Records & Delegation
WordPress hosting for small business — WordPress hosting judged by what happens to your DNS records
Your website and your invoices leave from the same domain, and a careless afternoon in the zone takes both down together.
The short answer
Choose on the strength of the DNS handling, because on a small firm's name the website and the company mail share one zone: managed WordPress with caching and backups already running, where Turbo WordPress suits most trading firms and still leaves room above where you start.
Below: who should be on the registration, which records matter, and the order to change them in so mail never stops while the site moves.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 24 August 2026
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A small firm's domain does two unrelated jobs. It sends visitors to a WordPress site, and it tells the rest of the internet where to deliver e-mail and whose mail to believe. Both jobs are answered out of one zone, usually by whoever is hosting the site.
That is why the WordPress hosting question, for a trading company, is really a question about records and about who holds the name. Plugins can be fixed on a Tuesday. A wrong MX record is a fortnight of quotations nobody received.
Who holds the name when the web person moves on
Before comparing a single plan, find out whose details are on the registration. In small firms it is startlingly often a former contractor, a relative, or the agency that built the last site.
The registrant is who the registry treats as the holder. Everything else — the hosting, the mailboxes, the zone — hangs off that record, and a company that does not control it does not really control its own address.
Correcting it is administrative rather than difficult, but note one consequence: a change of registrant commonly triggers a sixty-day lock on transferring the name. Do it in a quiet week, not the week you also want to change registrar.
The records that decide whether Monday goes well
The A record, and its AAAA counterpart, points the hostname at the server serving your WordPress site. Change it and the website moves. Nothing else does.
The MX records say where mail for the domain is delivered. They are entirely independent of the website, which is why mail can stay exactly where it is while the site moves house.
Then two TXT records decide whether your mail is believed: SPF, listing what is allowed to send as you, and DKIM, which carries the signing key. DMARC sits on top and tells receivers what to do when the first two disagree.
Those few lines are the whole of a small firm's mail reputation, published under your own domain. They are also the lines most commonly lost when a site is migrated by somebody thinking only about the website.
The order to change things in
Read the existing zone and write every record down before touching anything, including the TTL on each one. That list is your undo button.
Build the WordPress copy here and check it on a temporary hostname. Only then repoint the A record, leaving MX exactly as it was, so mail carries on arriving throughout.
Move the mailboxes separately and afterwards: copy over IMAP first, confirm every folder arrived, then change MX. Keep the old mailboxes live for a fortnight, because resolvers hold the previous answer until the TTL expires and a stray message will still land there.
Migrations here are free and usually done inside 24 hours, and you look the copy over before anything is repointed.
The plan we would put a trading company's WordPress on
Turbo WordPress: core updates and daily backups handled, LiteSpeed caching in the server rather than bolted on by plugin, a staging copy for the redesign, and NVMe storage under every tier including the smallest.
Mailboxes on your own domain are inside the plan, with webmail, IMAP, POP and SMTP, so the phone, the desk and the browser stay in step.
Order annually and the first year of the name's registration is on us. The hosting renews at the figure you ordered at, which is the only sum your bookkeeper needs from this page.
We would rather explain the record than hide the panel
A host that keeps DNS out of reach is protecting itself, not you. The zone editor is in cPanel, every record is visible, and support will talk you through an MX change rather than telling you it is not their department.
The registration sits in your details, so the day you want the name somewhere else you ask, and it goes.
- Every record visible in the zone editor
- MX left alone while the website moves
- SPF, DKIM and DMARC published under your own domain
- The registration held in your details, not ours
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
The zone is not hidden from you
A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME and SRV records all editable in cPanel, with support that will walk a change through rather than deflect it.
Mail authentication that belongs to you
SPF, DKIM and DMARC published under your own domain, so deliverability follows the name rather than a provider.
The company behind the counter
Azaanex Inc., federally incorporated in Canada — a filing you can read before you hand over your company's address.
The recommendation as a product
The Turbo WordPress plan is this page's conclusion in product form — one rate, essentials inside, upgradeable in place.
Year one of the name included
Order annually and the registration's first year comes with the plan, in your own details.
A migration that leaves mail running
We move the site free, usually within 24 hours, and repoint nothing until you have checked the copy.
Prices Side by Side
How our prices sit against the majors
What the market typically charges to join and to renew, set beside ours, including the renewal figure most comparison charts leave out.
| Feature | Hosting & DomainsMost popular | Typical household-name host | Typical bargain host | Typical loss-leader deal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price / mo* | $2.42/mo | $4–$6 | $2–$4 | $1–$3 |
| Renewal price / mo | $2.42/mo | $10–$15 | $8–$12 | $4–$6 |
| Entry-level plan renews at the price you signed up at | ||||
| SSL as standard | ||||
| Migration done for you | ||||
| NVMe drives on the entry-level tier | ||||
| Backups run every day from the first tier up | ||||
| Real humans on support, 24/7 |
*Our own column shows the lowest-priced annual plan on our books, pulled live from the same catalogue that feeds the pricing page, which is why it cannot go stale. Beside it sit three columns holding the ranges that hosts in each bracket tend to advertise: introductory rates that normally ask for one to four years up front, then climb once the term runs out. Naming rivals and printing their figures is something we gave up, since a price nobody can verify on the day you happen to read this has no business on the page. Measure us against the host you are actually weighing up, and give the renewal row the hardest look of the lot.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
- 1
Find out who the registrant is
Look the name up before you compare a single plan. If the company is not the registrant, fixing that outranks every other item on this page.
- 2
Inventory the zone, TTLs included
Copy every record out to a document. Migrations go wrong when somebody rebuilds a zone from memory and forgets the TXT lines.
- 3
Move the website, then the mail, never together
A record first, MX afterwards and separately, with the old mailboxes left live for a fortnight while caches expire.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- Full zone editing in cPanel: A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME and SRV
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for any client
- Spam and virus screening on every mailbox by default
- WordPress Toolkit included, with a new backup taken each day
- Staging copies for trying a change before it goes live
- Your existing site brought across by our engineers, at no charge
- Free SSL on every plan, reissued before the old one lapses
- PHP versions set per site from the control panel
- NVMe SSD storage on every tier, not only the dear ones
- People on the support desk every hour of every day
Frequently Asked
Questions we field again and again
Our web designer registered the domain. How do we get it into the company's name?
Ask them to update the registrant details to the company, or to release the name so it can be transferred into your own registrar account. Both are ordinary requests. Expect a sixty-day transfer lock to follow a registrant change, so allow for it rather than being surprised by it.
When a WordPress site moves, what usually breaks — the site or the mail?
The mail, and by a wide margin. A site move only needs the A record changed; mail needs MX, SPF and DKIM to survive intact. Whoever rebuilds the zone at the new host often copies the web records and stops. Hand them your inventory and the problem disappears.
Do we change nameservers, or just the A record?
It depends where you want the zone to live. Changing nameservers hands the whole zone to the new provider, which is tidy but means every record must exist there first. Changing one A record at your current DNS host moves the website alone and leaves mail untouched. For a firm that cannot afford a mail gap, the second is the calmer route.
How long before the change is visible to everyone?
As long as the old record's TTL, plus however long the slowest resolver in the chain feels like caching it. Lower the TTL a day before you cut over and the wait shrinks to minutes; forget to, and a record set to a day will be answered from caches for a day.
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