Hosting24 was founded in 2004 in the beautiful Larnaca, Cyprus.
Because… taxes? Also, beaches.
Similar to many other web hosts, their website is chock-full of hyperbolic language, including 99.9% uptime guarantees and ‘automatic backups’ (which we’ll debunk in a minute).
Let’s see how they measure up.
We set up a WordPress website on their cheapest shared hosting plan back in June of 2015. Since then, we’ve been closely monitoring uptime and speed, in addition to testing their customer support and performing background checks to compile our results in an unbiased, honest review.
Keep reading to find out what we found.
Hosting24 has pretty good customer support. They also throw in a few other nice-to-have (but not essential) things. That’s about it.
Hosting24 primarily offers support via live chat, which connected us immediately to one of their support agents.
Their responses were thoughtful, detailed, and clear enough. Although there was a noticeable delay in between answering questions if we’re nit-picking. A quick background check reveals other similarly mixed reviews.
Overall, not too bad to begin with though.
Enhanced Security with Automated Backups
Hosting24 follows up their seemingly customer-centric approach by paying special attention to your site’s security.
Many of their hosting plans come standard with CloudFlare DDOS Protection and the ClamAV antivirus scanner to proactively protect your site.
They’ll also even perform weekly backups. In an ideal world, you would have daily backups. But since they’re throwing it in for free, while many other sites force you to pay extra, it’s not a bad deal. We’ll review these backups in more detail soon.
In addition, they also offer SpamAssassin Protection for email.
U.S. and European Server Locations
When signing up for a new shared or VPS hosting account, you’re given the option to choose between hosting your site on their North America (Asheville, North Carolina) or European (United Kingdom) locations (depending on who you’re trying to reach).
Numerous Promotional Sales
If you time it right, you might get an incredible deal.
At the time of this writing (5/18/16), they were running a 50% lifetime discountflash sale.
And a quick look at their Facebook Page reveals numerous sales over the past few weeks, occurring every 14 days or so.
To top it all off, you can try all their shared hosting plans for $0.01 for the first month (which also includes a money-back guarantee, just in case you can’t live without that single cent).
Free Website Transfer(s)
Hosting24 will help you transfer or migrate an existing website — free of charge — if it’s hosted elsewhere. (It’s worth noting that almost every other host we’ve reviewed also offers this perk.)
Overview on Hosting24 shared hosting plans
Here’s a quick overview of their hosting plans. They offer two shared plans.
Silver plan: This plan starts at $3.99 per month. It comes with unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth and the option to choose your server location.
Gold plan: This plan starts at $6.99 per month. It comes with everything in the silver plan plus custom name servers and add-on domains.
You can try all their shared hosting plans for $0.01 for the first month.
Quick Facts
Free domain? Yes.
Ease of Signup: Easy sign up process.
Payment Methods: Credit Card, PayPal.
Hidden Fees and Clauses: Accounts with a single file above 1GB, or with more than 250,000 files, can be terminated without notice to the account owner.
Upsells: No upsells.
Account Activation: Instant Activation.
Control Panel and Dashboard Experience: cPanel.
Installation of Apps and CMSs (WordPress, Joomla, etc.): One-click installation of popular apps and CMSs through Softaculous.