2001
Our beginnings take us back to when our Founder and self-proclaimed Chief Operating Punk of Punk Rock Host started making band sites.
Rev’d Johnoson/Tim started making punk band websites for his pals, as a new wave of Ska swept the globe and MySpace was all the rage, though it soon became clear DIY punk would need a space to call home in this new realm.
Soon we were designing and hosting for bigger and larger punks and handling all the traffic that came with it, many things were learnt and mostly the hard way. The intricacies of the internet, server management and web development were unknown territories for punks, but we learnt regardless and at almost 20 years old, we’re confident to say we’ve now nailed it, all that so you don’t have too.
So if you have, want or need a website and don’t fancy handing over that hard ca$h to one of the many corporate web companies, go punk not daddy, this is the place for you. Honest affordable web hosting for punks, by punks always- and you don’t really have to be punk, just a good ethic.
Who are our services for?
Our core services are aimed at bands, artists, non-profits, hobbyists, community groups and independent businesses who want to step away from corporate providers without sacrificing level of service, convenience or cost.
Do I have to be punk?
Absolutely not! We’re a very left organisation, so as long as you’re also aligned with the left and/or an advocate of the DIY scene then you’ll be right at home. We will NEVER host right wing, exploitative, abusive, ableist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic or sexist accounts, we will very simply delete your account and donate the money to charity. No for real, we really will. Fair warning.
The Technical Wizardary Stuff
Our server we call Punk One (which looks 100% like our logo)…
…is happily sat in a secure data centre in Manchester, UK listening to Sonic Boom Six, Dead Kennedys, Leftover Crack, Lightyear, Operation Ivy, The Filaments and so many more at least 99.9% of the year, the later 0.1% we can only assume is when it’s attending some important punk related activity, in which event we’ll ensure it returns sober and well in a prompt fashion.
Punk One is regularly backed up, secure and GDPR compliant.
Website Security
We take security and privacy very seriously. We issue SSL Certificates free of charge for every account and domain hosted on your hosting plan at no cost to you, almost all other web hosts charge extra for these the cheeky so and so’s.
Storage
All data is stored on super charged Intel SSD hard drives on an optimised platform with OPcache and LSAPI (LiteSpeed API). Punk One is very happy with this arrangement as it speeds up the read/write process from when it used to have to deal with disk drives.
Control Panel
All accounts come with an industry standard control panel ‘cPanel’ with Softaculous app auto-installer pre-installed to make installing apps such as WordPress and PrestaShop a breeze… that was a lot of installing speak, but trust it makes your life so much easier.
Support
We have an integrated support system in place where you can submit tickets from your user account 24/7. We will always try resolve your issues as quickly as possible, but just to be transparent, we don’t actually have staff working 24/7, so we will deal with tickets when we’re awake, which is generally daytime/evening hours UK time, but hey not to say sometimes one of us may be up at 3am!