Greek web hosting provider HostZone has been in the market for almost ten years. It specializes in shared hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, and radio hosting.
Although this provider is based in Greece, its servers are all based in Germany. Its old-style website, which is in Greek, doesn’t look like it has been updated (at least design-wise) since the year 2011 as indicated by the copyright notice.
Features and Ease of Use
HostZone’s four web hosting plans – Basic, Standard, Advanced, and Master – have the following features in common:
- Unlimited storage
- Unlimited bandwidth
- cPanel control panel
- Weekly backups
- 99.9% uptime guarantee
- Free domain
To make it easier for you to create your website, HostZone provides free CMS installation (for WordPress, Joomla, Magento, PrestaShop, Drupal, and several others) but no website builder as far as I can see. They do offer to design your website for you, for a fee, but I have to confess to not being impressed with this provider’s own website design.
The bundled industry-standard cPanel control panel provides you with a user-friendly interface through which you can control all aspects of your website hosting without any prior technical or programming knowledge.
Expert webmasters might find the support for Cron jobs interesting as it enables them to schedule scripts to run at specific times.
Pricing and Support
The four web hosting packages differ in terms of the number of addon domains, FTP accounts, and MySQL databases. Compared to the European market, and taking into consideration the included features, I judge that the prices are relatively affordable, though this may be because the advertised prices are stuck at the 2011 levels.
There is no advertised refund policy, and no apparent terms and conditions page for me to double-check. There is also no knowledge base or FAQ section as far as I can see, so for self-support, you may be somewhat stranded. And several of the website links don’t work at all.
There are two ways to contact this company’s supposedly 24/7 support team. Unfortunately, the live chat window displays an error message, and I received no reponse to my support ticket submission. So, I judge the support to be substandard, but I do also wonder whether this vendor is still in business at all.
