WordPress Hosting Comparison
Mass-market hosting provider with a large UK customer base — primarily shared hosting with a managed WordPress tier.
Bottom line: IONOS offers very low entry prices but is a shared hosting platform with no meaningful WordPress management. WP Pro Host provides dedicated bare-metal infrastructure with genuine WordPress expertise.
£25/mo
Dedicated bare metal · All features included · No traffic limits
IONOS
£1/mo
Shared cloud, UK data centres
| Feature | WP Pro Host | IONOS |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | £25/mo | £1/mo (intro only) |
| Renewal price | £25/mo (fixed) | £6–£14/mo |
| Infrastructure | Dedicated bare metal | Shared cloud |
| Resource isolation | Fully isolated | Shared — noisy neighbours |
| Web server | LiteSpeed Enterprise | Apache |
| Managed WordPress | Full management | Basic — mostly self-serve |
| Staging environment | All plans | Not included |
| Daily backups | All plans — included | Extra cost |
| CDN | QUIC.cloud — included | Cloudflare (add-on) |
| Malware scanning & removal | Included free | SiteLock add-on (paid) |
| WAF | Included free | Paid add-on |
| Plugin & theme updates | Managed — included | Manual — your responsibility |
| Free migration | ||
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% published | 99.9% (limited compensation) |
| UK-based support | ||
| Traffic overage charges | None | Yes on some plans |
| Published scaling policy |
* Competitor information based on published pricing and feature pages. Prices may vary.
Your resources are not shared. Bare-metal Ryzen 9 7950X3D with dedicated vCPUs, ECC RAM, and NVMe RAID -- not a slice of someone else's cloud.
Over £330/mo of tools are bundled into every plan. CDN, WAF, backups, malware scanning, plugin updates -- no itemised add-on invoices.
Published scaling policy, defined resource allocations, no traffic overage charges. You know exactly what you're paying and what you're getting.
Engineers who understand WordPress, available when UK businesses need them. Not a first-line script-reader in a distant time zone.
IONOS's managed WordPress tier handles basic WordPress installation and some automatic updates, but it is not comparable to a fully managed service. You are still responsible for plugin management, security hardening, performance optimisation, and support for WordPress-specific issues. WP Pro Host handles all of this as part of the service.
IONOS promotional pricing applies to the first year only. Renewal prices are typically 4–8× the introductory rate. WP Pro Host pricing is fixed — the price you sign up at is the price you pay at renewal.
IONOS does not include staging environments on their WordPress hosting plans. WP Pro Host includes staging on every plan, including Launch at £25/mo.
Yes. WP Pro Host handles the full migration from IONOS including files, database, DNS transition, and SSL setup — at no cost. Average migration is completed in under 24 hours.
Free migration included. We handle DNS, SSL, databases, and content. Average migration completed in under 24 hours.