Fully managed UK WordPress hosting with automatic updates, daily backups, and optimised server configuration. From just £5.99/mo.
Why we host WordPress this way
Every 365i WordPress hosting plan is fully managed. We handle core, plugin, and theme updates automatically, run daily backups with 30-day retention, and include staging environments so you can test changes before they go live. Your sites run on UK cloud infrastructure with SSD storage, a free global CDN, and free wildcard SSL certificates. Plans start at £5.99/mo and include 1-to-1 WordPress assistance via Zoom or AnyDesk at no extra cost.
All plans include free SSL, daily backups, automatic updates, and UK-based support.
All prices exclude VAT. Annual plans include a free .co.uk or .uk domain.
High-frequency compute nodes up to 4.20 GHz, NVMe storage, global CDN pre-caching, and no resource limits. Everything you need for maximum WordPress performance.
WordPress 7.0 launched on 20 May 2026. Per the WordPress.org requirements page, it needs PHP 7.2.24+ as a hard minimum (PHP 8.3+ recommended), unrestricted outbound HTTPS for the AI Provider plugins, and somewhere safe to test a major upgrade. We handle all three, and we tested every beta from February through RC5 on two of our own sites before launch day.
Most managed-WordPress hosts advertise how many support requests they deal with. Here's ours: 473 tickets in the entire history of our helpdesk. I'm not rounding that up, and I'm not hiding it behind "thousands of customer interactions".
Two things keep that number small. The platform mostly stays out of the way, so most weeks there's nothing to raise a ticket about. And the customer base is small enough that I still read most of them myself. When something does break on your site, it isn't sitting in a queue behind ten thousand others.
Across a recent sample of eleven tickets the median first reply was under five minutes. One memory-limit problem came in at 22:52 on a weeknight and was answered at 22:56. The customer rated it five stars. Another arrived at 23:21 on a Saturday; by 06:15 the next morning the customer had a screencast video walking through their email setup, recorded for them specifically.
It isn't a one-man band, either. Mark, Mike and Pippa all answer the desk. And we'll tell you when something isn't ours to fix: when a WordPress SMTP problem turned out to need a proper transactional mail service, we said so and pointed the way rather than paper over it. When a customer registered the .org of their domain by mistake instead of the .com, we re-registered the right one at our own cost. "These things happen," was the reply. "I've done that myself."
Low volume isn't a brag about being tiny, and fast isn't the same as round-the-clock. We're a 7-day desk with long hours, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays, not a literal 24/7 call centre. The data centre is monitored around the clock; the people answering your ticket just happen to work late a lot. The replies above are normal for us, but I won't dress them up as a guaranteed service level.
The reason customers pay for managed hosting is so that when something goes wrong, a person who knows the platform answers fast. Four hundred and seventy-three times, that's what happened.
With Mark's help not only was the migration seamless and speedy, but Mark fixed a lot of persistent issues that had been around for ages. Since then the support we have got from Mark is exemplary and I simply could not have wished for better.
By Mark McNeece, Founder of 365i. Last reviewed 25 June 2026.
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Server-level features tuned for WordPress and included on every plan, no plugins, no add-ons.
WordPress core, plugins, and themes updated automatically with safe rollback.
Test changes safely on a private copy before pushing live. Included on every plan.
Continuous security monitoring with automatic malware detection and removal.
Built-in caching at the server level for blazing fast page loads without plugins.
40 server-level toggles for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image rewriting. No plugins, no code.
Free automatic migration tools included. Move your site from another host with zero downtime.
Create unlimited email accounts with your domain. Webmail, IMAP, and spam filtering included.
Push-to-deploy from GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. Automatic deployments on every push.
A dedicated group of WordPress tools at the top of your My365i dashboard, so you only open wp-admin when you actually want to.
A complete set of control panel tools for developing and managing your WordPress sites, included at no extra cost with all plans.
Clone your live site to a private staging environment. Test changes, experiment with new features, and deploy to production with a single click.
Update, activate, or deactivate themes directly from My365i without logging into your WordPress dashboard.
View, update, and manage all your plugins through an elegant, easy-to-use interface.
Manage all your WordPress users, including roles and permissions, from one central place.
Update your site URL, home URL, title, and tagline directly from My365i.
One-click check that your WordPress core files haven't been modified. Replace any altered files with the originals instantly.
Start fresh with a clean WordPress installation, ready for you to begin developing a new site.
Included with every plan
All this from just £1
for your first month of WordPress Hosting
Every 365i WordPress hosting account includes a free 1-to-1 session with our WordPress experts. Get help with speed optimisation, plugin conflicts, theme setup, or anything else.
Available on all plans
FREENo extra cost, no strings attached
Every 365i hosting customer gets access to our suite of free SEO and webmaster tools. Check your headers, scan for mixed content, inspect DNS records, and more. No sign-up needed.
See if your host blocks ChatGPT, Claude and friends
Security grades, redirect chains, and server info
A, MX, TXT, NS records and email auth checks
Mixed content scanner with SSL/TLS grading
SERP preview, social cards, and SEO checks
Parse rules and test paths against crawl directives
Registration data, dates, nameservers, DNSSEC
Security checks for exposed endpoints and config
Extract XML sitemaps and export page titles
UK data centres are the default on every plan, so your data, your support, and your latency all stay close to home.
Your site, database, backups, and email stay on UK soil by default, covered by UK GDPR rather than transferred internationally. Choose US or Singapore if you prefer.
UK-to-UK round trips are typically under 20ms. On a real WordPress site that can be the difference between a "Good" and "Needs Improvement" Core Web Vitals rating.
UK server location and a .co.uk or .uk domain reinforce local relevance for UK-targeted queries. Every annual plan includes a free .co.uk or .uk domain.
Real people in British waking hours, 7 days a week, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays. No outsourced helpdesk, no scripted bots.
A straightforward comparison of what you get. All prices verified at time of publication.
| Feature | 365i Premium | SiteGround GrowBig | Hostinger Business | Kinsta Starter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly Price | £8.99 | £23.99 | £13.99 | £28.00 |
| WordPress Sites | 5 | Unlimited | 100 | 1 |
| Storage | Unlimited SSD | 20 GB | 200 GB | 10 GB |
| Free SSL | ||||
| CDN Included | ||||
| Daily Backup Retention | 30 days | 30 days | 7 days | 14 days |
| Staging Environment | ||||
| Unlimited LVE Resources | ||||
| Free Migration | ||||
| UK Data Centres | ||||
| Free 1-to-1 Assistance | ||||
| WordPress 7 Hands-On Tested | Ask them | Ask them | Ask them |
Competitor figures are standard renewal prices, the ongoing rate after any introductory discount, not first-term promos, on each host's comparable plan. Verified May 2026; all exclude VAT. Kinsta bills in US dollars ($35/mo), shown here as an approximate GBP equivalent. 365i's £8.99 is our ongoing price, with a £1 first month. Retention figures are for daily backups; our Business plan adds Timeline Backup Pro, with 60-day database retention plus email mailbox backup and restore.
Real-world guides on managed WordPress hosting, performance tuning, and the decisions that separate fast sites from slow ones.
Some managed WordPress hosts now block AI crawlers by default, silently, and that can quietly cut your site out of AI search. Here is the case against blanket blocking, our own 19-day crawler log showing which AI bots actually read a real site, and how to set it up properly at the infrastructure layer.
Your web designer has gone quiet. Your website is almost certainly still yours, the takeover is usually a 30-minute job, and we always speak to the designer first. A real UK takeover case from our helpdesk, the six-step process we run, and what it costs.
WordPress 7.0 launched on 20 May 2026 without real-time collaboration, which Matt Mullenweg pulled on 8 May. Here's what shipped, what got cut, and our hands-on findings from running RC5 on two of our own sites for the 24 hours before launch.
449 tickets in our entire helpdesk history. Median first response under five minutes. 66 five-star Google reviews and zero negatives. Eleven recent tickets, anonymised, with timings, customer reactions, and the day we re-registered a customer's domain at our own cost.
Very good support. Really Really impressed with the effort you’ve put into this, Mark. You’ve clearly gone the extra mile, and it shows. This web page has been a huge help — can’t imagine managing without it now. Thank you so much, truly appreciate it!appreciated! Thumbs up (y)
Amazing service. Mark is always happy to help and is easy to contact. Highly recommend!
I approached Mark at 365i to ask him to migrate my website to their server since my website was very slow on my existing server. Not only did he carry out the migration within 24 hours but he actually completely redesigned my website free-of-charge to a standard that I was blown away by. He then took me step-by-step through everything he had done so that I now feel that I can make any further changes myself should the need arise, although he assures me he is always happy to be contacted if I struggle. He has done a fantastic job and I would recommend him and 365i with no hesitation!
Mark is extremely knowledgeable and a great person to speak and learn from - highly recommend his services!
Thanks Alex! :-)
Mark was absolutely amazing from the get go. Very professional and went above and beyond what was expected. I wish there was a 6 star option! His responses are as quick as his servers! Top man highly recommended. Thank you, Denvah at Full Tank Camper Van Hire
Mark is very helpful and puts a lot of effort in his work. Highly recommended.
Mark provided superb service - rapid response, careful consideration of my requirements and great website design. Everything was wrapped up really quickly and with superb quality. Highly recommended.
Mark has looked after us for 14 years and designed 3 websites in this time. I have been lucky to find them, they have been a great help to us over the years. Always available to answer questions or make changes to our website quickly. Our business wouldn't be where it is now without the support of 365i.
Managed WordPress hosting means your hosting provider handles all the technical aspects of running WordPress, automatic core, plugin, and theme updates, daily backups, server-level caching, security monitoring, and performance optimisation. You focus entirely on building your site and creating content. 365i's managed WordPress hosting includes all of this plus a full WordPress toolkit in your control panel for managing themes, plugins, users, and staging environments without logging into wp-admin.
By default, every new 365i WordPress hosting account is provisioned on our UK data centres, so your site files, MySQL database, daily backups, and email all stay on UK soil under UK GDPR. If your audience is based in the US or APAC, you can choose US or Singapore data centres at signup. The CDN is global and serves cached assets from the nearest edge, but the origin remains in the region you pick. We are the data processor; you remain the data controller, and a GDPR Data Processing Agreement is available at 365i.co.uk/legal/gdpr-data-processing-agreement/.
365i support runs 7 days a week, including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays. Most replies come between early morning and late evening UK time. We are a UK-based team, so you get real people speaking British English (no outsourced helpdesk and no scripted bots), and we will jump on Zoom or AnyDesk to fix things together when it is faster than tickets. Separately, our data-centre infrastructure is monitored 24/7 by on-site technicians, so the platform itself never goes unwatched.
WordPress hosting at 365i starts from £5.99/month for the Personal plan, with Premium at £8.99/month, Business at £14.99/month, and Turbo at £30.00/month. All prices exclude VAT. Every plan is just £1 for the first month, and there's no contract, so you can cancel any time. Plans include free SSL, daily backups, and a one-click WordPress installer as standard.
Yes, and we test before the release ships. WordPress 7.0 launched at 17:00 UTC on 20 May 2026. We'd already run every beta and release candidate through to RC5 on two of our own production-mirror sites in the 24 hours before launch. Several hundred sites on our platform moved from 6.9.x to 7.0 via WordPress core's own auto-update mechanism in the hours after release. In the five days that followed, the helpdesk handled DNS, URL redirect, and domain-transfer queries. Zero tickets about WP7 itself. You can also enable automatic plugin and theme updates from your WordPress toolkit, and on Business and Turbo plans you can test any update in a staging environment first before pushing to live.
Yes. You can install any plugin or theme from the official WordPress repository, or upload premium plugins and themes purchased elsewhere. We only restrict a very small number of plugins that conflict with our server-level caching or security systems. WooCommerce, Elementor, Yoast SEO, and all other popular plugins work without issue.
A staging environment is a private copy of your live WordPress site where you can safely test changes, new plugins, theme updates, design changes, or code modifications, without affecting your visitors. When you're happy with the changes, you can push them live with one click. Staging is included on every WordPress hosting plan.
Yes. Every WordPress hosting plan includes a free SSL certificate that is automatically installed and renewed. Your site will load over HTTPS from day one with no manual configuration required. This is essential for SEO, visitor trust, and Google ranking. Wildcard SSL certificates are also available if you need to secure multiple subdomains.
We take automatic daily backups of your entire WordPress site, files, database, emails, and configuration. Backups are retained for up to 30 days and you can restore your full site or individual components with one click from your hosting dashboard. You don't need any backup plugins, it's all handled at the server level.
Both take automatic daily snapshots that you can roll back with a single click. Timeline Backup, included on the Premium plan, covers your website files and databases with 30-day retention. Timeline Backup Pro, included on the Business plan, does everything standard does and adds three things: your email mailboxes are backed up too, database retention is extended to 60 days, and you get mailbox restore options (you can restore a mailbox to a temporary address first and then sync it back). If you only need files and databases, standard is plenty. If you run email on your domain or want a longer database history to roll back to, Pro is the one to pick.
Yes. Every plan includes free built-in migration tools that handle the bulk of the work, and our team finishes the edge cases at no extra cost. You can migrate from cPanel/WHM, Plesk, or DirectAdmin servers, or transfer any WordPress site via FTP/SFTP, just select your current provider, enter your login details, and the platform migrates everything automatically with zero data loss. Ticket #894321002 on 23 May 2026 is a typical edge case: a multilingual content creator moving from WordPress.com to self-hosted. Temporary forwarding was live within an hour of the ticket opening, working around the fact his .htaccess wasn't available yet (his WordPress package wasn't set up). When the first workaround didn't behave reliably in testing, we swapped to an .htaccess approach and warned him it would be overwritten when he completed setup. Thousands of sites are migrated this way every week.
Our primary data centres are in the UK, with additional locations in the US and Singapore. UK data centres are the default and ideal for UK-based websites and local SEO. All facilities are enterprise-grade with redundant power, cooling, and network connectivity, staffed with 24/7 on-site technicians. Every plan also includes a free global CDN that caches your site across 260+ edge locations worldwide.
Yes. You can upgrade at any time from your hosting dashboard. The price difference is calculated pro-rata so you only pay the difference for the remaining billing period. Upgrades take effect immediately with no downtime. You can also downgrade if you need to, there's no lock-in or long-term contract.
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