Website hosting is the service that will get your website online. Without web hosting services, your site is just a collection of files that can't be accessed by anyone! When you buy web hosting, you are provided with an allocated space on a server - which is a computer - to store all the files needed to run your website. The server will send those files through the internet to any website visitors wishing to access your site. For more information on our UK web hosting and global network, click here.

UK2’s affordable web hosting services are tailor‐made for small businesses, but other web hosting companies might be more focused on profit (for them) than on performance (for you). If your site’s traffic levels are increasing, you may find these companies have resource limitations that restrict your website's growth, causing content to load slowly. Since search engines downgrade websites which take more than a couple of seconds to display, it’s worth switching to a company that can put your content in front of your customers instantly. Have a chat with our support team to discuss how UK2’s affordable web hosting services can keep your site in the fast lane of the information superhighway.

Web hosting companies like UK2 store your website's data on a server in a data warehouse, and transfer it to anyone visiting your website. Without reliable web hosting services, your site can’t be viewed. It's important that your website hosting partner keeps your site online as much of the time as possible – at UK2, we have a service level agreement to keep your website live for 99.995 per cent of the time.

Absolutely! You can upload your web files via file transfer protocol (FTP) or directly from within your UK2 control panel. We can help you every step of the way, with support available to you 24/7/365.

Perhaps you want to explore what it means to have your own website but are working to a limited budget. UK2’s Affordable Web Hosting package is the answer. Our cheap web hosting services allow you to get your business online on a budget, starting at an incredible £1.99 per month. Cheap hosting plans are made for customers who are building their online presence and only require a limited amount of resources - why pay more for something you don’t need? Our Essential Hosting package may be cheap, yet it still provides quality.

Shared hosting is when multiple websites are hosted on the same server. It’s an affordable option because you’re splitting the purchase and maintenance costs of this hardware with other clients. The server will have plenty of bandwidth to distribute information for multiple clients at the same time, and content should be piped to site visitors almost instantly. If your business grows considerably, we can talk to you about more flexible options like dedicated hosting through our sister brands.