Paying too much for opaque hosting? Our managed Umbraco Cloud is £99 a month all-in, our own servers £149 a site, with patching and verified backups included.
The hosting invoice arrives every month, and every month it is a little hard to say what it is for. A server, somewhere. Some acronyms. Perhaps a support allowance nobody has ever drawn on. The number was set years ago by an agency you may no longer work with, it has crept upward since, and when you ask what you are actually getting, the answer takes a while and does not quite land.
Website hosting has a pricing problem: buyers cannot see inside it, so sellers are rarely pressed on it. Agency markups hide inside pass-through bills. Sites sit on infrastructure sized for a launch-day estimate nobody revisited. And the opposite failure is just as common: a bargain host where no one patches, monitors or verifies anything, which is not a lower price, it is a different product.
Our approach is to publish the numbers and let you compare. Managed Umbraco Cloud at £99 a month all-in. Our own servers at £149 per site per month. What is included is written down, and what is not costs nothing to ask about.
Send us your current hosting invoice and we will translate it: what each line actually buys, what is markup, and what is missing. Sometimes the verdict is that your deal is fine. We will say so.
Most business sites fit managed Umbraco Cloud at £99 a month all-in. Sites that need more get our own servers at £149, or a dedicated server priced on request. You pay for the size you are, not the size someone once guessed.
The site is stood up on the new hosting, tested against the live one, and switched over without downtime. Your visitors never see the move happen.
Security patches within 48 hours of release, monitoring, and backups verified by test restores are in the monthly price, not an upsell. Cheap hosting without these is a deferred bill.
Three places, usually. The first is markup: hosting resold through an agency often carries a margin that survives long after the agency's involvement has faded to invoice-sending. The second is oversizing: infrastructure specified for a hoped-for traffic level that never arrived, renewed annually out of inertia. The third is bundling confusion, where hosting, support and licence costs blur into one number nobody can decompose, so nobody ever challenges it. An honest hosting price is boring: £99 a month all-in for managed Umbraco Cloud on the Starter plan, including the Cloud fee and an hour of support; Cloud Standard and above at cost plus the same £99 managed service; £149 per site per month on our own servers; dedicated kit priced on request. The full breakdown is on our Umbraco hosting page.
We will also tell you when cheap is the expensive option. Hosting stripped of patching, monitoring and verified backups transfers those jobs to your team, or to nobody, and an unpatched CMS is how small invoices become large incidents. If your current bill is high because it genuinely includes proper management, the fix may be modest. If it is high and includes none of that, you are paying twice: once in fees, once in risk. Our FAQ answers on what Umbraco hosting costs and whether you have to use Umbraco Cloud go deeper on both points.
For sites with heavier infrastructure needs, our infrastructure and DevOps services cover the complex end properly. And if you want the two-minute version: send us your current invoice, and we will tell you what the same site costs with us, or that you already have a good deal. Either answer is free.
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An Umbraco Silver Partner agency in Llandudno, North Wales and the Isle of Man, building and looking after Umbraco and .NET websites for businesses and agencies across the UK and beyond. Simon Antony is a brand of Simplepage Ltd.
Maesgwyn, 3 Claremont rd,
Llandudno, North Wales, LL30 2UF