HostingSource is a small hosting company that simply isn’t a match for big brands like Hostinger. The bigger hosting companies simply offer a better price for similar configuration.
HostingSource has been providing website hosting services since 2006. This U.S. company has two data centers, in New York and New Jersey, and a website in American English.
Features and Ease of Use
HostingSource is a full-service host offering shared hosting, VPS packages, dedicated servers, and cloud hosting. As standard, you can expect to find the following core features:
99.9% uptime guarantee
Daily automatic backups
A free domain name
Unlimited add-on domains
Unlimited disk space and bandwidth
Beginners get a free website building tool with hundreds of templates, plus a one-click installer for 60 programs, including the usual suspects such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and Magento.
Developers also get plenty of features, including phpMyAdmin access, FTP access, MySQL databases, and Cron jobs. Advanced programming language support is provided for Python, PHP (the slower version 5), and Ruby on Rails.
In addition to good features, you also get great resource allocations: unlimited disk space, bandwidth, domains, email accounts, and MySQL databases. This is a boon if you don’t want to worry about exceeding your quotas.
Pricing and Support
At first glance, HostingSource’s prices seem really cheap, especially when you consider the unlimited resources. One caveat is that you have to sign up to a three-year term to get the best prices, but the 30- or 45-day money-back guarantee (it depends which part of the vendor’s website you believe) should make you feel better about making such a major commitment.
Another caveat is the fact that the price increases as you progress through the checkout process because many of the apparent inclusions actually turn out to be optional paid extras. Daily automatic backups cost extra every year, SSL certificates come with a one-off cost, and “Advanced Site Protection and Performance Accelerator” (whatever this is) also bumps up the price.
When you’re done, the final price could be twice what you were expecting to pay.
24/7 customer service can be accessed via telephone, ticket, email, or live chat, and there is a small knowledge base containing about ten articles. Since this vendor’s website put a few questions into my mind, I tried to get them answered via live chat. Despite being number 1 in the queue, no one ever answered:
What I like about HostingSource is that everything is very easy. It wasn't complicated to setup the website and I really like the control panel. I've had a few outages, since I'm a total beginner at this, and we are in a time zone at least 8 hours different from HostingSource.
Great Job, thanks HostingSource team. I had a few problems when I first signed up (not with them, just with mistakes I made) and they were very willing to help me and explain things to me. Speed connectivity is very fast, pages load fast. Recommended!
I love the prices. HostingSource server was down for about 15 minutes one month. That's pretty good up time! Magento Hosting - Free E-commerce platform for your own store. This decent host makes me feel confident that my website is in good (and trusted) hands. I recommend it.
I think HostingSource is a good deal! I have a couple of sites hosted there that I had as an image hosting for a few weeks. Every time I compared the speed of loading the pages HostingSource was much faster than the others. Recommend their SSD VPS hosting solutions.
HostingSource owns two U.S.-based data centers and offers an excellent range of beginner- and developer-friendly features. You have to make a long-term commitment to get the best prices, and you might be waiting a while for live chat support.
HostingSource might offer a good service at a reasonable price, but does it match up with the top web hosting companies? We find it hard to say “yes.”
Pros
Lots of developer-friendly features
Website building tool and one-click installer
99.9% uptime guarantee
Two U.S. data centers
Cons
Slightly misleading pricing
A long wait for live chat
Gwen Rodgers
Gwen is a web developer and software engineer who loves to get lost in JavaScript (and a good book). She spends her free time teaching girls how to be coders, and doing yoga on her balcony in the sunshine.
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