HostCrafter

About HostCrafter

HostCrafter provides managed WordPress hosting, split into three plans: WordPress hosting for blogs, business sites and portfolios starting from $3.74/mo, WooCommerce hosting for online stores starting from $6.99/mo, and Agency hosting for managing multiple client sites starting from $55.99/mo. Renewal pricing matches the initial signup price, with no first-year discount followed by a price increase.

Each plan includes a content delivery network operated by the company itself (12 planned locations, with 1 live at time of writing), a custom control panel built specifically for WordPress rather than cPanel, server-level page caching, automatic SSL issuance and renewal, scheduled malware scanning that quarantines rather than deletes flagged files, and nightly backups retained for 14 or 30 days depending on the plan, restorable by the customer from the panel. Every website runs in its own isolated user account with its own database, PHP workers, and CPU/memory limits. The company states it limits the number of websites placed on each server.

Free website migration is offered: the company rebuilds the site on its infrastructure while the original stays live, provides a temporary URL for review before cutover, and switches over only when the customer repoints DNS. Most migrations complete within 24 hours. Support is provided directly by staff (not outsourced) via live chat, available in English or Hindi from 10:00 AM to 12:00 midnight IST, with a 7-day money-back guarantee and no setup fees.

Key features

• Own CDN in 12 cities included on every plan with no per-GB fee
• Server-level page caching (not a plugin) for millisecond page loads
• One-click staging with instant rollback to the live site
• Free zero-downtime migration completed inside 24 hours
• Nightly backups kept 14 or 30 days, self-restorable from the panel
• Custom control panel built for WordPress instead of cPanel

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