Trade brief · Recruitment Agencies
Speed, uptime and support, for recruitment agencies
A site that opens at once, stays up and grows with you — hosting for agency owners, specialist recruiters and consultants working a single sector with every essential already inside.
The short answer
Recruitment agencies need speed, uptime and the particulars of their trade — starting with a job board that stays current, since expired vacancies destroy candidate trust — from a platform that never asks them to hire a webmaster to keep it moving.
All of it is standard — NVMe storage, LiteSpeed caching, free SSL and migration, mail at your own name and support around the clock — at a rate that reads the same when renewal comes.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 18 August 2026
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Support that answers
1-click
WordPress install
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SSL certificates
Daily
Backups, all plans
Most recruitment agencies run a site built around current vacancies, sector specialisms, candidate registration and a client enquiry route. All of it rests on the layer beneath: disk speed, storage room, forms that send and mail that arrives.
Here is the fact worth building on: candidates judge an agency almost entirely on whether its advertised roles are real, and a job board full of filled vacancies costs more credibility than an empty one would.
Ask anybody in this trade about their worst afternoon online and the story runs: a good candidate registering interest in a role that was filled a month earlier and never taken down. This whole page is written to stop that.
The hosting specification for recruitment agencies
Set the marketing aside and the requirements turn concrete: a job board that stays current, since expired vacancies destroy candidate trust, CV upload handled reliably, the large files people send included, sector specialism pages, because generalist recruitment search is unwinnable and candidate and client journeys separated properly from the homepage onwards.
The good news is that everything on that list is standard on a properly built platform. The catch is that each item is precisely where a thin host quietly trims — slower disks, crowded servers, mail charged separately, and backups that turn out to be weekly and unrestorable.
The response time visitors assume without asking
The visitors slow hosting costs you never complain about it; they simply leave. Consider the case of a good candidate registering interest in a role that was filled a month earlier and never taken down. Nothing appears on an error page, nothing arrives as a support ticket, and the trade quietly goes elsewhere.
Our stack works on that from every side: NVMe disks return database queries in microseconds, LiteSpeed serves cached pages before PHP has started, and image optimisation keeps large photographs sharp without the weight. The result is a site that feels immediate on a phone over mobile data — which is where your customers actually are.
The right kit for this job
In practice, sites in this field get built with WordPress with a job board plugin, a CV upload form with generous file limits and sector specialism landing pages — each one a single click to install from the control panel, with no command line in sight.
Whichever route you take, what comes out belongs to you. WordPress sites export and travel freely, the name stays registered in your name, and nothing in the build ties you to us beyond the service earning its keep.
Mailboxes, trust and the details a buyer notices
A message from you@yourdomain carries different weight to one from a free webmail account — the name tells a customer the business is real. Mailboxes at your own name come with every plan, so that standing costs nothing extra.
Underneath all of it, a daily copy turns a botched update or a deleted folder into a ten-minute restore rather than a crisis — and support answers at any hour, which counts most at exactly the hours trouble prefers.
Arranged around the way recruitment agencies work
Most of our customers are agency owners, specialist recruiters and consultants working a single sector — people who want the website off their desk, not an unpaid sideline in server administration.
The rate you register at is the rate you renew at, so year two costs precisely what year one did — nothing lying in wait on the invoice.
- The certificate and the move across cost nothing
- NVMe drives with LiteSpeed caching in front
- Mail at your own name from the first day
- People on the support desk around the clock
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
Headroom held inside the account
From a first site to heavy traffic, upgrades apply in place — no migration, no downtime, no drama.
Quick precisely where it counts
NVMe drives with LiteSpeed caching land pages instantly on mobile — the screen where agency owners, specialist recruiters and consultants working a single sector are judged first.
Support that actually moves
People at every hour who work the practical question in front of them rather than deflecting it.
Copies that take themselves
A fresh copy each day, restorable in one click — a ruined afternoon becomes a ten-minute rewind.
Mail at the name you hold
Mailboxes at your own name come as standard — every enquiry is answered from an address that reads like the business.
SSL included, first day to last
Every plan carries the padlock — certificates issue and reissue themselves, and no line for them ever reaches an invoice.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
- 1
Size the plan to the site you have today
For most recruitment agencies, Sprint or Turbo is the right size — the first-year name and the SSL are included from the start, and moving up later is a settings change rather than a relocation.
- 2
Start fresh, or let us move the old one
A new build is one click in the installer; an existing one is a single migration request. Both routes end with you live, and neither goes near a configuration file.
- 3
Go live and stay on the work that matters
Point the name, open the site on your own phone, then go back to the day job — from there, copies, SSL renewals and uptime monitoring run themselves.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- Mailboxes that answer at the name you hold
- The name's first year included when you order annually
- WordPress Toolkit, with the updates seen to for you
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for any client
- Free SSL on every plan, reissued before the old one lapses
- NVMe SSD storage on every tier, not only the dear ones
- Spam and virus screening on every mailbox by default
- Softaculous included for one-click application installs
- Staging copies for trying a change before it goes live
- No set-up charge at any point, and no joining fee
Frequently Asked
The questions that come up most
How does the job board stay honest?
Put expiry dates on every vacancy so roles come down by themselves, and make closing a filled role part of the placement process rather than an afterthought. Candidates spot stale listings at once, and it is the fastest way for an agency to lose a good applicant pool.
Can candidates upload a CV directly?
They can, and the upload limits matter. People send PDFs with graphics and portfolios attached, and a form rejecting anything over a couple of megabytes loses candidates silently. Be generous with the limit, confirm receipt on screen and by email, and keep the files somewhere organised.
If I cancel, what becomes of my site and files?
They remain yours. Download a full copy from the panel whenever you like, before or during cancellation. Names stay registered in your name for the term you paid for and can move to any registrar once the standard 60-day window has passed.
How do payments and auto-renewal work?
You pay by credit or debit card through a secure checkout, and renewals bill at the same rate as the original order. Every invoice sits in your client area, and auto-renewal switches off with a toggle in the account — no telephone call needed.
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