LocaWeb BÁSICO, BRL 6.90/mo. on Website Builder

BÁSICO has been added on Jul 14, 2019, Aggregate Rating (1 out of 10 from 2 reviews)

🆓 free domains :	1
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsWire Transfer
🔧 Category :	Backup
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Brazil
⚑ Targeting :	BR

See also initial BÁSICO plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Locaweb is one of the longest-running internet infrastructure brands in Brazil, with roots going back to 1998 and a business history tied closely to the growth of the Brazilian web market. It started from a hosting operation built by Gilberto Mautner and Claudio Gora, then expanded far beyond basic website space into a much broader digital-services company. Today it sits inside the LWSA group ( lwsa.tech ), which also absorbed and developed several ecommerce and software brands over the years, so Locaweb is no longer just a standalone host. It is part of a larger technology ecosystem aimed at websites, online stores, email, cloud workloads, and business operations.

The scale is substantial. The company operates with around one thousand employees, serves more than 285,000 customers, hosts hundreds of thousands of websites, and manages millions of email mailboxes. That gives the business a very different profile from a small reseller or a budget-only host. It feels much more like a mature local platform built for Brazilian SMEs, agencies, developers, and online businesses that want billing in local currency, support in Portuguese, and infrastructure inside Brazil.

The catalog is broad. Core products include shared hosting, WordPress hosting, reseller hosting, professional email, domain registration, SSL certificates, AI website builder, VPS, Locaweb Cloud, and Hospedagem Dedicada. That last line is important to interpret correctly: it is a dedicated-resource hosting tier and not a classic public bare-metal server catalog with deep hardware customization. For customers who want managed website capacity and more isolation than entry-level shared hosting, it fills that role well. For customers looking specifically for rack-level dedicated server procurement, the product naming may initially suggest more than it actually delivers.

The commercial storefront is clearly built for the domestic market. The buying journey is centered on Brazilian Portuguese, and pricing is shown in BRL (R$). That makes Locaweb especially attractive for local buyers who want a familiar support and payment environment, but less ideal for customers who expect a highly internationalized storefront with many languages and currencies.