Hostwinds Business Ultimate, $ 12.74/mo. on Linux Shared

Business Ultimate has been updated on September 1, 2025 (added June 17, 2016), Aggregate Rating (9.91 out of 10 from 46 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
📌 Dedicated IPs :	1
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalAliPayBitcoin
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
🔧 Category :	BackupCDNWordpressWebsite Builder
✍️ Support Options :	Help DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Netherlands United States
⚑ Targeting :	BR CA CN FR DE IT KR NL PT RU ES AE UK US

See also initial Business Ultimate plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Hostwinds was founded in 2010 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has positioned itself as a web hosting provider that emphasizes ownership of its infrastructure, competitive pricing, and direct client relationships. Unlike many competitors who rely heavily on third-party vendors, Hostwinds owns its hardware and services, which allows them to control costs and avoid unnecessary markups. This philosophy has been part of their foundation since the beginning and remains central to their operations.

The company offers a wide range of products to suit different customer needs. Their Shared Hosting plans include essentials such as SSD storage, free SSL, cPanel, Softaculous one-click installer, unlimited email and databases, and the Weebly site builder. For higher performance, Business Hosting is available, offering LiteSpeed servers, Cloudflare CDN integration, and fewer clients per server to improve speed and reliability.
For resellers, Hostwinds provides Reseller Hosting and White Label Reseller solutions, which include cPanel/WHM, nightly backups, monitoring, and the option to rebrand services.

On the VPS side, they provide both Managed and Unmanaged VPS for Linux and Windows. These VPS plans include SSD storage, 1 Gbps ports, snapshots, instant scalability, and monitoring. The managed variants come with 24/7 professional support, while unmanaged options allow greater flexibility for experienced administrators.

Their Cloud Servers and Load Balancers offer scalable and customizable solutions, complemented by Block Storage and Object Storage for data expansion. Dedicated hosting is also a strong focus, with fully customizable Dedicated Servers offering RAID options, monitoring, nightly backups, and full management.

Additional services include SSL certificates, website migrations, and domain registration. Some services such as enterprise email and VPN are no longer actively offered.

While Hostwinds presents itself as a customer-centric provider with redundant and reliable infrastructure, its product lineup has remained largely unchanged since 2020, showing limited adaptation to newer technologies in the hosting market.

Hostwinds has localized its website into multiple languages, including Chinese, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Dutch, Korean, Italian, and Arabic, each provided through separate domain versions. This approach shows an effort to reach a global audience.

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