ODSOL Standard, $ 6.95/mo. on Linux Shared

Standard has been updated on August 3, 2022 (added October 27, 2008)

🔌 Hosted domains :	1
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	Webmin
🔧 Category :	Backup
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	US

See also initial Standard plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

ODSOL Premium Web Hosting is the hosting brand of Online Data Solutions, LLC, a small US company based in New York that has been active since the early 2000s. The whole setup feels very much like a snapshot of that era: the product line, control panels and even operating systems are classic early-2000s hosting stack. For someone used to modern cloud panels, it almost feels like stepping back in time and seeing how traditional shared hosting used to be organized.

The portfolio covers most conventional hosting needs: domain registration, Linux shared hosting, ecommerce hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private servers / virtual dedicated servers (VPS/VDS), managed dedicated servers, and basic website design. Everything revolves around a Linux Apache-PHP-MySQL environment, with PHP applications and a Fantastico auto-installer for scripts such as WordPress, phpBB, phpNuke, Joomla, osCommerce, Zen Cart and others. This makes ODSOL quite friendly for older PHP-based applications and classic forum or CMS setups.

For shared web hosting, there are three main plans: Standard, Webmaster, and Professional. The Standard plan is positioned as an entry point for a single primary website, offering 100 GB disk space, 1000 GB data transfer, unlimited email accounts, FTP accounts, MySQL databases and sub-domains, plus the option to add extra domains for a small yearly fee. The monthly price is $7.95, with slightly better effective rates if you prepay six months or one year. All shared plans include the WebAdmin control panel built on cPanel 8, SSH access, a web-based file manager, SSL support, detailed statistics (AWStats/Webalizer), and come with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support and a 45-day money-back guarantee.

The Professional plan pushes this further to 300 GB space, 3000 GB bandwidth, and hosting for up to 30 domains, still with unlimited databases, email and FTP accounts. It targets multi-site usage, small resellers or webmasters running many small projects. On top of the resource bump, it includes a wide selection of pre-installed or one-click PHP scripts: forums, guestbooks, CMSs, shopping carts, FAQs and helpdesk tools. Pricing stays in the low double digits (around $19.95/month, a bit less on annual prepayment), which would have been very aggressive when these offers were first published and still looks inexpensive on paper today, even if the technology stack is clearly legacy.

Ecommerce hosting comes as Ecommerce Standard and Ecommerce Pro. These are essentially shared plans tuned for online shops: 100 GB / 1000 GB and 200 GB / 2000 GB (disk / data transfer) respectively, with one main domain, unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited email and FTP accounts, and the same control panel environment. The feature set is oriented toward online stores: SSL, ecommerce-ready scripts and shopping cart software such as osCommerce and Agora. Prices are notably higher than basic shared hosting – roughly $29.95 to $49.95 per month depending on tier and billing term – reflecting the expectation of higher load and the more business-critical nature of ecommerce sites.

For agencies, designers, or small providers, private label reseller hosting is available in three tiers (Starter, Pro, Enterprise). These plans provide a reseller resource pool of a few gigabytes of disk space (around 3–10 GB) and 100–200 GB bandwidth, with the option to create dozens or hundreds of separate hosting accounts. They include WHM for reseller control, cPanel for end-users, private nameservers and a domain reseller account. It is a classic white-label cPanel reseller environment aimed at small resellers and freelancers managing client websites.

The VPS / VDS service is built around virtual dedicated server technology in the Virtuozzo style. The idea is to offer an isolated environment with its own operating system instance, guaranteed RAM and CPU shares, and full root access so the customer can run Apache, Sendmail, MySQL, BIND and other daemons as needed. Typical packages like VPS Standard and VPS Pro combine 50–100 GB disk and 500–1000 GB bandwidth with 1–2 GB RAM and 1–2 virtual CPUs, plus unlimited domains and full control over the software stack. Options like extra IP addresses, more disk or bandwidth, and cPanel/WHM licensing or managed administration can be added.

At the top end there are managed dedicated servers, and this is where the age of the offering really stands out. The two main models advertised are based on Intel Pentium III 1.4 GHz and Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, each with 512 MB SDRAM, a single 80 GB 7200 RPM IDE drive, RedHat 7.3, 500 GB multi-homed bandwidth, 5 IPs, Apache, and cPanel/WHM included. Prices sit in the $199.95–$249.95 per month range with no setup fee. By modern standards these specifications are extremely outdated, so anyone looking at ODSOL today would need to confirm directly whether the real servers have since been upgraded and the published specs were simply never refreshed.

On top of hosting, ODSOL offers domain registration (around $15/year for common TLDs) with free DNS hosting, URL and email forwarding, parking, and ownership changes, as well as basic website design services (template-based designs in Photoshop/HTML with optional customization). That combination – domain, hosting and simple design – makes them feel like a one-stop provider for small businesses launching their first web presence, albeit with a feature set frozen in an earlier era.

Overall, ODSOL is a legacy Linux hosting provider with a full classic product set at low headline prices, but using visibly outdated software versions and hardware configurations in its public information. Anyone evaluating them in 2026 should treat what is written on the site as historical data and verify the current status of the company, the platform and supported software before trusting it with an important project.