A price that is also the renewal price
Free for 30 days, then £0.99 a month, and £0.99 a month after that. No introductory rate, no multi-year prepayment to unlock the headline figure, no setup fee. Why that price is sustainable.
Why choose Traxio?
Most hosting is sold on adjectives. This section is the argument for Traxio written as specifics — what the differences actually are, where they matter, and where they do not.
Four decisions, not four slogans
There are several hundred companies selling shared hosting in the UK, and on paper most of them offer the same thing: a control panel, some storage, PHP and a database. The differences that matter are almost never in the feature list. They are in the pricing structure, in what happens at renewal, in what the limits really are once you read past the word “unlimited”, and in what support will and will not do when you open a ticket.
Traxio is built around four decisions on exactly those points. They are not all advantages — two of them are things we removed, and one of them will rule us out for some people. That is the honest way to describe a £0.99 product.
The differences, stated as specifics
Limits published as numbers
3GB of NVMe storage and 100GB of bandwidth a month, stated on every page and in the terms. You can work out in advance whether that fits your site, which is not possible with “unlimited, subject to fair use”.
No card details for the free period
The 30 days start with no payment method on file. Nothing can auto-charge you, because there is nothing to charge. Exactly how the free period works.
Your domain stays yours
Hosting and domain registration are separate, so your address stays at a registrar you control and moving host is a DNS change, not a negotiation. Using your own domain.
The real control panel
DirectAdmin, not a cut-down dashboard: file manager, DNS editor, database admin, cron, per-domain PHP switching. The same panel professional hosts run. What DirectAdmin gives you.
A stated support boundary
Support covers the hosting and the server. It does not cover debugging the website you built. Saying so up front is fairer than discovering it mid-problem. The full scope.
The trade-offs, before you sign up
The two things we removed are worth naming, because removing things is not usually how hosting is marketed. There are no tiers — there used to be four and now there is one, so there is no upsell path and nothing is held back to make a higher plan look better. And there is no public support forum any more: support runs through a searchable knowledge base and then a ticket, which produces a documented answer rather than a wait to see whether another customer happens to know.
The thing that will rule us out for some people is the resource envelope. 3GB and 100GB a month is generous for a blog, a portfolio, a small business site or a starting forum. It is not enough for video or large file downloads, and we would rather say so on this page than let you find out on day twenty-nine.
Pick the question you actually have
Coming from free hosting?
The question is not whether free hosting works — sometimes it does. It is what the free host is getting out of the arrangement, and whether that cost lands on you or your visitors.
Traxio vs free hostingNever had hosting before?
The full path from “I have never done this” to a working site, including what DirectAdmin is for and what you will need to learn.
Is Traxio right for a beginner?Trying to work out if it fits?
Who this plan genuinely suits, who it does not, and the specific cases where spending more elsewhere is the right call.
Who Traxio is forSuspicious of the price?
How a hosting account can cost 99p a month without adverts, without a renewal spike and without cutting something you would miss.
Why it costs 99pWant to compare named hosts?
A provider-by-provider comparison against InfinityFree, WordPress.com and GitHub Pages, including where each of them beats us.
The honest comparisonJust want the specification?
Every published limit and figure in one table — storage, bandwidth, PHP versions, databases, what is not supported.
Full specificationThe questions people ask first
What is the catch with 99p hosting?
The catch is the scope, and it is published rather than buried. You get 3GB of storage and 100GB of bandwidth a month — real numbers, not “unlimited” with a fair-use clause — and support that covers the hosting rather than the website you build on it. There is no guaranteed response time and no phone line. Those trade-offs are what makes the price honest; the Help Desk page states all of them before you sign up rather than after.
Is the £0.99 an introductory price?
No. It is the ongoing price and the renewal price. The pattern this plan was built to reject is the one where hosting is advertised at £1.99 for a three-year prepayment and renews at £9.99 — a structure that looks cheap and is not. There is more detail on how the pricing works.
Do I have to give card details to try it?
No. The 30-day free period starts without any payment information, which means nothing can be charged automatically at the end of it. If you decide not to continue, the account simply lapses. That is a deliberate difference from a free trial that takes a card up front and relies on you remembering to cancel.
Who should not use Traxio?
Anyone who needs Ruby or root access, anyone whose site is heavy on video or large downloads, anyone running a busy shop, and anyone who needs a guaranteed support response time. The full assessment is here, including the cases where we would tell you to spend more elsewhere.
Try Traxio free for 30 days
Then £0.99 a month if you decide to stay. No card required to start.
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