Reviews and expert opinion HostYD

Ranked 1039 from 3903 Web Hosting

4.3

Features
4.3
Ease of Use
4.3
Support
4.3
Pricing
4.3

User score for HostYD: 5.0‏ (based on 4 reviews in 1 languages)

Pricing

Web Hosting $2 - $6 VPS Hosting $13 - $84 Reseller Hosting $10 - $20 Dedicated Server $69 - $160

Server locations

Secaucus

Chicago

London

Sydney

Sofia

Pori

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Gwen Rodgers

Web Hosting Expert

HostYD is an affordable American hosting provider with a decent uptime SLA. Be prepared to purchase a top-tier plan to benefit from all the features.

Overview

HostYD 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.

HostYD was founded in Florida in 2012. It powers more than 17,000 websites around the world, and it claims that happy customers are its number one concern. HostYD’s modern website is in English.

Features and Ease of Use

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HostYD offers shared hosting, VPS solutions, dedicated servers, and more. As standard, its shared hosting plans come with these core features:

99.99% uptime guarantee
Monthly automatic backups
Free domain with annual plans
Two to unlimited add-on domains
SSL certificates available
Up to unmetered disk space and bandwidth

Beginner webmasters can benefit from the free website transfer (except for the base plan) and the Softaculous one-click installer for 100 programs.

Developers benefit from the support for PHP, MySQL databases (including remote), and phpMyAdmin. The top tier plan also provides Node.js and SSH access.

You can choose to host your website on servers located in Secaucus, U.S. or London, U.K. The 99.99% uptime guarantee is higher than the industry average 99.9%, but it comes with certain terms and conditions.

Pricing and Support

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The hosting plans are well-priced, but be sure to read the inclusions carefully before you buy. Many of the value-added extras are only available in the top tier plans that cost more money. Plans can be purchased on terms ranging from three months to three years, but there are no discounts for longer terms. Although you get a free domain and a 30-day money-back guarantee with an annual plan, you have to pay extra for an SSL certificate.

For self-support, HostYD’s well-stocked knowledge base contains around 50 articles. Alternatively, you can contact customer services via live chat, ticket, or a client area that requires users to log in. I tried the live chat channel a few times; each time an agent picked up immediately and helped me politely. One time, the agent even advised me about some promotional rates.

How much does HostYD cost?

HostYD offers plans from $2 to $6. The price depends on which type of hosting plan you choose. You can see the updated pricing table (updated weekly) below.

Which HostYD plan should I get?

My recommendation is to start with a cheaper plan. You can always upgrade later on. HostYD can help you with the migration to a more expensive plan. The increase in visitors many times takes longer than expected and you shouldn’t pay a lot of money until the need arises. Of course, your needs may vary, and you can consult with a hosting expert from HostYD here.

How good is HostYD’s customer support?

HostYD is not ranked as one of our top web hosts. But that can also be a result of HostYD being a small, under the radar, hosting provider. There are advantages to a small hosting company – as a customer, you are more important to them. You can also check out our comparison of the most popular web hosting services here.

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Pricing

4.3

A Free Domain is included when purchasing any hosting service from HostYD

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5.0

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5.0

Vincent

Albania

April 23, 2020

Exceptional Support

With an exceptional support and best pricing I am loving myself because I decided to get my website online with HostYD. If you are looking to start a website or already have it? Just move to HostYD and leave everything on them. I just have to make a request and it gets fulfilled within few minutes!

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5.0

Alda Novotny

USA

December 21, 2019

Excellent services and support

I transferred my site to hostyd and as a hosting service and I must say that I am feeling very well. Customer support is really excellent. I receive immediate answers, with great courtesy and patience they solve everything with great care. I absolutely recommend this provider!

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5.0

Luna Scape

USA

September 22, 2019

LUNA SCAPE

I have used HOSTYD for years and they have been pretty great! I wish that they would do promotions more often. They have helped me with some problems while others were too complex to figure out for the both of us. They have some weird downtimes at random points that confuse my staff and visitors. I hope it is fixed soon!

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5.0

Susan Parks

France

March 09, 2019

Good Support

Everything went very well, I select Advanced plan of their hosting. The support was always helpful and fast and I will always use HostYD because of good support, website speed and free SSL which is without any setup. I recommend HostYD to all who is going to start a website.

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Bottom line on HostYD

HostYD offers an affordable set of hosting plans with a 99.99% uptime guarantee. If you want to benefit from all of the features, you’ll have to pick one of the higher plans.

Still not sure if this is the right web host for you? Check out our top recommended web hosts to learn more.

Pros

Well-priced plans
Efficient and effective live chat
99.99% uptime guarantee
Free domain name with annual plans

Cons

Some features only available with top tier plans
Money-back guarantee only available on annual plans

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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