Buying Advice
Hosting With PostgreSQL — what actually matters
A straight answer for developers whose framework or app prefers Postgres to MySQL: how to judge the options, what to skip, and the setup we'd recommend.
The short answer
Our verdict, upfront: Business hosting with PostgreSQL and MySQL both available — Django, Rails and Laravel apps get their preferred engine without a VPS.
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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Most advice on this topic is a ranking table funded by referral fees. This page takes a different approach: name the buyer (developers whose framework or app prefers Postgres to MySQL), name the criteria, name the trap, and make a recommendation we're happy to defend.
One market fact frames everything here: postgres availability is a quiet dividing line in shared hosting — its presence usually signals a host that expects developers rather than merely tolerating them.
How to judge the options
Strip away the feature-table padding and a handful of criteria decide this choice:
Actual PostgreSQL provision on shared plans — rarer than it should be.
Both engines side by side, since WordPress will still want MySQL.
Recent Postgres versions with standard tooling access.
Resource allowances that respect real database work.
The trap most buyers walk into
Assuming Postgres is standard — most shared hosts are MySQL-only, discovered mid-migration.
Once you know to look for it, it's visible everywhere in this market — and avoiding it matters more than optimising any other variable on the page.
What we'd choose in your position
Business hosting with PostgreSQL and MySQL both available — Django, Rails and Laravel apps get their preferred engine without a VPS.
Concretely, that's our Business Standard 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.
Annual plans include your first year of domain registration on us.
Don't take our word for it
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.
Why our advice can afford to be honest
We're a host recommending hosting, and we say so plainly — no fake neutrality, no referral-fee league table. The trade is transparency for trust, and we think it reads better too.
NVMe storage and LiteSpeed caching are standard here, not premium-tier extras.
- 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
Flat, honest pricing
The signup price is the renewal price — the comparison that matters is the one we win by default.
Support you can pre-test
Ask us something hard before you pay — pre-sales behaviour is the ceiling of post-sales support.
A real upgrade ladder
Shared to VPS to dedicated under one roof — the choice you make today never boxes you in.
Verifiable company
Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host you can look up before you trust.
The essentials included
SSL, migration, backups and email ship with every plan instead of appearing at checkout as extras.
A refund policy without a gauntlet
If it doesn't fit, leaving is a request — which is exactly why we're comfortable being tested.
Getting Started
How to get going
- 1
Define the requirement in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon of feature-table comparison — write it before shopping.
- 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
Sign up, migrate a real site free, and use it properly for a fortnight — the daily experience is the product, and the window makes testing it free.
Included
What's covered on our plans
- Daily automatic backups with self-service restores
- NVMe SSD storage as standard
- Free domain for the first year on annual plans
- 24/7 support from real people
- No setup fees, ever
- Free website migration handled by our team
- 99.9% uptime commitment, monitored around the clock
- SSH, Git and Composer access on developer-friendly plans
- DDoS protection at the network level
- Per-site PHP version selection
FAQ
Your questions, answered
Why do developers ask for Postgres specifically?
Stricter SQL semantics, richer types (JSONB especially), and framework defaults — Django and Rails communities lean Postgres. If your app expects it, MySQL compatibility shims are a tax.
Can WordPress run on PostgreSQL?
Not practically — WordPress is MySQL-native. The realistic setup is both engines side by side: MySQL for WordPress, Postgres for your custom app, which is exactly what Business plans provide.
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.
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.
Where is your company based?
HostingAlly is a trading name of Bohzo Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales — a real, verifiable business with published terms under English law, which is worth checking about any host before you hand them your domain.
Which control panel do you provide?
cPanel — the industry standard, which means every tutorial on the internet matches your screen, your backups restore anywhere cPanel runs, and skills learned here transfer for life. Plesk and DirectAdmin options exist on specific plans for those who prefer them.
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.
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