Hi, I'm Joe. I run a no-nonsense WordPress hosting service from London. No corporate nonsense, no call centres, no ticket queues. You get hosted by me, managed by me, backed up by me.
Most of my clients are people I know personally, friends, local businesses, word of mouth. But if you've stumbled across this page, you're welcome to enquire. It stays personal by design.
All plans are yearly, keeping costs predictable for both of us. And one thing I feel strongly about: your domain is always yours. I'll have admin access to do the technical bits, but it's registered in your name, stays in your name, full stop. I recommend Cloudflare for domains. They charge at near-wholesale, so there's no funny markup.
- Simple, rarely-updated sites
- 3GB storage
- WordPress updates managed
- Let's Encrypt SSL secured
- London hosting
- Joe support
- Most business & personal sites
- 8GB storage
- WordPress updates managed
- Let's Encrypt SSL secured
- 30-day rolling backups
- cPanel access included
- London hosting
- Joe support
- High-traffic & demanding sites
- Unlimited storage (fair use)
- Unlimited bandwidth (fair use)
- WordPress updates managed
- Let's Encrypt SSL secured
- 30-day rolling backups
- cPanel access included
- London hosting
- 1h site content & updates/mo avg (12h/yr)
- Priority Joe support
WordPress Hosting
Managed London-based hosting. Updates, SSL, backups on mid & top plans. Joe handles it end to end.
Site Management
WordPress core and plugin updates handled without you needing to think about them. Things kept running.
Custom WP Themes
Bespoke WordPress theme development. Describe what you need and something will be built that actually fits.
Domain Management
Register and manage your domain. Cloudflare recommended: near-wholesale pricing, solid DNS. Always in your name.
YOUR DOMAIN ALWAYSEmail Setup
Professional email at your domain. Google Workspace configured end to end: MX records, SPF, DKIM, so mail doesn't land in spam. One of the most satisfying problems to fix properly.
Site Handover & Training
Inherited a WordPress site you don't fully understand? Joe walks you through what's there, how to use it, what not to touch, and what to do if something breaks. One session, remote or in person in London. No jargon.
90s Style Websites
Sites like this one, built for fun when time permits. No SLA. Just pixels and conviction.
FREE** 90s websites made free on request, when time permits. No guarantees on timeline. It's a vibe, not an SLA.
Most hosting packages bundle email in as an afterthought. cPanel mail works, but it's not what you'd use if you cared about deliverability or privacy. Here's an honest look at the options:
Not sure which fits? Mention it in your enquiry. It depends on your volume and priorities.
This is worth being explicit about, because the hosting industry has a poor track record on it: your domain is registered in your name, stays in your name, and can be pointed wherever you like at any time. Admin access is held purely to handle the technical work: DNS, SSL, subdomain setup. It is not leverage. It never will be.
Why Cloudflare for domain registration? Most registrars charge a retail markup on domains, sometimes significant. Cloudflare registers at near-wholesale (ICANN cost plus a small margin, publicly stated). No upsell on privacy protection, no dark patterns at renewal, genuinely good DNS infrastructure included free. It's just the honest choice. GoDaddy, Namecheap and others are fine but Cloudflare is what Joe recommends and uses personally.
If your domain is currently registered elsewhere and you want to move it, or if you'd rather keep it where it is and just point it here, both work. Mention it when you enquire.
Custom themes are built to fit properly rather than adapted from a generic template. If you need something bespoke and built from scratch, Joe can do that.
That said, custom theme work takes time and costs accordingly. If budget is a consideration (and it usually is) a well-chosen, customisable theme is a perfectly good option and often the smarter one. Joe is happy to help find something that fits your site, set it up and configure it so it actually looks like yours. No judgement on the route taken.
If you're already on a plan, theme work (custom or template-based) is quoted separately on request.
London, England
JoeHosting is run from London, UK. Servers are London-based, keeping your site fast for UK visitors and within UK data borders. Joe manages the server directly. No ambiguity, just Joe and a server in London.
Best connection: Know Joe already? Great. Don't? Drop an enquiry below. If the fit is right, welcome aboard.
The early web was a weird and wonderful place. Pages were ugly. Fonts were wrong. Under-construction GIFs were everywhere. You needed to download a plugin to play a sound. It was, objectively, a mess.
And yet, there was something there. You knew who made the page. It usually said. There was an email address at the bottom, sometimes a phone number. The person behind the site wasn't hiding behind a brand or a 48-hour support ticket window. They were just a person, like you.
The modern web is faster, smoother, and largely run by a handful of very large companies who have a complicated relationship with the concept of "your data." We've traded character for polish, and something intangible got lost along the way. Trust, maybe. The sense that you're dealing with a human.
We don't trust institutions the way we used to. Some of that's earned, they haven't always deserved it. We're more suspicious of each other online too, and again, the internet gave us good reasons for that suspicion alongside the bad ones.
JoeHosting can't fix any of that. It's a hosting service, not a philosophy department. But it is run by one person, with their name on it, who you can actually talk to. That's about as close to 1999 as you're going to get in 2025.
So: welcome. The under-construction GIF has been retired. But the spirit remains.
These are providers Joe actually uses or recommends. No affiliate links, no referral kickbacks. Just genuinely useful things.
Cloudflare
Register domains at near-wholesale pricing. No markup, no upsell pressure. Their free tier also gives you DNS management, DDoS protection, and a CDN that'll make your site faster overnight. Joe uses it on everything.
▶ cloudflare.comLet's Encrypt
The reason SSL is free on every JoeHosting plan. A non-profit certificate authority that issues free, auto-renewing SSL certificates. Before Let's Encrypt, SSL cost money. Now it doesn't. Worth knowing about.
▶ letsencrypt.orgGoogle Workspace
For your business email (@yourdomain.com). Google is better at email deliverability than any hosting company, and you get Docs, Drive, Meet thrown in. Joe recommends it over cPanel mail for anything serious.
▶ workspace.google.comWordfence
The most widely-used WordPress security plugin. Free tier covers firewall and malware scanning. Joe has it running on managed sites. Not a silver bullet. Keeping WordPress updated matters more. But a solid extra layer.
▶ wordfence.comWP Rocket
If your WordPress site feels slow, WP Rocket is the most effective caching and performance plugin Joe's used. It's paid (around £40/yr) but the speed improvement on a standard site is usually immediate and significant.
▶ wp-rocket.meGTmetrix
Paste your URL and get a detailed breakdown of what's making your site slow and how to fix it. Useful before and after any performance work. Free to use, no account needed for basic tests.
▶ gtmetrix.com