An aggressively priced budget shared host built around long prepay terms, with entry plans starting near a pound a month on a three-year commitment. Pennyloft offers standard cPanel, unlimited-branded bandwidth subject to a fair-use policy, and a one-click app installer. Servers are densely packed and support is ticket-first with chat available in business hours only. It suits static brochure sites, hobby blogs and anyone whose main constraint is budget rather than performance.
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My WordPress site is not big. Roughly 2k visits a month, cached, no bloated plugins. I still get "account exceeded resource limit" emails several times a week and during those windows visitors get a 503. Support's answer is always to upgrade to the next tier up. It feels less like a technical limit and more like a sales funnel. Speed is poor in the afternoons regardless.
Signed up at £1.19/mo on a 3 year term. Renewal quote came in at nearly £9/mo. That is not a discount expiring, that is a completely different product. When I queried it support just pasted the terms at me. I'd have respected it more if the real price was on the pricing page in the same size font as the promo. Left for a competitor and the migration out was deliberately awkward - no cPanel backup generation on the account until I raised a second ticket.
I pay about the price of a coffee per month for my cycling blog. It's up, it loads, cPanel works. Is it fast? Not really, and it gets sluggish in the afternoons. But I'm not going to complain about a host that costs less than my domain renewal. Just don't expect miracles and you'll be fine.
Honestly a reasonable place to learn on. Panel is normal cPanel so everything I learned transferred. But the moment my site got any traction the shared server couldn't cope, and the upgrade path is expensive enough that moving elsewhere was cheaper. No hard feelings, just know what it is.
My site went down on a Friday evening and I couldn't reach anyone until Monday morning because chat is business hours only. For a personal site that's annoying, for my small shop it cost me a weekend of orders. The eventual fix took them ten minutes, so it wasn't a hard problem, there was just nobody there. Moved to a host with real 24/7 coverage.
My WordPress site is not big. Roughly 2k visits a month, cached, no bloated plugins. I still get "account exceeded resource limit" emails several times a week and during those windows visitors get a 503. Support's answer is always to upgrade to the next tier up. It feels less like a technical limit and more like a sales funnel. Speed is poor in the afternoons regardless.
Signed up at £1.19/mo on a 3 year term. Renewal quote came in at nearly £9/mo. That is not a discount expiring, that is a completely different product. When I queried it support just pasted the terms at me. I'd have respected it more if the real price was on the pricing page in the same size font as the promo. Left for a competitor and the migration out was deliberately awkward - no cPanel backup generation on the account until I raised a second ticket.
I pay about the price of a coffee per month for my cycling blog. It's up, it loads, cPanel works. Is it fast? Not really, and it gets sluggish in the afternoons. But I'm not going to complain about a host that costs less than my domain renewal. Just don't expect miracles and you'll be fine.
Honestly a reasonable place to learn on. Panel is normal cPanel so everything I learned transferred. But the moment my site got any traction the shared server couldn't cope, and the upgrade path is expensive enough that moving elsewhere was cheaper. No hard feelings, just know what it is.
My site went down on a Friday evening and I couldn't reach anyone until Monday morning because chat is business hours only. For a personal site that's annoying, for my small shop it cost me a weekend of orders. The eventual fix took them ten minutes, so it wasn't a hard problem, there was just nobody there. Moved to a host with real 24/7 coverage.
Been hosting two small client brochure sites here for about a year. Neither gets much traffic so the shared load doesn't really bite. The app installer works, SSL is free and auto-renews, email accounts are unlimited. My only real complaint is that the checkout tries to sneak a site-builder addon and a "premium" SSL into the cart. Uncheck everything twice before you pay.