Managed WordPress hosting
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properly hosted.
Managed WordPress hosting with the WordPress Toolkit on every plan: one-click staging, updates with a way back, and vulnerability scanning that flags a risky plugin before it becomes the way in.
wordpress plans
UK WordPress hosting priced in pounds and read live from our billing system — the figure on the card is what you pay at checkout, and it does not leap on renewal.
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WordPress Hosting: Barebones Basic
£9.99/mo
What’s included:
- 5GB SSD Storage
- 1 Domain / Website
- 1 Database
- 5 Subdomains
- 2 Mailboxes
- FTP Access
No forced upgrades. No limits. Just pay for what you use.
Choose planWordPress Hosting: Premium
£15.99/mo
What’s included:
- 10GB SSD Storage
- 1 Domain / Website
- 1 Database
- 5 Subdomains
- 3 Mailboxes
- FTP Access
Scale naturally — never pay for resources you don’t need.
Choose planWordPress Hosting: Elementor Premium
£20.99/mo
What’s included:
- 10GB SSD Storage
- Elementor Pro licence included (worth £59/year)
- 1 Domain / Website
- 1 Database
- 5 Subdomains
- 3 Mailboxes
- FTP Access
Build visually, launch faster, and scale without plan jumps.
Choose planWordPress Hosting: Professional
£27.99/mo
What’s included:
- 20GB SSD Storage
- 1 Domain / Website
- 3 Databases
- 5 Subdomains
- 5 Mailboxes
- FTP Access
Designed for performance, growth, and transparency.
Choose planWordPress Hosting: Professional+
£33.99/mo
What’s included:
- 30GB SSD Storage
- 1 Domain / Website
- 5 Databases
- 5 Subdomains
- 10 Mailboxes
- FTP Access
Built to scale — predictable pricing without surprises.
Choose planmanaged wordpress hosting, minus the mystery.
“Managed” is a word hosting companies use as though it explains itself. In plain terms it means the tedious, easy-to-forget maintenance is done for you — updates, backups, certificates, security — while every decision that actually matters to your site stays with you. Here is exactly where that line sits.
We keep it running
The platform handles the plumbing
- WordPress kept updated and patched, with a restore point taken automatically before every update
- Daily backups, 30 days of history, restored by you from the panel in a couple of clicks
- Free SSL that issues and renews itself, so the padlock never quietly lapses
- A web application firewall and malware scanning running in front of your files
- Server-level caching and a modern PHP stack, tuned before you ever log in
You stay in charge
The decisions stay yours
- Full WordPress admin — any theme, any plugin, no restricted 'approved' list
- You decide whether updates run automatically or wait for you to press the button
- One-click staging to try any change before it touches the site people can see
- Your PHP version, set per site — current for speed, or pinned for a legacy build
- Your data stays yours: export the whole site and leave whenever you like
most “wordpress hosting” is just hosting with wordpress on it.
The difference is not the server. It is whether the tooling around WordPress is there before you need it — the staging copy, the restore point, the scan that spots the abandoned plugin. Bolted on afterwards as plugins, all three are slower, more fragile and usually cost extra.
| Generic shared hosting | SPARKZ WordPress hosting | |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress Toolkit | Not included | Included |
| One-click staging | Usually a paid plugin | Included |
| Updates with restore point | Update, then hope | Included |
| Vulnerability scanning | Not included | Included |
| Server-level caching | Plugin, self-tuned | Included |
| Free SSL, auto-renewed | Often year one only | Included |
| PHP version per site | Account-wide | Included |
change things without holding your breath.
The reason people avoid updating WordPress is that the update and the live site are the same thing. A staging site — a private copy of your site — separates them, so you can be brave on the copy and careful with the original.
Install or import in one step
Start a new WordPress site, or pull an existing one in. The toolkit handles the database, the user account and the certificate rather than leaving you to wire them together.
Clone to staging
One click copies the live site — files, database and all — to a private staging address. Break things there instead of on the site your customers are looking at.
Test the change properly
Update a plugin, try a theme, rewrite a template. Staging is a real copy, so what you see is what will happen live rather than an approximation.
Push it live, or throw it away
Copy the change back when it works. If it does not, delete the staging site and nothing about the live one ever changed.
security that is not a plugin.
Almost no WordPress site is targeted deliberately. They are found by automated scanners looking for a known vulnerability in an out-of-date plugin, and the owner learns about it when Google flags the site.
So the defence is unglamorous: patch quickly, keep a clean backup you can actually restore, and be told about the risky plugin before it is the story. All three come built into the platform.
Add malware scanningVulnerability scanning
The toolkit checks installed plugins and themes against known vulnerability data and flags the ones with public exploits — which is how the overwhelming majority of WordPress sites are actually compromised.
One-click hardening
Apply the standard hardening measures — file permissions, disabling file editing in wp-admin, blocking author enumeration — without hand-editing wp-config.php.
Restore points before updates
A restore point is taken before an automatic update runs, so an update that breaks the site is a two-minute rollback rather than an evening reconstructing it.
Free SSL that renews itself
Let's Encrypt certificates issue and renew automatically. No expiry emails, no lapsed padlock, no annual scramble.
Keep WordPress, its plugins and its themes updated.
WordPress runs a huge share of the web, which makes it the most probed platform online — and an out-of-date plugin is how the overwhelming majority of hacked WordPress sites are broken into. Updates are not optional housekeeping; they are the single most important thing you can do to stay safe. We give you the tools to make it painless, but applying them is your part.
How to protect your WordPress sitefast because of the stack, not despite it.
Fast WordPress hosting is mostly about removing the things that slow a site down and then getting out of the way. These are the parts we control.
Server-level caching
Configured on the server rather than bolted on as a plugin you then have to tune. Plugin-based caching is doing the same job further from the metal.
Modern PHP, switchable per site
Run current PHP for speed, or pin an older version for a legacy site — on the same account, without one dictating the other.
Object caching available
For sites where the database is the bottleneck — busy WooCommerce shops, membership sites — rather than as a default nobody needs.
Worth saying plainly: hosting is rarely the reason a WordPress site is slow. Unoptimised images, a page builder loading everything on every page, and a plugin doing a database query per widget will cost you more than any server difference. Good hosting removes an excuse — it does not fix a heavy site.
the right plan for the site you actually run.
Every plan runs the same managed platform — the same toolkit, staging, backups and security. What changes is how much room you need. Find the description that sounds like your site, and where a bigger plan or a different product is the honest answer, we say so.
Blogs and brochure sites
A personal blog, a portfolio, a handful of pages telling people what you do. Mostly read, rarely changed, and every page can be cached and served fast.
Right size
The smallest plan is genuinely enough. Caching does the heavy lifting, so paying for more here buys headroom you will not use.
Small business and lead generation
The site that brings in enquiries, quotes and bookings. Once it earns you money, an update that breaks it costs you real work — so staging and daily backups stop being nice-to-haves.
Right size
A mid plan gives you room for a contact form, a booking tool and the occasional plugin without having to think about limits.
WooCommerce shops
Selling products online. Carts and checkouts are personal to each shopper, so they cannot be cached the way a brochure page can — the database does real work on every click.
Right size
Start a size up from where a brochure site would sit. A genuinely busy shop is happier on a cloud server with dedicated resources, and we will say so when you are there.
Agencies and multiple sites
Building and running WordPress sites for clients rather than for yourself. You want them separated, billable and simple to hand over.
Right size
Look at reseller hosting rather than stacking clients onto one plan — it is built to bill under your own brand and keep each site walled off from the next.
moving an existing site.
The anxiety around migrating WordPress comes almost entirely from doing it in the wrong order — changing DNS first, then copying. Do it the other way round and the switch is a five-minute event. We help you move your site and only flip the domain once the copy is verified and running.
Easy to forget when moving
- Email on the same domain — the thing people notice fastest
- Lowering DNS TTL 24 hours beforehand, not on the day
- Re-issuing SSL: certificates do not travel with the site
- Mixed content — resources still loading over http://
- Testing that contact forms still send
the jargon, in plain english.
You should not have to be a developer to understand what you are buying. Every term this page leans on, defined in one sentence.
- WordPress Toolkit
- A control panel built into Plesk for managing WordPress: install, clone, stage, update, secure and back up a site from one screen instead of a dozen separate plugins.
- Staging site
- A private copy of your live site where you test an update or a redesign. If it works you push it live; if it breaks, you throw the copy away and no visitor ever saw it.
- Restore point / rollback
- A snapshot taken just before a risky change, such as a WordPress update. If the change goes wrong, rolling back to the snapshot undoes it in a couple of minutes.
- PHP version
- PHP is the language WordPress is written in. Newer versions run faster and stay supported; some older sites need an older one, so you set it per site.
- PHP memory limit
- How much working memory a single page load may use. Set too low, heavy plugins and page builders fail with a blank white screen even though the site itself is fine.
- Object caching
- A way of remembering the answers to repeated database questions so the site stops asking them on every visit. It mainly helps busy shops and membership sites.
- Web application firewall (WAF)
- A filter that inspects traffic before it reaches WordPress and blocks the obvious attacks — the automated probing that finds vulnerable sites by the thousand.
- Vulnerability scanning
- Automatic checks that compare your installed plugins and themes against lists of known security holes, so an out-of-date plugin gets flagged before anyone exploits it.
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wordpress hosting questions
What is the difference between managed and unmanaged WordPress hosting?
On unmanaged hosting you are handed a server and everything after that — updates, backups, security, PHP configuration, caching — is your job. Managed WordPress hosting does that maintenance for you and adds tools like one-click staging and updates with a restore point, so your time goes on the site rather than on keeping the lights on. Everything here is managed, on every plan.
Will you move my existing WordPress site over?
Yes. We help you move the files, database, mailboxes and DNS to our platform, run it on a temporary address so you can confirm everything works, then switch your domain across. Because the copy is verified before anything public changes, most WordPress sites move without visitors noticing.
Is cheap WordPress hosting any good?
It can be — cheap is not the problem, a low price hiding a catch is. The things worth checking are whether SSL stays free after the first year, whether you are charged to restore your own backup, and whether the renewal price is far higher than the headline. Our pricing is read live from billing and does not jump quietly at renewal, so the figure on the plan card is the one you keep paying.
Can I use my own theme and plugins?
Yes. This is standard WordPress, not a restricted build — install whatever you like. We do not maintain a banned-plugin list, though we will tell you if one is causing you performance or security problems rather than leaving you to find out.
Do you update WordPress for me?
If you want us to. Automatic updates are available for core and plugins, and a restore point is taken before each one so a bad update can be rolled back immediately. If you would rather control updates yourself, turn it off — some sites with heavily customised plugins are better updated by hand.
How many WordPress sites can I host?
It depends on the plan — each states how many domains it covers. If you are hosting sites for clients rather than yourself, look at reseller plans instead: they are built for that and let you bill under your own brand.
Is WooCommerce supported?
Yes, and free SSL is included so you can take payments securely. A busy shop is happier on a larger plan or a cloud server — carts are database-heavy and cannot be cached the way a brochure page can, so slow checkout costs sales directly.
Which PHP version should I use?
For a modern, well-maintained site, the newest PHP available — it is faster and still gets security fixes. Older sites with unmaintained plugins sometimes break on the latest version, so you can pin an older one for that site alone. You change it per site from the panel, and switching back if something misbehaves is instant.
What happens if my site gets hacked?
Restore from a backup and patch what let them in. Both matter: restoring without patching means being reinfected within days. The toolkit's vulnerability scanning is there to flag the out-of-date plugin before it becomes the way in.
Do I need a caching plugin as well?
Usually not. Server-level caching is already doing that job, and stacking a caching plugin on top is a common cause of 'my changes are not showing'. If you do run one, keep it simple and turn off anything that duplicates what the server handles.
Can I run a staging site permanently?
Yes. Some people keep one alongside the live site indefinitely as a place to test plugin updates before they touch production. It counts toward the site allowance on your plan.
Is this UK WordPress hosting?
Yes. You are billed in pounds by a UK company — SPARKZ NETWORK LIMITED in Liverpool — and support comes from the people who actually run the platform, on 03300 431236 or by ticket, rather than an outsourced first line working from a script.
move your wordpress site somewhere it behaves.
Pick a plan, or tell us what you are running and we will size it — including smaller, if that is the honest answer.