Brinkster Level 2, $ 6.99/mo. on Windows Shared

Level 2 has been updated on January 16, 2026 (added November 30, 2018), Aggregate Rating (4 out of 10 from 3 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	1
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔧 Category :	BackupGreen Hosting
✍️ Support Options :	Live Chat
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	US
🚀 Uptime :	100 %

See also initial Level 2 plan location on their website!

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*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Brinkster is a long-standing cloud and hosting provider headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, active since 1999 and now operating as part of Trapp Technology, Inc. Over the years they evolved from classic shared and dedicated plans into a broader Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, while still keeping traditional web and email hosting for customers who need them. They serve tens of thousands of accounts in well over a hundred countries, which shows the brand has stayed relevant in a crowded market.

The heart of the current portfolio is a proprietary cloud infrastructure stack. Brinkster delivers public, private and hybrid cloud, bare-metal/dedicated solutions, VMware-based environments, hosted desktops (VDI) and backup/disaster-recovery solutions on top of its own hardware platform. They highlight a patent-pending hardware architecture designed to provide high-performance compute and storage with multi-tier storage as a service, so companies can offload part of the cost of traditional enterprise storage arrays.

On the more traditional side, Brinkster still runs shared web hosting for both Windows and Linux. Plans are split into three tiers on each platform, with unusually generous allocations: roughly 200–500 GB of web space and 2,000–6,000 GB of monthly traffic depending on the tier. All packages include MySQL databases (and Microsoft SQL Server on selected plans), FTP access, daily data backups, a website builder, Brinkster webmail, a domain name manager and redundant firewalls. This kind of shared hosting remains useful for blogs, small business sites, portfolios and classic ASP/.NET projects that need stable Windows scripting and mixed PHP/ASP support under one roof.

Above shared hosting there are managed and unmanaged dedicated servers and cloud servers. Dedicated systems are built on enterprise-grade Intel Xeon platforms, with multiple SATA/SAS drive options, hardware RAID controllers, and bandwidth starting at several terabytes per month. Control panels such as cPanel/WHM and Plesk are available on these servers, which makes them a solid choice for agencies and resellers hosting many client sites.

The Cloud Servers line targets more modern, elastic workloads. Resources (vCPU, RAM, SSD storage) are carved out of Brinkster’s cloud platform and billed via a Unit-based model: 1 Unit corresponds to 1 US cent. Customers pre-purchase blocks of Units and assign them to cloud resources, with hourly billing while instances are running and ongoing storage cost even when virtual machines are powered off. This model suits bursting workloads, test environments and project-based infrastructure if resources are managed actively.

Brinkster also maintains a non-profit hosting program, offering discounted hosting for humanitarian organizations that apply. The IaaS portfolio goes further into high-availability architectures, load balancing, clustering, virtualization (VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V), hosted email (Exchange, Zimbra, cPanel-based), email encryption and DDoS mitigation. Taken together, Brinkster fits not only classic "one website per account" scenarios, but also custom infrastructure projects where an organization wants a partner to design and operate a full hosted environment.

Based on WHTop’s product monitoring and historical snapshots Brinkster.com appears to retain a website layout that has remained largely unchanged since January 2021, with a notably rudimentary presentation that feels misaligned with contemporary expectations in January 2026. From a customer-facing perspective, this kind of dated interface can be interpreted as a proxy signal for limited ongoing investment in the platform’s public storefront and overall product communication.

In parallel, the shared hosting lineup and Emails shows strong continuity across multiple dimensions. The plan names and core feature definitions appear essentially identical to earlier versions, with the primary observable change being modestly lower pricing. While price adjustments can improve competitiveness, the absence of substantive product iteration over several years may reasonably be read as portfolio stagnation, and it raises concerns about whether the service has actively incorporated newer hosting technologies and operational improvements during this period. Dedicated hosting page is even broken on trying to use contact from, leaving a really bad impression about the company.

Overall, Brinkster is a provider that grew up with developers and then expanded into enterprise-style cloud and managed hosting. It suits customers who want a company that owns its datacenter, publishes clear SLAs and can move them from simple shared hosting into more complex cloud architectures without changing provider.