Cafe24 Giant, KRW 33.000/mo. on Linux VPS

Giant has been updated on December 7, 2019 (added December 1, 2017)

💪 CPU/Cores :	-
🔋 RAM :	4000 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	1
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-Free
🌏 Server Locations :	Korea
⚑ Targeting :	KR

See also initial Giant plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Cafe24 is a long-running Korean e-commerce and hosting platform headquartered in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, active since 1999 and employing roughly around a thousand people. It is set up as a one-stop environment: merchants can register domains, host their sites, run online shops, send marketing messages, and plug into payment gateways without having to leave the ecosystem. For anyone targeting the Korean market, it feels closer to a complete commerce infrastructure provider than just a traditional web host.

On the classic web hosting side, the core line is New Autobahn Hosting, a Linux shared hosting platform aimed at everything from small brochure sites to busy business portals. Plans scale from very cheap entry tiers up to larger "business" and "giant" bundles. Even the lower packages come with Full SSD storage, daily/automatic backups (up to 7 days), one-click WordPress installs, a free default mycafe24.com domain, free SSL for that domain, POP3 email accounts, and traffic allocations that start in the tens of gigabytes per month and go all the way up to a "unlimited traffic" tier for sites with very high visit volume. PHP 7.4–8.4 and MariaDB are supported, with a built-in web application firewall and usage monitoring tools, so the shared hosting environment is reasonably modern and performance-oriented.

Beyond the Autobahn line, shared hosting is split into several specialized tracks. There is a dedicated unlimited traffic hosting option for customers whose main pain point is bandwidth rather than storage. Dedicated web hosting and dedicated web hosting cloud provide more isolated resources than the basic shared tiers, acting as a halfway house between shared and full server hosting. For Microsoft stacks, Windows high-speed hosting caters to ASP/.NET and MSSQL workloads. A separate "special hosting" category covers image hosting, language-specific hosting, database hosting, homepage builder hosting and video hosting, so projects that are storage-heavy or very specific in technology choice can run on a more tailored platform instead of generic shared hosting.

Cafe24 also leans heavily into WordPress. There are managed WordPress hosting plans, AdSense-oriented WordPress options for content sites that monetize primarily through ads, and WordPress VPS hosting for customers who want both isolation and tuning flexibility. This aligns well with their broader e-commerce focus: a lot of Korean brands run WooCommerce stores or content-driven marketing fronts, so the environment is tuned to make WordPress setup and scaling straightforward.

Higher up the stack, Cafe24 runs an extensive server hosting portfolio. Quick Server Hosting is the flagship dedicated product: physically single-tenant servers with between 4 and 20 CPU cores, 32–64 GB RAM, combinations of SSD/NVMe plus SATA storage, and a 1 Gbps dedicated line with a 10 Mbps committed bandwidth. Remote management is built in via IPMI/iLO5, so customers can reboot, monitor and manage their machines without ever visiting the data center, and the product is pitched as a "permanent lease" – you pay a monthly fee but keep the same hardware long-term.

For those who want smaller isolation or easier scaling, SSD virtual server hosting (VPS) sits just below dedicated servers. Plans start with around 1 GB RAM and 30 GB SSD with a few hundred gigabytes of traffic, and scale up to several gigabytes of RAM, 150 GB SSD, and traffic allowances in the terabyte range. Customers get an independent virtual machine with root/administrator access, SSD-based disks, and pre-installed Linux distributions like Rocky Linux 8 or Ubuntu 22.04, with web stacks (APM) ready to go for faster deployment. Windows VPS options are offered as well. It is clearly aimed at developers and businesses that have outgrown shared hosting but are not yet ready for their own rack space.

On top of the pure hosting layer, Cafe24 sells a suite of business tools tightly tied to hosting: webmail on your own domain, bulk email services, KakaoTalk/AlimTalk and SMS messaging, groupware, endpoint security for PCs, electronic tax invoice handling and a simple payment gateway (PG) service. There is also domain registration and SSL certificates integrated directly into the same portal. The overall impression is that the hosting platform is meant to sit at the center of a Korean small or mid-size company’s online operations, not merely serve HTML and PHP.

The flip side is that the environment is primarily built for the Korean domestic market. The main hosting pages, control panels and support articles are in Korean, and pricing is in Korean Won. Global merchants do get multi-language storefront features for their e-commerce sites, but day-to-day hosting management still assumes at least some Korean language comfort. For a Korean business that wants everything under one roof, that is a strength; for a foreign team with no Korean speakers, it can be a real barrier.