WelcomeHost is a web hosting company based in Brazil. The company prides itself on being a service provider for professionals across Brazil and beyond. Its offerings include shared web hosting, reseller hosting, domain name registration services, VPS, and dedicated servers. It also offers some add-on packages that include dedicated IP as well as SSL certificate plans. The WelcomeHost website is only available in Portuguese.
Features and Ease of Use
WelcomeHost web hosting packages run on CloudLinux technology that helps establish a more stable hosting environment. Some of the standard features included in these hosting plans are:
- WHM and cPanel control panels
- MySQL 5.5 databases
- Seven PHP versions
- Daily automatic backups
- Malware scanner
- Unlimited email accounts
- Free Cloudflare CDN
- SSH access
- Free domain name
WelcomeHost VPS servers come with flexible features where clients can customize their own resources to help their business scale with ease. These servers are hosted in a U.S. data center. The data center is equipped with two Cisco routers and double or triple fiber optic cables to ensure maximum redundancy as well as high availability.
WelcomeHost shared hosting accounts are hosted on Intel Xeon-based servers, that deliver amazing performance levels for all its customer’s websites. The shared web hosting plan is divided into three plans: Starter Plan, Business Plan, and Enterprise Plan. All the shared plans include unlimited monthly traffic, unlimited databases, and softaculous app installer with over 300 pre-installed scripts.
It is worth mentioning that, WelcomeHost web hosting packages come with firewalls and malware scanners to protect user’s web accounts from malicious activities as well as online attacks. Other specifications found in this vendor’s hosting packages include FastCGI, Perl v5.10.1, Python v2.6.6, Apache 2.4.16, and daily backups with unlimited restore capacity.
Pricing and Support
From the starter plan to the most advanced hosting packages, WelcomeHost has somewhat budget-friendly hosting plans and they also come with a good number of hosting features. All prices are listed in Brazilian real as well as U.S dollars. The hosting packages come with flexible billing cycles with monthly subscriptions.
WelcomeHost does not seem to offer a free trial period and its hosting plans also don’t include a refund policy. Its uptime guarantee varies. Its reseller packages come with a 99.9% uptime guarantee while its shared web hosting plans guarantee an uptime guarantee of 99.6%.
The WelcomeHost customer support teamwork consistently offers total satisfaction to all of its customers. The technical support team is available 24/7/365 via email, contact form, and ticketing system. Nonetheless, the vendor has not availed a telephone or live chat support.
The WelcomeHost website features a knowledge base with just over 30 articles and tutorials.
