What managed WordPress hosting includes
Ordinary web hosting gives WordPress somewhere to run. Managed WordPress hosting also covers the technical work needed to keep that environment maintained.
Our plan costs £69 a month or £690 a year. It includes UK-based hosting with LiteSpeed-class performance, migration from your current host, daily off-server backups, SSL, a CDN, a staging site and managed WordPress updates.
The distinction becomes important when something changes. A WordPress update can expose an old plugin problem. A PHP upgrade can uncover incompatible custom code. An SSL or DNS issue can make a healthy WordPress installation appear unavailable. With managed hosting, those components are considered as parts of the same system rather than separate supplier problems.
If you prefer to keep your existing provider, our Hosting Support service provides technical management without requiring a hosting move.
WordPress hosting built around the application
WordPress has relatively simple minimum requirements, but a production site still depends on the web server, PHP, database, HTTPS configuration, caching and the code installed on top of WordPress itself.
WordPress.org currently recommends PHP 8.3 or greater, MariaDB 10.11 or greater or MySQL 8.0 or greater, plus HTTPS. It also warns that older software can remain technically capable of running WordPress after its official support has ended. That is one reason server maintenance needs to consider compatibility and security at the same time.
Updates should not be treated as a button-pressing exercise. A useful maintenance process considers the WordPress core version, theme, plugins, PHP compatibility and the behaviour of important functions after a change. A WooCommerce site, for example, needs more than a successful home-page load. Basket behaviour, checkout and payment-related functions can matter just as much.
Sites needing ongoing WordPress support beyond the hosting environment can also use our WordPress support services.
Backups that are separate from the live site
Every managed hosting plan includes daily off-server backups. Keeping a backup away from the live server matters because a backup stored only inside the same hosting account can be exposed to the same account failure or compromise as the production site.
The National Cyber Security Centre recommends maintaining backups of important business data and being able to restore them. Its guidance also advises organisations not to rely solely on recovery mechanisms inside the same cloud service for critical information.
For WordPress, a useful backup needs more than the visible media files. The database contains posts, pages, settings and much of the site's configuration, while the filesystem contains themes, plugins, uploads and application files. Recovery depends on having the components needed to rebuild a working installation, not simply a copy of selected images.
You can read more about the role of backups in our website backups guide.
Performance is measured at more than one layer
Managed WordPress Hosting uses a UK data centre and LiteSpeed-class performance, with a CDN included. Server response matters, but hosting is only one part of website speed.
A page can still feel slow because of oversized images, render-blocking scripts, excessive JavaScript, third-party widgets, inefficient database work or a theme that sends more code than the page needs. That is why changing host is not automatically a substitute for diagnosing the page itself.
Google's Core Web Vitals currently measure three aspects of real user experience: Largest Contentful Paint for loading, Interaction to Next Paint for responsiveness and Cumulative Layout Shift for visual stability. Field data and laboratory tests also answer different questions. For example, INP depends on real user interaction, while Lighthouse uses Total Blocking Time as a laboratory diagnostic rather than directly measuring field INP.
Use our free page speed checker for an initial Lighthouse mobile test. Sites needing deeper application-level work can use our WordPress speed optimisation service.
Moving an existing WordPress site
Migration from your current host is included. The aim is to move the existing installation onto the managed environment without asking you to rebuild the website.
A proper hosting move is more than copying wp-content and importing a database. The new environment needs to be tested before traffic is switched, HTTPS must work, WordPress URLs and configuration must remain correct and DNS has to point visitors to the new server at the right stage.
Google's guidance for hosting changes recommends preparing and testing the new infrastructure first, switching DNS only when it is ready, monitoring traffic on both environments and keeping the old infrastructure available until traffic has moved away from it. It also notes that crawl activity can fluctuate temporarily after a hosting move.
Our managed hosting plan includes the migration rather than charging separately for it. For a more complex move involving a domain or platform change, see website migration.
Managed WordPress hosting pricing
Managed WordPress Hosting costs £69 a month or £690 a year. The plan includes UK-based hosting, free migration, daily off-server backups, free SSL, CDN and staging, WordPress update management and UK human support rather than ticket bots.
Businesses that already have suitable hosting can instead keep it and use Hosting Support from £39 a month. The difference is straightforward: Hosting Support manages an account you already pay another provider for, while Managed WordPress Hosting places the WordPress hosting and its technical management with us.
See the pricing page for the current plan comparison.