Hostens.com - Hosting overview

Overview

The company offers a full package of hosting solutions, excluding the dedicated server. That includes shared VPS, and domain registration services with cloud technology in mind. Hostens provides both daily and weekly backups. From the start, you could not notice that their site is riddled with hostens mascot - hamster, which at least, subjectively and personally wins a few design points. A knowledge base is available on site, containing over 50+ helpful articles on various topics.

The company states that support is online 24/7 and can be reached over by email, live chat, or opening a ticket and the response time for live chat is 5 minutes. As usual, I’ve decided to test the claim, and indeed, in less than five minutes I’ve got the first reply, and with the following clarification, the specialists on the other end answered all of my questions.

Tech support specialist would be glad to help you in any hosting related questions, like domain transfer, registration, etc

Hostens uses a number of security and stability measures to provide its customers a quality service. Here are just some of them: OpenVZ/KVM, hostens firewalls, Spam filters, RAID drives, and a separate VPN service.

In addition, their servers are running on apache. Hostens does not offer a DDoS attack protection

The company promises 99.95% uptime

Hostens offer a number of additional features, for example, their own website builder, allowing you to design your site and get it up to work in minutes. You are free to choose a supported PHP version. The company supports different CMS platforms like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla

Installatron tool by Hostens will allow you to install hundred of different supported platforms, add-ons, and plugins.

Almost all services are unmanaged, cutting off the cost.

Hostens offer an affiliate program, as well as reseller hosting allowing customers to gain a set percentage from sales, by advertising or selling Hostens services.

• Free SSL certificate from let’s encrypt;
• Secure TIER 3 data center;
• Trusted hosting;
• 3 locations are available - US, Europe, and Asia;
• Free website builder.

Hostens is a pretty low-cost hosting company, with prices staying below market average. You can get shared hosting for as low as 3$, although there is a tendency that lower plans are only available for a yearly subscription, with 3 years being the lowest, reaching 0.90$ per month

A generous refund period is provided for 30 days after purchase for most of the services.

The payment can be made through various supported payment systems of: PayPal, Doku, Webmoney, AliPay, and Boleto.