Last updated on 4th March 2026

Deploying to Fasthosts via DeployHQ: Automated Web Deployment

Deploying to your site hosted with Fasthosts is very simple with DeployHQ. Fasthosts is a major UK hosting provider offering shared hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers from UK data centres.

Firstly, you'll need to set up your DeployHQ project, then connect to your Fasthosts server.

Setting up your project

Head to the Projects screen in DeployHQ, then click the New Project button to get started.

You'll be prompted to enter a name for your project, then select where your repository is hosted.

New Project

Next, click Create project and you'll be taken to a screen where you can log in with your repository hosting account to authorise access and then choose your repository.

Setting up Fasthosts

Once you've configured your repository, you'll need to connect to your Fasthosts server.

Shared hosting

Fasthosts shared hosting includes SSH and SFTP on all Linux plans. The connection details can be found in the Fasthosts control panel under the FTP/SSH section.

Important: Fasthosts uses port 22 by default, but some accounts on clustered hosting use port 1022 instead. If you get a connection error on port 22, try 1022.

Hostname: Use your server's IP address (the FTP hostname like ftp.yourdomain.co.uk may not resolve in all cases)
Username: Your FTP/SSH username from the Fasthosts control panel
Password: Your FTP/SSH password
Port: 22 (or 1022 for clustered accounts)

The default deployment path on shared hosting is htdocs/ (not public_html — this is Fasthosts-specific).

Note: SSH is only available on Linux hosting plans, not Windows hosting.

VPS and dedicated servers

Fasthosts VPS and dedicated servers use the standard port 22 and include Plesk Web Host Edition (free on VPS). The default deployment path with Plesk is /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/.

Adding the server in DeployHQ

Head to Servers & Groups, and click the New Server button at the top of the screen. If you've just added your repository, you will have been taken to this page automatically.

Start by entering a name, and choosing SSH/SFTP as the protocol. Enter your hostname (server IP), username, password, and the correct port.

For the deployment path:

Shared hosting: htdocs/ (or htdocs/wp-content/themes/your-theme/ for WordPress)
VPS/Dedicated with Plesk: /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/

Within Deployment options, you can choose to automatically deploy your server and, if you're only deploying files from a certain directory in your repository, enter a Deployment subdirectory.

Tip: New FTP/SSH accounts on Fasthosts can take up to 10 minutes to propagate. If your connection fails immediately after creating an account, wait a few minutes and try again.

Click Create Server to finish, then you can proceed to start your first deployment.

Run your first deployment

By default, DeployHQ will upload the whole repository to your server on the first deployment, because there is no previously deployed commit to compare to.

If your files are already on Fasthosts and up to date with the latest commit, you can follow this guide to skip that first deployment:

Don't deploy your whole repository on the first deployment

Otherwise, just follow this guide to start your first deployment, then after the first deployment, only files that have changed will be uploaded in future.

Running your first deployment

That's it! You've now set up and run your first deployment to your Fasthosts server and your future changes will be uploaded for you automatically, or at the simple click of a button.