Buying Advice
How to choose: hosting for multiple websites
A straight answer for portfolio builders, side-project collectors and multi-brand owners: how to judge the options, what to skip, and the setup we'd recommend.
The short answer
If you only read one paragraph: the right pick is the Pro tier's 25-site allowance for personal portfolios — or reseller hosting the moment any of those sites belong to clients.
Everything below unpacks that recommendation — the judging criteria, the classic mistake, and how to verify any of it yourself before spending a pound.
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Backups included
Most advice on this topic is a ranking table funded by referral fees. This page takes a different approach: name the buyer (portfolio builders, side-project collectors and multi-brand owners), name the criteria, name the trap, and make a recommendation we're happy to defend.
One market fact frames everything here: multi-site hosting economics favour the quiet many — most portfolios are one busy site and nine sleepy ones, which shared allocations absorb gracefully.
The criteria that actually decide it
Here's the scorecard we'd use — and the one we invite you to hold us to:
A real multi-site allowance with resources that scale to match it.
Per-site separation for backups and restores — one site's rollback shouldn't touch another.
Shared resource maths: ten quiet sites fit where two busy ones wouldn't.
A panel that keeps ten sites navigable, not chaotic.
Read this before comparing prices
Cramming client work and personal experiments onto one account where an experiment's compromise is everyone's incident.
The pattern survives because its cost lands later — at renewal, at migration, or at the worst possible moment of growth. The antidote is boring arithmetic: total cost over two or three years, with every 'extra' you'd actually need included.
The verdict
The Pro tier's 25-site allowance for personal portfolios — or reseller hosting the moment any of those sites belong to clients.
Concretely, that's our Pro option — priced flat, stocked with the essentials (SSL, migration, backups, email) that this market loves to sell separately, and upgradeable in place when your needs move.
Renewal prices match signup prices, so the year-two invoice is the most boring email you'll get from us.
Test before you trust
Run the same tests on us as on anyone: message support before paying and see who answers, compare the renewal price to the signup price, read the refund terms end to end, and look the company up — ours is Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales, and the record is public.
Then let usage decide: a fortnight of real use inside the money-back window tells you more than every review site combined — and switching costs you nothing but the time to open a migration ticket.
The incentive behind this guide
Most 'best hosting' content is paid ranking. Ours has a simpler incentive: we recommend the setup we'd sell you anyway, and we say so — which frees the rest of the page to be actually useful.
Our team migrates existing sites free of charge, typically within 24 hours and with zero downtime.
- Criteria you can test yourself
- Renewal prices printed, not footnoted
- Free migration makes trials painless
- A refund policy without traps
Why HostingAlly
What you get with every plan
The essentials included
SSL, migration, backups and email ship with every plan instead of appearing at checkout as extras.
Verifiable company
Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host you can look up before you trust.
Flat, honest pricing
The signup price is the renewal price — the comparison that matters is the one we win by default.
A refund policy without a gauntlet
If it doesn't fit, leaving is a request — which is exactly why we're comfortable being tested.
Support you can pre-test
Ask us something hard before you pay — pre-sales behaviour is the ceiling of post-sales support.
NVMe + LiteSpeed standard
The performance stack that premium tiers elsewhere charge for is simply how our plans ship.
Getting Started
How to get going
- 1
Define the requirement in one sentence
Write down what the site must do and for whom — for portfolio builders, side-project collectors and multi-brand owners, that sentence usually settles half the plan choice by itself.
- 2
Price year two, not year one
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick — compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself instantly.
- 3
Test inside the refund window
A live trial with your actual site answers what no review can — and our free migration plus refund policy make the trial genuinely risk-free.
Included
What's covered on our plans
- One-click installer for WordPress and 400+ apps
- Free SSL certificate on every plan, renewed automatically
- 24/7 support from real people
- No setup fees, ever
- Renewal prices that match signup prices
- SSH, Git and Composer access on developer-friendly plans
- Free website migration handled by our team
- DDoS protection at the network level
- NVMe SSD storage as standard
- Email accounts on your own domain
FAQ
Your questions, answered
When do multiple sites need reseller hosting instead?
The moment sites have different owners — clients need isolated accounts for security, billing and clean exits. Your own projects can share; other people's businesses shouldn't.
Do ten sites need ten times the resources?
No — sites idle most of the time, so allocation follows aggregate traffic, not site count. One popular site dominates the maths; the rest ride along nearly free.
Are backups included, and can I restore them myself?
Daily automatic backups are standard, restorable from the panel in minutes — files, databases or both, at 3am without a ticket if that's when you need it. For extra cover, you're welcome to run your own offsite copies alongside.
Will you move my existing website for free?
Yes — open a ticket with your current host's access details and we handle the whole move: files, databases, email and configuration, verified by you before DNS switches. The old site keeps serving until the new copy takes over, so visitors never see a gap.
What happens if I outgrow my plan?
You upgrade in place — plan changes apply from your client area without migrations or downtime, and our range runs from small shared plans through VPS to dedicated servers, so growth is an account change rather than a new-host project.
Is SSL really included at no cost?
On every plan, with no exceptions — certificates are issued automatically when your domain points to us and renew themselves before expiry. The encryption is identical to paid DV certificates; paid tiers exist only for wildcard convenience or organisation-level validation.
Can I host more than one website on a plan?
On the Pro tier and above, yes — multiple sites with their own domains, email and SSL under one account. If the extra sites belong to clients rather than you, reseller hosting gives each one proper isolation instead.
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