One plan. Free for 30 days, then 99p a month.
DirectAdmin, Softaculous, NVMe storage and free SSL — free for your first 30 days, then £0.99/month. No setup fee, no minimum term, and no price rise at renewal.
Hosting plan
Traxio Free Start
We stopped running four tiers. There is one plan, it does everything, and it costs less than a coffee per year.
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
Prices in GBP. Resource use is subject to our Acceptable Use Policy.
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.
Exactly what is included
We used to run four tiers. Now there is one, so instead of a comparison table here is the complete specification — including the parts that are limits rather than features.
| Specification | Traxio Free Start |
|---|---|
| Price | Free for 30 days, then £0.99/month |
| Setup fee | None |
| Minimum term | None — billed monthly |
| Storage | 5GB NVMe SSD |
| Bandwidth | 10GB per month |
| Websites | 1 primary domain (bring your own) |
| Subdomains | Unlimited |
| Control panel | DirectAdmin (Evolution) |
| One-click installs | Softaculous, 400+ applications |
| PHP | 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 — switchable per domain |
| Databases | MySQL / MariaDB with phpMyAdmin |
| SSL certificate | Free, auto-issued and auto-renewed |
| Email accounts | Included, on your own domain |
| File access | File manager, FTP and SFTP |
| Cron jobs | Yes, from one-minute intervals |
| Backups | Self-service, generated and downloaded from the panel |
| Domain registration | Not offered — bring your own |
| Node.js / Python / Ruby | Not supported |
| Support model | Community-powered (no one-to-one ticket desk for site help) |
| Server location | Montreal, Canada |
What happens after the 30 days
The most common complaint about cheap hosting is what happens at renewal. Here is ours, in advance.
Day 1–30: free, no card
A complete hosting account with nothing held back, and no payment details asked for. No feature is disabled during the trial, because the trial and the paid plan are the same product.
Day 31 onwards: your choice
Add a payment method and the account continues unchanged at £0.99/month. Do nothing and it simply lapses — you cannot be charged for forgetting to cancel.
Year 2 and beyond: still £0.99
No renewal increase. The industry pattern of a cheap first term followed by a much higher rate is exactly the thing we are trying not to copy.
Leaving is easy
Cancel from the client area at any time. Take a full DirectAdmin backup with you — most other DirectAdmin hosts will restore it directly.