Reclaim Hosting Personal, $ 36.00/yr. on Linux Shared

Personal has been updated on June 16, 2026 (added December 11, 2020), Aggregate Rating (1 out of 10 from 1 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
🔧 Category :	BackupDNSWordpressWebsite Builder
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp Desk
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	US
💰 Money-back guarantee :	14 days
🚀 Uptime :	99.9 %

See also initial Personal plan location on their website!

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*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Reclaim Hosting is a U.S.-based hosting company founded in 2013, with a very clear niche: web hosting for educators, students, universities, cultural projects, digital scholarship, and organizations that want users to own and manage their own web space. The company history is strongly connected with Jim Groom and Tim Owens, both associated with the early "Domain of One’s Own" movement and the idea of giving students and faculty personal domains instead of locking their work inside closed campus platforms.

Reclaim Hosting is not a typical mass-market hosting provider built only around cheap shared hosting. Their strongest fit is education-focused hosting, especially for institutions that need managed cPanel environments, campus login integration, domain/subdomain workflows, application installers, training, migration help, and predictable support. The company also works well for individual students, faculty, nonprofits, small organizations, digital humanities projects, and independent creators who want affordable Linux/cPanel hosting with human support.

Their main product line includes Shared Hosting, Domain of One’s Own, Managed Hosting, ReclaimEDU, VIP Hosting, Reclaim Cloud, Domain Registration, Email on selected plans, SSL Certificates, Migration Assistance, Professional Services, and education/community services through Reclaim EdTech. Classic shared hosting is cPanel-based and includes Linux hosting features such as SSH, FTP, PHP, MySQL, DNS tools, free Let’s Encrypt SSL, regular backups, unlimited add-on domains/subdomains/databases within storage limits, and one-click software installation.

The Shared Hosting plans are simple and annual: Personal, Professional, and Organizational. They are intended for portfolios, course sites, personal projects, departmental projects, smaller nonprofit sites, and users who want a familiar cPanel environment without managing a server. The Organizational plan is the practical step up because it includes much larger storage and cPanel-integrated email accounts.

VIP Hosting sits between normal shared hosting and managed/dedicated cloud hosting. It adds a low-tenant server environment, higher resources, priority support, site optimization, consultative security advice, an SLA, and a larger 200 GB storage allowance. It is a good fit for projects that outgrow shared hosting but are not ready for a fully managed dedicated cloud environment.

Domain of One’s Own is the institutional flagship. It gives colleges and universities an at-scale cPanel hosting platform where students, faculty, and staff can create web spaces using campus credentials. It includes branded portals, SSO-style workflows, customizable cPanel dashboards, application installers, backups, admin training, documentation, and ongoing maintenance. This is the type of product that separates Reclaim Hosting from generic shared-hosting brands.

Managed Hosting covers WordPress Multisite, managed cPanel hosting, EDU hosting, and dedicated cloud environments for larger institutional or community projects. It is not unmanaged VPS hosting in the usual sense; it is closer to managed cloud infrastructure with Reclaim Hosting handling updates, monitoring, backups, support, migrations, and security tooling.

ReclaimEDU is designed for campus .edu websites and large WordPress environments that need redundancy and higher availability. It includes multi-region WordPress hosting, sync across regions, DNS failover, load balancing, caching, DDoS protection, WAF protection, development environments, 24/7 monitoring, and SLA-backed service. This is one of their more serious infrastructure offers for universities with public-facing, higher-traffic sites.

Reclaim Cloud, hosted on reclaim.cloud, is their more flexible container/PaaS platform. It supports containerized environments for PHP, Python, Node.js, Ruby, Go, Docker, Kubernetes-style workloads, one-click marketplace applications, cloning, scaling, and custom development stacks. This is the better option when a project cannot fit inside a standard cPanel/LAMP model.

Their website is modern, responsive, and English-only. Prices are shown in USD. The site has a distinctive retro/VHS design style, but it is not an "old days" weak layout; it is a modern site with intentional branding.