Cowabi Hosting Personal, € 0.00/mo. on Linux/Windows Shared

Hosting Personal has been updated on January 3, 2025 (added December 1, 2017), Aggregate Rating (8.53 out of 10 from 19 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	1
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Spain United Kingdom United States
⚑ Targeting :	ES UK

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📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Cowabi is a European hosting and web-services provider with roots going back to December 2012. The business began with web applications and development work before expanding into server infrastructure, hosting, domains and related Internet services. Cowabi Ltd. is registered in England and Wales under company number 10092807.

Its current portfolio covers Linux shared hosting, Windows hosting, managed WordPress and PrestaShop hosting, free hosting, lifetime hosting, VPS, domain registration, SSL certificates, website-building tools and professional technical support. Dedicated servers, cloud servers and email infrastructure also form part of the wider service environment, although shared hosting, managed hosting, VPS and domains are the most clearly developed commercial products.

The entry 5 GB NVMe shared hosting package is particularly attractive for small websites because the first 12 months can cost €0 and a domain is included for the first year. It comes with 5 GB NVMe storage, unlimited transfer, SSL, daily backups, Plesk and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. A larger 25 GB NVMe option is available for websites that need more storage and account capacity.

The Personal shared-hosting configuration supports up to 10 externally hosted domains, 10 mailboxes and 10 databases. The larger Advanced configuration raises the external-domain allowance to 30 and adds SSH access. This makes the upper shared tier more suitable for agencies, developers and customers managing several independent websites from one account.

Hosting Gratis para Siempre is a permanent free tier with 200 MB NVMe storage, 1 GB monthly transfer and 1 GB RAM. Its limits are restrictive, but it can work well for a small informational website, test installation, landing page or lightweight personal project.

Another unusual product is Hosting Lifetime, available for a one-time payment of €99. It includes 10 GB NVMe storage, Plesk, SSL, backups and unlimited transfer. The lifetime concept comes with continuing eligibility conditions. The account can terminate if Cowabi closes, if the customer remains inactive for more than one year, if there has been no active domain registered through Cowabi during the previous three months, or if acceptable-use and security conditions are breached. An externally registered domain does not meet the active-domain requirement.

Managed WordPress and PrestaShop hosting adds stronger application-oriented resources, automatic CMS maintenance, adjusted PHP settings and one-click installation. The introductory offer starts at €0.99/month for 12 months, followed by €4.99/month. These packages include a domain, support for up to 10 external domains, daily backups, SSL, CDN and Plesk.

Cowabi also maintains Windows shared hosting for IIS and Windows-oriented applications. The Unlimited entry package starts at €5.83/month, with Business and Pro tiers adding more hosted domains and functionality. Plesk remains the control panel. Some Windows software-version specifications are comparatively old, including Plesk 12.5 and PHP 7 references, so customers requiring a particular Windows, IIS or PHP release should confirm the active production environment before ordering.

The VPS range is substantially more powerful than the shared plans. Four configurations provide 4, 6, 8 or 12 CPU cores, between 4 GB and 24 GB RAM, and approximately 120 GB to 720 GB of NVMe storage. Connectivity reaches 1 Gb/s, traffic is unlimited, and Plesk Web Host is included. Daily backups, databases, mailboxes and CDN functionality are also integrated into the VPS packages. Root/SSH administration is available within the VPS platform, although the exact access characteristics of the smallest package should be confirmed because some specifications are inconsistent.

Domains are an important part of Cowabi's service. Customers can register and transfer domain names, manage DNS and use free SSL certificates. Domain accounts can also be combined with the free Cloudflare layer for DNS, CDN and additional protection. Hosting promotions can include a free domain for the first year, and the extension catalog covers a wide selection of international, European and country-code TLDs.

Cowabi also offers an AI website editor with more than 30 templates, AI-assisted text and image creation, SEO functions, advertising and email-marketing tools, and one-click publishing. A 12-month promotion combines the builder and a domain at no initial cost. A more conventional drag-and-drop website builder is also available in Free, Starter, Pro and Business configurations, including blogging and e-commerce functions on higher plans.

Paid SSL certificates supplement the free Let's Encrypt certificates included with hosting. The commercial range includes DV, OV, EV and wildcard certificates, with entry pricing around €20 and higher prices for organization-validated, extended-validation and advanced business certificates.

Customers needing work beyond ordinary hosting assistance can use Soporte PRO. The service ranges from a one-time Lite intervention to recurring support packages that include engineering time, monitoring, backups, software maintenance, consulting and, on higher levels, telephone assistance. This separation between infrastructure support and development-level support is useful for businesses running customized applications.

Spanish is the primary language of the service, with localized versions for Spain, Mexico, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. The customer area supports a much wider selection of languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Persian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Billing is available in EUR, GBP, MXN and USD.

The overall service is modern and competitively priced, although product consistency is not equally strong across every category. Some Windows software information and a few VPS specifications are dated or contradictory. Customers with strict software-stack requirements should therefore verify the exact configuration before purchase.

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