HostingSpace was launched in September 2008 and offers a range of hosting services, including shared hosting and Virtual Private Servers. Its website and customer support are in Romanian and it targets Romanian based businesses, serving them through its data center in Romania.
Features and Ease of Use
HostingSpace offers Linux shared web hosting with four plans to choose from. Its first plan starts at 5GB, which is enough space for a simple and most starter company websites. These are some of the features of its shared hosting:
- Daily automatic backups
- 99.9% server uptime guarantee.
- From 5GB SSD to 200GB SSD Space for shared hosting
- Bandwidth from 200GB to 4000GB
The company provides the Softaculous one-click installer, which you can use to easily set up over 120 applications, including CMSes like WordPress for quick website development. It also supports PHP and Python programming. Plus, it features a PHP selector to support different PHP file formats. There’s no website builder, so you’ll have to stick to a CMS if you wish to build your websites by yourself.
Shared hosting management is on cPanel, which is relatively easy to use for beginners but shouldn’t take much time to get used to due to the segmentation of tools.
One top-notch feature that this provider offers is CloudLinux for better server function. The operating system is paired with CageFS. What that does is provide a better shared server where every customer is restricted from using other customer’s resources and the spread of malware. This also helps HostingSpace appropriately share RAM. Its allocated RAM is a lot for shared hosting and that’s a great thing.
HostingSpaces serves premium offers as well with better RAM and other VPS-like features. It also comes with SSH access and a free .ro or .com domain, and this is not included in the other shared hosting packages.
Pricing and Support
HostingSpace offers a 30-day free trial for individuals and businesses to test its services. After that period, you can pay for six months., which is the shortest subscription period for shared hosting. Its prices are low-cost, however, there’s no free SSL certificate on offer. Plus, the web hosting plans don’t come with a free domain. You only get a free domain on premium hosting. Premium hosting isn’t so cheap but for its features, but it could be considered reasonable.
While there isn’t a dedicated help center, the blog section of the website offers numerous tutorials covering various topics, from the fundamentals to more advanced aspects of web hosting management. If you wish to communicate with a representative, you can easily create a ticket. However, please note that there isn’t phone or live chat support for immediate assistance. On the bright side, the support team operates round the clock, and when I opened a ticket, I received a response in less than an hour.
