Every WordPress site has a Tuesday afternoon where a plugin update takes it down. Ours don't. Clone to staging, apply the update there, check it, then deploy in one click — while the live site carries on serving visitors.
Managed WordPress hosting is hosting that absorbs the work WordPress creates, instead of handing it to you. Staging, one-click deploy, server-level caching, core updates, malware scanning and daily backups are part of the platform — not plugins you install, configure and hope keep working.
InstaHost managed WordPress starts at £3.99/mo for one site, £9.99 for three and £17.99 for ten. Every plan includes staging, a free CDN, free wildcard SSL, 30-day timeline backups and free migration. The platform has run on 100% renewable energy since 1996.
A copy of each site to break safely. Update it, look at it, deploy it. Your visitors never see the middle step.
See the deploy line →Caching runs at the server and at the CDN edge. Nothing to install, nothing to configure, nothing to conflict.
How it's fast →Files, database and email backed up together, daily. Restore the whole site to any day in the last month.
What's covered →Free migration from any host. We build it here, check it here, then switch DNS. Your old site stays up throughout.
The four steps →The single most common way a WordPress site goes down is an update applied straight to production. Managed hosting should make that impossible to do by accident. Here's the order of operations.
Deploy — one click, seconds, reversible
Serving visitors throughout. Nothing here changes until you deploy — and if the deploy is still wrong, timeline backups put the site back to any of the last 30 days in two clicks. Staging is there so you rarely need that. Backups are there for when you do.
Staging is on every plan, including the £3.99 one. It's the feature that stops a bad Tuesday becoming a bad week, which makes it a strange thing to reserve for customers paying £80 a month.
Every plan gets the same platform: staging, caching, backups, CDN, SSL, WP-CLI and SSH. What changes between them is how many sites you run and how much room they get.
Starter
One site, looked after properly. A business site, a shop, a blog that matters.
£39.90/yr
£3.99/mo billed annually · saves £7.98
Renews at the same rate. Always.
Business
A main site plus the two you keep meaning to tidy up. Most businesses land here.
£99.90/yr
£9.99/mo billed annually · saves £19.98
Renews at the same rate. Always.
Agency
Ten client sites, ten staging copies, one dashboard. Update them all from one screen.
£179.90/yr
£17.99/mo billed annually · saves £35.98
Renews at the same rate. Always.
On every plan, including the £3.99 one:
Prices exclude VAT. Pay monthly or annually — annual is ten months' price for twelve months' hosting. Whichever you choose is what you renew at: no introductory rate, no year-two jump. Running more than ten sites, or need root access? That's cloud hosting or a VPS, and we'll say so rather than sell you a plan that doesn't fit.
Most WordPress speed advice is a list of things to install. Ours is a list of things you don't have to.
Pages are cached by the server and again at the CDN edge, close to the visitor. Because it sits below WordPress, it works on the first request — and there's no plugin to conflict with the next one you install.
We built and run our own edge network. Static files and cached pages are served from the location nearest your visitor, with no separate subscription and no third party sitting in the request path.
PHP-FPM and OPcache configured for how WordPress actually behaves, not left at distribution defaults. Switch PHP version per site from the control panel when a legacy plugin needs an older one.
PHP workers scale automatically as concurrent visitors arrive, so a busy morning doesn't leave people waiting behind each other. No worker count to guess at, no LVE ceiling to hit.
Your WordPress site runs on the whole platform rather than one machine. Load rebalances in real time, so a neighbour's traffic spike is their problem and not yours.
WordPress is database-heavy — every page view is queries. MySQL runs on enterprise SSD with redundancy and automatic failover, which is where the difference shows on an admin screen.
Not because it's badly built — because it's everywhere. Forty per cent of the web runs on it, which makes one working exploit worth an enormous amount. The defence belongs in the platform, not in a plugin the site owner has to remember to renew.
Core security releases are applied automatically. Plugin and theme updates land on staging first, because those are the ones that break sites — and a site taken down by its own update is offline just as surely as one taken down by an attacker.
Free, on every plan, however many sites. Your current site stays online the whole time — nothing changes for your visitors until the last step, and that step is yours.
If you'd rather do it yourself, WP-CLI, SSH, SFTP and phpMyAdmin are all available and our support team will talk you through it. Most people would rather we did it.
Not a pivot, not a rebrand, and not a badge bought last year. We were doing this when there was no market for it and nobody asking. Every figure below can be checked.
Managed WordPress hosting absorbs the work WordPress creates, instead of handing it to you. Staging, one-click deploy, server-level caching, core updates, malware scanning and daily backups are part of the platform here — not plugins you install, configure and hope keep working. Ordinary hosting gives you a server and a database and leaves the rest to you.
Yes — that's the point of the plan. Every site gets a staging environment. Clone the live site, apply the update on the copy, check the pages that matter, then deploy in one click. Your live site keeps serving visitors throughout and doesn't change until you say so.
Starter hosts 1, Business hosts 3, Agency hosts 10. Each site gets its own staging environment, its own SSL certificate and its own backup timeline — the counts scale together, so the third site on a Business plan isn't a second-class one. You can move up a plan at any time, with no downtime.
Monthly: Starter £3.99/mo, Business £9.99/mo, Agency £17.99/mo. Annually: £39.90, £99.90 and £179.90. Biennially: £57.46, £143.85 and £259.05. Prices exclude VAT.
The annual price is ten times the monthly one, so twelve months costs the same as ten. Biennial billing gives a 40% discount across 24 months. Whichever you pick is what you renew at — no introductory rate, no year-two jump, no countdown timer.
Yes, free, with no downtime. We move files, database, email and DNS from cPanel/WHM, Plesk, Fasthosts, Heart Internet or another WordPress host. We build the copy here and you check it before anything is switched — your old site stays live until you're happy.
Roll it back. Every account has timeline backups going back 30 days, taken daily, with files, database and email captured together. Restore the whole site to any of those days in two clicks, or ask support and we'll do it. Staging means this rarely comes up; backups mean it doesn't matter when it does.
No — and we'd rather you didn't. Caching runs at the server and at the edge of the Insta Global CDN, below WordPress, so it works on the first request. Stacking a caching plugin on top usually makes a site slower, because the two layers spend their time invalidating each other.
New sites default to PHP 8.4, on a PHP-FPM and OPcache stack tuned for WordPress rather than left at defaults. You can switch version per site from the control panel yourself — no ticket needed — which matters when a legacy plugin pins an older release.
Yes, on every plan — not just the top one. WP-CLI, SSH, SFTP, Git deployment, scheduled tasks and direct database access are all available. Managed here means the routine work is done for you, not that the door is locked.
No. Under the Flexible Limit Control Guarantee we average usage over time, keep you online, and get in touch to talk about it. A viral post, a launch, a press mention — no charge and no forced upgrade. PHP workers scale automatically, so a busy day doesn't queue your visitors behind each other.
Yes — 10 GB mailboxes, 10 on Starter, 25 on Business, 100 on Agency, with webmail, unlimited forwarders, spam and virus filtering, and DKIM, SPF and DMARC set up. Email runs on separate infrastructure from the web servers, so a busy site never delays your mail.
Yes — 100% renewable since 1996. Data centres are ISO 14001 certified and run at PUE 1.2 against an industry average around 1.5. We plant a tree for every account through Ecologi and put 1% of revenue into carbon removal. There are 9,300 WordPress sites on the platform, all of them running on it.
Free migration from any host, no downtime, and you approve the switch. If it doesn't suit you, leave — we won't hold your domain hostage.