Web application hosting platform
You have built a web app and it needs somewhere to live: the code, a database, a domain, email, SSL and backups. Gravity Host is a UK hosting platform that gives you all of that on one account you control, for a price that does not move with your traffic.
15 GB hosting: £45 for your first year, then £75 a year. No charge per request, per build or per person.
The short answer
It depends on what the app is built with. A PHP or Laravel app with a database runs well on a hosting platform like Gravity Host: one UK account with the web server, MariaDB databases, email, SSL certificates, cron jobs and daily backups included, at a fixed yearly price. A Next.js app that renders on the server belongs on a platform built for serverless functions, such as Vercel.
Check the fit first
Gravity Host is cPanel hosting on UK servers that we run. That suits a great many web apps and does not suit some. Better to know which you have before you order.
Weighing us against Vercel in particular? We have written a side-by-side comparison using the figures on Vercel's own site.
What you are trying to do
Each of these is included in the plan price. None of them is an add-on.
| You need | How it works here | The limit |
|---|---|---|
| Put the app online | Upload over SFTP or with the File Manager in your browser, or push with Git Version Control in cPanel. A site that builds to static files can arrive by GitHub Sync every hour. | No build service: you build on your own machine or in your own pipeline and upload the result. |
| A database | Create MariaDB 11.4 databases (MySQL-compatible) in cPanel and manage them in phpMyAdmin. They run on the same server as your app. | As many as fit in your storage. No separate database bill. |
| A domain | Register one with us, transfer one in, or point one you keep elsewhere. Add subdomains for an API or a staging copy. | .co.uk is £10 a year and .com is £15 a year, billed separately from hosting. |
| Mailboxes and forwarders at your domain, plus a way for the app to send its own mail. Or keep Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and host only the app here. | Unlimited addresses. Mailboxes share your plan's storage. | |
| SSL | Every domain and subdomain gets a free certificate that renews itself. There is nothing to configure. | Standard certificates. Bring your own if you need a particular one. |
| Backups | The whole account is backed up every day: files, databases and email. Restore any of them yourself from cPanel. | Daily, not continuous. Take a manual copy before a risky release. |
| Scheduled jobs | Cron jobs in cPanel, for queues, reports, clean-ups and reminder emails. | Jobs share your account's 2 CPU cores and 2 GB of memory with the app. |
| A staging copy | A subdomain with its own folder and database. Try the release there, then repeat it on the live site. | You set it up and keep it in step. Nothing is created for each pull request. |
How fast, and what to click
Nobody has to approve you or set anything up by hand. If you have deployed to a server before, there is nothing new to learn.
Choose 15 GB hosting and add a domain, or use one you already own. Your account is created as soon as the payment clears.
We email you a link that signs you in. From your account, open cPanel, pick your PHP version and create a database and its user.
Send your files over SFTP or Git, set your app's database details and point the domain here. The SSL certificate arrives automatically.
Tested, not assumed
On 10 October 2026 we set up a fresh test site on one of our own accounts and tried each of these for real, then removed it.
Tried and not available: PostgreSQL and Redis. If your app needs either, this is not the right home for it.
Composer, Artisan and Git need SSH access, which is switched on when you ask. Over 200 open-source apps install in one click as well, if part of what you need already exists. See the open-source apps you can run here.
The exact numbers
Most hosts say "plenty" or "unlimited". These are the real ceilings on every Gravity Host account, whichever storage size you choose, with what each one means.
| Limit | You get | In plain English |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 2 CPU cores | Two things can be worked on at full speed at once. We measured it: two busy tasks ran twice as fast as one, and four ran no faster than two. |
| Memory | 2 GB | Shared by everything running in your account at that moment. A typical PHP request uses a small fraction of it. |
| Requests at the same instant | 85 | Up to 85 visitors can be mid-request at the very same moment. Most requests finish in a fraction of a second, so this is far more than 85 people browsing. |
| Running processes | 100 | Web requests, cron jobs and anything you start over SSH, added together. |
| Disk speed | 200 MB a second, 2,048 operations a second | How fast your account can read and write to the NVMe SSD storage. |
| Storage | 15 GB to 30 GB, by plan | App files, databases and mailboxes share it. There is no limit on the number of files. |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB a month | An allowance, not a meter: nothing is charged per gigabyte. |
| Database connections | 60 at once, per database user | Plenty for one app. Give each app its own database user and each gets its own 60. |
| Websites, databases, mailboxes | No set number | As many as fit in your storage. |
Each account has its own limits, kept separate from every other customer's. If your app reaches one, it slows down or queues requests until there is room; you are not billed more. Your cPanel shows live usage against each limit, so you can see how close you are.
We use it ourselves
Gravity Host is part of GK Tools Ltd, a London software company. These run on the same hosting we sell, on the same servers, in daily use.
An invoicing app for small businesses, with customer accounts, a database, scheduled jobs and outgoing email, all on one hosting account.
A catalogue and comparison site with a database of bikes behind it and jobs that run on a schedule to keep prices current.
Orders, card payments, domain registration and support tickets for Gravity Host itself. You will use it when you sign in to your account.
So you know before you ask
We look after the server and the hosting: the machine, the web server, the database server, mail delivery, backups and security patches. If any of those is at fault, we fix it.
Your app, its code and its data belong to you and are yours to maintain. We do not debug application code or write deployments for you. We will tell you what the server's logs show, which is often enough to find the cause.
Moving an existing app? Migration of a standard cPanel account is included. For a custom setup, tell us how it is built and we will say what we can move and what you will need to redeploy.
The whole price
Every plan has the same features. You choose the storage, and you can change size at any time.
£45 first year, then £75 a year
Before you order
Your account is created as soon as the payment clears, and we email you a link to sign in. From there you open cPanel, create a database and upload your app. Point your domain at ns1.gravityhost.co.uk and ns2.gravityhost.co.uk, or keep your DNS where it is and add our records.
PHP is the main one: you pick the version for each site, from 5.6 up to 8.5. Databases are MariaDB 11.4, which is MySQL-compatible. Node.js 18 and 20 and Python 3.9 to 3.12 run through cPanel's app setup tools; we tested a Node.js 20 app and a Python 3.12 app on 10 October 2026 and both served pages. PostgreSQL and Redis are not available.
Yes. Choose a current PHP version in cPanel, put the app on a domain or subdomain whose folder is set to the app's public directory, create its database and add one cron job for the scheduler. We run Laravel this way ourselves.
For a PHP app with a database, yes: it does the same job on one flat-priced account. For Next.js with server rendering, no. The Gravity Host vs Vercel comparison shows which fits.
A static export will: upload the built files, or connect them with GitHub Sync. Server rendering, edge functions and a preview for every pull request are what Vercel is built for, and we do not offer them. Our comparison with Vercel sets out which one fits which kind of app.
Each account has 2 CPU cores, 2 GB of memory, 85 requests at the same instant, 100 running processes and a 1 TB bandwidth allowance. The plan size is your storage, shared between app files, databases and email, starting at 15 GB. Reaching a limit slows the app down; it never adds to your bill. The full table says what each number means.
Yes. Add a subdomain such as staging.yourapp.co.uk in cPanel, give it its own folder and its own database, and deploy there first. It is a copy you set up and update yourself. WordPress sites also get a clone and staging tool in cPanel.
The server, your account, databases, email, DNS and SSL: if one of those is not working, that is ours to fix. Your own code is yours, so we do not debug it, although we will tell you what the server logs show. Support is by message or ticket with a UK person, Monday to Friday. Most things you can do yourself in cPanel without waiting for anyone.
Yes. There is no long contract and hosting has a 30-day money-back guarantee. Your files and databases are standard formats you can download at any time and run on any other host. Domain names are billed separately from hosting.
Somewhere for it to live
15 GB, databases, email, SSL and daily backups for £45 in your first year, then £75 a year. Not sure it fits? Tell us what the app is built with and we will give you a straight answer.
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