sites where additional trust is required. EV SSL certificates turn the address bar green in most browsers and OV provide additional manual validation of your company for added trust with customers.

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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Based on 145+ reviews, average score 4.8. View all Trustpilot reviews here.

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
13 Aug 2020

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
Designer - 5 Aug 2020

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
GB - 19 July 2020

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
US - 17 July 2020

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
Cornwall- 4 July 2020

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
UK - 13 June 2020

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
USA - 30 April 2020

A wonderful company – efficient, helpful and simply the best (my experience of 15 years impeccable service)

Stephen Frankel
UK - 6 April 2020

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
Scotland - 14 Feb 2020

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.

 

Chis Morley
UK - 13 Sep 2019

The best & fastest high availability web hosting in the UK and beyond!

85% of Support Tickets answered within 1 hour
WebMate is different to other ISP's

  • Multi-Award Winning service and support for over 25 years
  • No salespeople - so no hard sell or overselling - just good, honest advice
  • We own & manage our own state-of-the-art network and servers
  • Money-Back guarantee wherever possible to ensure you get the right service
  • Speak to friendly experts by phone or email without the jargon, anytime
  • No long contract tie-ins wherever possible, keeping things simple and fair.
23.5 seconds average call wait time
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Typically 50-200ms Time to First Byte (TTFB) for Web Hosting
86% of customers choose to stay for over 10 years
9.9 / 10 average customer support ticket rating
99.99% Hosting and Email uptime
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