UOL Host Pessoal, BRL 29.99/mo. on Website Builder

Pessoal has been added on Jul 2, 2019

🆓 free domains :	1
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔧 Category :	BackupWordpress
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Brazil
⚑ Targeting :	BR

See also initial Pessoal plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

UOL Host is the hosting and cloud arm of Universo Online (UOL), one of Brazil’s largest internet groups. The brand has been active since 2008 and focuses strongly on small and medium businesses as well as developers. The entire offer is tailored to the Brazilian market: the site and support are in Brazilian Portuguese, pricing is in Brazilian reais, and services run in local data centers. Unfortunately they use a subdomain name instead of a separate domain!

The portfolio is broad. UOL Host provides domain registration, classic shared hosting with cPanel, specialized hosting for popular CMS platforms (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, PrestaShop and others), cloud servers, database hosting (for example MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB), reseller hosting, email and email marketing, SSL certificates, a site builder, and a complete e-commerce stack via Loja VirtUOL. For many Brazilian businesses this means one provider can cover almost everything needed to be online, from the domain name to cloud infrastructure and marketing tools.

The main entry point is shared hosting. Plans typically include a free domain for the first year on certain extensions, SSL, SSD storage, email accounts and support for hosting more than one site even on basic plans. For everyday use the environment is straightforward for non-technical users but still gives advanced users what they expect: cPanel, one-click CMS installers and resource isolation so that other customers on the same server are less likely to affect performance. UOL Host works with an availability target around 99.8% for these environments and stresses that servers are located in Brazil, which helps with latency for local visitors.

Above shared hosting sits UOL Cloud, the cloud computing line. Customers can deploy virtual servers on demand, choose from Linux distributions such as AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and Ubuntu or Windows Server, and adjust CPU, RAM and disk as projects grow. This layer is aimed at agencies, SaaS vendors and in-house IT teams that need more control than shared hosting offers but still want a managed, Brazil-based provider instead of building their own infrastructure.

For commerce and content-heavy projects, UOL Host offers dedicated hosting flavours for Magento, PrestaShop and other store platforms, plus Loja VirtUOL as a ready-made online store solution integrated with PagSeguro and other UOL ecosystem components. These products combine local data centers and the same availability goal with templates, payment integrations and management panels aimed at merchants rather than developers. For many Brazilian stores focused on domestic customers, having hosting, store platform, payment gateway and marketing tools in a single ecosystem is a clear advantage.

Email and collaboration are another important pillar. Professional email plans include branded addresses on the customer’s domain, spam and virus filtering, POP/IMAP and MAPI support, and fixed pricing in BRL with local payment options. On top of that, UOL Host resells Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 for businesses that want full productivity suites, and complements them with email marketing and broader digital marketing services.

Overall, UOL Host is a solid, "big provider" option inside Brazil: strong brand backing, local infrastructure, a wide product range and a clear focus on Portuguese-speaking customers. The trade-off is that it behaves more like a large telecom/portal brand than a lean specialist host, so it suits customers who value stability, local presence and a one-stop shop more than those chasing the very latest developer features or global multi-region deployments.