American hosting provider OHosti promises you 100% free feature-packed web hosting or a free VPS. But if it looks too good to be true, it probably is, and I was unable to contact customer services for some confidence-building reassurance.
OHosti 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.
American host OHosti was founded in 2009. It offers a wide range of hosting solutions for free, including shared hosting, VPS hosting, reseller hosting, and domain registration.
OHosti’s well-organized website is in English, but the WHMCS-powered client pages can be switched into many alternative languages.
Features and Ease of Use
The two shared hosting types (Free Silver Package and Free Gold Package) each have three plans. The Silver Packages provide limited storage and bandwidth, whereas the Gold Packages have unlimited storage and bandwidth.
All the hosting plans include these features as standard:
99.9% uptime guarantee
Free domain
Free website builder
Free website transfer
cPanel control panel
Softaculous installer
The popular cPanel control panel provides a user-friendly management interface for full control of your files, FTP accounts, email accounts, and domains. The Softaculous one-click installer helps you install WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, PrestaShop, TYPO3, phpBB, and many more applications.
As an alternative to building a CMS-backed website, you can instead use the free website builder to create a website from scratch without having to code it. This website builder comes with numerous readymade website layout templates.
Pricing and Support
When it comes to pricing, there isn’t anything to say, because all OHosti’s services and plans are 100% free! This makes me wonder why there are different plans at all, because, surely, everyone would simply pick the highest plan with the most resources.
Since I couldn’t help thinking there’s something suspicious here, I tried to contact customer services to clarify if there’s a catch. Unfortunately, the live chat wasn’t live when I wanted to try it, and my several ticket submissions seemed to fall on deaf ears. I tried resorting to self-support, only to find that the knowledge base contains only two entries.
How much does OHosti cost?
OHosti offers multiple plans priced highest to lowest. The price depends on which type of hosting plan you choose. You can see the updated pricing table (updated weekly) below.
Which OHosti plan should I get?
My recommendation is to start with a cheaper plan. You can always upgrade later on. OHosti 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 OHosti here.
How good is OHosti’s customer support?
OHosti is not ranked as one of our top web hosts. But that can also be a result of OHosti 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.
I've been 2 days or more since I registered and hired him waiting to get the free vps service without reference points and I'm still waiting, I don't recommend it. If you are looking for a free vps, this is not your page, I recommend you keep looking
I can’t help feeling suspicious about OHosti’s free web hosting (and even free VPS) offerings, especially since I have seen several negative user reviews. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is, in which case I can only suggest you look for a more trusted vendor. That is, unless you can contact the company for some reassurance, which I failed to do.
Mark is a full stack web developer specializing in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, and PHP. When he's not busy building websites or geeking out over the latest addition to his ever-growing gadget collection, he enjoys playing drums for his progressive rock band. He can also make a mean Spanish omelet.
