Hosting that stands guard over your site day and night
Managed WAF. Imunify360 malware scanning. DDoS mitigation, free SSL, daily backups, 24/7 monitoring. The layers come with every plan and there is nothing extra to buy.
Free
SSL on every domain
Daily
Automated backups
24/7
Security monitoring
Layer 7
WAF + DDoS filtering
Defence In Depth
Six layers protecting every site
The security most hosts sell you as an extra bolt-on is already in the plan here, and it is running from day one.
Web application firewall
Every request gets read by a managed WAF, which stops SQL injection, cross-site scripting and known exploit patterns well before your code sees them.
Imunify360 malware scanning
Scanning runs without pause, quarantining infected files on its own, while virtual patching covers outdated plugins until you update them.
DDoS protection
Volumetric floods get soaked up at network level and hostile traffic filtered out, which leaves real visitors loading your pages.
Free SSL certificates
SSL is issued for every domain and renewed without you asking, which keeps traffic encrypted and stops the padlock ever lapsing.
Daily backups
Backups run daily and are held off the server, so an entire site, files and databases together, can go back to a known-good point inside minutes.
24/7 monitoring
Server health, intrusion attempts and uptime are watched by our team and by automated systems, round the clock, every day of the year.
Firewall
A WAF that stops attacks at the door
Before a request touches your code, the web application firewall has already read it. Hostile payloads and probing bots get dropped at the edge. Genuine visitors carry on through without noticing. There is no plugin for you to configure, and no rule set for you to keep current.
Blocks injection and XSS attempts
Screens out known bad bots and exploits
Rate-limits abusive traffic
Managed and tuned for you
Malware Scanning
Imunify360 catches infections early
Imunify360 keeps an eye on your files, day and night. The moment malicious code turns up, that file is isolated and flagged, which means an infection stays boxed in rather than creeping quietly through the account. Virtual patching covers outdated software in the meantime, until you can update it properly.
Continuous and on-upload scans
Automatic quarantine of bad files
Virtual patching for old plugins
Clear alerts in your dashboard
Working Together
How your defences work as one
Nothing on its own catches the lot. Here is how one layer passes work to the next, which means an attack has to get past every one of them, not just one.
1
Traffic hits DDoS filtering first
Out at the network edge, volumetric floods and plainly junk traffic are soaked up and discarded long before your server hears about them. Uptime holds.
2
The firewall inspects what's left
Whatever is left then runs through the managed WAF, where injection, cross-site scripting and exploit attempts aimed at your application are stopped dead.
3
Account isolation contains the blast radius
Your site sits in an isolated environment of its own, which means trouble on the account next door has nowhere to spill into.
4
Imunify360 scans what lands
Anything landing on disk gets scanned without a break. Malicious files quarantine themselves, and outdated software receives a virtual patch.
5
Free SSL encrypts every connection
Between a visitor and your site the traffic stays encrypted end to end, so nothing can be read or altered while it is in transit.
6
Daily backups are the safety net
Should something ever get past all that, daily backups kept off the server put an entire site back to a known-good state within minutes.
Plans
Secure hosting plans
The whole security stack comes with every tier, so choose the size that suits your site now and grow into one later.
Throttled logins and IP reputation blocking keep password-guessing bots from hammering away at your admin and mail sign-ins.
Proactive patching
As soon as a new vulnerability is disclosed, a virtual patch closes it at the firewall, ahead of whatever the vendor ships.
Account isolation
Accounts are kept apart, each in its own environment, which is why a neighbour's mess stays a neighbour's mess and never becomes yours.
Backups & Uptime
Daily backups and eyes on the wire 24/7
Even good defences want a net beneath them. Daily backups run on their own and put a whole site back inside minutes. Monitoring never stops either, so uptime and intrusion attempts are being watched every hour of every day, with real people on hand to step in when it matters.
Off-server daily backups
One-click full-site restore
Round-the-clock monitoring
Free SSL that renews itself
How It Works
Secure in three simple steps
1
Pick a secure plan
WAF, malware scanning, DDoS protection, daily backups: every tier arrives with all of it already switched on, from day one.
2
Move your site over
Aim your domain at us, or hand the move to our team, which costs nothing. Free SSL is provisioned by itself the moment you go live.
3
Relax and monitor
Clean scans and uptime show up in your dashboard, while 24/7 monitoring and automatic backups carry on quietly in the background.
Included
Every layer, on every plan
Managed web application firewall
Imunify360 malware scanning
Automatic malware quarantine
Network-level DDoS protection
Free auto-renewing SSL
Daily off-server backups
One-click restore points
Brute-force login protection
Account-level isolation
24/7 monitoring and support
FAQ
Secure hosting questions
Which attacks does the web application firewall actually stop?
Before a request gets anywhere near your site's code, the managed web application firewall has already looked at it and compared it against a set of known attack patterns that is updated constantly. SQL injection attempts, the kind that try to read or alter your database, get blocked. So do cross-site scripting payloads aimed at hijacking a visitor's session, along with remote file inclusion, directory traversal and command injection. Abusive bots are filtered out, as are credential-stuffing scripts and traffic sniffing around for well-known plugin or theme holes. The firewall being fully managed means you never write a rule or maintain one; we tune and update them as fresh threats surface. Real visitors go straight through and notice nothing at all. Bad requests die at the edge, which spares your server the load. Plenty of common attacks are therefore finished long before they can reach your application, your database or your files.
How does malware scanning work?
Imunify360 comes with every secure plan. It scans your files in the background without stopping, and it scans again the instant something is uploaded or changed. When it finds malicious code, whether that is an injected backdoor, a defaced page, a phishing kit or a spam mailer, the affected file goes into quarantine on its own, so the infection sits isolated instead of working its way across the account. Your dashboard shows a plain alert saying what turned up and where, and you can review those items or restore them if you need to. Detection is only half of it. Virtual patching covers outdated plugins and themes against known exploits until you have time to update, which closes the window attackers count on. Since the scanning is constant and proactive rather than a once-a-day sweep, most trouble is caught and contained inside minutes, leaving your site clean and your visitors safe.
Is the SSL certificate really free?
Yes, and free means free: no trial period, no first-year promotion, no upsell waiting later on. Every domain and subdomain on a secure plan gets an SSL certificate, issued automatically the moment you go live and renewed automatically before the old one runs out, for as long as the site stays with us. The padlock in your visitors' browsers never lapses, and nobody chases you for a renewal fee. What SSL does is encrypt the connection between a visitor and your server, which protects login details, contact form entries, checkout data and anything else somebody types into your pages. It is a confirmed search-ranking signal too, and it keeps browsers from labelling your pages 'Not secure'. Nothing needs installing or configuring by hand. The certificate is provisioned and maintained for you, so encryption is simply on from the first day the site is live.
How frequently do backups run, and can I restore one myself?
Backups run automatically every day, and they are stored off-server, which puts a copy of your site somewhere other than the machine it exists to protect. Files and databases both go into each backup, so what you recover is a complete working site rather than parts you then have to bolt together. Restoring is yours to do. Pick a recovery point in the dashboard and roll back the whole account, one site, or a single database: a few clicks, usually a few minutes. Think of it as an undo button for most of what goes wrong, whether that is a botched update, a bad edit, a file deleted by accident, or at the worst end a security incident. Nothing has to be remembered, since the backups take themselves. And because they live off-server, they are still there even when the live environment itself has fallen over.
Will DDoS protection slow my site down?
No. The mitigation happens out at the network edge, a long way in front of your server, and what it examines is the shape and volume of incoming traffic rather than the contents of individual page requests. Genuine visitors get waved through with no delay added to their journey. A flood of packets sent to overwhelm your site, on the other hand, is absorbed and filtered out before it comes anywhere near your hosting. Filtering capacity sits across our wider network, which is why it can swallow volumetric attacks far bigger than one server could ever stand up to. So the site keeps serving during an attack that would take an unprotected site down. None of it needs switching on or configuring. It runs on every plan, all the time, guarding your uptime whether anyone is aiming at you or not.
What does 24/7 monitoring cover?
Two things at once: automated systems and actual people, watching the platform every hour of every day. The automated half tracks server health, uptime, resource usage, disk and network behaviour, and the signatures of known intrusions, throwing an alert the instant a figure drifts outside its normal range. Our team then reads those alerts and digs into anything that looks off, straight away, instead of waiting for a customer to notice and open a ticket. Hardware faults fall under that. So do odd traffic spikes, repeated login failures and the fingerprints of a compromise, which is how problems often get handled before your visitors ever feel them. Sat alongside the firewall, the malware scanning and the daily backups, monitoring is the layer keeping watch while you sleep or work on something else. Spot something yourself and the same 24/7 support team is one message away.
Secure hosting is more than a firewall and a scanner — it's also about who is accountable when something needs fixing, how fast you can reach a real person, and whether you can switch without taking on risk. Hosting Cheap folds that trust layer into every plan alongside the technical defences, with web hosting starting from $2.42/mo and managed WordPress from $4.19/mo.
Because pricing displays automatically in your local currency and every account carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, moving to a hardened hosting environment doesn't require a leap of faith. This page covers the parts of "secure" that sit outside the firewall itself — guarantees, migration, support access, storage performance, and the company standing behind it all.
Deep Dives
The details behind the promises
Security Included at Every Price Point
The hardened baseline on this page isn't reserved for a pricier tier — it rides along on every plan, from web hosting at $2.42/mo through managed WordPress at $4.19/mo, VPS from $13.52/mo, and dedicated servers from $149.99/mo. There's no separate "protection" add-on to hunt for and no upsell required to get the same stack described elsewhere on this page.
That matters most when you're comparing options across currencies: geo-currency display shows pricing in your own currency automatically, so you can size a secure plan against your actual budget rather than converting figures by hand. Whether you start small on web hosting or scale into VPS or a dedicated server for extra isolation, the security baseline travels with the account.
A Guarantee That Removes the Risk of Switching
Testing a new hosting environment on faith is a real barrier, so every plan includes a 30-day money-back guarantee. That gives you a full month to run your actual site on real traffic and judge the hardened setup on its merits, not on marketing copy — if it isn't the right fit, you can request a refund inside that window.
Free managed migration removes the other common risk of switching: a DIY move that quietly reintroduces gaps. Our team handles the technical transfer of files, databases and settings into your new environment, so you're not the one reconfiguring a hardened setup from scratch under time pressure.
Fast Storage Means Faster Security Operations
Security tasks are, underneath, disk operations — scanning files, applying a patch, or restoring from a backup all mean reading and writing data. Running on NVMe SSD storage paired with LiteSpeed shortens how long those operations take, which shortens the window between something going wrong and it being fixed.
LiteSpeed's efficient handling of concurrent connections also keeps a site responsive while background security processes run, and helps absorb traffic spikes from bots probing a site without degrading the experience for legitimate visitors reading or buying at the same time.
Real People, and a Real Company, Behind Your Security
When you have a security question — an odd log entry, a suspicious email, a plugin update that broke something — 24/7 human support means reaching a person who can look into your specific account, not just an automated ticket queue that replies with generic articles.
That support sits behind a named, accountable operator: Hosting Cheap is run by Bohzo Ltd, a company registered in the UK. For businesses with procurement checklists or compliance requirements, knowing exactly who is contractually and legally responsible for your hosting and billing is itself part of a secure setup.
Moving to a hardened environment without the downtime
Our migration team moves your site for free — files, databases and email accounts are transferred into your new secure hosting plan and tested on a temporary URL before anything is pointed at your live domain.
Once you've confirmed the copy checks out, DNS is cut over and your domain starts serving from the hardened environment, with SSL, backups and monitoring already active by the time the first visitor arrives.
Free, done-for-you migration for web hosting, WordPress and VPS moves
Test copy verified before DNS is ever cut over
Low-downtime cutover for most standard sites
Security stack already active from the first visitor
More Reasons
Built to help you grow
No add-on security fees
Every plan from $2.42/mo includes the hardened baseline, so protecting your site never means upgrading to a pricier tier.
Local currency at checkout
Geo-currency display shows pricing in your own currency automatically, so budgeting for a hosting upgrade is straightforward wherever you are.
30-day money-back guarantee
Run secure hosting on your own real traffic for up to a month, with a refund available if it isn't the right fit.
Migration handled for you
Our team moves files, databases and settings into your new environment for free, cutting the risk a DIY move introduces gaps.
NVMe-backed recovery speed
Backups and restores run on NVMe SSD storage with LiteSpeed, so recovering from an incident takes minutes rather than hours.
A named, UK-registered operator
Hosting Cheap is operated by Bohzo Ltd (UK), giving you a clear, accountable entity behind your contract and billing.
Getting Started
How to get going
1
Compare plans in your currency
Pricing displays automatically in your local currency, from $2.42/mo web hosting up to $149.99/mo dedicated servers, so you can size a secure plan against your budget.
2
Let us migrate you for free
Our team copies your site into the new environment and tests it before your domain is cut over, so switching to a hardened setup doesn't cost you uptime.
3
Use the 30 days to be sure
Run your site on real traffic for up to 30 days, and if it isn't right, request a refund under the money-back guarantee.
Good To Know
What's covered
30-day money-back guarantee on every plan
Free managed migration for files, databases and email
24/7 human support, not just automated ticket replies
NVMe SSD storage paired with LiteSpeed for faster scans and restores
cPanel-style control panel with 1-click installers
Pricing shown automatically in your local currency
Operated by a named, UK-registered company (Bohzo Ltd)
Security included from $2.42/mo, with no separate protection tier
More FAQ
More questions, answered
Does secure hosting cost more than a standard plan?
No — the hardened stack described on this page is the baseline on every tier, not a separate add-on. Web hosting starts from $2.42/mo and managed WordPress from $4.19/mo with the same protections included, and pricing displays automatically in your local currency so you can compare like for like.
Can I try secure hosting without committing?
Yes. Every plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can run your actual site on the hardened environment and judge it on real traffic. If it isn't a fit within that window, you can request a refund.
Will switching to secure hosting cause downtime or expose my site during the move?
Our migration team moves your files, databases and email accounts for you at no charge, and tests the copy on a temporary URL before anything is switched over. DNS is only cut across once the new copy is verified, so most standard sites see a smooth, low-downtime transition instead of a gap where the site sits unprotected.
How fast can I recover if something does go wrong?
Because storage runs on NVMe SSD paired with LiteSpeed, restoring a backup or reapplying files is limited by the disk's raw read and write speed, not a slower bottleneck. Combined with daily backups, that means a bad update or an incident can typically be rolled back in minutes rather than tying up your day.
Who do I actually talk to if I have a security question?
24/7 human support is available by chat and ticket, so an odd log entry or suspicious email goes to a person who can look into it on your specific account, not an automated queue. They can help you interpret what a scan result or alert actually means for your site.
Who legally runs Hosting Cheap, and does that matter for security?
Hosting Cheap is operated by Bohzo Ltd, a company registered in the UK. For security-conscious buyers and businesses with procurement or compliance requirements, having a named, accountable legal entity behind your hosting contract and billing is part of trusting a provider with your site.