Buyer's Guide
Weighing up hosting with ddos protection
Written for operators of sites that attract attention, either by doing well or by their subject matter — the tests that matter, the trap to sidestep, and where we would honestly send you.
Straight answer first
Our verdict, stated first: VPS and hosting with DDoS filtering included as ordinary network hygiene — an attack should be our infrastructure's problem rather than your emergency.
The reasoning, the tests and the trap to avoid all sit below — written for operators of sites that attract attention, either by doing well or by their subject matter, with none of the affiliate-table theatre this subject usually attracts.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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This guide is written for operators of sites that attract attention, either by doing well or by their subject matter. If that describes you, the decision has a right answer — it just is not the one the comparison-table trade is paid to hand out.
Attack traffic has become a commodity — rented booters put small floods within anybody's pocket money, so perfectly ordinary sites now get hit, and always-on mitigation has stopped being an enterprise extra. Keep that in view and most of the noise in this market sorts itself into signal.
What to measure before you order
Here is the scorecard we would use — and the one we invite you to hold us to:
Mitigation at network level standing in front of your server, switched on permanently.
Protection included in the price rather than sold to you as insurance during the attack.
Honesty about what volume the mitigation genuinely absorbs.
Awareness at application level too, since a flood is not the only shape an attack takes.
What to leave on the shelf (and why it is everywhere)
Learning how much filtering you actually bought on the day the first flood arrives, which is the worst hour of the year to be reading a specification.
The pattern lasts because its cost lands later: at renewal, at migration, or at the worst possible point in your growth. The antidote is dull arithmetic — total cost across two or three years, with every 'extra' you would actually need added in.
Where we would honestly send you
VPS and hosting with DDoS filtering included as ordinary network hygiene — an attack should be our infrastructure's problem rather than your emergency.
On our shelves that means the Basic VPS plan — SSL, migration and mail included, a renewal price matching the order price, and an upgrade path so the choice never has to be made again from scratch.
What you pay on day one is what you pay at renewal, so the year-two invoice holds no surprises worth opening early.
How to check all this yourself
Any host worth ordering from survives inspection: check the renewal price is printed on the tag rather than in a footnote, ask support a real question at an awkward hour and read the reply, comb the refund policy for carve-outs, and look up the company registration — a genuine business leaves a paper trail.
The refund window covers the rest — move a real site across (the free migration makes that painless), live with it for a fortnight, and let daily use settle what no marketing page can.
Why we can afford to give a straight answer
Most 'best hosting' writing is paid ranking. Ours has a simpler motive: we recommend the setup we would sell you anyway, and we say so — which leaves the rest of the page free to be genuinely useful.
Backups run every day on every plan, and putting a file or a database back takes one click from the panel.
- Tests you can run for yourself
- Renewal prices on the tag, not in a footnote
- The free move in makes trying us painless
- A refund policy with no small print
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
Matched to this verdict
The Basic VPS plan is this page's recommendation made concrete — one flat price, essentials included, upgradeable in place.
A refund without a gauntlet
If it does not suit, leaving is a request rather than a negotiation — which is why we are content to be tested.
Support you can try first
Ask us something hard before you pay — how a host behaves pre-sale is the ceiling of what follows.
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The performance kit other hosts reserve for premium tiers is simply how our plans are built.
A company you can look up
Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host with a public record you can read before trusting.
A real ladder to climb
Shared, VPS and dedicated all under one roof — today's choice never boxes you in tomorrow.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Write the requirement in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon of feature-table comparison, so write it before you go shopping.
- 2
Price the second year, not the first
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick, so compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself on the spot.
- 3
Try it inside the refund window
A live trial with your own site answers what no review can, and the free migration plus the refund policy make that trial genuinely risk-free.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- Upgrades apply to the account in place, with no move between plans
- WordPress Toolkit, with updates applied for you
- NVMe SSD storage on every shelf, not just the top one
- Real people on the counter, every hour of every day
- WebP image optimisation built in and costing nothing
- Staging copies so changes get tested before they go live
- The Softaculous installer for one-click application setup
- The renewal price printed on the tag matches the order price
- A backup taken daily, with restores you run yourself
- cPanel, the panel the rest of the trade already knows
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
Would anybody really attack a small site?
More often than you would guess. Disputes, competitors, extortion scripts and stray botnet tests all land on perfectly ordinary sites. When the protection is already included, the question never has to become urgent.
What actually happens during an attack on a protected server?
The attack traffic is scrubbed upstream while genuine requests carry on through, so you mostly see it in the graphs rather than in downtime. A very large attack can add latency; the design goal is that you stay reachable throughout.
Is the SSL certificate genuinely free?
On every plan, with nothing held back. The certificate is issued the moment your domain points here and reissues itself well before expiry. The encryption is the same as a paid DV certificate — paid tiers exist only for wildcard coverage or organisation validation, which most sites never need.
Who actually runs the company?
Hosting Seller is a trading name of Bohzo Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales — a real business with a public record and terms published under English law. Looking that up is worth doing about any host before you hand over your domain.
What does round-the-clock support actually stretch to?
People at the counter at every hour, and a scope that takes in the practical work: mailbox setup, DNS records, WordPress trouble, restores. Not 'the server responds, ticket closed'. Ask us something hard before you order — the reply is a fair sample of what you would get afterwards.
Do you shift an existing site across at no charge?
We do. Open a ticket with the login details for your current host and the whole lot comes over: files, databases, mailboxes and configuration. You check the copy before DNS changes hands, and the old site keeps serving customers until the new one takes the traffic, so nobody ever sees a gap.
Can one plan hold more than a single website?
From the Pro tier upward, yes — several sites, each with its own domain, mailboxes and certificate, all under one account. If those extra sites belong to clients rather than to you, reseller hosting is the better fit: it gives each one proper separation.
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