Managed WordPress hosting with AccelerateWP and Redis caching, one-click staging and hardening, WordPress Toolkit Deluxe, and a free domain, SSL and migration.
$4.19
Launch, per month
Free
Domain, SSL & migration
1-click
Staging & hardening
24/7
WordPress support
Plans
Managed WordPress plans
From a single blog to a portfolio of up to 100 sites — caching, staging and hardening come standard on every tier.
Most WordPress sites are slow because they rebuild the same pages and re-run the same queries for every visitor. We fix both. AccelerateWP serves cached pages and streamlined assets, while Redis holds hot database results in memory — so your site stays quick whether one person or a thousand show up at once.
Full-page and object caching on by default
Automatic CSS, JS and image optimisation
Redis keeps database queries in memory
NVMe-class storage under every site
Performance
Speed up your WordPress site
Our stack does the heavy lifting, but a few habits squeeze out every last millisecond. Work down this checklist and your pages will fly.
1
Keep full-page caching on
AccelerateWP full-page caching is on by default — leave it enabled so repeat visitors are served ready-made HTML instead of a freshly rebuilt page.
2
Enable Redis object caching
Switch on Redis in the WordPress Toolkit so WordPress reuses database query results from memory — the biggest win for carts, search and logged-in pages.
3
Pick a lightweight theme
A lean, block-based theme ships far less CSS and JavaScript than a page-builder-heavy one, cutting render time before caching even comes into play.
4
Optimise and lazy-load images
Upload appropriately sized images and let AccelerateWP compress and lazy-load them, since images are usually the heaviest part of a WordPress page.
5
Prune and update plugins
Keep only the plugins you actually use and let smart updates patch them — every extra plugin adds queries, scripts and attack surface.
6
Stay on modern PHP
Run PHP 8.x from the cPanel selector; recent PHP versions execute WordPress noticeably faster than the 7.x builds many sites still run on.
The AccelerateWP suite handles page caching, CSS/JS optimisation and image delivery automatically — no plugin juggling required.
Redis object caching
Redis keeps repeated database queries in memory, so dashboards, carts and dynamic pages stay quick even under real traffic.
One-click staging
Clone your live site, test a theme or update safely, then push changes back to production when you're happy.
WordPress Toolkit Deluxe
Install, clone, update and secure every site from one panel, with smart updates that check for issues before they go live.
Hardened by default
One-click security hardening locks down file permissions, XML-RPC and login endpoints, backed by malware scanning.
Free domain & SSL
Your first-year domain, automatic SSL certificates and daily backups are all included — no add-ons at checkout.
Control
Staging and WordPress Toolkit Deluxe
Never test on a live site again. Clone production to a staging copy, try updates, themes or new plugins there, then push the result back with a click. WordPress Toolkit Deluxe keeps every site organised in one place, with smart updates that flag problems before they reach your visitors.
One-click staging clones of any site
Push changes live when you're ready
Install, clone and manage from one panel
Smart updates that check before they run
Compare
Compare WordPress plans
Move up a tier in a couple of clicks as your traffic grows.
Managed WordPress plan comparison
Feature
Launch WordPress
Pro WordPress
Elite WordPress
SSD storage
10 GB
20 GB
200 GB
WordPress sites
1
25
100
CPU / RAM
1 core / 2 GB
2 cores / 4 GB
3 cores / 6 GB
Monthly visits
100k
400k
1M
AccelerateWP + Redis
Staging sites
WordPress Toolkit Deluxe
Free domain, SSL & backups
Security
Hardened, backed up, watched around the clock
Security should not be a plugin you forget to configure. One-click hardening tightens file permissions and shuts down common attack points like XML-RPC and brute-force logins, while malware scanning keeps watch. Free SSL and daily backups mean your site is encrypted and recoverable from day one.
One-click security hardening
Malware scanning on every site
Free auto-renewing SSL certificates
Daily automatic backups you can restore
Great For
Built for the way you use WordPress
Bloggers & creators
Publish fast, load fast. Caching and NVMe-class storage keep content sites snappy without any tuning on your part.
Agencies & freelancers
Spin up staging copies for every client, hand off polished sites, and manage them all from the WordPress Toolkit.
Developers
WP-CLI and SSH access, plus staging environments, let you build and deploy the way you already work.
How It Works
Live in three simple steps
1
Choose your WordPress plan
Pick Launch for one site or Pro and Elite for up to 100 sites — every tier ships with caching, staging and hardening.
2
Install or migrate
Launch a fresh WordPress site in one click, or let our team migrate your existing site free of charge, usually within 24 hours.
3
Build with confidence
Test changes on staging, ship them live, and let AccelerateWP and Redis keep everything fast while we watch security 24/7.
Included
On every WordPress plan
AccelerateWP performance suite
Redis object caching
Up to 10 staging sites
WordPress Toolkit Deluxe
1-click security hardening
Smart automatic updates
WP-CLI and SSH access
Free domain for the first year
Free auto-renewing SSL
Free managed migration
Daily automatic backups
24/7 human WordPress support
Already have a WordPress site? We'll move it free.
Our team migrates your files, database, themes and plugins with zero downtime — usually within 24 hours of your request.
Managed WordPress at a shared-hosting price — and no renewal shock in year two. Entry price vs true renewal price, side by side.
Feature comparison between HostingCheap and other hosts
Feature
HostingCheapWinner
GoDaddy
Bluehost
SiteGround
Entry price / mo*
$2.42/mo
$5.99
$4.99
$2.99
Renewal price / mo
$2.42/mo
$11.99
$11.99
$17.99
Entry plan renews at same price
Best price without a 3-year term
Daily backups on entry plan
Free SSL on all plans
Free site migration
24/7 human support
*Our lowest-priced plan, billed annually and renewing at the same rate. Competitor prices are their cheapest shared plan as published August 2026 — GoDaddy's and Bluehost's lowest rates require multi-year terms, and all three renew higher. Check their sites for current offers.
FAQ
WordPress hosting questions
Is this managed WordPress hosting?
Yes, fully managed. We handle the parts of WordPress that usually eat your time: server updates, AccelerateWP page caching, Redis object caching, free auto-renewing SSL and daily automatic backups all run in the background. The WordPress Toolkit Deluxe manages core, theme and plugin updates, with smart updates that test on a copy before touching your live site. Starting a new project is a one-click install from cPanel — no manual database setup or config editing. If something needs a human, our 24/7 support team knows WordPress specifically, not just generic hosting. You keep full control too: WP-CLI, SSH and the standard WordPress dashboard are all yours. In short, you focus on content, design and customers, and we keep the platform fast, patched and healthy underneath you, backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
How do AccelerateWP and Redis speed up my site?
Most WordPress pages are slow because the server rebuilds them from scratch and re-runs the same database queries for every visitor. Our stack removes that repeated work. AccelerateWP generates full-page caches and automatically minifies and combines your CSS and JavaScript, then optimises and lazy-loads images, so browsers download less on each visit. Redis object caching keeps frequently requested database results in memory, which is exactly what dynamic pages like a WooCommerce cart, a logged-in dashboard or a busy blog archive need. Underneath, pure NVMe SSD storage, modern PHP 8.x and HTTP/2 shorten the time to first byte even before caching kicks in. The result is pages that stay fast whether one reader or a thousand arrive at once, stronger Core Web Vitals, and headroom to handle traffic spikes without you touching a single performance plugin.
Can I test changes before they go live?
Yes, and you should. From the WordPress Toolkit you can create a one-click staging clone of your live site — a full copy of its files, database, themes and plugins on a private URL that search engines and visitors never see. Use it to trial a major core update, a new theme, a redesign or an unfamiliar plugin without any risk to the site your customers are using. When you are happy with the result, push the staging changes back to production in a click; if you are not, simply delete the copy and nothing on your live site ever changed. Every plan includes staging for up to 10 sites, so agencies and freelancers can keep a sandbox for each client site. Combined with smart updates, which run a visual check before applying anything, staging turns risky WordPress maintenance into a routine, reversible step.
How is my WordPress site kept secure?
Security is built in, not left to a plugin you might forget to configure. One-click hardening from the WordPress Toolkit tightens file and folder permissions and shuts down the endpoints attackers probe most — XML-RPC, the login page and directory listings — while every site is scanned for malware. A web application firewall filters malicious requests before they reach WordPress, and network-level DDoS protection absorbs volumetric attacks upstream. Smart automatic updates keep core, themes and plugins patched, closing the known vulnerabilities that most WordPress hacks actually rely on. Free auto-renewing SSL encrypts every connection, and daily automatic backups mean that even in a worst case you can roll the whole site back to a clean point in minutes. It is the layered approach a serious site needs, running quietly so you rarely have to think about it.
Do I really get a free domain and SSL?
Yes, with no asterisks. Annual plans include a free domain registration for the first year, so you can launch a brand-new WordPress site without buying a name separately. Free SSL certificates are issued automatically and, importantly, renew themselves for as long as you host with us — there is no first-year-only trick and no surprise charge when the certificate expires, which is a common catch elsewhere. Your site serves over HTTPS from the moment it goes live, which WordPress, browsers and Google all now expect. Professional email on your own domain is available too, so you can send from you@yourdomain rather than a generic address. Daily backups, AccelerateWP and Redis caching, staging and security hardening are likewise included in the plan price rather than sold as add-ons at checkout — the figure you see is genuinely what your WordPress site costs.
Can you move my existing WordPress site here?
Yes, and our team does the work for you at no charge. After you sign up, open a migration ticket with your current login details and we transfer the whole site — WordPress core, files, database, themes, plugins, uploads and settings — exactly as it is now. We stage the copy and test it on our servers first, so we can confirm pages, forms and any WooCommerce store load correctly before anything changes for your visitors. Only then do we help you point your domain across, which keeps downtime effectively at zero; most migrations finish within about 24 hours of your request. Once you are here you inherit the full platform automatically: AccelerateWP and Redis caching, one-click staging, security hardening and daily backups all apply to the migrated site. If you would rather move it yourself, one-click Softaculous tools and full SSH access are there too.
A single WordPress blog and a portfolio of twenty client sites need very different things from a host. As soon as you're juggling more than one install, the questions shift from "is it fast?" to "can I manage this without losing an afternoon?" — one dashboard for every domain, a control panel you don't have to relearn, predictable renewal pricing, and a clear path upward when one of those sites suddenly takes off. Our shared web hosting starts at $2.42/mo for simpler sites, managed WordPress plans begin at $4.19/mo once you want staging and hardening built in, and VPS from $13.52/mo or dedicated servers from $149.99/mo are there the day a single site outgrows shared resources.
None of that matters if the company behind it isn't accountable. Hosting Cheap is operated by Bohzo Ltd, a UK-registered company, with 24/7 human support if a migration, restore or DNS change needs a real person rather than a ticket queue. Pricing displays automatically in your local currency wherever you're signing up from, every plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee so testing the platform costs nothing, and the same NVMe SSD and LiteSpeed foundation that speeds up a single blog scales cleanly to dozens of managed WordPress installs.
Deep Dives
The details behind the promises
One account, every client site
Freelancers and agencies rarely manage just one WordPress install — they manage a portfolio. Every plan lets you run multiple sites from a single login, with the WordPress Toolkit listing each install, its PHP version, plugin count and last backup on one screen instead of forcing you to log into ten separate dashboards to check the same thing. Cloning, updating and hardening happen per-site, so a risky update on one client's install never touches another's.
As that portfolio grows past what a shared plan comfortably holds, the account structure moves with you rather than forcing a rebuild: the same cPanel-style panel, the same WordPress Toolkit workflow and the same support team carry over onto a VPS or reseller account, so the way you work doesn't change even when the infrastructure underneath does.
The stack running underneath AccelerateWP
AccelerateWP and Redis get most of the credit for speed, but they sit on top of a specific server stack: NVMe SSD storage for fast disk reads and writes, and LiteSpeed as the web server handling every request instead of a slower, older alternative. That pairing is what lets caching actually deliver a fast time-to-first-byte rather than just a fast second visit.
Day-to-day site management runs through a cPanel-style panel most WordPress users and developers already recognise — a file manager for direct edits, a PHP version selector so you can move an older site onto PHP 8.x without a support ticket, cron job scheduling for anything WordPress needs to run on a timer, and phpMyAdmin-style database access when a plugin needs a direct query. Nothing about it is a proprietary interface you have to learn from scratch.
Backups, restore points and peace of mind
Daily automatic backups run in the background on every WordPress plan, covering files, the database, themes and plugins together so a restore brings back a complete, working site rather than a partial one you have to patch together. That matters most after a bad plugin update or a hosting mistake made by someone other than us — you're not stuck waiting on a support queue to find out if a restore is even possible.
If the platform itself isn't the right fit, the 30-day money-back guarantee covers that too. There's no requirement to justify the cancellation or prove a fault — it's a genuine trial window, which is a meaningfully lower-risk way to test managed WordPress hosting than committing to a full annual term upfront and hoping it works out.
When a single WordPress site outgrows shared hosting
Shared WordPress hosting comfortably handles the traffic and transaction volume most sites see, but a launch, a viral post or a WooCommerce store hitting real sales volume changes the equation. The signs are usually visible before a crash: slower admin screens even with caching on, checkout timeouts during a promotion, or a WordPress Toolkit dashboard warning that a site is regularly near its resource ceiling.
VPS hosting from $13.52/mo hands that site guaranteed CPU and RAM with root access, still running WordPress on the same NVMe and LiteSpeed foundation, while a dedicated server from $149.99/mo is there for the rare case where an entire physical machine is the right call — a high-traffic membership site, a large multi-vendor store, or an agency consolidating dozens of client installs onto infrastructure they don't have to share with anyone else.
Domains, DNS and business email for your WordPress site
A WordPress site rarely exists in isolation from its domain and email — registering the name, pointing DNS correctly and getting a professional inbox set up are usually the first three things a new site needs, and all three live in the same account as the hosting itself.
Free auto-renewing SSL covers the domain automatically once DNS is pointed our way, so there's no separate certificate to install or renew manually, and no gap where the site briefly serves over an insecure connection during setup.
Register or transfer domains from the same dashboard
DNS management alongside your WordPress hosting
Professional email addresses on your own domain
Free auto-renewing SSL applied automatically
More Reasons
Built to help you grow
LiteSpeed web server
Every WordPress site is served by LiteSpeed rather than a slower, older web server, which is a big part of why caching delivers such a fast time-to-first-byte.
cPanel-style control panel
A file manager, PHP version selector, cron jobs and database access in one familiar interface — nothing proprietary to relearn.
Switchable PHP versions
Move a site between PHP 8.x versions from the panel in seconds, without opening a support ticket or editing server config.
Reseller-ready account structure
Agencies managing several client WordPress sites can move onto a reseller account without changing their day-to-day workflow.
Geo-currency pricing
Checkout displays pricing in your local currency automatically, so international customers see accurate costs before they buy.
30-day money-back guarantee
Every WordPress plan can be refunded within 30 days, no justification required, so testing the platform is genuinely risk-free.
Getting Started
How to get going
1
Start on shared WordPress hosting
Launch on a shared plan from $4.19/mo — AccelerateWP, Redis and staging handle typical traffic without any manual tuning.
2
Watch for resource ceiling warnings
The WordPress Toolkit dashboard flags a site nearing its shared resource limits well before visitors notice any slowdown.
3
Move to VPS or dedicated when needed
Upgrade to VPS from $13.52/mo for guaranteed resources, or a dedicated server from $149.99/mo for a full machine at real scale.
Good To Know
What's covered
cPanel-style panel with file manager and cron jobs
PHP version selector for every WordPress install
Professional business email on your own domain
Domain registration and DNS management in one dashboard
Reseller-friendly structure for agencies with several sites
Geo-currency pricing shown automatically at checkout
30-day money-back guarantee on every plan
NVMe SSD and LiteSpeed under every managed WordPress site
More FAQ
More questions, answered
Can I host multiple WordPress sites for different clients under one account?
Yes. Agencies and freelancers commonly run several client installs from a single login, with the WordPress Toolkit listing each site's PHP version, plugin count and backup status on one screen. Updates, staging and hardening are applied per-site, so a change on one client's install never affects another's. When the portfolio grows large enough, the same workflow carries over onto a reseller account without any retraining.
What happens when my WordPress site outgrows shared hosting?
The WordPress Toolkit dashboard flags a site as it approaches its shared resource ceiling, well before visitors notice slower load times. From there you move to VPS hosting from $13.52/mo for guaranteed CPU and RAM with root access, or a dedicated server from $149.99/mo for a full physical machine — both still running WordPress on the same NVMe SSD and LiteSpeed foundation, so nothing about the site itself has to change, only the resources behind it.
Which PHP version does my WordPress site run on, and can I change it?
WordPress runs on modern PHP 8.x by default, which executes noticeably faster than older 7.x builds some sites are still stuck on elsewhere. You can switch versions per site from the cPanel-style panel's PHP selector in seconds — no support ticket, no server config editing, and no downtime beyond the switch itself.
Do I need to learn a new control panel to manage my WordPress hosting?
No. Day-to-day management runs through a cPanel-style panel that most WordPress users and developers already recognise from other hosts — a file manager for direct edits, cron job scheduling, phpMyAdmin-style database access and the PHP version selector all sit alongside the WordPress Toolkit rather than replacing it with something proprietary.
What if managed WordPress hosting turns out not to be right for me?
Every plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, and it's a genuine trial window rather than a fault-based warranty — you don't need to justify the cancellation or prove something broke. That makes testing AccelerateWP, Redis caching and staging on your actual site a low-risk decision instead of a full-year commitment made on faith.
Can I get business email set up with my WordPress hosting?
Yes. Professional email addresses on your own domain are managed from the same account as your WordPress hosting, alongside domain registration and DNS. It means a new WordPress site can launch with both a working inbox and free auto-renewing SSL in place from day one, without juggling a separate email provider.