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WordPress Hosting
WordPress hosting that starts free
One-click WordPress on NVMe storage, current PHP and your own domain. Free for 30 days with no card details taken — then a flat £0.99 a month that is also the renewal price.
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.
The short version
Ordinary hosting, done properly, is WordPress hosting
WordPress runs roughly forty percent of the web, and it does not need special hosting to do it — it needs ordinary shared hosting done properly: fast storage, a current PHP version, a real database, and an installer that removes the fiddly first hour. That is exactly what this plan is. We do not sell a separate “WordPress plan” at a higher price, because WordPress does not cost us more to host.
The install itself is a one-click Softaculous job — database created, files copied, admin account set up, all from one form in about five minutes. From there it is the same self-hosted WordPress that powers most serious independent sites: every plugin in the directory, any theme from anywhere, and a site you can export and move whenever you like.
PHP 8.3, switchable per domain
Current PHP is the single biggest server-side speed factor for WordPress. Switch versions per domain in the panel if a plugin lags behind.
Softaculous one-click installs
Install, clone, back up and auto-update WordPress from the panel. The same installer covers 400+ other applications when you need them.
Free SSL, automatic
Certificates issue and renew on their own once your domain points here. No paid-certificate upsell, because basic SSL has been free industry-wide for years.
Email on your domain
Mailboxes, forwarders and the SPF/DKIM records that keep hello@yoursite out of spam folders — included, not unbundled.
Yours to take away
A self-hosted WordPress site is files plus a database. Export both at any time; no platform lock, no export fee, no permission needed.
From zero to dashboard
Live in four steps
1
Start the free 30 days
No card details. You get a full DirectAdmin account on your own domain — the trial and the paid product are the same thing.
2
Point your domain here
Update nameservers at your registrar; propagation is usually under an hour. The exact records are here.
3
One-click install WordPress
Softaculous → WordPress → Install. Pick your admin username and a strong password; skip the bundled themes for now.
4
Write before you theme
Permalinks to “Post name”, delete the sample content, publish something real. The site that gets read is the one with something on it.
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
Is this managed WordPress hosting?
No, and we would rather say so than blur the term. This is shared hosting on which WordPress installs in one click and runs well — you (or automatic updates) handle plugin and core updates. Managed WordPress, where someone else operates the site for you, is a different product at five to twenty times the price. For most small sites, the few minutes a month of upkeep does not justify that multiple.
Is WordPress itself free?
Yes — the software from wordpress.org is open source and costs nothing at any scale. What you pay for is somewhere to run it. Here that is 30 days free and then £0.99 a month. Be careful not to confuse this with WordPress.com, the commercial platform, where features the software already has are unlocked by subscription tier — we compare the two honestly here.
How does the one-click install actually work?
Softaculous, included in every account, creates the database, copies the files, and sets up your admin user from one form. It takes under five minutes from a fresh account to the WordPress dashboard, and it can keep core, themes and plugins updated on a schedule afterwards. The step-by-step guide shows every screen.
Will £0.99 hosting be fast enough for WordPress?
For a typical blog, portfolio or small business site, comfortably — the plan runs on NVMe storage and current PHP (8.3 available per domain), which are the two server-side factors WordPress actually notices. What it is not sized for is a high-traffic shop or a site with heavy page-builder stacks; we publish the full resource limits so you can judge against your real needs rather than our adjectives.
Can I bring an existing WordPress site here?
Yes. Copy the files, import the database, update wp-config.php, and test on our server before changing DNS — the migration guide walks the whole sequence, and the 30 free days exist precisely so you can verify everything works before paying anything.