Open SRS 5GB mailbox, $ 0.50/mo. on Linux Emails

5GB mailbox has been updated on March 24, 2026 (added November 20, 2020), Aggregate Rating (1 out of 10 from 6 reviews)

💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire TransferCheck PaymentsMoney Order
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
🔧 Category :	File Sharing
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Canada
⚑ Targeting :	CA US
🚀 Uptime :	99.9 %

See also initial 5GB mailbox plan location on their website!

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*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

OpenSRS is not a conventional retail web host. It is a wholesale reseller platform operated by Tucows, and that distinction matters from the start. The brand was launched in 2000 as Tucows’ wholesale domain channel, and it still feels built first for hosting companies, web designers, agencies, managed service providers, and site-building platforms rather than for ordinary end users buying a single hosting account. The website is essentially English-only, but the platform itself supports a much broader international audience, with reseller activity in 150+ countries and multilingual customer-facing tools in several parts of the product line.

The company’s core strength is that it bundles several sticky recurring services into one reseller ecosystem. The main catalog includes domain registration, domain transfer, premium domains, managed DNS, contact privacy, domain parking, professional hosted email, email forwarding, TLS/SSL certificates, SiteLock, a white-label Storefront, a central Reseller Control Panel, full API access, and now a newer cloud hosting offer that is still marked as beta. This makes the business feel more like infrastructure for digital service providers than a classic cPanel host.

Domains are still the center of the platform. OpenSRS positions itself as the world’s largest domain reseller platform, with 730+ gTLDs and ccTLDs currently shown on pricing pages and 18+ million domains under the wider platform footprint. The domain service is designed to be flexible: resellers can manage everything manually through the control panel, automate with the API, or add the no-code Storefront directly to their own website. For many agencies and hosting companies, that is the real attraction: they can keep the customer relationship and billing flow under their own brand instead of sending domain business elsewhere.

The email side is stronger than a token add-on. OpenSRS offers white-label professional email with flexible mailbox sizing, spam and virus filtering, webmail branding, migration tools, multi-language support, calendar, contacts, file sharing, aliases, and two-factor authentication. It is clearly designed to be resold to SMB customers as a proper mailbox service, not just as basic POP mail bundled with a shared-hosting plan. There is also low-cost email forwarding, which keeps the lineup practical for budget-conscious customers.

TLS/SSL is another core product rather than an afterthought. OpenSRS supports DV, OV, EV, wildcard, and SAN certificates, and the current certificate lineup includes brands such as DigiCert and Actalis. The platform also offers a free baseline SSL option in some contexts, which makes it easier for resellers to bundle basic website security without forcing every customer into a higher-priced trust product from day one.

The newest and least mature part of the lineup is OpenSRS Cloud Hosting. Unlike the older domain/email/certificate business, this service is still presented as beta and is aimed squarely at resellers who want managed cloud-style website hosting without licensing extra third-party panels. It is built on AWS, geared first toward WordPress, and framed around autoscaling, serverless infrastructure, pay-per-website pricing, free Let’s Encrypt SSL, and a free hosting management panel. It looks promising, but it is not yet the fully developed multi-tier hosting lineup that some buyers might expect from a traditional host.

Overall, OpenSRS is useful for businesses that want to resell digital services under their own brand rather than for customers who want direct retail hosting. It is more "platform" than "host," and that is both its biggest strength and the main limitation future buyers need to understand.