Domain + Hosting for Trade Businesses
Most web designers sell you a domain and hosting separately, through different providers, at different renewal dates, with different logins. It adds up to more than it should and more admin than it needs to be. The website package for tradesmen at AJ Web Design includes domain and hosting as one payment, one renewal, one place to manage it — £49 per year.
Who this is for
The domain and hosting service is built for sole traders and small trade businesses who want a professional online presence without the complexity of managing it themselves.
Trade businesses getting a new site Domain and hosting included in year one — no separate setup needed
Sites moving from shared hosting Migrate from GoDaddy or 123-Reg with no downtime
Renewals on an existing AJ site Single annual invoice from year two onwards
Businesses with an existing domain Point it across or transfer in — no extra charge
What the £49/year covers
One payment covers everything needed to keep your site online and fast for 12 months.
.co.uk domain registration Registered in your name — you own it outright
Fast UK web hosting VPS server with server-side caching, not cheap shared hosting
SSL certificate included HTTPS on every page — Google requires it
DNS management Nameservers, MX records, subdomains — handled for you
Daily backups Your site backed up automatically every 24 hours
Uptime monitoring Alerts if your site goes down — rare, but covered
Why hosting quality matters for trade businesses
A slow website loses you jobs. Google's own data shows 53% of mobile visitors leave a page that takes more than three seconds to load. For trade businesses, where most searches happen on a phone, that number is the difference between a call and a bounce.
Cheap shared hosting — the kind sold by GoDaddy, 123-Reg, and most budget providers — puts your site on a server shared with hundreds of other websites. When those sites get traffic, your site slows down. It's unpredictable and largely out of your control.
Every AJ Web Design site runs on a dedicated UK VPS with Nginx and server-side caching. Pages load in under two seconds on mobile. That PageSpeed score is not marketing — it's tested on every build. If you're wondering how much a trade website should cost, hosting quality is one of the biggest factors that separates cheap and fast builds.
Hosting comparison: AJ Web Design vs budget providers
Budget shared hosting is cheap for a reason. The table below shows what's typically included — and what isn't — compared to hosting through AJ Web Design at £49/year.
| Feature | Budget shared hosting | AJ Web Design (£49/yr) |
|---|---|---|
| Server type | Shared with hundreds of sites | UK VPS — dedicated resources |
| Mobile PageSpeed score | Often 40–65 | 95+ on every build |
| SSL included | Usually yes | Yes — configured and renewed |
| Server-side caching | Rarely | Nginx FastCGI cache on every site |
| Daily backups | Often paid extra | Included |
| Annual cost | £60–£120+ (domain separate) | £49 all in |
One price. No surprises.
| Item | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 (with website build) | Included | First year of domain and hosting is part of every website package. |
| Annual renewal (year 2+) | £49/year | One payment. No separate domain or hosting invoices. |
| Domain + hosting standalone | £49/year | If you need hosting without a new build — for an existing site moving across, for example. |
To get started or ask a question, call 07549 636 200 or send a message below.
Tech stack
Every AJ Web Design site runs on the same infrastructure — no shared hosting, no control panels sold as "managed".
What clients say
"Renewal is one payment a year and I don't think about it again. Before I was paying separately for domain, hosting, and SSL through three different providers and constantly forgetting which was due when."
Tom W. — Electrician, Cambridge
"My old site was on GoDaddy and scored 41 on PageSpeed. AJ moved it across and it now scores 97. That's not a small difference — the site loads before you've even noticed it's loading."
Paul D. — Plumber, Huntingdon
"I had no idea what hosting even was before this. Now I just pay one invoice in January and the website stays up all year. Simple as that."
Mark T. — Roofer, Peterborough
Frequently asked questions about domain and hosting
Cambridge domain and hosting for trade businesses
AJ Web Design is based in Cambridge and hosts websites for sole traders and small trade businesses across the UK. All sites run on UK servers. Areas covered include Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives, St Neots, Newmarket, Peterborough, Saffron Walden, Royston, and Bury St Edmunds, as well as the wider UK. The domain and hosting service is available to any trade business, whether or not your website was built by AJ Web Design.
Fast hosting. One payment. No surprises.
Call to add domain and hosting to your existing site, or to get started on a new one.
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