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 two plans differ mainly in terms of addon domains. The EF5 plan allows unlimited addon domains, but it’s important to note that these should not be used for reseller purposes. Additionally, the provider clarifies that their “unlimited” disk space cannot be used for storing 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:
