Shared hosting is not bad hosting. It is a different product, and plenty of sites belong on it. The question is which problems you want to be yours.
Shared hosting gives you space on a server with many other sites and a control panel to manage it. Updates, security, backups, performance and anything that breaks are yours. It is cheap because the work is yours.
Managed hosting means somebody else holds that work. The useful question is not which is better — it is who is going to do the updating and the checking, because somebody has to. If you genuinely will, shared hosting is excellent value and we will say so.
The third option, a dedicated VPS, is about resources rather than responsibility: your site not competing with anybody else for memory and processor. That matters for busier and more complex sites and is wasted money for a quiet brochure site.
What we do
Working UK-wide — directly with businesses, and white label behind design and marketing agencies.
Discuss a projectShared: you. Managed: us, and then checked by a person. This is the difference that matters most in practice.
On shared hosting another busy site can slow yours. On a dedicated VPS the resources are yours and nobody else can consume them.
Shared hosts usually offer some. Whether they are off-site, how long they are kept and whether a restore has been tested are the questions worth asking.
Shared support will restart services and confirm the server is fine. If the problem is in the website, that is where their scope ends.
Caching and tuning on shared hosting is whatever plugins you install. Managed means it is configured at server level.
Shared from a few pounds a month. Managed from around £120 including development time. The gap is labour.
Five pages and a contact form, no shop, no logins. Shared hosting plus a bit of attention is perfectly sufficient.
If updates and backups will genuinely be done in-house, you are paying us for work you already cover.
If a week offline would be an annoyance rather than a cost, the cheaper option is the rational one.
A lot of our work is delivered white label or under agreement, so these describe the problem and the approach rather than naming the client.
Ten brand websites across one instruments group. Several we built, the rest we inherited — and all ten are hosted, maintained and supported by the same team.
Ecommerce · BookingsCourse booking and online payment for the training arm of a charity that runs a regional ambulance service.
Including when that is the cheapest one, or your current host with a bit of attention. We would rather be right than sell you the bigger plan.