Knownhost.com - Hosting overview
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- Support 24/7
- Free backups
An American hosting company founded in 2006. Provides a full package of services from shared hosting to full-blown dedicated servers. While being mostly an American hosting, they have 2 datacentres in the US, and one in the Netherlands.
Overview
Knownhost offers a variety of features and hosting solutions for just about any case. This includes widely popular solutions like Shared, VPS, Dedicated, but also some very specific solutions of educational, image gallery, RSS hostings, and so on.
Most of their service comes with some degree of management, for example, Shared hosting and WordPress hosting are always managed, while in VPS and Cloud hostings you can choose if you want your server managed.
The company provides free backups, free managed migration with 99.99% uptime.
Support
9.5
The website states that tech support is online and available 24/7/365, and can be reached over by phone, a live chat, or by opening a ticket. But, I wanted to test out the response time through a live chat, I’ve got a message that there’s no online specialist at the moment, so maybe they meant the phone support is available at all times.
There is a Knowledge base on the site as well as forums and wiki, so you could look for more information either written by specialists or by fellow users.
The support department also takes the task of transferring your server along with managing it(Should you purchase that service)
Reliability
9.5
For a company with such a catchy name and a promise of 99.99% there’s bound to be some superb security and stability measures, and there is a lot. Starting from top-grade hardware to included DDoS protection with imunify360 and daily backups. KnownHost uses cloud-based storage in every plan and provides a free SSL certificate from Comodo. CloudLinux is used to isolate accounts, so there are no problems with resource overuse. LiteSpeed is paired with LScache to boost performance. Ultimately each hosting solution comes with a unique set of features, from HTTP 2 for shared solutions, KVM for cloud, etc.
User Friendly
9.5
DirectAdmin comes as a free included control panel, but you can still buy cPanel if that’s your jam, Softaculous comes with it, while it is also available for free in web hosting plans. Scalability issues are not a problem for KnownHost, as you can down or upgrade your server without a second of downtime.
KnownHost is offering white-labeled server options, suited for businesses who don’t want mentions of hosting.
ROOT access is provided for even greater customization if you know what you do.
Sadly, NVMe drives are only available as a separate plan and only Unix-based OS are supported.
Features
9.5
- KnownHost presents an opportunity to gain some profits back, through reseller hosting or an affiliate program. Either through selling or advertising KnownHost services;
- Unlimited bandwidth for shared solutions;
- 99.99% uptime, even more for VPS, which is stated to be 99.996%;
- Isolated resources, so the other users on the server wouldn’t affect your performance;
- SSH access;
- Email services in every plan;
- But take notice that a great deal of these additional services are paid ones.
Pricing
9.5
The prices are market average, so you could get your shared web server for as low as 8.95$, but the first month is 50% off. A refund period is available of 7 to 30 days, depending on the service, so you could freely return your money, just in case.
The payment is made only in USD and through ACH, PayPal, or just a bank card.
Shared Hosting
$3.47 - $9.97Plan | Drive | RAM | Bandwidth | OS | Panel | Sites | Price |
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Professional Shared Hosting | ∞ | - | ∞ | - |
|
∞ | $9.97 |
Basic Shared Hosting | 5 GB | - | ∞ | - |
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1 | $3.47 |
Standard Shared Hosting | 20 GB | - | ∞ | - |
|
5 | $6.47 |
VPS Hosting
$5.00 - $100.00Plan | Drive | CPU | RAM | OS | Panel | Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Entry Unmanaged VPS | 20 GB | 1 | 1 GB | $5.00 | ||
Entry Plus Unmanaged | 40 GB | 1 | 2 GB | $10.00 | ||
Basic Unmanaged VPS | 75 GB | 2 | 4 GB | $20.00 | ||
Basic Managed VPS Server | 75 GB | 2 | 4 GB | $40.00 | ||
Standard Unmanaged VPS | 150 GB | 4 | 8 GB | $40.00 | ||
Standard Managed VPS Server | 150 GB | 4 | 8 GB | $60.00 | ||
Professional Unmanaged Server | 250 GB | 6 | 10 GB | $60.00 | ||
Professional Managed VPS Server | 250 GB | 6 | 10 GB | $80.00 | ||
Premium Unmanaged VPS | 300 GB | 8 | 12 GB | $80.00 | ||
Premium Managed VPS Server | 300 GB | 8 | 12 GB | $100.00 |
Dedicated Server
$49.00 - $373.00Plan | Cores | Threads | CPU | RAM | Drive | Price |
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Dual Intel Xeon E5620 | 8 | 8 | 2.4 GHz | 32 GB | 240 GB | $49.00 |
Dual Intel Xeon E5645 | 12 | 12 | 2.4 GHz | 32 GB | 240 GB | $59.00 |
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2630 | 12 | 12 | 2.3 GHz | 32 GB | 240 GB | $69.00 |
Intel Xeon E - 2224 | 4 | 4 | 3.4 GHz | 16 GB | 240 GB | $158.00 |
Intel Xeon E - 2236 | 6 | 6 | 3.4 GHz | 16 GB | 240 GB | $173.00 |
Intel Xeon E - 2246G | 6 | 6 | 3.6 GHz | 16 GB | 240 GB | $183.00 |
Intel Xeon E - 2288G | 8 | 8 | 3.7 GHz | 16 GB | 240 GB | $198.00 |
Dual Intel Xeon Silver 4208 | 16 | 16 | 2.1 GHz | 32 GB | 480 GB | $283.00 |
AMD EPYC Rome 7302P | 16 | 16 | 3.0 GHz | 32 GB | 480 GB | $283.00 |
Dual Intel Xeon Silver 4214 | 24 | 24 | 2.2 GHz | 64 GB | 960 GB | $373.00 |
AMD EPYC Rome 7402P | 24 | 24 | 2.8 GHz | 64 GB | 960 GB | $373.00 |
Cloud Hosting
$50.00 - $120.00Plan | Bandwidth | Sites | Price |
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Basic Cloud | 2 TB | $50.00 | |
Standard Cloud | 3 TB | $70.00 | |
Professional Cloud | 4 TB | $90.00 | |
Premium Cloud | 5 TB | $120.00 |
Resellers
$6.97 - $27.47Plan | Drive | Panel | Bandwidth | Accounts | Price |
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Basic Reseller Hosting | 25 GB |
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800.05 GB | $6.97 | |
Standard Reseller Hosting | 50 GB |
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1.17 TB | $9.97 | |
Professional Reseller Hosting | 100 GB |
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1.6 TB | $14.97 | |
Premium Reseller Hosting | 200 GB |
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4 TB | $27.47 |
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KnownHost as the name suggests is a major player in the field of American hosting, aimed at every audience, and comes with a variety of features, less or more known. So if you are a customer who wants to host something personal, or a large business, or even someone who looks towards hosting something more obscure, like ERP hosting, then you should look towards KnownHost.
Pros
- 99.99% uptime;
- Full ROOT access;
- Less known hosting variations;
- A good level of security and stability.
Cons
- Only Unix based OS hosting;
- Many features have to be paid for;
- NVMe only available for VPS plans;
- Live chat not always has online specialists;
- Only two locations.
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