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Kurze Antwort: you can’t buy it any more. Einfache Server, the UK Magento hosting specialist, merged into Hosting UK on 31 März 2025, and simpleservers.co.uk now redirects there. If you landed here from a review promising GBP 14 Magento plans, that product is gone.
This review covers what Simple Servers actually was, what its 605 Kundenrezensionen sagen, and what happened to the brand. Some affiliate pages still quote live prices for a host that stopped selling in March 2025. We checked the domain, the Companies House record, and the successor’s own migration notice. We also show the rating distribution behind the average score, nicht nur der Durchschnitt.
Gesamtbewertung: Simple Servers scores 4.0/5 über 605 Bewertungen, und 85.8% Von diesen Bewertungen gibt es 5 Sterne. Support quality was the consistent strength. Billing disputes and chargeable support tickets were the consistent complaint. Best suited for nobody today, because the brand no longer sells hosting.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: September 2026. Preis- und Bewertungsdaten überprüft.
| Name | Einfache Server |
| Bewertungen insgesamt | 611 |
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.5 |
| Telefon | 0208-242-6070 |
| [email protected] | |
| Webseite | https://www.simpleservers.co.uk |
| Die Anschrift | 10 Jill Ln, Redditch, Warwickshire, Großbritannien |
| Serverstandorte | |
Anzahl der Bewertungen
Durchschn. Bewertungsergebnis
Kundendienst
Funktionen und Dienste
Simple Servers sold hosting built around one application: Magento (an open-source ecommerce platform, now sold by Adobe as Adobe Commerce). That focus was the whole pitch. The company called itself the UK’s specialist Magento host and tuned its stack for Magento stores rather than general websites.
Angebotene Hosting-Typen
- Magento SSD Shared Hosting – four tiers on shared servers, mit SSD-Speicher (Solid State Drives, much faster than spinning disks)
- SSD Semi Dedicated Magento Hosting – a middle tier between shared and dedicated
- Magento and SSD Dedicated Servers – Dell PowerEdge machines, five standard builds plus custom quotes
- M-Cloud and W-Cloud – cloud hosting aimed at Magento and WordPress
- WordPress shared, dedicated and reseller hosting
- M2E Pro hosting, SSL-Zertifikate, und Colocation
Wichtige Funktionen, die Kunden hervorheben
Reviews rarely mention the feature list. Sie erwähnen Menschen. Named support engineers show up again and again in 5-star reviews, which tells you where the value sat.
- Out-of-hours support – multiple reviews describe weekend and Christmas Eve fixes, which matters when a store is down
- Magento-specific tuning – customers report good page load speeds on shared plans, unusual for a heavy platform
- Simple Sentinel WAF – an in-house Web Application Firewall (a filter that blocks malicious web traffic) bundled with plans
- Barracuda firewalls and DDoS filtering across the network
Standorte von Rechenzentren
Here the marketing contradicted itself, on a single page. The last live homepage said “8 UK DC’s. We own 8 UK DC’s” and added “When we say ‘our data centres’ – we mean it.” Further down that same homepage, the About paragraph said the company runs “two strategically placed data centers.”
Its dedicated data centre page made things worse. Its heading claimed “8 UK data centre locations owned and managed by us,” then listed ten: London, Manchester, Maidenhead, Birmingham, Glasgow, Gosport, Leicester, Nottingham, St.. Asaph and Warwickshire. Those are iomart Group facilities. Simple Servers didn’t own them; its parent did.
Leistungserwartungen
No independent benchmark data was found for Simple Servers. The company advertised a 100% Verfügbarkeit SLA (Service-Level-Agreement, a written uptime promise with a defined payout) and 4-hour hardware replacement. One customer ran their own test in October 2017. Pingdom verwenden, they measured a shared plan about 10% slower than their DigitalOcean cloud server.
Kundenerfahrung
Auf Trustpilot, Simple Servers holds 4.0/5 von 605 Bewertungen. Die Aufteilung ist sehenswert, weil der Durchschnitt es verbirgt. Es gibt 519 Fünf-Sterne-Bewertungen (85.8%), 32 Vier Sterne, 10 Drei Sterne, 10 Zwei-Sterne-und 34 Ein Stern. A straight average of those stars comes to 4.64, well above the 4.0 the platform displays, because time-weighting discounts the older positives.
And the corpus is old. The newest review is dated 12 Februar 2025. Das 200 most recent reviews stretch all the way back to 11 September 2017. Der andere 405 Bewertungen, 67% der Gesamtsumme, are older still. Derer 200, ninety landed in 2018 allein, während 2024 produced five and 2025 produced two.
Was Kunden loben
Die Reaktionsfähigkeit des Supports dominiert die positiven Bewertungen. Customers describe problems fixed in minutes, nicht Stunden. Ein Februar 2023 reviewer wrote that support “really pulled us out of a tricky situation” outside business hours.
An zweiter Stelle steht die Langlebigkeit. Several 5-star reviews are from customers of five years or more, which for a hosting company is a real signal. The last review ever posted, ab Februar 2025: “We have used Simple Servers for many years, they are always extremely helpful when issues occur.”
Named engineers appear repeatedly. Reviewers thank specific people by first name, which suggests a small team customers actually got to know rather than a rotating ticket queue.
Häufige Beschwerden
Billing generates the most serious complaints, und sie sind spezifisch. Ein Februar 2020 reviewer reported being double-billed EUR 500 with tickets ignored for weeks. Ein Juli 2018 reviewer said GBP 202.80 taken in error was still unrefunded eight months later. Ein Januar 2023 reviewer reported GBP 288 taken after cancellation and raised a card dispute.
Chargeable support is the second theme. Ein November 2017 customer asked which folder to restore and was told it would be a GBP 65 chargeable event. Another paid GBP 65 einen Monat für “Vollständige Serververwaltung” and was then asked to pay more for management.
Slow first-line support runs through the 1-star reviews across every year. Ein Juni 2024 Der Rezensent brachte es klar auf den Punkt: “1st line support have been terrible on numerous occasions… changes they’ve made have taken the server or websites offline. When you get past them the support is much better.”
Community-Feedback (Reddit & Foren)
Community discussion is thin, and that itself is informative. Simple Servers has almost no organic Reddit footprint. The mentions that exist are old and second-hand.
In einem Juli 2022 r/Magento thread asking “Who are the best current Magento hosts?”, not one commenter recommended Simple Servers. The only mention came sideways: “Plus one for kubeservers.co.uk, its from the guy who built Simple Servers.” The person who built the business had moved on, and the community was pointing at his new venture instead.
The sharpest community warning is the one customers wrote themselves on Trustpilot after the takeover. Ein November 2023 Rezensent: “Used to be great, but since iomart bought them, the service has been getting worse. The techs aren’t as knowledgeable.” Ein Juli 2021 reviewer said the company was “no longer market leaders or innovative in their offering.” The reason they gave: it was now “part of a much larger organisation called IOMART.” Ein Januar 2024 reviewer opened with “Used to be a good company but getting worse since taken over.”
Support-Qualität
The gap between marketing and contract is wide here. Marketing promised “24 Hour Support.” The SLA defined the business day as 9:00bin zu 5:30Uhr, Montag bis Freitag, with an initial response promised within four hours of a logged interruption.
Phone support came and went. Ein August 2018 reviewer noted “they have removed the help line number and it is obvious why.” Ein September 2017 reviewer had switched to Simple Servers specifically for phone support, then found there wasn’t any. A number was back on the site by 2025.
When to Use Simple Servers
Man kann es nicht kaufen, so this section answers a different question: who is this page useful to?
Useful For
Existing customers wondering what happened: Your contract moved to Easyspace Limited trading as Hosting UK on 31 März 2025. Your old login works at billing.hostinguk.net, old tickets carried over, and invoices now come from Easyspace.
Anyone who found an old Simple Servers review: Several review sites still list the brand as buyable with live prices. Eins “Simple Servers Review 2026” was first published in September 2018 and never mentions the acquisition or the merge. Check the domain before you trust the price.
Buyers researching UK Magento hosting: The reasons Simple Servers won customers still apply to the category. Magento rewards a host that tunes for it, and the reviews here show what that support looks like when it works.
You’ll Recognise the Pattern If
- You bought a specialist host and watched it get absorbed – because acquisition changed the support quality customers rated so highly
- You need to date a review before trusting it – because this brand shows how long stale pages survive
- You’re comparing UK providers – because the reasons this host was worth paying for still narrow the field
When NOT to Use Simple Servers
The honest version is short: niemals, weil es nichts zu kaufen gibt. But the reasons matter if you’re weighing the successor or a similar host.
Schauen Sie woanders hin, wenn
You want Magento hosting: Hosting UK, the brand that absorbed Simple Servers, doesn’t sell a Magento product at all. The specialism didn’t survive the merge. Sonassi and Kube Servers are the UK names the Magento community actually raises.
You want a written refund promise you can read: The terms referenced a “30 day moneyback guarantee.” Refunds were “subject to the exclusions listed within” es. That document was never published. No page on simpleservers.co.uk ever carried a money-back guarantee, across the entire web archive of the site.
You want backups included on a dedicated server: SLA clause 5.5 put data security and backups squarely on the customer. The company accepted “no responsibility for damage to data or loss of service however caused.”
Red Flags Worth Knowing
- The uptime guarantee had teeth only on paper: claims had to be filed in writing within five working days. They counted only while you were “within credit terms,” so a billing dispute could void an outage claim
- Maintenance didn’t count: both routine and emergency maintenance were excluded from the SLA
- Credits capped at one month’s fees: the service credit was the “sole and exclusive remedy” for any outage
- Stale legal documents: the dedicated server terms were a PDF at version 6.0, zuletzt aktualisiert 12 Juli 2019, still current in 2023
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Großbritannien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.66 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 444 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Irland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.87 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 15 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus der Schweiz
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.60 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 5 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers von den Vereinigten Staaten
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.60 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 5 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers von Spanien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.25 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 4 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Belgien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 4 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Schweden
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 4 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Brasilien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.67 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 3 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Lettland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.93 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 3 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Thailand
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 3 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Griechenland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 3 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Frankreich
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 3 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Niederlande
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 3.67 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 3 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers Von den Philippinen
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Südafrika
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Kanada
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Russland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers Aus Italien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus der Türkei
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Rumänien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Dänemark
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 3.50 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Indien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Deutschland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 3.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Portugal
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Zypern
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Litauen
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers von Hong Kong
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Moldawien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Österreich
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von Simple Servers aus Polen
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
Simple Servers Plans and Pricing
⚠️ Preiswarnung: Simple Servers had no renewal shock. Prices were flat monthly rates with no promotional first term, also ein GBP 14.00 plan stayed GBP 14.00. The catch sat elsewhere. Prices were quoted before VAT (Value Added Tax, 20% im Vereinigten Königreich). Support work outside the plan was chargeable. And the contract auto-renewed unless you sent a written cancellation notice first.
These are the last prices the company published, captured from its own shopping cart on 15 August 2024. Setup fees were free on every tier.
Magento SSD Shared Hosting
M Core: GBP 14.00/mo – 900MB-Festplatte, 3GB Bandbreite, 1 Domain
M Power: GBP 18.00/mo – 2GB-Festplatte, 6GB Bandbreite, 1 Domain
M Pro: GBP 26.00/mo – 10GB-Festplatte, 30GB Bandbreite, 2 Domänen
M Extreme: GBP 31.00/mo – 40GB-Festplatte, 50GB Bandbreite, 6 Domänen
Read that entry tier again. Britisches Pfund 14.00 a month bought 900 megabytes. That’s a premium price for a storage allowance most budget hosts stopped advertising a decade ago. You paid for the Magento tuning and the support, not the resources.
One limit caught buyers out. A customer noted in May 2018 that SSH (Sichere Shell, command-line access to your account) was restricted to the M Pro and M Extreme tiers. Magento 2 development is painful without it, so the two cheapest plans were harder to work with than the price suggested.
SSD-dedizierte Server
SSD 1: GBP 252.33/mo – Intel Xeon E3-1270 v2, 16GB RAM, 2 x 128GB SSD in RAID 1 (data mirrored across both drives)
SSD 2: GBP 342.33/mo – Xeon E3-1270 v5, 64GB RAM, 2 x 240-GB-SSD
SSD 3: GBP 584.33/mo – Xeon E5-2640 v4, 64GB RAM, 2 x 480 GB SSD
SSD 4: GBP 804.33/mo – 2 x Xeon E5-2640 v4, 128GB RAM, 4 x 960GB SSD in RAID 10
SSD 5: GBP 1,073.33/mo – Xeon E5-2687 v3, 64GB RAM, 5 x 256GB SSD in RAID 10
Annual payment cut between GBP 175 und GBP 730 off the yearly bill, je nach Stufe. The hardware was dated by 2024. The entry SSD 1 ran a Xeon E3-1270 v2, a chip Intel launched in 2012, bei GBP 252.33 ein Monat.
Versteckte Kosten, die es zu beachten gilt
- Umsatzsteuer: 20% on top of every advertised price. Ein Juni 2018 reviewer called the omission misleading
- Support work: the SLA said operating system repair “may be chargeable”. Customers reported a GBP 65 charge for a restore and GBP 85 per hour for fixes
- Chargeback administration fee: Britisches Pfund 50 per instance, per clause 8.9.3 der Begriffe
- Off-list payment methods: Britisches Pfund 25 administration fee per item
- Staff-assisted domain transfer out: Britisches Pfund 15 zzgl. MwSt
Preisurteil
Teuer, honestly priced at the headline, and quietly expensive underneath. The flat rates were refreshing in a market built on 3x renewal jumps. But 900MB for GBP 14.00 was poor value on resources. The chargeable-support model meant your real monthly cost depended on how often you needed help.
- Bandbreite 2.97 GB
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 1
- Bandbreite 6.04 GB
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 1
- Bandbreite 30 GB
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 2
- Bandbreite 49.97 GB
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 6
- Zentralprozessor 4 x 3,00 GHz
- RAM 16 GB
- Zentralprozessor 4 x 3,00 GHz
- RAM 64 GB
Simple Servers Transparency Score
We assess how upfront Simple Servers was with important information:
- Firmeninformation: Gut – the footer named iomart Hosting Limited and its Scottish company number SC275629. Ownership was disclosed, though the marketing never volunteered it
- Preistransparenz: Gut – flat monthly rates with no renewal trap, und kostenlose Einrichtung. Marked down because VAT was excluded from displayed prices and support charges weren’t listed anywhere
- Technische Dokumentation: Begrenzt – the data centre count contradicted itself three ways on the company’s own site: zwei, acht, and ten named locations
- Bedingungen & Richtlinien: Arm – the charging policy opened with “There are no hidden extras.” That same company never published its money-back exclusions and charged GBP 65 for a restore
Gesamttransparenz: Gemischt, and worse in the places that cost money. Pricing was straightforward. The refund terms, support charges and infrastructure claims were not.
Alternatives to Simple Servers
If you came looking for Simple Servers, these are the realistic routes now:
For the Actual Successor: Hosting UK
Every Simple Servers contract now sits with Easyspace Limited trading as Hosting UK. It sells cPanel hosting from GBP 2.95 ein Monat, VPS and cloud from GBP 13.85, and dedicated servers from GBP 69.00. Far cheaper than Simple Servers was, with no Magento specialism. Sehen Sie sich unsere an UK dedicated server guide to judge whether GBP 69 buys competitive hardware.
For Magento Expertise: Sonassi
Sonassi is the Manchester Magento host r/Magento commenters recommend by name, often citing replies within minutes. iomart bought Sonassi in 2017 zu, in a GBP 16.5m deal, so check current ownership and pricing before committing. For platform comparisons, sehen Sie unsere ecommerce VPS hosting guide.
For Budget UK Hosting: Gemeinsame Anbieter
If your store is small and GBP 14 for 900MB sounded steep, es war. Mainstream shared hosts give you far more room at a fraction of that. Unser Shared-Hosting-Vergleich deckt die Optionen ab, und unser Leitfaden für Cloud-Hosting in Großbritannien covers the tier above.
Simple Servers scores 2.5/5 von uns, and that number rates the buying decision in September 2026, not the service it once ran. As a live product it earned its 4.0/5 über 605 Bewertungen zur Supportqualität. As a purchase today it doesn’t exist.
Das Fazit
This was a good small host that was bought, absorbed, and finally switched off. Customers saw it coming and said so: the complaints naming iomart start in 2021 and run to the last months of the brand. The specialism that made it worth GBP 252 a month didn’t survive the merge.
Mit 4.0/5 über 605 Bewertungen, Simple Servers delivered strong support. Then its review record stopped dead on 12 Februar 2025. The brand ended as a line item in a larger group. If you hold a legacy contract, you’re a Hosting UK customer now. If you’re shopping, Beginnen Sie mit unserem Britischer Webhosting-Vergleich stattdessen.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Is Simple Servers still in business?
Nein, not as a hosting brand. Simple Servers merged into Hosting UK on 31 März 2025, and simpleservers.co.uk now redirects to hostinguk.net. The shell company SIMPLESERVERS LIMITED is still registered, but its Companies House entry carries SIC code 74990, “Non-trading company.”
What happened to my Simple Servers account?
Your contract was assigned to Easyspace Limited trading as Hosting UK, Wirksam 31 März 2025. Log in at billing.hostinguk.net with your old Simple Servers credentials. Old support tickets and saved payment methods were carried across, and invoices now come from Easyspace.
Was Simple Servers good for Magento?
Its customers thought so. Reviews consistently praised Magento-specific tuning and fast support, and the shared plans loaded well for a heavy platform. The weak point was resources. Das GBP 14.00 entry plan gave you 900MB of disk space, and SSH access started only at the GBP 26.00 Tier.
Worüber haben sich die Kunden am meisten beschwert??
Abrechnung, mit großem Abstand. Reviews report double charges, refunds delayed for months, and payments taken after cancellation. The second theme is chargeable support: routine work such as restoring a backup could trigger a GBP 65 Gebühr. The third is slow first-line support.
Did Simple Servers offer refunds?
The terms promised a 30-day money-back guarantee, “subject to the exclusions listed within” es. Those exclusions were never published anywhere on the site. Beyond 30 Tage, refunds of unused time were “at our sole discretion,” and cancelling required written notice before the renewal date.
Who owns Simple Servers now?
iomart Group plc, and it has since 2017. The trading company, iomart Hosting Limited, was renamed IOMART MANAGED SERVICES LIMITED on 31 Januar 2024. Its customers then moved to Easyspace Limited, another iomart subsidiary, im März 2025.
