Introduction and Evaluation of HostWinds overseas servers

Hostwinds provides some managed services with fairly good standard functionality. The company offers three shared hosting plans: Basic, Advanced and Ultimate. The only difference between them is the number of domain names (such as isellpartyhats.com) that you can connect to your host: one, four, or unlimited. Note that you can create an unlimited number of subdomains (such as animalhats.isellpartyhats.com), so you can host more than a dozen subsites in your basic plan.

In addition, almost all of these plans have the same function. All sites are hosted on a server with SSD and managed through cPanel. You can also get unlimited email accounts and unlimited databases.

If you want to use any number of these databases, you can use the included Softaculous installer to help you set up WordPress and other platforms with a few clicks. If you prefer a more practical approach, the Weebly site builder is also included.

If you already have websites with different hosting services, you will be happy to know that Hostwinds provides free website transmission.

Each hosting package includes a free domain name for the first year (if you pay for an annual plan) and a free SSL certificate. The last one is particularly important because SSL helps secure visitor data (and your site) by encrypting information that goes in and out of your site. Google also ranks sites that use SSL higher, so, you know… That’s good.

Finally, Hostwinds can easily integrate Cloudflare content distribution network (CDN). CDN is essentially about copying your site and distributing it to servers around the world, making your site load faster anywhere. You will need this feature if you want to target users outside Europe and North America and do not want them to wait for your site to load forever.

Hostwinds also provides some optional add-ons, such as 24max 7 site monitoring. Basically, you can pay an extra fee for the service to check your website on a regular basis and notify you by email if there is a problem. However, you can sign up for UptimeRobot for free and get almost the same result.

Now, let’s look at something more interesting:

All plans have unlimited disk space and bandwidth

So, it’s notYouPersonal cloud. If you put the entire polka music library here, you will receive some annoying-sounding emails. If you don’t have any Weird Al in your polka music library, you may have trouble disappearing your account and may hear some cynical comments.

However, as long as you use hosting for the actual Web site, you can host any number of hosts, even the basic plan. The only bottleneck you may encounter is the lack of server processing power, which is common for cheap shared hosts.

Use LiteSpeed business hosts for actual business sites

If you want to avoid the above server hardware limitations, the business hosting plan is for you. It is still a shared host, but it is on a more powerful server and uses LiteSpeed server technology.

For non-technical people, LiteSpeed is basically just an updated server technology. It is built from scratch and is faster than other types of existing servers, especially taking advantage of acceleration features such as caching. It is generally considered better, which is why Hostwinds charges it more.

(for technicians, a question: how can LiteSpeed use HTTP/3 when it is not technically available? Does it look like the beta version? Oh my God, like the Google beta version, it lasts for five years until the product is obsolete? I really want to know. )

There is also a nightly cloud backup additional service.

Free backups would be fine, but like many other budget hosts, Hostwinds charges an extra fee for its backup services. Good news? These backups take place every day (or night), so if something goes wrong, you can always have the latest version of the site ready.

More importantly, it is a “cloud” backup service, which means that even backups have built-in redundancy. This peace of mind may be worth paying the price.

Is it convenient to use Hostwinds?

Hostwinds keeps it simple by keeping it classic.

Hostwinds has decided not to reinvent the wheel, which is a good thing to me. Hosting itself is managed by our favorite cPanel, and account management is handled by a standardized platform called WHMCS.

All in all, Hostwinds is using proven real-world tools to make your experience as simple and easy as possible. However, there is almost always something bad and good.

The information and functions you need can be obtained at a glance or click.

There is a slight problem with the registration process.

Hostwinds is one of some companies that are too eager to provide fraud prevention services. I signed up and my account was cancelled immediately.

I have to contact the support staff myself, ask for verification, and then send my personal information to them along with the file and ID card. Two days later, I passed the verification and activated the account. It’s a nuisance, but it’s not scary, especially compared to the crazy two weeks spent by Liquid Web.

Once you do enter, account management is simple enough, and it is easy to find a name server to connect to your domain. It’s all good stuff from there.

Easy to install with one click

I mentioned the Softaculous application installer earlier, but here’s a simple explanation: there are dozens of applications, if not hundreds, that you can install on your host account. In the case of WordPress, you can actually start and run the entire blog site in a few minutes.

Just a few clicks to get started.

Just click the blue oneInstall nowButton, enter some information (such as the name of the site you want), and then start. It’s really that simple.

There is only one thing: delete the “wp” that you see in the text field below. Otherwise, your site will be installed to a similarIsellpartyhats.com/wp/ ‘sLocation, not justisellpartyhats.com.

Yes, you will want to get rid of it.

The final test performance of Hostwinds host

Good, bad, and highly inconsistent

In order to test Hostwinds correctly, I conducted several performance tests in a few months. I use GTmetrix to test the full page load speed, Sucuri to test the international load speed, and UptimeRobot to test. You guessed right, the uptime of the website.

I used a website designed to mimic a functioning website with high-definition images, JavaScript and all the functions.

What was that all about? Well, the results are very inconsistent. For example, although the fastest load time recorded by GTmetrix is 0.9 seconds, the slowest load time is 2.9 seconds. The fastest average international load time is 0.697 seconds and the slowest is 4.364 seconds. Uptime and MarketingNot in accordance withThe uptime for three months is 99.982%.

Now I will describe the tests I ran in more detail. If you are as happy and excited about the performance statistics as I am, enjoy it. Otherwise, you may want to go to the support section of this article.

GTmetrix

Similarly, the fastest full page load time is 0.9 seconds and the slowest is 2.9 seconds. The average time is 1.82 seconds. In general, you want to limit the loading time of the site to less than 2 seconds, because after that people start to leave. The children are yelling backstage. They have those animal party hats to buy. There is no time to waste.

Take a quick look at the fastest test results I’ve got.

The fastest speed is amazing, but the slowest speed is terrible. There is no consistency here, which leads me to believe that Hostwinds’s shared servers are crowded with users and that only lucky people can get resources.

The performance of your website does have a direct impact on what people think of your company and brand, so keep this in mind. If you are running an enterprise-oriented website, you can either choose one of the business plans or choose a host that always performs better-such as Hostinger, which has the highest performance test score in our shared hosting service.

Sucuri

There is a greater difference in international loading time, with the fastest average 0.697 seconds and the slowest 4.364 seconds, averaging 3.338Second. Man, saying “average” reminds me of Jimmy Kimmel. )

This is a good thing very close to the data center, but it is very bad anywhere else. There are only three data centers to choose from-Seattle, Dallas and Amsterdam-so anywhere else in these areas is doomed to trouble.

Here is one of the average tests:

UptimeRobot

So. With regard to 99.9999% uptime guarantee. There are a lot of problems. These things are best described in words that I won’t use here, because, well, think about the kids.

It can be said that it is almost impossible to keep this particular promise.The mainframe is actuallyThe only guarantee is the power of the server. Actual site availability is another matter. Over the past three months, UptimeRobot’s uptime has reached 99.982%, which is not too bad, but it is definitely not what their marketing department promised.

Pre-sales and after-sales technical support of Hostwinds

Chatting online is basically no problem.

Pre-sales chat is very good. Salespeople are very honest and never promise or exaggerate. This is in sharp contrast to many landlords who lie, chatter and exaggerate to seduce you. Thank Hostwinds for not doing that.

The first chat and interaction after I registered was also very good. Evan helped me connect to my domain and quickly install WordPress. He is very helpful, even as a complete beginner.

The second support interaction is with a very friendly person, but he really doesn’t know much about technology.

We talked for a long time, and even though I tried to point him in the right direction, he managed to crash my site and could hardly resolve some basic requests, such as redirecting my site to HTTPS or adding “www” to URL. He is really working hard, the service attitude is really good, and helping customers succeed is also a very important part.

What is the price of Hostwinds?

The pricing of Hostwinds is fairly average among consumer hosts, if you want add-ons such as monitoring (which in my opinion is a useless charging method) or backup (please, everybody! ), you will have to pay more. Long-term prices have improved; they are on a par with better hosts such as InterServer.

There is a lot of flexibility in terms of payment-you can choose to pay for 1, 3, 6, 12, 24 or 36 months at a time. Another cool thing is that in addition to all major credit cards and PayPal, Hostwinds also accepts bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies. Hostinger is the only one of our top 10 Web hosting services that accepts cryptocurrencies.

When I checked out, the backup add-on option was pre-selected, which is a hidden upgrade sale in my book and a very unfair sales strategy. Hostwinds also has no refund guarantee of any kind, which makes Hostwinds the only service provider among our top 10 Web hosting services that does not provide any refund.

However, the free domain name in that annual plan is still very good.

The following are the prices of various types of host services for Hostwinds

Hostwinds evaluation conclusion

While Hostwinds is not a particularly bad service (like GoDaddy or HostPapa), it won’t be one of my preferred recommendations. Its fastest loading speed is very good, but when the performance is unstable and the average speed is not particularly impressive, that doesn’t mean much. Unless you want to pay in bitcoin, there are not many practical reasons to choose Hostwinds. Even so, Hostinger accepts bitcoin and performs much better in our tests.

Frequently asked questions about Hostwinds FAQ

Is Hostwinds a good virtual host?

Compared with other hosts, Hostwinds’s shared host planRight in the middle. This is not bad, but it is not very prominent. Unfortunately, the price of Hostwinds is higher than that of its strongest competitors. If you are looking for a managed service that is very cheap but still great, you shouldCheck out Hostinger’s latest offers..

Does Hostwinds provide shared hosts?

Right. Hostwinds provides shared hosts and many other services. The whole comment is about shared hosts, so if you want more information, I strongly suggest you skip back. To reiterate my last point: it’s good, but it can be better.

You can host the top web hosts in our 2023Many better shared hosting services are found in the list.

Is the VPS host of Hostwinds easy to use?

Well, it’s almost guaranteed to be better than a shared host, because VPS hosts are usually like this. One thing is certain:Compared with the plans of many other companiesHostwinds’s VPS plan is quite cheap.If you have just started using your first VPS, you may consider that Hostwinds is just for price.