# PBN.LTD

> Hosting for private blog networks and for the money sites they point at, plus a suite of SEO tools that can be bought on their own with no hosting plan.

## Hosting
- [PBN hosting](https://pbn.ltd/): footprint-free hosting for private blog networks and link sites.
- [Money-site hosting](https://pbn.ltd/money-site-hosting/): managed WordPress and applications on infrastructure separate from the PBN network.
- [Prices](https://pbn.ltd/prices/): both hosting lines, live prices.
- [Usage and extra usage](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/billing-account-management/usage-add-ons-buy-extra-usage/): every site includes disk space, a database and a number of files (inodes); our own platform plugins (Tranzly, Page Builder Sandwich, Zinn Footprint, Zinn Cache, Zinn Chat) and the helper files we install are not counted; extra space can be added per site.
- [All hosting features](https://pbn.ltd/all-hosting-features/)
- [Safe automatic updates](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/on-site-issues/safe-automatic-plugin-updates/): WordPress sites are updated automatically and loaded and checked before and after every update; an update that stops a site working is put straight back, the rest are kept, and only the plugin that broke it is held - and retried by itself when its makers fix it.
- [Security & protection included free](https://pbn.ltd/security/): every site gets automatic malware removal (known malware taken off and kept aside, the customer e-mailed, their other sites checked too), a nightly malware scan, flood guard, a website firewall, login and form bot protection, updates that are undone if they break a site, hourly integrity checks with automatic repair, isolation between customers and outgoing spam hold - automatic, on every plan, at no extra cost.
- [How we protect your sites](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/how-we-protect-your-sites/): the guide to each protection, when we e-mail you and where to see it on your dashboard.
- [Move a PBN site to money-site hosting in one click](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/move-pbn-site-to-money-site-hosting/): open the site in the dashboard, press Move to money-site hosting; it moves into a free slot of the customer's money-site plan (WordPress, static and PHP sites into a Managed WordPress plan, Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop, OpenCart and MediaWiki into that application's plan), is checked, the domain is pointed at the new hosting in the same DNS account with no nameserver change, and once it is proven live the PBN copy and its backups are removed automatically and the PBN slot is freed. Nothing is charged for a move.
- [Managing your money site: the control panel and WordPress admin](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/managing-your-money-site-control-panel-and-wordpress-admin/): a money site (moved, bought or on a free trial) is managed in the Zinn Digital control panel at https://app.zinndigital.com - accept the invitation e-mailed to the account address to get in (Resend invitation on My money sites); WordPress admin stays at https://<domain>/wp-admin/ with the existing WordPress login.
- [Country lock](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/country-lock-limit-a-site-to-certain-countries/): lock any site to the countries you choose (only these countries, or everyone except these); other visitors get a neutral "This website is not available in your country" page, search engines are let in by default (by their published addresses, same site - no cloaking), works on every site type and CDN, per site or in bulk, via API and MCP too; included free.
- [Hosting box on your WordPress Dashboard](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/the-hosting-box-on-your-wordpress-dashboard/): every WordPress site shows its plan, usage and add-ons at the top of wp-admin, for its administrators only, with links to upgrade in your account.
- [Automatic nameserver updates](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/dns-records/automatically-update-nameservers-connect-your-registrar-accounts/): connect a Namecheap, GoDaddy, Porkbun, Dynadot, NameSilo, Spaceship, NameBright or Zinn Digital account once and the nameservers of every new site are set for you and confirmed at the registry.
- [Money-site add-ons](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/money-site-add-ons/): extras for a money site - SEO monitoring, speed and security work, translation, chat and support - ticked on the same order and paid with the plan, or added later from the site's page; only the add-ons that fit the plan are offered.
- [Turnstile bot check for forms](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/turnstile-bot-check-for-wordpress-forms/): a one-click "Verify you are human" check on a WordPress site's login, registration, lost-password and comment forms and the forms of Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor Pro, Spectra, Ninja Forms, Kadence Blocks, Everest Forms, Mailchimp for WP, MetForm, Otter, Forminator, HappyForms, Fluent Forms and Formidable; bots are refused, real visitors almost never click. Included with hosting; the customer picks the forms and how visible it is, can get new keys or switch it off.
- [Switch CDN when a CDN refuses a site](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/my-site-is-stuck-activating-its-cdn-how-to-switch-to-another-cdn/): if the chosen CDN will not set up a domain (held or in use by another account there, or a certificate authority refuses the name) the site page says so; nothing is deleted and the site is switched to another CDN on its CDN tab in a few minutes.
- [Email address protection](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/cdn-providers/email-address-protection-cloudflare-email-obfuscation/): on Cloudflare sites e-mail addresses in pages are hidden from spam bots by default (/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection links plus email-decode.min.js, which SEO tools such as Ahrefs can report as 404s); switch it off or on per site on the site page, Security tab, Email address protection - the choice is kept.
- [PBN.LTD Hosting app for Android](https://pbn.ltd/mobile-app/): free app with your sites, support tickets and invoices, alerts when a site goes down or comes back, support replies and payments are due, quiet hours and optional fingerprint unlock. Download: https://app.pbn.ltd/app/ - guide: https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/pbn-ltd-hosting-mobile-app/
- [Cron jobs (scheduled tasks)](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/cron-jobs-run-a-task-on-a-schedule/): run WordPress's scheduled tasks, a PHP script, a web address or a command on a schedule (every 5 minutes at most, stopped after 15 minutes), as the site's own user; run now, output of every run; free on every plan, 5 per site and 25 per account; also in the API and MCP.
- [Make sure email from your website is delivered](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/make-sure-email-from-your-website-is-delivered/): email your website sends (forms, orders, password resets) is signed with your own domain so Yahoo, Gmail and Outlook accept it; automatic when we run your DNS, otherwise one TXT record shown on your site page to add.
- [When a renewal payment fails](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/billing-account-management/what-happens-when-a-renewal-payment-fails/): if a card or PayPal subscription renewal fails and the provider's retries run out, one e-mail says how to pay and the date the sites will be paused (3 days later); unpaid by then, the sites are paused, never deleted, and come back by themselves once paid.
- [Send your website's email through your own provider](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/send-your-websites-email-through-your-own-provider/): per website, send the email the site sends (forms, orders, password resets) through your own Resend, SendGrid, Brevo, Mailgun, Amazon SES, Postmark or any SMTP account instead of our mail servers, with a one-click test; every site type; also in the API/MCP (/sites/{id}/mail-sending).
- [Money-site hosting free trial](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/money-site-hosting-free-trial/): 14-day free trial, no card needed, never charged automatically; after the trial the site is paused for 3 days then suspended unless you subscribe (you can subscribe at any time). Start it from the money-site plans page in the PBN.LTD dashboard; one free trial per person.
- [Money-site resource boosts](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/money-site-resource-boosts/): every money site gets its own 2 CPU cores and 2 GB of memory; one resource boost per site raises it (three levels, monthly), chosen at purchase or later on the site's page, which also shows the site's CPU and memory use.
- [Check a waiting site now](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/my-site-is-waiting-for-dns-check-it-now/): the Check again now button on a site waiting for its nameservers reads what the registrar really publishes, says exactly what to change, and starts the go-live step when everything is right (once every 5 minutes per site).
- [Remove old DNSSEC](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/site-stuck-activating-remove-old-dnssec/): a site whose nameservers are right but will not go live usually has an old DNSSEC (DS) record at the registrar; switch DNSSEC off there, the site goes live by itself.
- [Site blocked at the domain registry](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/site-blocked-at-the-domain-registry/): a domain on hold (clientHold / serverHold), expired, in its redemption period, pending delete, locked or being transferred cannot go live whatever its nameservers; Check again now and the dashboard assistant say which status it is and what to do at the registrar.
- [We moved your site to PHP 8.3](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/we-moved-your-site-to-php-8-3-what-it-means/): WordPress sites still on PHP 7.4 or 8.0 (no longer getting security updates) are moved to PHP 8.3 a few at a time, checked before and after and put straight back on any difference; no action needed, and any PHP version can still be chosen from the site's Edit screen at any time.
- [PHP web hosting](https://pbn.ltd/money-site-hosting/#web): money-site hosting for plain PHP or static HTML sites - an empty PHP account, SSH, Git and cron, on separate infrastructure from the PBN network; a static site can be upgraded to PHP in place.
- [Developer hosting](https://pbn.ltd/money-site-hosting/#developer): Node.js, Python and Ruby apps deployed from Git, with staging and rollback.
- [LMS hosting](https://pbn.ltd/money-site-hosting/#lms): online courses on WordPress with a learning platform, or Moodle.

## SEO tools
- [SEO tools hub](https://pbn.ltd/seo-tools/): every tool, and the bundle discount.
- [Rank tracking](https://pbn.ltd/rank-tracking/): Where your domains rank on Google, for the keywords you choose - any domain, any country, city or language, desktop or mobile; each plan covers a number of Google versions per domain and packs add more.
- [AI visibility](https://pbn.ltd/ai-visibility/): Whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI answers and others name your brand - and who they cite instead.
- [Index checker](https://pbn.ltd/index-checker/): Which pages are in Google, page by page - any page on any site, checked daily, weekly or monthly.
- [Domain vetting](https://pbn.ltd/domain-vetting/): Check a domain's links, spam score, history and index status before you buy it.
- [Keyword research](https://pbn.ltd/keyword-research/): Search volume, cost per click, difficulty and ideas for any keyword, country or city.
- [Domain alerts](https://pbn.ltd/domain-alerts/): Save a search of the aged-domain list and get the new matches by e-mail.
- [Domain overview](https://pbn.ltd/domain-overview/): What any domain ranks for: its keywords, traffic, top pages, competitors and your keyword gap.
- [Competitor tracking](https://pbn.ltd/competitor-tracking/): Watch any competitor's domain every week - organic keywords, traffic estimate, top pages, domain rank and referring domains - with the history and an e-mail when one jumps.
- [Local rankings](https://pbn.ltd/local-rankings/): Where a business sits in Google's map results and local results, town by town - and every change to its business profile.
- [Agency SEO data](https://pbn.ltd/agency-seo-data/): Authority and link data for up to 200 domains hosted anywhere - domain rank, referring domains, backlinks, spam score and organic traffic - read every week, with a CSV export, the API and your white-label client reports.
- [Reputation monitoring](https://pbn.ltd/reputation-monitoring/): Your star rating and latest reviews on Google, Trustpilot and Tripadvisor every week - poor reviews nobody has answered first - and what shows on page one for your name.
- [Client reports](https://pbn.ltd/client-reports/): Scheduled reports for your clients, under your own logo and colours, built from the SEO tools you already have.
- [Product price tracking](https://pbn.ltd/product-price-tracking/): Your products on Google Shopping and Amazon every week - are you on the shelf, at what position, and how far above the cheapest seller you are.
- [Backlink monitor](https://pbn.ltd/backlink-monitor/): Are the links you built still there? We check each one and watch whole backlink profiles.
- [Brand mentions](https://pbn.ltd/brand-mentions/): Where your brand, domain or product is talked about on the web - and whether it is good or bad.
- [Site audit](https://pbn.ltd/site-audit/): What is holding a site back, page by page - and what to change. Any site you own.
- [Footprint checker](https://pbn.ltd/pbn-footprint-checker/): What publicly joins your sites up - and how to break each link. Yours or any other site.

## Add-ons
- [Redis](https://pbn.ltd/redis/): a private in-memory cache for your whole hosting account - one click for WordPress, exact settings for six more platforms.
- [Extra databases](https://pbn.ltd/extra-databases/): more MySQL databases for one site, each with its own user and password, in the site's phpMyAdmin, backed up every day.
- [Staging sites](https://pbn.ltd/staging/): a private copy of a WordPress or Static HTML site to test changes on, then copy to live - files and database, database only or files only; never indexed.
- [Performance Boost](https://pbn.ltd/performance-boost/): 1.5x, 2x or 3x the CPU and memory for every PBN site in the account at once, priced per site per month - for heavier plugins, WooCommerce, traffic spikes and faster crawling.
- [Pro plugin discount](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/billing-account-management/pro-plugin-discount-for-hosting-customers/): customers with an active paid hosting plan get 50% off the first payment of any of our Pro WordPress plugins (personal code, valid 30 days, renewals at the normal price; terms: https://zinndigital.com/kb/hosting-customer-pro-plugin-discount).

## More
- [Marketplace](https://pbn.ltd/marketplace/): backlinks, PBN builds and site work.
- [Zinn Footprint WordPress plugin](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/seo-tools/zinn-footprint-wordpress-plugin/): free plugin, standard on our WordPress hosting, that removes WordPress tell-tales (version line, discovery links, powered-by header, username-revealing login errors, XML-RPC unless Jetpack needs it); never blocks search engines; WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.4+.
- [Free PBN footprint check](https://app.pbn.ltd/footprint/free-check/): check up to five sites free, no account needed - a score out of 100, a grade and how many links tie them together.
- [Free footprint check guide](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/seo-tools/free-pbn-footprint-check/): what the free check shows, its limits and what the full footprint checker adds.
- [Our WordPress plugins](https://pbn.ltd/wordpress-plugins/): the plugins we make, each with its website and a live demo: Tranzly (https://tranzly.io/, translation), Page Builder Sandwich (https://pagebuildersandwich.com/, page builder), Zinn Cache (https://zinncache.com/, page and Redis cache), Zinn Chat (https://zinnchat.com/, live chat and help desk) and Zinn Translate (https://zinntranslate.com/, 58 languages). Tranzly and Page Builder Sandwich come free on the WordPress sites we build.
- [Support tickets day and night](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/support-help/support-tickets-overnight-and-at-weekends-our-ai-support-assistant/): tickets opened at any time of day or night are answered within minutes by Zinn, our AI support assistant; refunds, account changes and orders always go to a person, and our team reviews every reply.
- [Domains](https://pbn.ltd/domains/): register a domain, or transfer one in for free.
- [API and MCP server](https://pbn.ltd/api-mcp-server/): connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own code to your account (MCP server https://app.pbn.ltd/mcp, OAuth login or a scoped API key; included free). Guide: https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/developer-docs/do-you-have-an-api/ - a REST API and an MCP server for AI assistants covering every product in the dashboard - sites, DNS, backups, files, staging, extra databases, the bot check, registrar connections, money sites and every SEO tool. Reference: https://app.pbn.ltd/api/docs (machine-readable: https://app.pbn.ltd/api/docs/llms.txt).
- [Delete your account](https://pbn.ltd/delete-account/): how to delete a PBN.LTD account and its data (dashboard or app: Edit profile -> Delete my account, or e-mail from the account address); e-mail confirmation, auto-renewing subscriptions cancelled, 14 days to change your mind, then sites, mailboxes, backups and account data deleted; invoices kept six years (UK law).
- [Knowledge base](https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/)
- [Contact](https://pbn.ltd/contact/)

## Founder
Founded by Neil Lock, technology entrepreneur and developer - https://neillock.dev/ (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-lock/).