1984 Hosting review
Verified greenchecked 1 November 2026What this means
Icelandic host under strong privacy laws that says it runs on geothermal and hydro power, with phone support in office hours.
1984 Hosting’s shared plan looks cheap at £29.90 for the first year, but it renews at £188 a year, over six times as much. You get unlimited websites, storage and email, with phone support in office hours. Moving your site costs £40, and its Trustpilot score is low, from only 18 reviews.
from £29.90 a year for the first year, then £188 a year
Visit 1984 HostingPrices checked 19 October 2026.
At a glance
- Good for
- Privacy-minded sites and VPS users wanting Icelandic hosting
- Not ideal for
- Anyone who wants a low price beyond the first year, or phone support outside office hours.
- Support
- Phone in office hours, and email
- Moving your site
- Paid: £40 to move one site with its email
- Trustpilot
- 2.9 out of 5 from 18 reviews
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Websites | Storage | Backups | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Hosting | from £29.90 a year for the first year, then £188 a year | Unlimited websites | Unlimited | Unlimited accounts and storage | Not known |
| VPS #1 | from £7.58 a month paid monthly | Your own server | 25 GB | Not known | Not known |
| Managed VPS 1 | from £67 a month paid monthly, or £566 for 12 months | Your own server, run for you | 20 GB | Not known | Not known |
Pros and cons
Pros
- Unlimited websites, storage and email accounts
- Phone and email support
- Prices shown in pounds
- VPS plans if you outgrow shared hosting
Cons
- Renews at over six times the first-year price
- Moving your site costs £40
- Trustpilot score of 2.9 from only 18 reviews
- Phone support in office hours only
How green is 1984 Hosting?
1984 Hosting is in the Green Web Foundation's directory of verified green hosting providers (we checked on 1 November 2026).
What the Foundation's verification means
1984 Hosting says its hosting and VPS in Iceland run on geothermal and hydroelectric power. It names no certificate and no data centre operator.
Web hosting and VPS in Icelandic data centres; no facility is named.
The data centres we list are in Iceland, where the grid averages 28 g CO2e per kWh, against 218 g in the UK. Lower is cleaner.
The grid in each country
| Country | Grid average | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Iceland | 28 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
We last read 1984 Hosting's own pages on 19 October 2026. Their pages: Homepage
Listing data from the Green Web Foundation's Green Web Dataset, under the Open Database License (ODbL). Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.