WordPress in one click
Softaculous handles the install, the database and the admin account. You are writing your first post within a couple of minutes.
Free Blog Hosting
Free blog hosting, on a domain you actually own
One-click WordPress, free SSL, no injected adverts and no platform telling you what you can publish. Free for 30 days, then £0.99 a month.
Exactly what “free” means here
- Free for 30 days. A full hosting account with nothing held back — no feature restrictions during the trial.
- No card details required to start. You can sign up and run your site for the whole 30 days without giving us any payment information.
- Nothing can be charged automatically, because we have nothing to charge. Payment details are only taken if you decide to continue.
- Then £0.99/month if you choose to carry on. That is the ongoing price — it does not rise after the first year.
- No setup fee and no hidden charges of any kind.
- You bring your own domain. Traxio does not sell domain names, so you will need one you already own or register elsewhere.
Own your audience
Why self-host a blog at all?
Free blogging platforms are genuinely convenient, and for a hobby journal they are fine. The problem starts when the blog becomes something you care about.
On a hosted platform your address usually carries someone else’s brand. Every link you earn, every search ranking you build and every reader who bookmarks you is attached to a domain you do not control. When you eventually move — and most serious blogs do — that authority does not come with you.
Then there are the rules. Free tiers typically restrict plugins, block custom themes, limit or forbid advertising, and reserve the right to place their own advertising on your pages. None of that is unreasonable; it is how the platform pays for itself. It is simply a different deal from owning the thing.
What self-hosting changes
Running WordPress on your own hosting means the software is yours to configure. Any of the 60,000-plus plugins. Any theme, including one you write. Your own analytics, your own newsletter integration, your own affiliate links or ad network. Your domain, so your audience follows you anywhere.
The trade-off is that updates and backups become your responsibility. WordPress handles most of this automatically now, and DirectAdmin makes taking a backup a two-click job.
What is included
Everything a WordPress blog needs
Any theme, any plugin
No allow-list. Install Yoast, Elementor, WooCommerce, a caching plugin, or a theme you built yourself.
Free SSL from day one
HTTPS is issued automatically for your domain, which matters for reader trust and for search ranking.
Email on your own domain
Send from hello@yourblog.co.uk rather than a Gmail address. Useful the first time a brand emails you.
Your analytics, your data
Install Google Analytics, Plausible, Matomo or nothing at all. No platform-level tracking is added to your pages.
Backups you control
Generate a full backup from DirectAdmin whenever you like and download it. Your content is never hostage to us.
Setting up
From nothing to published
1
Point your domain at Traxio
Use a domain you already own. Nameserver details and per-registrar guides are in the knowledgebase.
2
Install WordPress via Softaculous
Pick a username and password, choose your domain, and let it run. SSL is applied automatically.
3
Choose a theme and write
Install a theme, set your permalinks to post name, and publish. Yoast or Rank Math will handle on-page SEO.
4
Migrate old posts if you have them
Export from your previous platform and import the WXR file, or use a migration plugin to move a whole site.
One plan, one price
Traxio Free Start
We stopped running four tiers. There is one plan, it does everything, and it costs less than a coffee per year.
30 Days Free
Traxio Free Start
FREE
for 30 days — then £0.99/month
- 5GB NVMe SSD storage
- 10GB bandwidth per month
- DirectAdmin control panel
- Free SSL certificate (auto-renewing)
- Softaculous one-click installer
- PHP 7.4 – 8.3, switchable
- MySQL / MariaDB databases
- FTP & file manager access
- Email accounts on your domain
- Cron jobs
- Community-powered support
No card required to start • No setup fee • Bring your own domain
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Can I install WordPress on the free plan?
Yes. Softaculous installs WordPress in about thirty seconds — it creates the database, sets up the admin user and configures SSL. There is no separate charge and no restriction during the 30-day free period.
How is this different from WordPress.com or Blogger?
Those are hosted platforms: they run the software and set the rules. You cannot install arbitrary plugins on their free tiers, your URL usually includes their brand, and monetisation is often restricted. Self-hosting means you run WordPress itself — any theme, any plugin, your own domain, your own analytics, your own advertising if you want it.
Is 5GB enough for a blog?
For a text-and-images blog, easily. A WordPress install is roughly 100MB, and a few hundred well-compressed posts with images typically stays under 2GB. If you plan to host video directly you will run out — use YouTube or Vimeo for embeds, as most blogs do anyway.
What about traffic? 10GB of bandwidth sounds low.
It is a real limit and worth understanding. A well-optimised blog page transfers roughly 1–2MB, so 10GB covers somewhere in the region of 5,000–10,000 page views a month. That is comfortable for a new or growing blog. If you are consistently exceeding it, you have outgrown a 99p plan — and that is a good problem.
Can I migrate an existing blog to Traxio?
Yes. For WordPress, plugins like All-in-One WP Migration or Duplicator move a site in one step. Alternatively export your content as WXR from the old site and import it into a fresh WordPress install here. Databases can also be imported directly via phpMyAdmin.
Will my blog have adverts on it?
None from us. Traxio does not inject advertising into hosted sites. If you want to run your own advertising or affiliate links, you can — it is your site.