First2host.co.uk - Hosting overview

Overview

First2Host has a nice, small website, designed according to modern standards and with convenience in mind. Their flagship services are Shared and VPS hostings, but other services include dedicated servers, Windows Desktop hosting, and secure storage server. One of the main features of the company is that all services are NVMe powered.There’s a knowledge base available from the client area but there’s not a lot of articles.

There are no stated working hours of the support department, but there is a promise of answering under 24 hours. You can reach them by live chat, phone, email, or by opening a ticket. Testing this out, I can say that in grand total it took over 4 hours to deal with my question, including the first and second replies, which were only hours apart.

If you want to migrate a website to F2H servers, support specialists will take that, providing you hassle-free migration without a second of downtime.

Apart from being the main focus of the company, NVMe drives are used to run every server, along with the most up-to-date hardware by AMD.
Cloudflare and Litespeed are integrated into the servers to boost up load times and performance.

Daily backups and snapshots are provided free of charge for shared and VPS solutions. From a security perspective, F2H utilizes DDoS protection, imunifyAV, and firewalls to protect your server. You can request disaster recovery or error diagnostic services for free, should the website in question crash or have problems.

F2H promises 99.99% uptime.

You are provided with full access to SSH, Supported by CloudInit. KVM/IP, access is available with detailed metrics. Custom .iso are supported as well as different PHP versions.

Over a hundred website templates are ready to be used for creating your ideal website. F2H developed their own control panel called discovery, and it is integrated into some of their plans.

First2Host has both reseller hosting and an affiliate program, allowing customers to gain some money by selling or advertising F2H services under your own name.

• Email Service;
• Internal Network;
• FFMPEG supports so you can host videos on your website;
• Free SSL certificate;
• Openstack, Secure Storage, and desktop hosting solution;
• VPS and dedicated servers are greatly customizable.

Their prices are just slightly lower than the market average. You can get an NVMe shared hosting for as low as 4.99$. Refunds are only made in the case of encountering technical issues with the hosting.

The payment can be made through PayPal, Bankcard, or any form of cryptocurrency.