Genuinely affordable
£0.99 a month is £11.88 a year. It is the renewal price, not a first-term teaser that jumps to £7.99 once you have stopped paying attention.
30 days free — no card required
Launch your website free today.
30 days of completely free DirectAdmin hosting for blogs, forums, portfolios and small business sites — no card details, nothing held back. Carry on afterwards for £0.99 a month, with help from the Traxio community forum rather than a ticket queue.
30 days free, nothing held back
Community-supported, free to ask
No adverts on your site
No card details to start
Exactly what “free” means here
- Free for 30 days. A full hosting account with nothing held back — no feature restrictions during the trial.
- No card details required to start. You can sign up and run your site for the whole 30 days without giving us any payment information.
- Nothing can be charged automatically, because we have nothing to charge. Payment details are only taken if you decide to continue.
- Then £0.99/month if you choose to carry on. That is the ongoing price — it does not rise after the first year.
- No setup fee and no hidden charges of any kind.
- You bring your own domain. Traxio does not sell domain names, so you will need one you already own or register elsewhere.
Why Choose Traxio
Hosting without the small print
Six reasons people move to Traxio, and none of them are a countdown timer on a discount.
Beginner friendly
One-click installs mean you never touch a database by hand. The tutorials assume you are starting from nothing, because most people are.
DirectAdmin powered
The real control panel that professional hosts use — file manager, DNS editor, email, databases, cron and PHP version switching, all self-service.
NVMe performance
Every account sits on NVMe SSD storage. Database queries and page loads are quicker than the SATA drives plenty of pricier hosts still run.
Community-powered support
Rather than charging you more to fund a large support department, we invest in documentation, tutorials and a community where answers stay searchable.
Transparent pricing
One plan, one price, published limits. No “unlimited” that is not, no paid SSL, no setup fee, no charge to leave.
Who Is Traxio For?
Built for people starting something
The plan is the same for everyone. What changes is what you build on it.
Bloggers
One-click WordPress with any theme and any plugin, on a domain you own. No platform rules about what you publish, no branded URL, and no adverts inserted into your posts.
Free blog hosting →Forum owners
MyBB, phpBB and SMF install in one click through Softaculous, with Flarum available too. Real PHP and MySQL, proper email for registration notices, and threads that Google can index.
Free forum hosting →Developers
PHP 7.4–8.3 switchable per domain, MySQL with phpMyAdmin, cron jobs, FTP and SFTP, .htaccess control and readable error logs. A cheap, real environment for side projects and client work.
Free PHP hosting →Small businesses
A professional site and email on your own domain for less than £12 a year. Free SSL so customers see the padlock, and a price that does not quietly triple at renewal.
Cheap web hosting →Personal projects
Portfolios, hobby sites, community pages, a place to put what you are learning. Upload plain HTML or install something — either way it costs 99p a month.
Free HTML hosting →People learning
A real server with a real control panel is a far better teacher than localhost. Break things, fix them, and read the error logs while you do it.
Browse tutorials →Free for 30 days — no card details required. Then £0.99/month only if you choose to continue.
Claim Free HostingHow it works
Online in about fifteen minutes
1
Bring a domain you own
Traxio does not sell domains. Use one you already have, or register it with any registrar for around £8–£12 a year — it stays yours.
2
Create your free account
Sign up for Traxio Free Start. No card details are asked for — the first 30 days are genuinely free.
3
Point your domain at us
Update nameservers at your registrar. Step-by-step guides for the common ones are in the knowledgebase.
4
Build your site
Install WordPress or a forum through Softaculous, or upload your own files. SSL is issued automatically once DNS resolves.
One plan, one price
Traxio Free Start
We stopped running four tiers. There is one plan, it does everything, and it costs less than a coffee per year.
30 Days Free
Traxio Free Start
FREE
for 30 days — then £0.99/month
- 5GB NVMe SSD storage
- 10GB bandwidth per month
- DirectAdmin control panel
- Free SSL certificate (auto-renewing)
- Softaculous one-click installer
- PHP 7.4 – 8.3, switchable
- MySQL / MariaDB databases
- FTP & file manager access
- Email accounts on your domain
- Cron jobs
- Community-powered support
No card required to start • No setup fee • Bring your own domain
Need the full technical specification? See the DirectAdmin hosting page.
Community-Powered Support
Why there is no ticket desk
Every hosting company makes a trade between price and support, and most are quiet about which side they have chosen. We would rather be explicit.
Traxio costs 99p a month because there is no ticket desk. A staffed support department is the largest single cost in running a host, and covering it would mean charging five to eight times as much. So the money goes into things that scale instead: a knowledgebase written specifically for this platform, tutorials that go from nothing to working, and a community where every answer stays public and searchable.
There is a real advantage hidden in that. A ticket reply helps one person and then vanishes. A good community thread gets found by the next hundred people with the same problem.
What we still handle directly: billing and invoices, account access, abuse reports, and any platform incident affecting the servers. What the community handles is help with your own site — WordPress questions, plugin conflicts, DNS confusion, email client setup.
If your site is business-critical and an hour of downtime costs you money, a host with a guaranteed response time is the better choice, and we would rather tell you that now. More about how support works →
Questions
Common questions
How long is the hosting free for?
30 days, and you do not need to give us card details to start. You get a complete hosting account with no feature restrictions for the whole period.
What happens after the 30 days?
You choose whether to continue. Add a payment method and hosting carries on at £0.99 per month, with no setup fee and no price increase later. Do nothing and the account is suspended 7 days after the invoice date and terminated after 14 days — but you are never charged, because we never held your card details.
Do I need to buy a domain from Traxio?
No, and you cannot — we do not sell domains. You point a domain you already own at our nameservers. If you need one, register it with any registrar for around £8–£12 a year and it stays entirely yours.
Will you put adverts on my site?
Never. Traxio does not inject banners, branded footers or tracking into hosted sites. That is how most “free forever” hosting pays for itself, and it is why we charge 99p instead.
What does community-powered support mean?
There is no one-to-one ticket desk for website help. Instead you get a knowledgebase, tutorials, guides and a community where answers stay searchable. Traxio staff handle billing, account access and platform incidents directly.
Is 5GB storage and 10GB bandwidth enough for my site?
For a blog, portfolio, small business site or new forum, comfortably. For video hosting, large downloads or a high-traffic site, no — and we would rather say so before you sign up than after.
From the blog
Practical guides from the hosting team
Honest and specific, whether or not you ever host here.