24 comparisons
Us, against the hosts you're also considering
Comparison pages written by a host are usually a tick chart where one column mysteriously wins every row. These aren't that. Every price is quoted from the other company's own pricing page with the date we read it, and every page has a section on what they do better — because on several of these, they genuinely do.
Web hosting
vs 123 Reg Take us and point the domain here — you keep the domain where it is and stop eating a 250% increase on the renewal date. Staying put at 123 Reg only makes sense if one login and one bill genuinely matter more than the money.
vs 34SP.com Take us if the price gap matters, or if you want the host to own the network and the hardware underneath you. 34SP.com make sense if you specifically need their unusually generous mailbox and storage allowances, or a support team that picks up the phone.
vs Bluehost Take us if you already know what WordPress is and you'd rather not pay $9.99 a month for it in year four. Bluehost makes sense for exactly one case — a first site, where the shortest distance between a card payment and a live blog is worth more than the renewal price.
vs Fasthosts Take us if you'd rather pay one flat price with no intro period to fall off, on a network we run ourselves, AS203861. Fasthosts make sense if you need a lot of storage in a Tier IV-certified UK facility and you've read the standard rate rather than the headline.
vs GoDaddy Take us if you care what the second invoice says, because ours is the same as the first. GoDaddy is the answer only if a domain, email and hosting on one bill with a 24/7 phone line behind it outweighs what that bill turns into.
vs Hostinger Take us if you want a price that doesn't triple on renewal and no money at risk beyond this month. Hostinger are cheaper than us and it isn't close — provided you're happy to hand over four years of hosting money today.
vs IONOS Take us if you'd rather pay one steady price forever than £1 now and £9 in thirteen months. IONOS win if you want a domain, mailboxes and a phone number you can ring bundled into the price — we sell none of that.
vs Krystal Take us if you want the same honest monthly billing at less than half the entry price, on a network your host runs itself. Krystal are the call if audited environmental credentials or 4-hourly backups on the bigger plans are what you're actually buying.
vs Namecheap Take us if you want daily backups you can restore yourself, a network you can inspect, and support from the people who run the hardware. Namecheap make sense if your domains already live there and you want the hosting on the same login for very little money.
vs SiteGround Take us if you'd rather pay one honest rate forever, in London or Stockholm, on a network we run ourselves. SiteGround is a polished, well-tuned WordPress platform, and worth it if you've genuinely budgeted for the renewal price rather than the sticker.
VPS hosting
vs Contabo Take us if you need the performance you paid for to be there when your traffic arrives. Contabo win on RAM and cores per pound, which is worth having only if your workload can shrug off a slow day.
vs Hetzner Cloud Come to us when you want dedicated vCPU without stepping up to their CCX tier, or you need the machine in Amsterdam or Stockholm. Hetzner are the better call if your users are in Germany or Finland and a shared vCPU genuinely suits the workload.
vs netcup Take us if you want CPU that isn't oversubscribed, a 10 Gbit port and a price that doesn't move when you pick a data centre. netcup's ECC RAM and NVMe per euro are hard to argue with, if a twelve-month commitment doesn't bother you.
vs noez.de Take us if you want NVMe, a 10 Gbit port and traffic you never have to think about. noez are the pick for a Linux container at pocket-change prices, or a 5.7 GHz box for a single-threaded game server.
vs OVHcloud Take us when the port speed, the CPU you're guaranteed or a same-day human reply are what the machine is actually for. OVHcloud beat us on price and on the sheer breadth of what sits around the server, so take them if a cheap VPS from a very large company with an SLA attached is the whole requirement.
vs Scaleway Take us if you want one machine at one price, with the NVMe, the IPv4 and a 10 Gbit port already inside the number. Scaleway are right if you're building on a cloud platform and the VM is just one piece of it.
Dedicated servers
vs Hetzner Dedicated Come to us when you need ECC, a 10 Gbit port, a console you can open yourself at 3am, or a machine in Stockholm. The auction is the cheaper answer if your workload can live with used consumer hardware in Germany or Finland on a 1 Gbit port.
vs iomart If you just want a UK server without the conversation, put RapidSwitch's published list next to ours and pick on port speed and panel. iomart are built for a contract, an account team and a compliance review, and we aren't.
vs Leaseweb Take us if you'd rather have a fast port, a console you control, and a price that doesn't change when the promotion ends. Leaseweb win if you need a specific chassis in a specific city with metered traffic and an hour to delivery.
vs OVHcloud Bare Metal Come to us for a 10 Gbit port, a console in the panel and nothing added to the first invoice. OVHcloud Eco is hard to argue with for a cheap always-on box in Europe, if you don't mind a setup fee and a 500 Mbps port.
Cloud
vs Akamai Cloud (Linode) Take us if you want the cheapest honest always-on machine with cores that are actually yours, in Amsterdam or Stockholm. Akamai are the answer if you want a cloud platform and global reach, because we sell none of that.
vs Amazon Lightsail For a standalone always-on server, especially one serving real traffic, we're cheaper per core with no $0.09/GB meter waiting past the allowance. Lightsail only wins if you're already inside AWS and expect to want VPC peering, IAM, RDS or EC2 later.
vs DigitalOcean If what you need is one or two always-on Linux machines with cores that don't wobble, we're cheaper and faster per pound. Stay on DigitalOcean if your application genuinely leans on their managed databases, object storage, load balancer or Kubernetes.
vs Vultr Pick us if you're running one or two always-on servers in the UK or Sweden and you want CPU that isn't oversubscribed and a 10 Gbit port on every plan. Vultr win if you need locations we don't have, hourly billing, or the managed pieces around the machine.
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