Hostwinds
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Hostwinds is a US-based Hosting Provider founded in 2010 in Seattle, Washington, that fully owns and operates its own infrastructure. It offers shared, reseller, VPS, cloud, and dedicated servers, with a 99.9999% uptime guarantee and award-winning support recognized as PCMag Editors' Choice.
Hostwinds is a US-based Hosting Provider founded in 2010 in Seattle, Washington, that fully owns and operates its own infrastructure. It offers shared, reseller, VPS, cloud, and dedicated servers, with a 99.9999% uptime guarantee and award-winning support recognized as PCMag Editors' Choice.
- Shared Hosting from 4,54 USD
- Reseller Hosting from 4,54 USD
- VPS Hosting from 7,14 USD
- Dedicated Hosting from 106,00 USD
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Hostwinds is a US hosting provider founded in 2010 in Seattle, Washington by Peter Flavin. The company stands out by owning and fully operating its own infrastructure, directly controlling all servers and systems.
Full lineup: shared hosting ($4.54/month), white-label reseller, managed and unmanaged VPS (from $7.14/month with 10 scalable plans), cloud with hourly billing ($4.99/month), configurable dedicated servers (from $106/month). Linux and Windows available on VPS.
Three strategically located data centers: Seattle (Washington), Dallas (Texas), and Amsterdam (Netherlands). All SAS Type II certified, Tier 3+, with 2N redundancy. Multi-provider Tier 1 network (Zayo, Cogent, NTT, GTT). 99.9999% uptime guarantee.
Award-winning tech support, PCMag Editors' Choice for over 10 years. Available 24/7/365 via live chat, phone, ticketing, and email. Inc. Magazine recognizes Hostwinds as one of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the US.
Hostwinds works for everyone from individuals to mid-sized businesses. The wide price range — from under $5/month to hundreds of dollars — makes it fit almost any budget. Full management included free on VPS and dedicated.
Company Info
Pricing
Shared Hosting
- Unlimited disk space
- Unlimited traffic
- Free SSL certificates
- cPanel included
- SSDs
- Daily backups
- Free website migration
Reseller Hosting
- Full White Label
- cPanel/WHM included
- Custom branding
- Unlimited disk space
- Unlimited traffic
- Free SSL certificates
VPS Hosting
- 1-16 CPU cores
- 1-96 GB RAM
- 30-750 GB SSD
- 1-9 TB bandwidth
- Full management included
- Linux and Windows available
- 99.9999% uptime guarantee
- Instant setup
Dedicated Hosting
- 100% dedicated resources
- Customizable RAID setup
- Full management included
- 24/7 monitoring
- Automatic daily backups
- 1 Gbps network
- Full IPMI/KVM access
Pros
- Exceptional 99.9999% uptime guarantee, one of the highest in the industry
- Award-winning PCMag Editors' Choice tech support, available 24/7/365
- Fully owned infrastructure — no middlemen, lower costs
- Full range from shared to fully customizable dedicated servers
- Three data centers (Seattle, Dallas, Amsterdam) with 2N redundancy
Cons
- No data centers in Eastern Europe or Asia
- The dedicated interface can be confusing, with prices not clearly shown on the site
- Promo pricing only for the first billing period
Technologies, Features & Services
Customer Reviews
Worth every cent
Been with Hostwinds for 3 months and zero complaints. Uptime has been rock solid and the dashboard is straightforward.
Happy with the service for the money.Had one small issue with a cron job that took a day to resolve, otherwise solid.
Good value
Been with Hostwinds for 25 months and zero complaints. Uptime has been rock solid and the dashboard is straightforward...
Decent host
Works okay for my small blog. Not sure I would pick them again if I were starting from scratch today.
Customer for 32 months, would renew without thinking. Everything simply works. customer for 32 months, would renew without thinking. Everything simply works.
Good value
The email setup is the smoothest I have seen... DKIM, SPF and DMARC were all pre-configured.
Would not recommend
Speed is average at best. Support replies with copy-paste answers that do not always address the actual issue. Billing confusion has happened twice. Charged for an add-on I did not enable. Refunded eventually but not a great experience.
Happy customer
Would rate five but my email delivery had some hiccups early on. Resolved after a ticket but worth mentioning. Happy with performance but had to manually install Let's Encrypt on one domain which felt clunky.
Had a plugin conflict on my WordPress install and the support tech pinpointed it in about ten minutes. Saved me half a weekend.
Good value
Great experience so far. Set up took maybe twenty minutes including DNS changes. Would recommend to anyone running a blog or portfolio site.
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