Hostek Basic, $ 8.18/mo. on Linux Emails
Basic has been updated on (added ), Aggregate Rating (5 out of 10 from 16 reviews)
| 💳 Payment Methods : | Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalCheck PaymentsBitcoin |
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| 🔨 Control Panel : | [In-house] |
| 🔧 Category : | BackupFully Managed |
| ✍️ Support Options : | EmailHelp DeskAvailable 24/7 |
| 🌏 Server Locations : | United States |
| ⚑ Targeting : | SE UK US |
| 💰 Money-back guarantee : | 30 days |
| 🚀 Uptime : | 99.99 % |
See also initial Basic plan location on their website!
*📜 Plan description
Basic SmarterMail hosting supplies five Exchange-like mailboxes with 2 GB storage each, unlimited aliases, forwards and autoresponders plus anti-virus and anti-spam filtering. Webmail, IMAP/POP3, catch-all support and nightly CDP backups give freelancers professional e-mail on their own domain without server overhead. ActiveSync and SpamExperts are optional extras.
Hostek backs every service with 99.99 % network uptime, 24 / 7 US-based assistance that answers in minutes, redundant SSD cloud hardware, nightly backups, on-demand scaling and an industry-leading 30-day money-back guarantee—no contracts, no hidden renewal surprises.
Hostek backs every service with 99.99 % network uptime, 24 / 7 US-based assistance that answers in minutes, redundant SSD cloud hardware, nightly backups, on-demand scaling and an industry-leading 30-day money-back guarantee—no contracts, no hidden renewal surprises.
📄 Editorial Review
Hostek is a long-running managed hosting provider that has been active since 1998, operating under Miss Group, Inc. d/b/a Hostek.com. They work with staff in both the United States and the United Kingdom and focus strongly on managed servers and application hosting rather than just cheap shared plans. Over the years they have grown into a platform managing thousands of servers and many thousands of customer sites, with a clear emphasis on ColdFusion, Windows, and managed VPS/cloud environments.They offer most of what a small or mid-sized business might need:
- VPS / Cloud servers on Windows and Linux (including cPanel VPS) with options for managed and unmanaged setups.
- Specialized ColdFusion and Lucee hosting, both on shared environments and on dedicated VPS/cloud servers.
- Classic shared hosting for Windows (ASP.NET, MS SQL, PHP) and Linux (cPanel/PHP/MySQL), including WordPress-optimized variants.
- Reseller hosting for Windows, Lucee/ColdFusion and cPanel, often built on top of VPS for better isolation and scalability.
- Email hosting based on SmarterMail, SSL certificates, domain registration, load-balanced and geo-failover setups, VPN/VLAN solutions and extra security options such as Monarx protection and identity monitoring services.
A distinctive element is their long-term commitment to ColdFusion and Lucee. Many mainstream hosts have quietly dropped CFML stacks, while Hostek still offers ColdFusion-focused shared and VPS plans with integrated tools (datasources/DSNs, scheduled tasks, CFAdmin integration, ColdFusion version switching) and a custom Windows control panel adapted to CF workloads. For agencies and legacy applications that still depend on ColdFusion, that kind of specialization is quite valuable.
Infrastructure is built across multiple Tier 3 and Tier 4 data centers rather than a single site. Servers can be placed in St. Louis (Central US), Ashburn, Virginia (East Coast US), Reading (UK), Enfield (London, UK), plus Kungälv and Karlskrona (Sweden). This spread facilitates low latency for different regions and allows for multi-site designs where applications can fail over between data centers.
The website, help center and control panels are in English, and pricing on hostek.com is shown in US dollars. There is also a separate hostek.co.uk presence for the UK market and hostek.se for Sweden/Nordic.
Overall, Hostek is a mid-market managed hosting provider: not a "budget" host, but a platform aimed at businesses that want stable infrastructure, long-term stacks like Windows/ColdFusion, and a support team that can step in at server level.
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