Small UK team. Big commitment to honest hosting.
We started Hostethics because we were tired of hosting companies that oversold, throttled, and misled customers. We wanted to build something honest.
Hosting became hostile. We're building an alternative.
The industry got obsessed with £0.99 loss leaders and £60 renewals. With upsells for basic features. With chatbots pretending to be support.
We do the opposite: transparent pricing, everything included by default, real UK-based engineers answering tickets. It turns out being fair is a pretty good business model too.
Six things we refuse to compromise on.
Human support
Real UK-based engineers. If we can't solve your issue, we tell you why — and how to escalate.
Honest pricing
What you see is what you pay. Renewal prices don't triple. Ever.
Own our stack
We run our own hardware in UK data centers. Nothing critical outsourced.
Green energy
100% renewable across our UK infrastructure. Carbon-neutral operations.
Privacy first
No selling customer data. No ads on your dashboard. GDPR-native.
Ship improvements
New features and fixes ship weekly. Public changelog. Customer-driven roadmap.
Small on purpose.
We're a small, focused team — and that's how it stays. When you email support, you're talking to someone who actually knows the infrastructure.
Formerly infra ops in fintech. Handles customer success and finance. Lives in Kent.
Ex-agency sysadmin, now runs our platform. Sysadmin, kernel-hacker, occasional runner.
10 years of WordPress and Linux experience. Answers most of your late-night tickets.
Our journey so far.
What we take seriously.
Small team, high standards.
Deep curiosity
We hire engineers who want to understand things properly, not just make problems go away.
Kind rigor
Honest, careful feedback. Assume good intent. Over-communicate.
Ship, then polish
Better a working feature in customer hands than a perfect one in a Notion doc.