ICDSoft Economy, $ 9.57/mo. on Linux Shared


Economy has been updated on (added ), Aggregate Rating (10 out of 10 from 6 reviews)
icdsoft.com
ICDSoft
39-41 Tsvetna Gradina
Sofia
BG
☎ Phone +1 857-472-7783
  • 💡 Plan Name: Economy (sku #p5658)
  • 🔧 Category: Shared Hosting / Linux
  • 💰 Price:$ 9.57/mo.($ 12.00 after 12 mo.) VAT 20% inc
  • 💿 Disk Space: 10 GB
  • 📶 Traffic bandwidth: unmetered
  • 💲 Setup Fee: free
🔌 Hosted domains :1
🆓 free domains :0
📌 Dedicated IPs :0
💳 Payment Methods :Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire Transfer
🔨 Control Panel :[In-house]
🔧 Category :BackupWordpressFully ManagedWebsite Builder
✍️ Support Options :EmailHelp DeskLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :Bulgaria United States
Targeting :AU BG CA CN HK UK US
💰 Money-back guarantee :100 days
🚀 Uptime :99.997 %
screenshot of Economy from icdsoft.com

See also initial Economy plan location on their website!


*📜 Plan description

Economy is the entry shared hosting plan designed for a single website that needs a modern, fully managed environment with predictable resources and strong operational safeguards.
SSD storage: 10 GB (10000 MB).
Websites: 1 primary website (additional parked domains can be used as aliases of the main domain).
Data transfer: unrestricted (unmetered).
Backups: free daily backups with 7-day retention, covering account data including files, databases, and mailboxes, with restore available from the control panel.
SSL: free Let s Encrypt SSL/HTTPS certificates with simple installation for domains and subdomains.
Email: fully managed professional email service with unlimited email accounts, secure access, intelligent anti-spam and anti-virus, and modern webmail (Roundcube).
Control panel: an in-house developed control panel for managing files, mailboxes, backups and restores, WordPress tools, DNS settings, and resource usage from one place.
Application deployment: app installer for popular web apps and CMS platforms; WordPress toolkit and 1-click WordPress installer are available even if WordPress is not preinstalled.
Performance: platform uses all-SSD storage arrays, PHP-FPM and server-side caching features intended to keep websites responsive.
Support: 24/7 multi-channel support via ticketing/helpdesk, email, and live chat, with a fast-response operational model.
Money-back guarantee: 100-day full money-back guarantee for hosting services.
Uptime: distributed uptime statistics reported at 99.997% for the last year, reflecting continuous monitoring and rapid incident response.
Datacenter pricing note (first-year promotional per-month equivalents): US $9.60/mo, Europe $9.57/mo, with datacenter selection available during ordering.
Billing and renewal notes: shared hosting has a minimum 12-month contract period with full prepayment; no setup fees; renewals are not charged automatically and customers receive renewal notifications ahead of expiration; PayPal can be used for an optional automatic renewal service.
Tax note: VAT treatment depends on customer location and eligibility; displayed prices may include VAT for applicable jurisdictions and be 0% VAT for non-EU countries.

All plans run on an all-SSD, fully managed platform with an in-house control panel, free daily backups, free SSL, unrestricted data transfer, three datacenter choices (US, BG, HK), 24/7 ticket/email/live chat support, 100-day money-back guarantee, and card/PayPal/wire payments; shared hosting requires a minimum 12-month prepaid term and renewals are manual unless PayPal automatic renewal is enabled.

📄 Editorial Review

ICDSoft is a Bulgaria-based hosting company that has been running internet services for more than two decades, evolving from a software background in the 1990s into a specialist in stable, long-term web hosting. Today they operate their own servers in three data center locations across North America, Europe, and Asia, focusing on reliability, conservative resource allocation, and long customer relationships rather than aggressive marketing.

Although ICDSoft is headquartered in Bulgaria, they have established a United States legal entity in Boston, MA, and appear to position the U.S. market as a central focus of their commercial strategy. In practice, this suggests that they target American customers as a primary audience and structure parts of their operations accordingly, despite the company’s Bulgarian base. They also tried German market and Honk Kong with localized website, but both projects didn't bring much advantages and are now retired.

Their main offering is shared web hosting with three clear tiers – Economy, Business, and Business Plus – available in all three data center regions. All shared plans use SSD storage, include unrestricted data transfer, unlimited email accounts, free daily backups, and built-in SSL (Let’s Encrypt on the lower tiers and a GeoTrust RapidSSL certificate on Business Plus). Even the entry Economy plan comes with a custom control panel, WordPress toolkit, app installer, website builder, and social media backup, which is generous compared to many competitors. Business and Business Plus scale storage up to 100–150 GB SSD and add capacity for more sites (up to five websites on Business Plus), while keeping the same support and backup model.

On top of generic web hosting, ICDSoft offers specialized hosting for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Drupal, e-commerce, and Nextcloud Hub, but these are built on the same technical platform, with extra tooling layered on top (WordPress toolkit, AI helpers, and one-click installers). For developers, the WebApps / Node.js hosting line sits between shared hosting and VPS: it gives dedicated RAM, the ability to run background processes and custom runtimes (Node.js out of the box, but also Django, Go, Ruby, etc.), and longer backup retention, while still feeling like a fully managed environment.

For customers that outgrow shared hosting, ICDSoft runs Managed VPS and Managed High-Performance VPS services. The SmartVPS platform is designed as a multi-account VPS where disk space is reserved entirely for customer data (control panel and system files do not eat into the plan quota), and the management layer is included in the price instead of being charged as an extra license. SmartVPS and SmartVPS Pro plans are available in all three data centers, with pricing historically around the mid-range of the VPS market rather than budget-level dumping.

Around hosting itself, ICDSoft also works as a domain registrar for a broad list of TLDs (including .bg, where they are an accredited registrar), offers commercial SSL certificates alongside the free Let’s Encrypt option, and provides a fully featured professional email service with Roundcube webmail, spam and virus filtering, and flexible mailbox management on every hosting plan. A simple AI website builder is bundled as well, giving less technical users a way to build complete sites without touching code.

ICDSoft is technically conservative host: custom control panel, in-house development, their own servers in carefully chosen data centers, long backup retention, and a clear focus on uptime and support quality rather than chasing the lowest advertised price.

👪 Most Recent Customer Reviews

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-anonymous- (-hidden-) / edit-plus.eu
⏳ Time Hosted: over 3 years
Global rating
😁 I'm using ICD Soft's services since 2007 with absolutely no complaints and I totally recommend them to anyone. I have experience with other companies, and there's no compartment possible! What I like the most is the easy-to-use (plus nice designed) control panel, which has everything you may need to adjust, and - what's more important - the support team. I use support tickets and no matter how stupid the question is or what time of the day it is, the answers are always correct, polite and given within a very short time.
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-anonymous- (letters@d...) / devictormason.com
⏳ Time Hosted: over 3 years
Global rating
😁 More than 12 years I've hosted my own site and up to 8-9 others with NO complaints. Submitted over 316 support tickets that have all been resolved within a few minutes. Even fringe questions about software they have assisted me with. Absolutely NO need for me to search for a shared hosting company as ICDSoft fulfills all of my needs.
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-anonymous- (-hidden-) / eslyes.com
⏳ Time Hosted: over 3 years
Global rating
😁 I sort of inherited my website, and not being a nerd/geek/programmer/developer, I have had to deal with one problem after another that was beyond my ken. For example, Google has been hinting STRONGLY that my site (and others) become secure. I had NO IDEA how to change my site from http to https. So, I asked SureSupport for their help and, like the genie in the bottle, they upgraded my site to https. This is just one example of the help they’ve given me over the last 10 years. I can’t say enough good things about how they’ve helped me keep my site up and running. In fact, I don’t even like talking about it because I might jinx myself. The frosting on the cake is that I get all this support for such a reasonable annual fee.

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