How to host a .co.uk website for £3 per year

[Andy]

£3 is about $6 so approximate cost is: 50 cents per month. A small limitation is that no database is provided, but you do have PHP scripting and cPanel with stats.

This is how I did it:

Register a .co.uk domain name with HeartInternet.co.uk and select their free web hosting option to go with your new domain name. Then you will have a professional web site with no forced Ads. I think there are free templates and stuff too. They provide all the freebies in the hope that you upgrade, but if you only need a simple UK site, you only need to pay $12 every 2 years for your domain name.

The domain name has full DNS control so you can move hosting easily too.

[basszer]

Hm... I should say that it is really affordable price for co.uk. extension. Thanks for sharing, Andy.

[Andy]

Plus free hosting that is just like say Hostgator minus the database.

You could also maybe build a site for a customer and resell it to them for a big profit. If it costs you $12 for 2 years, how much would your customer pay? An easy way may be to offer to build a UK site for US businesses to expand their reach overseas. You could maybe charge $120 and pocket 90% profit?

If you want to promote UK offers, I suggest looking at buy.at This company has many big name UK businesses listed as affiliate offers.

The website that I am hosting for $0.50 a month is: www.winthemoney.co.uk I set this up and left it to mature. It seems to load fast and is promoting 2 offers. One conversion which may have come from this site is for the VWD offer which brings in $8 per month recurring income. You can check out this offer via the "affiliate" link in the footer. I can't track the conversions for this offer since it is for a UK company that is not so net savvy as the US companies but it does bring in the wonga.

[mariancarpan]

Thanks for the informations, but with no databases ... you can not do so much, most websites nowdays let's take for example wp needs a database. Can something be made about this?

[George S]

Nice offer, I used to know of a site 'ovh.co.uk' that offered free .co.uk domain names, they're currently offering them for £2.49, which is still great.