Craft CMS Hosting

Our hosting supports the current Craft 5 release, which requires PHP 8.2 or above, as well as Craft 4, which needs PHP 8.0.2 or above. Craft works with MySQL 8, MariaDB 10.5 or above and PostgreSQL, all of which our platform can provide. The PHP version selector in cPanel lets you pick a supported release to match your Craft version.

Craft includes a built-in template caching tag that you can wrap around expensive parts of your templates, and it benefits from PHP OPcache, which our servers enable by default. Premium accounts can also use Redis for data and query caching, which keeps busy Craft sites responsive. Combine these with optimised images for the best results.

Craft CMS is a commercial product and the licence is separate from your hosting. The Solo edition is free and suits personal or single-author projects, while the Pro edition is a paid licence bought from Craft for sites that need more features and user accounts. Our hosting does not include the Craft licence, so you purchase the edition you need directly from Craft.

Yes. Because Craft is installed and updated through Composer, you need SSH access to run commands on the server. All of our plans include SSH access, and you can also use the Craft console commands for tasks such as running migrations and clearing caches. This gives you the full developer workflow the platform is designed around.

Yes. Our free migration service can move your existing Craft site, including files, database and configuration, from your current host. Get in touch once your account is active and we'll aim for a smooth transition with minimal downtime.

Yes. You can deploy Craft over SSH or Git, run Composer with a single command and wire up build pipelines for your front-end assets. SFTP and FTP are available too. This developer-first, DevOps-friendly deployment workflow is what Craft needs, unlike many hosting companies that only offer a basic control panel.

Yes. Your site is CDN-compatible, so you can put a CDN such as Cloudflare in front of it for faster load times and to serve uploaded assets and image transforms efficiently. A static caching plugin pairs well with a CDN for craft-specific performance.

Yes. Our Craft CMS web hosting runs on cloud hosting infrastructure in UK data centres, with the CPU and memory a Craft build needs. As a UK hosting provider and cloud provider, we run enterprise-grade hosting infrastructure on a resilient cloud network, a strong cloud server foundation for any CMS website. It is built around what Craft needs, not regular hosting retrofitted for it.

The best Craft CMS hosting matches a developer workflow to solid resources. For most builds our managed web server is the best host to start on, with caching and CPU headroom for developers and content teams. It works well as your best web host for a single site or several, and a new domain name is available at signup.

This is shared hosting for Craft on a managed web server, an affordable alternative to Craft Cloud. As your project grows beyond a single server you can move to a VPS, a private server or a dedicated server for more disk space and control. At that stage you can add load balancing to distribute traffic across multiple web servers for high availability, so the same provider scales with you.

Every plan includes email hosting on your domain, managed via the control panel, with predictable pricing and no surprises. Craft is a commercial CMS: the Solo edition is free, and Craft offers a free seven-day trial of Pro so you can test features before you buy. You can run Craft on any of our plans, and uptime is backed by our UK network.