CakePHP hosting
Install CakePHP from your dashboard with its database set up for it, on a managed Linux platform with free SSL, daily backups and a global CDN on every site.
CakePHP is an open-source PHP framework built on convention over configuration. Name your table and your class the same way and the object-relational mapper wires itself up; the rest — routing, validation, authentication, caching, a scaffolding command line — comes in the box rather than as a shopping list of packages.
A database is created for it automatically.
Teams choose CakePHP when they want to be productive on day one rather than after a week of decisions. The conventions do the wiring, the security helpers (CSRF tokens, form tampering protection, SQL injection prevention) are on by default rather than opt-in, and upgrades between major versions are unusually well documented for an open-source framework.
CakePHP runs on our Linux hosting. One plan, everything included.
| Option | Best for | Installation | What you control | From, per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed application plan | Getting a real site live today, with the least to set up | Already installed when your account opens | Your site and its content — we run the server, the updates and the backups | $14.99 |
| Linux platform plan | The cheapest entry, and for running more than one kind of thing | One click from your dashboard, whenever you want it | Your sites, your PHP settings and your databases — we run the server | $2.99 |
CakePHP is installed and running when your account opens, on our shared platform. We look after the server, the updates and the backups; you look after the site. Every plan here includes the whole feature set below.
$14.99/month
or $149.90 a year
Storage upgrades available on all plans: add 10 GB, 50 GB or 100 GB to any website, whenever it needs more. Extra storage
The same shared platform, without the application pre-installed. You install it in one click from the dashboard, and everything in the feature set below is included on every tier. This is the cheapest way to run it with us, and you can move up to a managed plan or across to a server of your own at any time.
$2.99/month
or $29.90 a year
$7.99/month
or $79.90 a year
$14.99/month
or $149.90 a year
Storage upgrades available on all plans: add 10 GB, 50 GB or 100 GB to any website, whenever it needs more. Extra storage
Cheap hosting is usually cheap once. The industry sells a low first term paid years in advance and then renews at several times the price you signed up at. We do not do that, and here is the arithmetic beside three hosts that do.
| Host | What you pay up front for the advertised price | What the price does on renewal |
|---|---|---|
| Zinn Digital® | Nothing — pay monthly, or pay for a year up front and save. Every plan shows both prices before you buy. | Nothing. The price you see is the price you renew at |
| SiteGround | 12 months, in advance | Multiplies by 5.3 |
| Hostinger | 48 months, in advance | Multiplies by 3.6 |
| Bluehost | 36 months, in advance | Multiplies by 2.5 |
Read from each host's own pricing page on 2026-09-08. Their prices are theirs and they change; the multiple is the renewal price they publish divided by the price they advertise beside it.
Generated from the hosting platform's own capability record, so it describes what the plan grants today.
Choose the data centre your site lives in: Helsinki, Finland (European Union), Singapore, Ashburn, eastern United States, and Hillsboro, western United States.
Our servers in Finland and Germany run on renewable electricity — sourced that way, not offset after the fact. For our United States and Singapore locations we have not verified the supply, so we do not claim it.
The pages people usually read after this one — the platform underneath, the rest of the range, and the help you get once you are here.
From the applications section of your dashboard. Choose CakePHP, pick the domain, and the install runs — including the database, if it needs one.
The current release from the platform's application catalogue. You can update it yourself afterwards like any other install.
Yes. Each Linux plan's website comes with subdomains, and Linux Pro has no cap on databases or subdomains, so you can run CakePHP beside other applications from this list — or add a plan for each further website.
Yes — SSH, SFTP, phpMyAdmin and remote MySQL are all included, so you are never locked out of your own install.
That depends on the plan you choose.
Yes. On any paid plan, AI Move does it for you free: our AI moves it, overseen by our migration team, and tests it before the switch-over.
Every shared plan begins with a free trial and is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee, and the price you sign up at is the price you renew at. If you would rather ask somebody first, the people who answer are the people who run the platform.
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