Web Hero cPanel Hosting, $ 39.95/mo. on Linux Shared

cPanel Hosting has been updated on August 25, 2025 (added December 8, 2020), Aggregate Rating (6.1 out of 10 from 22 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	10
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire TransferCheck Payments
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	US
💰 Money-back guarantee :	0 days
🚀 Uptime :	99.9 %

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WebHero is a long-established American web hosting and domain-registration company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Its history reaches back to 1994, when entrepreneur Bob Crull founded Dallas Internet. That business began commercial Internet operations in 1995 and later acquired Catalog.com in 1998. The hosting and domain-registration activities were subsequently moved under the WebHero.com brand in 2004. After the catalog.com domain was sold in 2017, Catalog.com, Inc. was renamed Webhero, Inc. Bob Crull remains President and CEO, while Rod Phillips serves as Executive Director.

The company has therefore been involved in Internet hosting and domain services for more than three decades, although the WebHero brand itself is newer than the original business. Some company information references 2002, but the corporate history begins in 1994, making that the more representative foundation year for the hosting operation.

WebHero is also an ICANN-accredited domain registrar under IANA registrar ID 112. Domain services form an important part of the business alongside hosting, with more than 30,000 domains under management.

The current product range is broader than conventional shared hosting and has developed strongly around AI-ready website hosting. Customers can build sites using tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor and GitHub Copilot and then deploy their own files without being locked into a proprietary website builder. Uploads can be handled through normal file transfer, Git repositories or command-line workflows, while WordPress remains fully supported.

The principal AI-oriented plans are AI Hero, Startup Hero and Business Hero. AI Hero is intended for one website, Startup Hero supports up to ten websites, and Business Hero extends capacity to as many as 100 websites. A separate cPanel Hosting option remains available for customers preferring a more traditional shared-hosting environment.

WebHero also maintains a wider hosting catalog containing Shared Hosting, WordPress Hosting, cPanel Hosting and Plesk Hosting. Shared Hosting is divided into Personal Hero, Startup Hero and Business Hero packages, with daily backups and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. The larger Business Hero package is intended for customers operating multiple websites and includes considerably higher email, database, storage and traffic allowances.

WordPress Hosting uses PHP 8.x, MySQL 8.0 and SSD storage, with Softaculous installation, automated WordPress updates, malware scanning, SSL certificates and backup functionality. Customers wanting more hands-on administration can add WordPress Management, covering core, theme and plugin updates, security scans, malware cleanup, backups and performance optimization. Higher management tiers also add content, SEO and priority assistance.

A dedicated Plesk Hosting range provides an alternative to cPanel and supports multiple domains depending on the selected package. This makes WebHero suitable for customers who prefer either of the two major commercial hosting control panels.

Nextcloud Hosting also appears among the company's services for private storage and collaboration, although this product remains marked Coming Soon rather than being part of the fully available hosting range.

Domain services cover registrations, transfers, DNS management, URL forwarding, domain locking, WHOIS tools and privacy protection. Domain transfers generally include an additional year of registration.

Security is another important part of the portfolio. WebHero provides SSL certificates, malware protection, website-security packages, DDoS mitigation, Web Application Firewall protection, backups and security monitoring. Commercial SSL options include RapidSSL, GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium and GeoTrust True BusinessID, with installation assistance available.

Email services include Professional Email Hosting with domain-based mailboxes, webmail, mobile-device support, spam protection and collaboration functions. SpamShark adds dedicated protection against spam, phishing and malware and can cover as many as 50 email addresses.

The company also provides Site Boost, combining caching, compression, asset optimization, SSL offloading, load balancing and traffic management to improve website performance. Customers that prefer a fully managed environment can use Web Services Management for monitoring, backups, security, troubleshooting and application maintenance.

Professional services extend to website migrations, server configuration, security hardening and WordPress administration. VIP membership packages provide discounted pricing and additional services such as security scans, backups, domain assistance, DNS management and spam filtering.

WebHero does not operate as a typical VPS or dedicated-server vendor. The current retail portfolio concentrates on shared hosting, WordPress, domains, email, security and managed web services rather than root-access VPS, bare-metal servers or general-purpose cloud infrastructure.

The company operates primarily in English and prices services in US dollars (USD). Its current direction combines conventional hosting with newer AI-assisted development workflows, while still retaining familiar cPanel, Plesk and WordPress environments.