PRODUCT NAME: Web Hosting UK (WHUK)
Overall Ranking: 9 out of 10
Price: Personal Hosting: $4.25 per month / Business Hosting: $16.71 per month / Enterprise Hosting: $61.31 per month
Owners: Andrew King
Website: www.webhosting.uk.com
INTRODUCTION
Web Hosting UK (WHUK) was established in 2001 with a registered office in Leeds in the UK (United Kingdom) and servers located in the Blue Square Data Centre based in Maidenhead , UK. One of the unique qualities about WHUK is that all of the client’s websites are hosted on their own servers with custom-built features to aid in stability, performance, speed and guaranteed uptime for the websites. WHUK has a community forum allowing their customers to share ideas and exchange opinions as well as provide feedback to WHUK for areas of improvement.
There are three separate hosting packages to choose from depending on your need level from owning a personal blog to running a large corporation requiring a dedicated server and/or private cloud
hosting. WHUK guarantees a 99.95% uptime. They have 24/7 365 days a year support through their customer client area, Live Chat and phone support. I tested out their Live Chat and promptly received a friendly representative by the name of Stuart who answered my question with professionalism and kindness and gave me his direct email and Skype contact information at the conclusion of the chat. I really appreciated this because when I tested the LiveChat feature for other web hosting reviews I did to include InterServer and I was not able to connect to the LiveChat and when I sent an email to inquire about the issue, it took five days before I received a reply from InterServer.
WHUK has won a number of awards to include the Top Shared Host by FreeWebSpace.org and The Badge of Excellence by Host Advice during the month of September 2014. One area I have to ding them for is WHUK claims to have won the Best UK Host by top5bestwebhosting.com but when I tried to visit top5bestwebhosting.com, the website was either down or perhaps no longer in existence. In all my reviews I post on my website, I take great strides in ensuring the most accurate and honest information on a company is presented. Therefore, I research all claims made by the company and will report any discrepancies I see.
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PROS / CONS
Pros
- 24/7 365 days a year technical support through customer client area, LiveChat and phone support
- Been around for 14 years as of the date of this review. Founded in 2001.
- Offers web hosting packages to suit every need level from the first-time webmaster to the large enterprise.
- Friendly and helpful representatives
- Award-winning achievements
- SSL Certifications
- Although not listed on their website, they offer colocation depending on your unit and power.
- Comprehensive and clean website with many features and options listed in a straight-forward format
- 30 day money back guarantee. Although many web hosting companies offer longer period to include 45 and 60 day money back guarantee.
- Affordable pricing, especially when presented with coupon codes (see above)
- Active community forum with several hundred people contributing
- Web Hosting Blog with helpful articles to include how to get more traffic to your website, uploading videos to YouTube, and more.
- Remote backup service plans available for additional charge
- WordPress Hosting available – most common web building platform
- Numerous tutorials available right off their primary website (but you will have to sign-in via your customer authentication)
- Offers a generous affiliate program with 60% commissions.
Cons
- Representatives only speak in English. If you are non-English speaker, you will run into communication problems.
- You cannot try it for free – no trial period
- Unable to verify certain awards they claimed to have won
WHO IT IS FOR?
WHUK is suited for anyone who needs anything from a domain registration, to web hosting via either shared or cloud hosting, website builder, SSL certification, or off-site backup solutions. WHUK has three distinct packages to meet the needs of you and your website. If you are a first-time beginning webmaster building your own personal blog, you will find what you need with the first low-end package known as personal hosting. If you are an entrepreneur, web developer or freelancer, you would be better suited for the next level up with is called business hosting. If, however, you are running a large corporation and need a powerful intel processor you will want to sign up for the enterprise hosting where you can have Dell and Hewlett Packard dedicated servers.
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TRAINING/TOOLS OVERVIEW
Although you need to be signed into the client area, WHUK seems to have a video tutorial in almost every category that you can image to include the following;
- Web Hosting Control Panel
- Server Virtualization
- Ecommerce Hosting
- Open Source Scripts
- Webmail
- Sitebuilder
- Web Host Billing
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- DNS (Domain Name Server)
- Hosting Account Management
- Web Designing
I did not see any video tutorials on Search Engine Optimization and Keyword Research.
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SUPPORT
The support you receive at WHUL seems to be top notch. All of the reviews I have read gave glowing remarks on the helpfulness, friendliness and prompt attention to every question and issue. In some of my web hosting reviews I researched and shared on this website, I spoke about how many terrible reviews some of the web hosting companies have received mostly due to their poor customer support. But with WHUK, not only was I not able to find a single negative review regarding their customer support, but all the reviews gave highly complimentary remarks on the friendliness and cordiality of all the support staff.
FINAL OPINION/VERDICT
My final opinion is that WHUL is a legitimate hosting company with an exceedingly high amount of positive reviews. If you are looking for domain registration and reliable web hosting appropriate for the higher-end needs to include the enterprise hosting, I think WHUK is a great choice. If you are brand new to website design and want to learn step-by-step how easy you can turn your passion into a passive income while working from home, check out my #1 recommendation.
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20 thoughts on “Review of Web Hosting UK (WHUK)”
Hey Steph
thanks for some awesome and detailed info on web hosting UK.
I have done my fair share of changes to hosting lately and will likey move again in a couple of months again.
What’s your take on SERP and changing hosting or domain names?
Also wondering how Web hosting uk would compare to Hostgator and godaddy?
Thanks for your awesome efforts!
Cheers,
Marc Parsons
Hi Marc:
Thank you for checking out my review of WHUK. I too have changed web hosting companies from time to time. I think it can be a little risky changing domain names, because if someone remembers your old domain and has it bookmarked and you change it, you might lose that reader unless you do a re-direct. I have heard good things about GoDaddy. They are certainly popular. I am not as familiar with HostGator but that is one I plan on reading up on.
Steph
Steph
Thank you for this information. I have never heard of this web hosting provider, but they look legit and of quite good quality. Do they provide hosting services outside the UK as well? And do you mind me asking what “colocation” means? What’s your experience with hosting WordPress sites with this company? I am still new to WordPress and still learning and could use some help with that. I have a WordPress site and I wonder if I should shift my servers to WHUK. I need a place that has great training on WordPress. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!
Hi Gin:
Thank you for visiting my website today. In answer to your question about WHUK services outside the UK, yes you can access their services outside the UK. They are available everywhere. Colocation is a data center facility where a business or company can rent space for servers and other computing hardware. Great question and many people do not know that. I perhaps should include that information in this review.
WordPress is handled very well at WHUK. WordPress is easy to learn. You can check out my tutorial here. Most web hosting companies offer WordPress as a web building platform because it is so popular.
I hope to see you return soon. Keep in touch!
Steph
Beautifully written Steph. I have never heard of this company before being from Canada but it sounds like you have a winner there! well done
Thank you Peter. I am glad you enjoyed my review of WHUK. Please feel free to visit my other pages on this site as well.
Hi Steph,
Great Review! It is always important that there is some value and that the company you are going to part your money to is legit. Thanks for the info.
Julie
Thank you Julie. I agree it is important that the company you are wanting to do business with is legit. Be sure to check out my other web hosting reviews so you can make the right decision for your needs.
Looks from the information you provided that do offer quiet a bit for a decent price. It would be nicer if they offerd SEO training or tutorials though. Sometimes I guess you just arn’t going to get everything your looking for in one place.
Hi Debra:
You are right. It can be hard to get everything we want for a decent price. WHUK does offer an affordable price, but no they do not offer a keyword research or SEO training which is essential for all web development. Without keywords you cannot get decent traffic to your website. Thank you for checking out my review of WHUK (Web Hosting UK).
Steph
Thank you for great information and all of your website hosting reviews. Web hosting companies are very important but on same time are they different so this is very helpful.
Do you know, as I have been thinking for some time about InterServer, are their solutions for stores good to?
Hi Johann:
I am glad you found my web hosting reviews helpful. InterServer is a hosting company that I do recommend you check out. One of the things I liked about InterServer is that they give back to their community. Not many companies do that.
WHUK also has good points too which you should consider as well. Although they do not have as much training as other platforms that I write about here on my website such as Wealthy Affiliate, they are worth a look.
Steph
I’m very impressed that you had such a good experience with Live Chat. I’ve come across so many so-called ‘professional’ outfits with supposed Live Chat facilities that never seem to have anyone available when you need them.
I hadn’t heard of WHUK but they do appear to offer an excellent service at a very competitive price. I might switch over when my current providers account runs out.
Hi Eoinmc:
I do think you should certainly check into WHUK when your current providers account runs outs, because they do offer excellent services for a great price. Be sure to also give my other web hosting reviews a peak so to make sure you get the best fit for your needs.
Steph
Look like a good none expensive hosting. I used one for quite sometimes called Arvixe that is not that expensive either. In fact, it’s almost the same price. But I found out after a while that it was going down for a few minutes practically every day. And during those times I couldn’t have access to my website at all.
I look through the internet to see what others were saying about that hosting company and I found one guy that had the same problem I was having.
Have you experienced something similar with Whuk? Is it going down like that from day to day for several minutes? Or is it stable?
Hi Guy:
Thank you for checking out my review of WHUK. In answer to your question, WHUK has a guaranteed 99.95% uptime, so it should not be going down several minutes each day like you described Anixe was doing. I have never heard of Anixe. However, I am aware other hosting companies have had similar issues to include BlueHost which is very popular, but has mixed reviews throughout the internet.
I hope you come back soon and check out my other resources, reviews and computer tutorials.
Steph
Thank you for your review of WHUK. While it’s good that they have the 30 day money-back guarantee, I have to wonder why they wouldn’t have one that’s as long as other hosting companies. From your review, it looks like they have a good product overall.
Personally, I think hosting quality is of very great importance if someone plans to create a business online. I saw something about how they don’t offer a free keyword research tool. Which keyword tool do you recommend?
Thanks,
Bryan-
Hi Bryan:
Thank you for checking out my review of WHUK (Web Hosting UK). You are right about other hosting companies having a longer time frame for a money back option. You are correct in that they do not have a built-in keyword tool. As far as a keyword tool I recommend, check out my article on a FREE Keyword tool or my review of Jaaxy Pro or Jaaxy Enterprise. In addition, Wealthy Affiliate has a built-in keyword tool that comes with the FREE and premium membership fee.
Steph
Hi Steph,
Awesome and thorough review you have for us here about Web Hosting Uk.
It’s a legitimate hosting company that more advanced and experienced users should try but, yeah, SiteRubix is the ideal choice for those who are just starting out.
Thanks for this,
Louie
Hi Louie:
Thank you for checking out my review of Web Hosting UK (WHUK). I think WHUK is a great choice if you are running a corporation. However if you are interested in learning how to build a website, your best choice is SiteRubix.com through Wealthy Affiliate. Please come back and visit again soon.
Steph