What customers are saying about web hosting

Runs large side projects on WP Engine base plan at a fixed monthly price.

Calls Contabo the worst host they have used in 15 years.

Moved hosting from Azure web apps to Linux on Hetzner with Cloudflare edge caching and cut the monthly cost dramatically.

Recently moved their custom-domain email to Fastmail and loves it; Squarespace price rises prompted looking at hosting.

Was charged for a domain they never ordered; GoDaddy said a staff member with account access made the purchase and gave no clear explanation of how.

Found it frustrating that a client's whole Squarespace site could not be reassigned to a new subscription, forcing a manual rebuild, and now leans toward Framer for clients.

After years on a shared plan, renewal hikes put their bill at about $20.63 a month, above the $17.95 list price, so they feel overcharged and are shopping around.

Finds Contabo good value and flexible for both site and email hosting.

Has used GoDaddy for over 12 years and feels it declined; contact-form emails stopped reaching their inbox and GoDaddy branding is on their emails.

Runs KVM 2 plans and advises paying monthly, since one plan kept its old price while another jumped sharply on the next bill. Cancelling anytime is a plus for them.

Finds Contabo low quality, with roughly 30 percent CPU steal that forces buying more vCPUs than needed.

Uses RackNerd and checked their plan: about a year for a modest price with 2 cores, 3.5GB RAM, a 65GB drive and plenty of bandwidth, seen as roughly on par in price with a pricier Hostinger plan.

Uses Hostinger for website hosting and says it has always been pretty good.

Moved servers from Hetzner to Scaleway after Hetzner raised prices by more than other cloud providers.

Waited about 12 hours on the trial, then paid for two years; likes the clean interface, fast site and app, and runs aliases and a custom domain.

Used a series of Liquid Web dedicated servers for 18 years and is moving on, citing outdated hardware, cPanel price rises and doing more maintenance with an AI assistant than with their support.

Ran a web app on Vercel and liked the easy GitHub deploys and dashboard, but worried about the bill when junk traffic hit usage-based pricing, and later moved to a rented VPS.

Has run several projects for months on an OVH 4 CPU, 8GB VPS with no problems and previously had good experience with Hetzner.

Bought an IPv6-only netcup VPS two months ago and enjoyed the low price with Cloudflare proxying, until a service needing IPv4 whitelisting caught them out.

Support couldn't accommodate a custom webmail subdomain, leaving users confused by the mismatched login domain.

Came over from Proton, tried mailbox.org, and returned to Fastmail; found support great when needed.

On the Fastmail trial after leaving Proton; so far finds few limitations, works with their own domain and masked emails, and likes the clean UI.

Opened tickets about mail providers not receiving their custom domain emails and a billing issue; nine days later neither was resolved, and authenticated mail was still landing in spam.

Has run a VPS on Leaseweb infrastructure through a reseller and reports no problems with it.

Hosts with both Linode and Hetzner. Finds Hetzner cloud locations often full, so adding new servers can take months, and notes Hetzner has begun raising prices.

Has been a Leaseweb customer since 2019. Finds it never the cheapest but consistently better on support response and assistance, which matters for their business.

Says Leaseweb is raising prices and that support is poor, and is migrating away from it.

A couple of years on Proton and it has been fine.

Very happy with Fastmail, with many domains to choose from and masked email used often.

Moved from Proton and Tuta to mailbox.org with a custom domain; fine for years apart from clunky interfaces.

Found Tuta support extremely bad: overcharged, a support post unapproved, and three days for an answer, so they deleted the account.

Has used DigitalOcean for years, finds it very reliable and has never needed to contact support because it has always just worked.

Picked Zoho over Fastmail for a first custom domain because it was cheaper and after two years has no reason to move.

Left Tuta for mailbox.org and likes it, with third-party app support and a custom domain.