BlazingFast is a company that’s located in Macau. It offers web hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, and firewall solutions. It serves more than 40,000 customers through servers that are located in Portugal and the Netherlands. Its website is available in English only.
BlazingFast provides dedicated servers plans and also allows potential customers to send details of their wants so that it builds a custom quote for them. Its VPS are on powerful SSD with adequate security protection
For the sake of this review, I’ll focus more on its shared hosting offers. The company offers three shared hosting plans that can handle medium-sized websites. Customers on its plans get the following:
BlazingFast provides a Web Application Firewall (WAF). This inspects every web request coming into your website or application to check for SQL injection, cross-site scripting, application-specific attacks (such as brute force attacks on WordPress), and 400+ other types of attacks. It also protects your website or application against data theft.
WAF also has some DDoS protection features. BlazingFast also has other anti-DDoS features in place that provide traffic filtering of up to 980Gbps of maximum load on the filters. Most DDoS attacks don’t get to that.
The company allows you easily connect Anycast DNS to your website at any time. That speeds up the delivery of your website content to your visitors by routing your requests through the nearest intermediary node to the visitor thereby reducing latency. Also, if one node fails or becomes overloaded, another can continue handling requests ensuring that there’s redundancy.
The shared servers are on KVM virtualization. This is a high-level technology that is only usually used on VPS. It isolates each individual in a virtual machine with its own dedicated CPU, RAM resources, isolated kernel, etc. Whatever other users on the same server with you do, it doesn’t affect your accounts – no security risk or overload of resources.
Also, it uses SSDs which means good performance for you.
Given the high-level technologies deployed on the shared servers, I expected the prices to be much higher than they are. The prices are low-cost. Unlike most hosting companies, this one allows you to pay for a weekly. Other subscription periods are one month, three months, six months, and twelve months.
BlazingFast provides a free trial for customers. You’ll need to contact customer support to get your free trial. If you want to go straight ahead to pay, beware that its money-back guarantee is just seven days. That might not be enough to assess its services.
Its VPS is low-cost and dedicated servers are more in line with the prices offered by competitors.
You can contact its support agents through email, live chat, ticket, and phone. Its customer support works 24/7. If you want to solve issues yourself without contacting a support agent, you can search through its knowledge base for a solution.
I contacted the customer support via live chat and discussed with an agent that answered all my questions.
If you’re looking to host your website on servers in Portugal or the Netherlands, BlazingFast is a quality web hosting company to consider. It offers low-cost services with premium virtualization, anti-DDoS, and firewalls.
High-level hosting available at BlazingFast
