We manage the WordPress side: AccelerateWP and Redis caching, staging and hardening in one click, WordPress Toolkit Deluxe, and your domain, SSL and migration thrown in free.
$4.19
Launch, per month
Free
Domain, SSL & migration
1-click
Staging & hardening
24/7
WordPress support
Plans
Managed WordPress plans
Run one blog, or a portfolio of up to 100 sites. Caching, staging and hardening are standard on every tier, and we don't charge extra for them.
AccelerateWP hands the browser a finished page instead of building one, and Redis keeps hot database results in memory rather than fetching them twice. That's the trick. Left alone, WordPress redraws each page from scratch and runs identical queries for every visitor, which is why most installs feel sluggish. Fix both and the site behaves the same for one reader as for a thousand at once.
Full-page and object caching enabled from the start
CSS, JS and image files optimised automatically
Query results live in memory with Redis
NVMe-class storage under every site
Performance
Speed up your WordPress site
Our stack does most of the work. A few habits on your side claw back the last milliseconds, so run down this checklist and watch your pages go.
1
Keep full-page caching on
We switch AccelerateWP full-page caching on for you, and it's worth leaving that way: a returning visitor then gets finished HTML rather than a page the server assembles again.
2
Enable Redis object caching
Turn Redis on inside the WordPress Toolkit. Query results then come back out of memory instead of the database, which pays off most on carts, search and logged-in pages.
3
Pick a lightweight theme
Themes matter. A lean block-based one ships far less CSS and JavaScript than anything built on a page builder, so render time drops before caching gets involved.
4
Optimise and lazy-load images
Size your images before you upload them, then let AccelerateWP compress and lazy-load the rest. Pictures are normally the heaviest thing on a WordPress page.
5
Prune and update plugins
Delete the plugins nobody uses and leave smart updates to patch what's left. Each one you keep costs you extra queries, more scripts and a wider attack surface.
6
Stay on modern PHP
Pick PHP 8.x in the cPanel selector. Newer builds run WordPress code visibly quicker than the 7.x versions plenty of sites are still sitting on.
AccelerateWP takes care of page caching, CSS/JS optimisation and image delivery on its own, so you're not juggling plugins yourself.
Redis object caching
Repeat database lookups sit in memory with Redis, which is why dashboards, carts and other dynamic pages hold up when real traffic arrives.
One-click staging
Copy the live site, try a theme or an update on it, then push the work back to production once it looks right.
WordPress Toolkit Deluxe
One panel installs, clones, updates and secures the lot, and smart updates run a check for problems first, before anything reaches your visitors.
Hardened by default
Hardening runs from one click: file permissions tightened, XML-RPC shut, login endpoints closed off, malware scanning behind it.
Free domain & SSL
First-year domain, SSL certificates that renew on their own, daily backups: all in the price, with nothing to tick at checkout.
Control
Staging and WordPress Toolkit Deluxe
Testing on the live site is a habit worth dropping. Copy production to staging, break things there, try the updates, a new theme or that plugin you're unsure about, then send the result back with one click. WordPress Toolkit Deluxe holds every site in a single list, and its smart updates raise a flag on trouble before a visitor sees it.
Clone any site to staging, one click
Send the changes live on your say-so
Installs, clones and admin all in one panel
Smart updates test first, then apply themselves
Compare
Compare WordPress plans
When the traffic climbs, a couple of clicks moves you up onto the next tier.
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
Too much security lives in a plugin nobody got round to configuring. Ours doesn't. Hardening takes one click: file permissions tightened, the usual doors closed, XML-RPC and brute-force logins among them, malware scanning on watch. SSL costs nothing here and backups happen daily, so traffic is encrypted and the site can be pulled back from day one.
One-click security hardening
Malware scanning on every site
Free auto-renewing SSL certificates
Backups run daily, and you can restore
Great For
Built for the way you use WordPress
Bloggers & creators
Hit publish, and the page is up. Caching plus NVMe-class disks keep a content site quick, and you tune nothing yourself.
Agencies & freelancers
Give each client their own staging copy, hand over the site once it's tidy, and run the whole lot from the WordPress Toolkit.
Developers
You get WP-CLI, SSH access and staging environments, so building and shipping carries on as it does today, no relearning.
How It Works
Live in three simple steps
1
Choose your WordPress plan
Launch suits a single site. Pro and Elite handle up to 100 sites, and caching, staging and hardening ship with every tier, whichever you pick.
2
Install or migrate
One click puts a fresh WordPress site on the server. If yours already lives somewhere else, our team moves it across at no charge, normally inside 24 hours.
3
Build with confidence
Try the change on staging first, then ship it live. AccelerateWP and Redis handle the speed side, and security is something we watch 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
Got a WordPress site elsewhere? Moving it costs nothing.
Files, database, themes and plugins: our team lifts the lot across with no downtime, and normally within 24 hours of you asking us.
You pay shared-hosting money for managed WordPress, and year two doesn't come with a nasty surprise. Here's the entry price next to the real renewal price.
HostingCheap features measured against those of 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, and managed means managed. The jobs that normally eat an afternoon run by themselves here: server updates, AccelerateWP page caching, Redis object caching, SSL that's free and renews itself, and a backup taken every day. WordPress Toolkit Deluxe looks after core, theme and plugin versions, and its smart updates rehearse the whole thing on a duplicate before your live site is touched. Beginning a fresh project takes a single click in cPanel, with no database to create by hand and no config file to edit. When a problem genuinely needs a person, the 24/7 support team knows this platform rather than hosting in general. Control stays with you as well: WP-CLI, SSH and the ordinary WordPress dashboard are all open. You get on with writing, designing and selling. We keep the machinery fast, patched and in one piece underneath, with a 99.9% uptime SLA and a 30-day money-back guarantee behind it.
What do AccelerateWP and Redis actually do for speed?
Slow pages usually come down to wasted effort: the server assembles the same page over and over, then asks the database identical questions for each person who turns up. That work stops here. AccelerateWP builds full-page caches, shrinks and merges CSS and JavaScript files, and compresses images so they load only as a reader scrolls to them, which means less coming down the wire on every visit. Redis object caching parks the results the site asks for most often in memory, and that's precisely what a WooCommerce cart, a logged-in dashboard or a blog archive with years of posts behind it depends on. Below all of it sit pure NVMe SSD storage, modern PHP 8.x and HTTP/2, trimming time to first byte before any cache is consulted. One reader or a thousand at once, the pages hold their speed, Core Web Vitals improve, and a traffic spike has room to breathe without you installing one performance plugin.
Can I test changes before they go live?
Yes, and it's the sensible way to work. The WordPress Toolkit builds a staging clone from one click: files, database, themes and plugins duplicated onto a private URL that no search engine and no visitor ever sees. Point a big core update at it, or a redesign, or a theme you have not used before, or some plugin of unknown quality, and the site your customers are actually on carries none of the risk. Happy with the result? Push staging back to production with a click. If it went badly, bin the clone and your live site is untouched, because nothing ever reached it. Staging covers up to 10 sites on every plan, which is enough for a freelancer or an agency to keep one sandbox per client. Pair that with smart updates, which take a visual check before they apply anything, and WordPress maintenance stops being a gamble. It becomes a step you can reverse.
How is my WordPress site kept secure?
Nothing here depends on a plugin somebody meant to set up later. Hardening runs from the WordPress Toolkit in one click, tightening file and folder permissions and closing the doors attackers rattle first: XML-RPC, the login page, directory listings. Malware scanning covers every site. In front of that, a web application firewall throws out bad requests before WordPress ever sees them, and DDoS protection at network level soaks up volumetric attacks upstream. Smart automatic updates patch core, themes and plugins, which matters because known holes are what most WordPress break-ins rely on. SSL is free, renews itself and encrypts each connection. Daily automatic backups mean the worst day still ends with the whole site rolled back to a clean point in minutes. Layered, in other words, the way a serious site needs it, and quiet enough that you seldom think about it.
Do I really get a free domain and SSL?
Yes, with no asterisks. Take an annual plan and your first year of domain registration is free, so a brand-new WordPress site goes up without you buying a name from anyone else. SSL certificates cost nothing here, get issued for you and keep renewing themselves the entire time you host with us, which is worth spelling out: no first-year-only trick, no unpleasant invoice the day the certificate lapses. That catch is common enough elsewhere. HTTPS is live as soon as the site is, and WordPress, browsers and Google all expect that now. Professional email on your own domain sits alongside it, so mail leaves as you@yourdomain instead of some generic address. Daily backups, AccelerateWP and Redis caching, staging, security hardening: those sit in the plan price too, not on a list of add-ons at the checkout. The number you saw is what the WordPress site actually costs.
Will you move my current WordPress site across for me?
Yes, and our own team does the work, at no charge to you. Sign up, then raise a migration ticket with the logins for your current host, and the whole thing comes across as it stands: WordPress core, files, database, themes, plugins, uploads and settings. Before your visitors notice anything, we put the copy on staging here and test it, checking that pages render, forms submit and any WooCommerce store behaves. Only after that do we help you point the domain over, which is what keeps downtime at effectively nil. Most moves are done within about 24 hours of the request. Landing here means the platform comes with you: AccelerateWP and Redis caching, one-click staging, security hardening and daily backups all apply to the migrated site from the start. Prefer to handle it yourself? Softaculous one-click tools and full SSH access are sitting there waiting.
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.