# Heart Internet review (2026): is it worth £5.99 a month? > UK cPanel web hosting with NVMe storage and bundled email Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Heart Internet is a UK hosting company selling shared cPanel web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, VPS, business email and domains. The shared plans run on NVMe storage in UK data centres and include backups, SSL certificates and mailboxes, and the company says its hosting runs on renewable energy. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Heart Internet - **Website:** https://www.heartinternet.uk - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you host many sites, as Plus allows 1 website and the top plan 10. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Heart Internet is a paid product, starting at £5.99 per month, or £71.88 a year (excluding VAT), with 50% off the first year. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Plus | £5.99 per month, or £71.88 a year; excludes VAT | 1 website, 25GB NVMe storage, 2 mailboxes of 5GB, 50GB/month bandwidth and 1 SSL certificate. First year £35.94 when billed yearly. | | Advanced | £8.99 per month, or £107.88 a year; excludes VAT | 2 websites, 50GB NVMe storage, 5 mailboxes of 5GB, 100GB/month bandwidth and 2 SSL certificates. First year £53.94 when billed yearly. | | Elite | £12.99 per month, or £155.88 a year; excludes VAT | 3 websites, 75GB NVMe storage, 10 mailboxes of 5GB, 150GB/month bandwidth and 3 SSL certificates. First year £77.94 when billed yearly. | | Agency | £15.99 per month, or £191.88 a year; excludes VAT | 10 websites, 100GB NVMe storage, 15 mailboxes of 5GB, 300GB/month bandwidth and 10 SSL certificates. First year £95.94 when billed yearly. | Read from https://www.heartinternet.uk/web-hosting on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Heart Internet before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **50% off the first year, with a free UK domain** (Annual discount): Choosing yearly billing takes 50% off the first year, for example Plus at £35.94 instead of £71.88, and includes a free UK domain for 1 year. Renewal is at the full yearly price. Source: https://www.heartinternet.uk/web-hosting - **First month of Plus for £1** (Other savings): The page advertises the first month of Web Hosting Plus, billed monthly, for £1; it then renews at £5.99 a month. Source: https://www.heartinternet.uk/web-hosting ## Key features - **cPanel control panel:** Files, databases, domains, email and SSL certificates are managed in cPanel, with single sign-on from the Heart Internet account. - **NVMe storage:** Shared plans offer 25GB to 100GB of NVMe U.3 storage, with bandwidth capped at 50GB to 300GB a month. - **Mailboxes and SSL:** Each plan bundles mailboxes of 5GB each and one free SSL certificate per website, issued through AutoSSL. - **Backups and security:** Backups, a firewall, malware scans and two-factor protection on the control panel are listed on every plan. - **One-click apps:** WordPress, Joomla and dozens of other apps can be installed from the one-click installer. - **Other products:** Managed WordPress hosting with WP Squared, VPS plans, business email and domain registration are sold alongside shared hosting. ## Good for - UK small businesses that want hosting, email and a domain together - People comfortable with cPanel who need a few small sites - Anyone who wants to pay monthly instead of committing to a year ## Worth knowing - Plans are limited to 1, 2, 3 or 10 websites, and bandwidth is capped at 50GB to 300GB a month. - Prices exclude VAT, and the 50% first-year discount and free UK domain apply to yearly billing for the first year only. - Monthly billing renews at the same £5.99 to £15.99 a month; a £1 first month is advertised for the Plus plan. - The money-back guarantee is 30 days and support is by live chat and tickets rather than a stated phone line. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Heart Internet sells UK shared cPanel hosting on NVMe storage with backups, SSL and mailboxes, from £5.99 a month before VAT. Plans cap websites at 1, 2, 3 or 10 and bandwidth at 50GB to 300GB a month, and the discount is for the first year only. - **Value for money: C.** Plus is £5.99 a month, about $7.70 and above the $5 where the cheaper quarter of hosting starts. Year one is half price on yearly billing, then it renews at £71.88. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial. A £1 first month is advertised for Plus, and a 30-day money-back guarantee applies, but neither is a free trial. - **Features: C.** cPanel, NVMe storage, backups, a firewall, malware scans, one-click apps and AutoSSL. Websites are capped at 1, 2, 3 or 10, and bandwidth at 50GB to 300GB. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. cPanel and app installers mean accounts and settings to work through. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web control panel with WordPress and Joomla installers. No apps and no API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Heart Internet's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Heart Internet's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 5 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 23. - It stands best on ease of use (C, above 40 of 122) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $8.03 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 48 of the 107 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 21 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Heart Internet you would be making servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 94 of the 122 other web hosts grade higher. It costs $96.31 a year. - You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. - You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, Joomla, cPanel **Tags:** Managed WordPress, Page speed ## Alternatives - [123 Reg](https://toolgpa.com/tools/123-reg): UK domain registrar with shared cPanel web hosting plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/123-reg-vs-heart-internet) - [Fasthosts](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fasthosts): UK web hosting, domains, VPS and dedicated servers. 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