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THOST
About

A very small UK web hosting company with one price per plan

THOST is shared web hosting run by a very small team in the UK. We host PHP websites, MariaDB databases and email on servers in the UK, and we charge a flat price that does not rise at renewal.

Who we are

THOST is a UK web hosting business. We are a very small team, and we run the platform ourselves: the web servers, the database cluster, the mail servers and the DNS. There is no sales department and no call centre. When you email support@t-host.co.uk, the person who answers is one of the people who looks after the servers, and we reply as soon as we possibly can.

We host websites and email for UK customers: personal sites, small businesses, freelancers and agencies running sites for their clients. We do not sell or register domain names, so you keep your domain with your existing registrar and point it at us.

Why flat pricing

Much of the shared-hosting market runs on an introductory price for the first term and a much higher regular price from then on. It works commercially because a lot of customers do not check the renewal invoice. We did not want to build a business on that.

So each of our three plans has one price, and it is the same on the day you sign up and at every renewal: Starter £2.99, Business £5.99 and Pro £9.99 a month, or ten times that per year. There is no setup fee and no cancellation fee. You can pay monthly and cancel any time. We think that is the honest way to sell hosting, and it is a simpler business to run. More on how hosting pricing usually works.

What the platform is

THOST is conventional shared hosting built on well-understood open-source software, run on servers in the UK.

  • Three web servers. Customers are spread across three web servers running Apache with php-fpm, with PHP 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 selectable per site and full .htaccess support.
  • A two-node MariaDB cluster. Databases run on a two-node cluster with automatic failover, separate from the web servers.
  • Separate mail and DNS servers. Email (with Roundcube webmail, rspamd spam filtering, ClamAV virus scanning and DKIM signing) and DNS (ns1 and ns2.t-host.co.uk) each run on their own servers.
  • One place to manage everything. You manage websites, databases, mailboxes, FTP users, PHP versions, cron jobs, backups, SSL certificates and DNS in My services, signed in with your billing email and password, alongside any VPS, Storage Box or game server. The ISPConfig control panel at my.t-host.co.uk is still available as a classic control panel for advanced settings.
  • Free SSL. Let's Encrypt certificates are issued and renewed automatically for every site, with an optional HTTPS redirect.
  • Backups. Every website and its databases are backed up daily and the last 3 copies kept, restorable from the panel. Whole-server backups run nightly as well.
  • FTP over TLS. File access is by FTPS (explicit TLS). Each plan includes a number of FTP accounts.
  • Statistics and logs. Each site has AWStats visitor statistics, and access logs record real visitor IP addresses.
  • Billing. Your account, invoices and support tickets live at billing.t-host.co.uk. Payment is by card through Stripe.

VPS, backup space and game servers

Alongside web hosting we run three cloud products on the same flat-price rule: Linux VPS servers with root access from £3.99 a month, Storage Box backup space over SFTP, rsync, borg and restic from £2.49, and game servers with a full control panel from £3.99. All of it runs on our own hardware in the UK.

What we are not

We are not trying to be everything to everyone. THOST is for PHP websites, particularly WordPress, and email, plus the VPS, backup and game-server products above. We do not offer domain registration, phone or live-chat support, or anything outside the platform described here. We would rather be clear about that than promise things we cannot deliver.

Get in touch

Questions about the platform, the plans or whether we are a good fit? Email support@t-host.co.uk or see the contact page. If you are ready to try it, pick a plan: you can pay monthly and cancel at any time.