Star Dot Hosting Star 10, CAD 39.00/mo. on Linux VPS

Star 10 has been added on Feb 29, 2020, Aggregate Rating (10 out of 10 from 1 reviews)

💪 CPU/Cores :	1 Core
🔋 RAM :	1000 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalBitcoin
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Canada
⚑ Targeting :	CA US

See also initial Star 10 plan location on their website!

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📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

StackStar is a Toronto-based managed hosting provider operated by Star Dot Hosting Inc., with hosting activity dating back to 2008. Star Dot Hosting Inc. was federally incorporated in Canada in 2011. The company concentrates on managed infrastructure, combining hosting resources with system administration, monitoring, maintenance, security, backups and assistance with application scaling.

The main services are Managed WordPress Hosting, Managed VPS, Managed Dedicated Servers and Anonymous Offshore Shared Hosting. StackStar can also manage cloud and hybrid infrastructure, including deployments using Amazon AWS, while its own CDN can be integrated for performance, scalability and additional protection. Migration assistance is available for customers moving websites, applications and server environments.

Managed WordPress Hosting starts with WP Basic at CAD 5/month, providing 10 GB storage, unlimited premium bandwidth and two WordPress installations. WP Heavy costs CAD 16/month and increases resources to 50 GB storage and up to 10 WordPress installations. WP Fully Managed starts at CAD 49/month and moves WordPress onto dedicated virtual resources with customizable SSD RAID storage and RAM, a dedicated CPU core, dedicated bandwidth and continuous maintenance, monitoring and optimization.

WordPress customers can also use staging environments protected by passwords, making it possible to test updates and application changes before moving them into production. This is particularly useful for business websites and custom WordPress installations where direct production changes would create unnecessary risk.

Managed VPS Hosting uses KVM virtualization and starts with Star 10 at CAD 39/month. The entry configuration includes 10 GB SSD storage, 1 GB RAM, one CPU core and premium bandwidth. Star 20 costs CAD 99/month with 20 GB SSD storage, 2 GB RAM and two CPU cores, while Star 30 costs CAD 129/month with 25 GB SSD storage, 4 GB RAM and four CPU cores.

These VPS packages are built around managed administration rather than simple virtual-machine rental. Monitoring, graphing, alerting, server maintenance and configuration assistance are part of the service. Weekly server imaging is included, while encrypted offsite backup can be added when stronger disaster-recovery requirements are needed.

More advanced VPS environments can include staging servers, replicated data, deployment hooks, load balancing, caching, auto-scaling and geographic redundancy. This makes the service relevant not only for conventional websites but also for application environments that require closer infrastructure management.

Managed Dedicated Hosting starts at CAD 159/month. The entry server includes 250 GB SSD RAID storage, 5 GB RAM, 1,000 GB premium bandwidth and a quad-core processor. Dedicated hosting includes continuous system administration as well as SNMP-based reporting for bandwidth, storage, CPU utilization, database activity and web-server performance.

Firewall protection, intrusion-prevention systems, geographically separated encrypted backups and synthetic monitoring from multiple endpoints can also be integrated. The overall approach is strongly managed, making the dedicated range more suitable for organizations that want operational assistance rather than an unmanaged physical server.

Anonymous Offshore Hosting starts at CAD 5/month. Stack A5 includes 10 GB SSD storage, 100 GB bandwidth and one database. Stack A8 provides 20 GB storage, 250 GB bandwidth and 10 databases, while Stack A11 increases this to 50 GB SSD storage with unlimited bandwidth and databases for CAD 11/month.

Only a valid email address is required for this hosting category, setup is free, and Bitcoin payments are supported. Encrypted webmail can also be added. Secure offsite backups and the same 99.99% uptime SLA apply to these hosting services.

Security is an important part of StackStar's managed environment. Firewalling, intrusion prevention, proactive monitoring, encrypted backups, traffic analysis and additional security work such as penetration testing can be combined with hosting services. Clustering, redundancy, disaster recovery and application scaling are also available for more demanding deployments.

The website and customer information are available in English, while billing is primarily handled in Canadian dollars (CAD) unless another currency is explicitly stated on an invoice.

Some short plan summaries contain specifications that differ from the more detailed hosting configurations. Customers ordering resource-sensitive services should therefore confirm the exact storage, bandwidth and other limits included with the selected package.