The short answer: a professional email address is a mailbox on a domain you own — you@yourbusiness.co.uk rather than a free Gmail or Outlook address. In the UK as at September 2026 it costs from £8.95 a year for the domain, plus roughly £2.50 to £5.40 a month for the mailbox, depending on whether your provider charges per person or per ...
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Short answer: cheap UK web hosting is usually cheap for one term only. As at September 2026 the entry plans from the biggest UK names advertise between £1.99 and £5.59 a month — and the very same pages state renewal figures of £251.64, £413.63 and £575.64 for the term after that. What the low price buys is typically one website, one or two ...
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Short answer: IONOS is the cheapest way to start hosting a UK business website or mailbox, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The catch is what happens twelve months later. As at September 2026, IONOS advertises web hosting from £1 a month and email from £1 a month — and on their own pricing pages those same plans are listed as ...
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Yes — you can have a proper business email address at your own domain without owning a website. You need three things: a domain name, an email hosting plan, and a couple of DNS records. You do not need web hosting, a website builder or a designer. Plenty of UK trades and consultants run on a Google Business Profile, WhatsApp and a Facebook page ...
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