040Hosting has been rocking the website hosting scene since 1996, serving customers from all corners of the world. They’ve got hosting options available on four continents, offering a variety of plans for shared hosting, elastic website hosting, and dedicated server hosting. They’ve got your hosting needs covered, no matter where you are or what type of hosting you’re looking for.
They offer standard and SSD shared hosting plans with robust features and proactive security measures. While their customer support is a bit lacking, their services are more than adequate to handle most websites. However, you’ll want to stay away from their optimized CMS hosting packages, as they are very pricey.
Features and Ease of Use
040Hosting offers standard and SSD shared hosting with excellent features, including unlimited subdomains and more than enough bandwidth with each package. Here are a few of their basic features:
- cPanel
- Softaculous auto-installer
- Free website migrations
- Unlimited email accounts
- Unlimited domains and subdomains
If you’re looking for strong security and support for more advanced developer features, this is also a great hosting choice. Here are some of their advanced features:
- Free DV SSL certificates
- Imunify360 protection for Linux web servers
- JetBackup
- Supports all PHP versions
- Supports Perl, Curl, PEAR, and Cron jobs
- CloudLinux OS and CloudFlare optimization
Imunify 360 offers well-rounded protection for your website including firewall protection, malware detection, and more. JetBackup is a robust backup and restore tool that allows for daily, weekly, and monthly backups. You can even get hourly backups for a fee.
One thing that stands out is that they don’t offer support for Python or Ruby, which would be great for advanced webmasters, but not a dealbreaker for most. They don’t provide a website builder for beginners, but they do offer the Softaculous auto-installer which will allow you to install hundreds of web apps, including WordPress, Drupal, PrestaShop and more. Experienced webmasters will have no problems with this service as cPanel access is standard.
Pricing and Support
040Hosting offers two forms of shared hosting: standard and SSD hosting. Both offer four plans with the main differences being storage and bandwidth. Below are the differences in the standard plans:
| Bronze | Red | Blue | Green | |
| Storage | 1GB | 5GB | 20GB | 50GB |
| Bandwidth | 10GB | 50GB | 100GB | Unlimited* |
* Within the constraints of their Fair Use policy
Here’s the breakdown for the SSD hosting:
| SSD Starter Plan 2017 | SSD Plan #1 2016 | SSD Plan #2 2016 | SSD Plan #3 2016 | |
| SSD Storage | 1GB | 10GB | 20GB | 30GB |
| Bandwidth | 10GB | 100GB | 250GB | Unlimited |
The Bronze and SSD Starter plans are a bit lacking in space, especially if you plan to host multiple domains. The Blue and SSD Plan #2 are the most popular and well-designed starter options.
040Hosting’s pricing is competitive, but note that billing terms vary based on plans. The Bronze and SSD Starter offer annual billing only. Their Red and SSD Plan #1 offer quarterly and annual billing, while the other plans offer monthly, quarterly, and annual billing.
If you’re looking for an optimized solution for WordPress or Joomla, 040Hosting offers both. However, you’ll pay significantly more for optimized hosting, with certain plans charging as much as ten times what you’d pay for their standard plans.
040Hosting’s support is unimpressive, offering only ticket support and a searchable knowledge base. They do provide a server uptime page so you can track the overall uptime of your web server. Live chat and phone support are sorely needed.
