Maine Host Basic Hosting Plan, $ 19.95/mo. on Linux Shared

Basic Hosting Plan has been updated on May 13, 2026 (added October 27, 2008)

🔌 Hosted domains :	1
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
🔧 Category :	BackupCDNWordpressWebsite BuilderE-Commerce
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	US
💰 Money-back guarantee :	30 days
🚀 Uptime :	100 %

See also initial Basic Hosting Plan plan location on their website!

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*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Maine Hosting Solutions is a long-established U.S. web hosting, WordPress development, web design, and online marketing company based in Bath, Maine. The company has operated since 1996, originally growing from MaineGuides.com into a broader local and national web-services provider. Its strongest identity is not only hosting, but a bundled small-business web presence model: hosting, WordPress design, managed WordPress maintenance, SEO/AIO, domain registration, SSL certificates, email, and support under one roof.

MaineHost is especially suitable for small businesses, local organizations, non-profits, and companies that want a hands-on provider rather than a cheap unmanaged hosting platform. Their ecosystem covers web hosting, email hosting, reseller hosting, managed WordPress, dedicated servers, SSL certificates, domain registration, website builder tools, WordPress web design, WooCommerce/eCommerce development, SEO, local listing services, and website optimization.

The shared hosting line includes Starter, Basic, Standard, Advanced, Super User, and PCI Compliant hosting. These plans are cPanel-based and include SSD storage, defined CPU/RAM allocations, databases, email capacity, WordPress installation tools, spam protection, a website builder, and backup access. The plans are not built around vague "unlimited" promises; they use specific disk, traffic, CPU, RAM, email, and database limits, which gives business customers a more predictable hosting structure.

MaineHost also offers dedicated servers, with managed server support included. Their dedicated server plans include configurations such as Silver Server, Gold Server, and Platinum Server, using Xeon or AMD EPYC hardware, RAID SSD storage, large bandwidth allocations, and 10Gbps connectivity. Managed services cover server monitoring, technical support, reboot service, WHM/cPanel troubleshooting, backend software upgrades, migrations, backup restores, security hardening, and recovery assistance.

Their Managed WordPress service is available as an addon rather than only as a standalone hosting category. Plans include Managed WP Lite, Managed WP Pro, and Managed WP Enterprise, covering WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates, performance audits, image optimization, plugin compatibility checks, WordFence security features, monitoring, and premium tools such as Imagify and WP Rocket. This makes MaineHost stronger for WordPress customers who want ongoing maintenance rather than only raw hosting space.

The company also has experience with web hosting acquisitions, including CommTel in 2002, Ace of Space in 2005, GWI’s web hosting division in 2010, eHost in 2018, and several smaller hosting acquisitions. This adds useful business continuity context: MaineHost has not remained only a local design shop, but has also absorbed hosting customer bases over time.

Their company profile identifies Maine Hosting Solutions as privately held, founded in 1996, headquartered in Bath, Maine, with an employee range of 11-50 employees. Overall, they fit the profile of a regional, experienced, service-oriented hosting and web development company rather than a large commodity hosting brand.