Alchosting.net - Hosting overview

Overview

Their site appears easy to use, with every plan having organized details. ALCHost provides all of the three most popular hosting types: Shared, VPS, and dedicated server solutions. The benefits of using ALCHost are free backups, Unmetered bandwidth, and the option of free hosting. The basic plan will yield you 15GB of disk space, 1GB RAM, 1CPU core, and unlimited bandwidth to host 1 website. A basic VPS will have 1 CPU core, 1GB RAM, 25GB storage, and 1TB bandwidth. A knowledge base is available in the client area, having over 50 articles on different hosting topics.

As stated on the site, tech support is online 24/7/365 and you can contact them by phone, live chat, email, or ticket. If you are planning on using live chat and there are no specialists online, you will be directed by a bot instead. I had to wait for 4 hours for a specialist to show up, and overall, excluding the wait, it took them 10 minutes to deal with my questions

Alchost provides free backups, weekly or daily depending on the plan, they are stored up to 7/14/30 days and in some cases on an off-site location. The company also provides users with DDoS protection, imunify360 antivirus, and custom firewalls. From the performance side, the servers support LiteSpeed, QUIC HTTP3, and Cloudflare CDN, all of which give a considerable boost to load speeds. KVM is the preferred virtualization type, and the servers are running on CloudLinux OS

Uptime is promised to be 99.9%.

A lot of CMS platforms are supported and heavily optimized in separate appropriate plans, for example, WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop, Drupal. At the time of writing, some of the advertised plans were not available. Hosting supports Unix-based OS only. Free and managed migration is available with a specialist managing the task of migrating your server. The company promises quick deployment of services.
Users are granted jailed SSH access. 

• ALCHost has an affiliate program, so users can profit from advertising the company’s services under their own name;
• Free cPanel and an SSL certificate;
• Option of free hosting for students or users who wish to try out ALChost services;
• Unmetered bandwidth, Unlimited parked/subdomains, FTP accounts, and databases;
• Free Domain for yearly plans.
• Free site builder included

The services of ALChost solutions are below market average, even so, as there’s free hosting available, but a regular one will cost you 3.99. There are no setup fees, but there is a "Government tax" of 7.90%. The refund period is 30 days for shared solutions and 7 days for VPS or dedicated servers.

The payment can be made by bank card, PayPal, or Bitcoin.