Hosting for your website

Website hosting, free for 30 days, then 99p a month

Put a personal site, portfolio, hobby page or club website online on your own domain. Upload your own files or install a CMS, with free SSL, PHP, MySQL and an email address to match. Your first 30 days are free, with no card.

Create your website freeThree ways to build it
  • No card to start
  • 30 days free
  • Then £0.99/month
  • No adverts on your site

Three ways to build your website

Upload your own files

Made a site in a code editor or exported one from a design tool? Upload the files to public_html and it’s live.

Install a CMS

WordPress, Joomla and other content management systems install from Softaculous, with visual editors.

Learn as you go

Write HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL on a real server. A good place to learn how websites actually work.

Who it’s for

A personal website

Your own corner of the web at yourname.co.uk.

A portfolio

Your work at an address you control, that still works when it’s on your CV.

A club or group

Fixtures, news and photos for a club, society or team.

A hobby site

Collections, family history, recipes: the site you’ve been meaning to make.

Students and learners

Coursework, projects and your first steps with PHP and MySQL.

Testing an idea

Put an idea in front of real people for 30 days before you spend anything.

What’s included

Your website online in four steps

  1. Have a domain ready

    Any domain you already own.

    Use your own domain

  2. Start your free 30 days

    No card needed.

    How it works

  3. Point your domain

    Update the nameservers at your registrar.

    Connect your domain

  4. Upload or install

    Upload files or install a CMS.

    Upload filesFirst website checklist

Free to start. 99p to keep. Here’s why.

Traxio isn’t free forever, and we’d rather say so on the first screen than in the small print. Your first 30 days are free, with no card details asked for. If you keep the site, it’s £0.99 a month after that, the same price every year.

Permanently free hosting has to be paid for somehow: adverts on your site, a subdomain instead of your own address, tight resource limits, no email, or a free plan designed to push you towards an expensive upgrade. Many free hosts are good, and if free is enough for you for good, use one. Our comparisons say which.

Traxio takes the other route. For 99p a month (£11.88 a year) you get proper shared hosting: DirectAdmin, your own domain, an email account, daily offsite backups and no adverts, ever. Not a cut-down free plan, and not a teaser price that triples at renewal.

Why it costs 99p

What it costs

One hosting service and one price, whatever you build.

First 30 days£0

The complete hosting service. No card needed to start.

If you keep it£0.99/month

Same hosting, same price at renewal. £11.88 a year.

  • 3GB NVMe SSD and 100GB of bandwidth a month
  • Your own domain, with free SSL
  • DirectAdmin and Softaculous one-click installs
  • An email account on your domain
  • Daily offsite backups, cron jobs and SSH
  • Node.js, Python, WP-CLI and Redis included

No setup fee. No VAT or card fees added (Traxio isn’t VAT-registered). Cancel in the client area whenever you like. Full specification

Website hosting questions

Is the website hosting free?

Your first 30 days are free, with no card needed and the complete service. If you keep the site, it’s £0.99 a month after that. It isn’t free forever; in exchange there are no adverts, no subdomain and no cut-down free plan.

Can I upload a website I’ve built myself?

Yes. Upload HTML, CSS, JavaScript and images with DirectAdmin’s File Manager, FTP or SFTP. Put the files in public_html and your site is live. What public_html is

Is there a drag-and-drop website builder?

Not as such. You install a content management system such as WordPress, which has a visual editor, or upload a site you made elsewhere. If you want a pure drag-and-drop builder with no setup, a website builder service may suit you better. Website builder or web hosting?

Do I need a domain?

Yes. Hosting doesn’t include one, so bring a domain you already own or register one with any registrar. Using your own domain

Do I get email too?

Yes: one email account on your own domain is included, with extra accounts at £0.99 each, one-off.

Start your website free.
Stay for 99p.

Proper shared hosting on your own domain. First 30 days free, then £0.99 a month.

Create your website freeHow it works
  • £0 today
  • No card required
  • £0.99/month afterwards
  • Cancel anytime

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