# Strato review (2026): is it worth £4 a month? > German web hosting with a domain and mailbox included Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Strato is a German hosting company that sells web hosting packages with a domain, mailboxes and SSD web space included, run from its own data centers. Its sites are split by country; this listing reads the UK English site, where hosting packages start at £4 a month excluding VAT. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** STRATO GmbH - **Website:** https://www.strato.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you have several domains, as each package includes one and more cost extra. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Strato is a paid product, starting at £4 per month, ex. VAT (Basic Web). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic Web | £4.00 per month, ex. VAT | 1 domain, 1 mailbox, 50 GB web space and 2 SSD databases. | | Power Web | £6.00 per month, ex. VAT | 100 GB web space, 2 mailboxes, 25 SSD databases and Python and Ruby support. | | Advanced Web | £10.00 per month, ex. VAT | 150 GB web space, 2 mailboxes, 50 SSD databases and 50 SFTP accounts. | | Enterprise Web | £15.00 per month, ex. VAT | 200 GB web space, 5 mailboxes, 75 SSD databases and 80 SFTP accounts. | Read from https://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/hosting/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Strato before buying. ## Key features - **Domain and mailboxes included:** Each package includes one domain and mailboxes with webmail, spam filtering and virus protection. - **One-click CMS installs:** WordPress, Joomla, Typo3 and Drupal can be installed from the customer login, with git, Ruby, Python and Matomo also listed. - **Backups and malware scanning:** Backup Control makes website backups several times a day, and SiteGuard and a SiteLock scan check for malware. - **No traffic limit:** All four packages list unlimited traffic, SSD storage, SSL certificates and DDoS protection. - **30-day money-back guarantee:** The UK site promises a refund for almost all products within the first 30 days, requested from the logged-in account. ## Good for - Small sites in Europe that want a domain and email bundled - Buyers who prefer data held in German data centers - People moving a WordPress, Joomla or Typo3 site ## Worth knowing - Each package includes only one domain; more domains are optional extras. - Prices exclude VAT, and the page says both a 6-month contract period and a 12-month minimum term. - Strato runs separate country sites (Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France, UK); the .com site only redirects visitors. - DynDNS is not available on the Basic Web package. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Strato is German web hosting with a domain and mailboxes in the package. Each package covers only one domain, prices exclude VAT, and the page states two different contract lengths. - **Value for money: C.** Basic Web is £4 a month excluding VAT, around the category's cheapest-quarter line once VAT and currency are counted. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial; the 30-day money-back guarantee is not a trial. - **Features: C.** Domain and mailboxes, CMS installs, backups, malware scans and unlimited traffic, but one domain per package and no DynDNS on Basic. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you set up the site and CMS yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with WordPress, Joomla, Typo3 and Drupal installs. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Strato'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 - Strato'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 $5.36 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 41 of the 107 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 19 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 Strato you would be making an engine that recognises new malware as it appears. 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 $64.31 a year. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Joomla and Typo3 among them. 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, Typo3, Drupal, Matomo **Tags:** Databases, Malware protection ## Alternatives - [IONOS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ionos): Shared and WordPress hosting with a domain, wildcard SSL and email. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ionos-vs-strato) - [One.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/one-com): Web hosting, domains and email with an AI website builder. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/one-com-vs-strato) - [Hostinger](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostinger): Shared, WordPress and cloud hosting run from its own hPanel dashboard. 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