Host Tornado's website has a temporary or transitional feel that reduced my confidence in this company. It's a pity because its advertised shared hosting plans have some pretty good features and unlimited resources.
Florida-based Host Tornado sells shared hosting, web design, and graphic design services. Its home page is what, for other hosts, would be their WHMCS-powered shopping cart and client support site. It lists the available plans, and includes a knowledge base, but doesn’t tell us much about the company itself. However, the “Terms and Policies” link at the bottom of the page leads to this provider’s legacy site that provides a lot more information, albeit possibly obsolete.
Features and Ease of Use
Although Host Tornado’s legacy site advertises various shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS, and dedicated server solutions, many of them turn out to be “out of stock” or otherwise unavailable, so it’s safer to assume that the only shared web hosting plans are the ones presented on the WHMCS-powered home page.
The two available shared hosting plans — named EF3 Unlimited and EF5 Unlimited — provide the following features:
Unlimited disk space
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited email accounts
Unlimited subdomains
NVMe SSD storage
Free SSL certificates
Unlimited Node.js apps
5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 PHP selector
Git and WordPress Manager
CloudLinux, Cloudflare, and Railgun
Malware scanning
Three auto backups
Whitelabel nameservers
The main difference between the two plans seems to be that the EF5 plan allows unlimited addon domains, with the proviso that these are not intended for reseller purposes. This provider also makes the point that its “unlimited” disk space can’t be used to store large files or backups.
Pricing and Support
The two advertised plans are not the cheapest I’ve seen in absolute terms, although they do provide a plethora of features and include unlimited resources. You can pay on billing cycles from 1 to 24 months, with lower prices for longer commitments. While Cloudflare is included for free at the checkout, you have to pay extra for the Dedicated IP and WordPress Management options.
Although this provider’s legacy website provides an email address and telephone number, the current live site seems to limit the contact options to only an online form. Unfortunately, my test form submission elicited no response. This wouldn’t be so bad if there were decent self-support resources, but the knowledge base contains only six entries:
Host Tornado is unusual in having its principal web address URL pointing directly to its WHMCS-powered shopping cart and client support site. Its more traditional marketing-style “legacy” website is hidden away but can be found if you look hard enough. However, I couldn’t be sure that we can trust any of the information on the legacy site.
Pros
Unlimited resources
Free features such as the Cloudflare CDN
Automatic backups
Addon domains with the higher plan
Cons
Website needs improvement
Substandard support resources
Find a choice of two shared hosting plans at Host Tornado
Tony Loton
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