Hosting, Country by Country
Web hosting for the United Kingdom buyers
The things that genuinely change when you order from the United Kingdom: which local domains we can register, what your card gets charged, how far our servers sit from you, where you stand on tax, and the payment methods we still cannot take.
What Changes Locally
Ordering from the United Kingdom, in detail
No template with a country name dropped into it. Every line below moves depending on where you are standing.
Domains from here
.co.uk, .uk, .org.uk — we stock these and register them direct.
Price tags in your money
Tags read in GBP; the card is billed in USD. Your bank does the conversion and may take a cut for it.
Distance to our racks
Roughly 5–15 ms there and back. Set it beside a box on your own street and nothing would feel different.
Staffed round your clock
GMT/BST, so your working day and ours run over the same hours. We aim to reply inside 2 hours, whatever the hour, in English.
Local Extensions
What your country's own ending costs here
Figures lifted straight off our price list, not rounded-off guesses.
| Domain ending | Year one |
|---|---|
| .co.uk | $10.99 |
| .uk | $10.99 |
| .org.uk | $10.99 |
Read the whole price list — every ending we sell, all 65.
the United Kingdom in Particular
Rules that bite in this market only
This is our home market, and the servers sit here in London, physically. Nobody gets a shorter hop than you do. The company taking your money — IGI Security Services Ltd, number 15881180 — is on the Companies House register, which you can search for yourself in a minute. One consequence of Brexit: UK residents can no longer register .eu, so the local pick is .co.uk or .uk.
At the Till
Which payments we accept, and which ones bounce back
Where our accepted methods and your country's habits part company — said here, not sprung on you at checkout.
Accepted here
Visa, Mastercard or American Express, on credit or debit, issued in the United Kingdom or anywhere else, so long as the card is cleared for international payments. Stripe processes it end to end, so those card numbers never land on our machines.
Not on the till yet
Nothing worth mentioning. Online, people here pay with a card issued in the UK, and our checkout takes those. PayPal, though, remains off the counter.
More on payment methods and the way currency is handled.
City Pages
Closer to home in the United Kingdom
The same ground, walked city by city.
Across the Counter
What buyers in the United Kingdom ask us
Can I order from the United Kingdom?
Yes. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in the United Kingdom all go through, and the account builds itself the moment the payment clears — nobody signs it off by hand, and nothing requires you to sit in the UK. The tag reads in GBP so you can weigh up the cost; the charge lands on your card in USD.
What do people in the United Kingdom usually pay with, and does your till take it?
Straight answer rather than the flattering one. Nothing worth mentioning. Online, people here pay with a card issued in the UK, and our checkout takes those. PayPal, though, remains off the counter. A card cleared for international payments is the one method we can always take. Better you learn that here than after you have spent an hour picking a plan.
Will the site feel quick to visitors in the United Kingdom?
The machines sit in London, about 5–15 ms from you. Set it beside a box on your own street and nothing would feel different. In practice a first-time reader pulling a cached page rarely feels the distance, because that page can come from an edge location near them. Where the distance shows is logged-in work — the WordPress admin, a checkout, anything that cannot be cached — since every action travels to London and back. Our infrastructure page spells out what a CDN fixes and what it leaves alone.
Is there tax to pay on an order placed in the United Kingdom?
Being a UK company, we sit squarely under UK VAT rules rather than at arm's length from them. Any VAT owed shows on the checkout screen before your card is charged.
Must I be in the UK to hold an account?
No. The company behind the counter is British — IGI Security Services Ltd, registered in England and Wales under number 15881180, which anyone can check on the public Companies House register — but buying hosting carries no residency test and no business-registration test. An order placed in the United Kingdom runs through exactly as a London one does.
And if it turns out to be the wrong fit?
Change your mind on a hosting plan inside 30 days and we refund it; on reseller the window is 7. Either way that leaves room to build something real and measure how it performs for your own audience, instead of believing the numbers we print. Not right for you? Say so and the money goes back. One thing sits outside all this: domain registrations. Registries charge us the moment a name is booked, so no refund is possible there.
Put us to the test from the United Kingdom
Thirty days to time the thing against your own audience. If the numbers disappoint, ask for your money back.
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