LeasedLayer was founded in July 2012 but (according to its Facebook page) began operating in May 2013. This Indian hosting provider’s servers are located in Tier III and Tier IV data centers in four locations: the U.S.A., Germany, Russia, and Netherlands.
At LeasedLayer, you can get shared hosting, unmanaged Linux/Windows/Cloud VPS, managed VPS, dedicated servers, and gaming servers. This provider’s English-language website also sells SSL certificates and domain registration services.
Features and Ease of Use
LeasedLayer offers three shared hosting plans, some reseller hosting plans, 20 unmanaged OpenVZ/KVM VPS plans in Germany and the Netherlands, five turbo-boosted VPS plans, five cloud VPS plans (in the Netherlands and Germany), and several dedicated servers in the U.S.A., Germany, and Netherlands.
The three shared hosting plans provide you with:
- Unlimited hosted domains
- 99.9% uptime guarantee
- Free domain registration with annual subscriptions
- cPanel control panel
- One to unlimited addon domains
- Unlimited subdomains and email accounts
- 5 GB to 40 GB SSD RAID storage
- Unmetered bandwidth
- Five to unlimited MySQL databases
- SMTP, POP3, and IMAP support
- Support for PHP (v5.x), Python, Perl, Ruby on Rails, cURL, GD, MCrypt, and CGI
- Private SSL certificate
- Data backups every five days
These plans provide you with the choice of an optional dedicated IP and are optimized for e-commerce, supporting CubeCart, osCommerce, and Zen Cart. You’ll find the Softaculous installer highly beneficial for effortlessly setting up over 250 popular content management and other applications. This includes well-known options such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, and PrestaShop.
Security features include IP blocking, secure FTP access, ClamAV spam protection, plus hotlink and leech protection.
LeasedLayer uses RAID and other redundancy features to guard against disk data disasters and other failures, and virtual/dedicated server customers get full root access for complete server control.
Pricing and Support
LeasedLayer’s shared hosting plans are priced competitively. You can pay for them in U.S. dollars, euros, or Indian rupees by bank transfer or PayPal. Billing periods range from monthly to triennial, and you benefit from bigger discounts for longer commitments. A 30-day money-back guarantee should get you out with a full refund within the first month if anything goes wrong.
For self-support, LeasedLayer’s knowledge base is pretty well populated. If this doesn’t answer all your questions, you can contact the 24/7 technical support team via ticket, email, online contact form, live chat, or Skype. Although the initial live chat response was rapid, I had to keep prodding for answers:
