Backed up automatically
Your website is backed up every day, so it isn’t relying only on a copy on your own computer. Keep your own backups too.
Free web hosting for 30 days — then 99p a month if you stay
A full DirectAdmin hosting account from a UK-based provider — NVMe storage, free SSL, PHP, a MySQL database and one-click WordPress — free for your first 30 days, with no card needed. After that it’s £0.99 a month if you stay. It isn’t free forever, and we say so up front.
- No card to start
- No setup fee
- Then £0.99/month
What it costs, from day one
Nothing to pay for the first 30 days, and no card needed to start. After that, £0.99 a month if you decide to stay.
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Today
£0
Create your account and get a complete hosting account. No card details are asked for.
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Days 1 to 30
£0
Build your site and use every feature. Nothing is charged during the free period.
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Day 31 onwards
£0.99/month
Only if you choose to continue. Pay the first monthly invoice and your hosting carries on unchanged.
No setup fee, no hidden charges and no price rise after the first year. A domain isn’t included: bring one you already own (how to connect it). How the 30 free days work
A real hosting account, not a demo
There isn’t a cut-down Traxio free tier. Your first month is the same shared hosting you keep for 99p afterwards: nothing is switched off, and nothing needs moving or rebuilding when the free month ends.
Free SSL, automatically
An SSL certificate is issued and renewed for your domain without you doing anything. Your visitors get the padlock and Google gets the ranking signal it wants.
DirectAdmin, not a cut-down panel
You get the same control panel professional hosts use — file manager, DNS editor, email accounts, database admin, cron jobs, PHP version switching.
400+ one-click apps
Softaculous installs WordPress, MyBB, phpBB, SMF, Joomla, Drupal and hundreds more in about thirty seconds, database and all.
No adverts, ever
We do not inject banners, pop-unders, branded footers or analytics into your pages. Your HTML is your HTML.
A price that does not jump
£0.99 a month is the renewal price, not an introductory rate that triples in year two. There is no “first term discount” sleight of hand.
Free hosting, or a tiny step up from it?
Free hosting can be great for experimenting, but free plans often come with additional limits. Depending on the host, those can be on email, databases, backups, support, resource usage, the applications you can install, the control panel, or the files you can upload, and some plans run on a subdomain rather than your own address. Not every free host works this way, so it’s worth checking the plan you’re looking at.
If free hosting is enough for you forever, use free hosting. If you want proper shared hosting without paying normal hosting prices, that’s what Traxio is for.
What Traxio does instead
Traxio takes a different approach: start with our normal shared hosting free for the first month, and keep it for just 99p a month afterwards. There’s no separate free tier, so there’s nothing to upgrade from and no adverts on your site. The trade is that support covers the hosting rather than your website, and the resource limits are honest rather than “unlimited”.
£0.99 a month is £11.88 a year. A domain from most registrars costs roughly the same again. So a fully self-hosted website on your own domain, with SSL, email and WordPress, runs at around £20–£25 for the first year — and you own all of it.
What you can host free for 30 days
One account runs all of these. They’re different uses of the same £0.99 hosting, not separate plans. Pick what you’re building for the details.
A website
Upload your own HTML, CSS and JavaScript, or build one in WordPress. Free HTML hosting
A blog
Start a blog on your own domain, with no adverts on your posts. Free blog hosting
A WordPress site
One-click install, free SSL and LiteSpeed caching. Free WordPress hosting
A CMS website
Joomla and Drupal install in one click too. CMS hosting
A forum or community
phpBB, SMF or MyBB, installed in a couple of clicks. Forum hosting
PHP and MySQL projects
PHP 7.4 to 8.3 per domain, a MySQL database and phpMyAdmin. Free PHP hosting
A small online shop
WooCommerce with HTTPS on every page. Ecommerce hosting
Anything DirectAdmin runs
Email, DNS, cron jobs and 400+ one-click apps. DirectAdmin hosting
Start a website for free
Launch a real website on shared DirectAdmin hosting with your first 30 days free. If you want to keep it afterwards, it’s £0.99 a month. It suits:
Your first website
Never built one? Follow the beginner guides from sign-up to your first page online. Hosting for beginners
A personal website
Your own corner of the web at yourname.co.uk, with an email address to match. Personal websites
A hobby website
Clubs, collections, family history, recipes: the site you’ve been meaning to make. Hobby and side projects
Testing a business idea
Put the idea in front of real customers for a month before you spend anything on it. Small business hosting
A landing page
One page with a sign-up or contact form, on its own domain, live the same day. Small websites
A portfolio
Your work at an address you control, that still works when you put it on your CV. Portfolio hosting
A club or group website
Fixtures, news and a contact address for a club, society or charity. Charities and community groups
A student project
A real server for coursework and your first projects, on your own domain. Hosting for students
Where Traxio sits. Free hosting gets people online for £0. Traditional shared hosting can cost several pounds each month. Traxio sits between the two: start for nothing on a normal shared hosting account, then keep it for £0.99 a month, with the price the same at renewal. Free hosting compared
Live in about fifteen minutes
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Have a domain ready
Any domain you already own works. Hosting doesn’t include one, so if you don’t have a domain yet, register one with a registrar first. How to connect your domain
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Create your Traxio account
Sign up for a Traxio hosting account. No card details are needed — you are not asked for payment information at all until the free period ends.
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Point your domain at us
Update your nameservers or A record. Our knowledge base has a step-by-step guide for every major registrar.
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Install and build
Open DirectAdmin, run Softaculous, and pick WordPress, a forum, or upload your own HTML. SSL is issued automatically once DNS resolves.
Free hosting from a UK-based provider
Traxio is a UK business, run by Jason Plant as a sole trader. Prices are in pounds and £0.99 is the whole monthly charge: Traxio isn’t VAT-registered, so there’s no VAT and no card fee on top.
If you’re comparing on price, cheap web hosting shows why the 99p doesn’t rise at renewal.
Need to start without payment details? Hosting without a credit card explains why a no-card trial is different from the usual kind.
Simple web hosting for £0.99 a month
One plan with everything included. Your first 30 days are free with no card required, then it’s £0.99 a month if you choose to continue — with no setup fee and no price rise at renewal.
The hosting is self-managed through DirectAdmin, with a large knowledge base and an AI help desk that escalates to a person when needed. That’s how the price stays this low.
Traxio web hosting
- 3GB NVMe disk spaceIncluded
- 100GB bandwidth a monthIncluded
- DirectAdmin control panelIncluded
- Free SSL, issued and renewed automaticallyIncluded
- An email account on your own domainIncluded
- One-click WordPress and 400+ appsIncluded
- FTP, SFTP and a browser file managerIncluded
- A MySQL database with phpMyAdminIncluded
- PHP 7.4 to 8.3, switchable per domainIncluded
- Cron jobs and daily offsite backupsIncluded
First 30 days£0.00
Then, per month£0.99
No setup fee. No VAT or card fees added.
Frequently asked questions
Is Traxio hosting actually free, or is there a catch?
It is free for 30 days, with no card details required and no reduced feature set. After 30 days it continues at £0.99 per month if you choose to carry on — and if you do not, nothing is charged, because we never had your payment details in the first place. We are deliberately not calling this “free forever” because it is not, and hosts that use that phrase are almost always funding it with adverts, forced upsells or a subdomain you do not own.
Do I need my own domain name?
Yes, hosting doesn't include one. You point a domain you already own at Traxio's nameservers, and that's all the setup it needs.
Will you put adverts on my website?
No. Traxio never injects adverts, banners, tracking scripts or branded footers into hosted sites. That is the usual business model for “free forever” hosting and it is the reason we charge £0.99 instead.
What happens to my files if I cancel?
Nothing is deleted the moment you cancel. Your account stays accessible until the end of the paid period, and if an invoice goes unpaid there is a further 14 days before termination — suspended at day 7, deleted at day 14. You can take a full backup of your files and databases from DirectAdmin at any point up to that. We would rather you leave with your data than feel trapped.
Is 3GB of storage and 100GB of bandwidth enough?
For a personal blog, a portfolio, a small business brochure site or a starting forum, comfortably yes — a typical WordPress install with a year of posts sits well under 1GB. It is not enough for video hosting, large file downloads or a site doing serious traffic, and we would rather tell you that up front.
Do you offer one-to-one technical support?
Yes, for hosting and server matters. Start with the knowledge base, then open a Help Desk ticket — answered by AI first and escalated to a person when needed, with billing and cancellation self-service in the client area. What we do not provide is web development support for the site you build, and that is the trade that lets the price be £0.99 rather than £5.
Do I need a card to start?
No. You aren’t asked for payment details when you sign up, and nothing is charged during the 30 days. You only pay if you decide to keep the hosting, by paying the first £0.99 invoice yourself.
What happens after the 30 free days?
You’re emailed an invoice for £0.99. Pay it and your site carries on unchanged. If you don’t pay, the account is suspended 7 days after the invoice date and closed after 14, so download a backup first if you want your files. What happens on day 31
Does the free hosting include PHP and MySQL?
Yes. PHP 7.4 to 8.3 and a MySQL database with phpMyAdmin are included from day one, so WordPress, forums and your own PHP code all run during the trial. Free PHP and MySQL hosting
Is Traxio a UK hosting company?
Traxio is a UK-based business, run by a sole trader, with prices in pounds and terms under English law. Websites are hosted on our DirectAdmin platform in Montreal, Canada. Our hosting platform
Where can I host a website for free?
Permanently free hosts exist, but most pay for themselves with adverts on your site, a subdomain instead of your own domain, or tight limits. Traxio gives you the full hosting service free for your first 30 days, with no card and no adverts, and then it’s £0.99 a month to keep the site online. Free hosting compared
How can I start a website for free?
Sign up for Traxio without a card, point a domain you own at your account, then install WordPress in one click or upload your own files. The hosting costs nothing for the first 30 days, so the only cost to get started is the domain name. Your first website, in the right order
Can I host my website free for a month?
Yes. Your first 30 days are free, and it’s the complete service, so you can try the hosting properly before paying anything. If you keep the site, the first £0.99 invoice arrives at the end of the 30 days and you pay it yourself; if you don’t, nothing is charged.
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Comparing with a specific free host? See Traxio side by side with InfinityFree, ByetHost and WordPress.com, or every comparison. Building a website from scratch? Website hosting for your first site.
Try Traxio free for 30 days
Then £0.99 a month if you decide to stay. No card required to start.
Start your website freeWondering whether to pay at all? The free hosting versus paid comparison explains how permanently free hosting is funded and when it is genuinely the right answer, and is Traxio really free? sets out exactly what the 30 days include — including why taking no card details makes it a different offer from a normal free trial.