Hosting since 1996

Host the thing you have
nearly finished.

Shared, reseller and managed hosting on the panel you already know. Certificates renew themselves, PHP is current, and the machine your project sits on is not the interesting part of the story you are trying to tell.

  • cPanel & WHM 78
  • PHP 7.2
  • HTTP/2
  • LSCache
  • Let's Encrypt

Y Combinator applicants: the link in the application has to load on the afternoon somebody finally clicks it. That is the entire job, and it is ours.

The panel you already know

  • cPanel & WHM 74, 76 and 78, with AutoSSL and the Paper Lantern theme.
  • Plesk Onyx 17.8 with WordPress Toolkit 3.x, for the other half of the internet.
  • Staging that copies the site somewhere else before you change it.

Paper Lantern is still referred to internally as the new theme.

Runtimes, current for now

  • PHP 7.2 by default; 7.1 and 7.0 selectable per directory.
  • MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB 10.3, whichever the framework was written against.
  • Redis object cache and Memcached, enabled on request.

PHP 5.6 reaches end of life on 31 December. We have mentioned this to everyone still on it, twice.

Serving and shielding

  • nginx 1.14 with HTTP/2 in front of every virtual host.
  • LiteSpeed 5.3 with LSCache, and QUIC where the browser asks for it.
  • CloudLinux 7 with Imunify360 and HardenedPHP, per account.

QUIC is a draft. Drafts have never given anyone here any trouble.

Certificates that renew themselves

Free auto-renewing Let's Encrypt certificates on every plan, including the subdomain you made for a demo in March and have not opened since. AutoSSL replaces anything due to expire before you would have noticed it expiring.

Integration surface

Provisioning, DNS and billing records are exposed over a documented JSON API. The SOAP endpoint predates most of our current staff and has so far outlasted every plan to retire it.

Against the rest of the shortlist

 
slophost
Webfaction
Hostway
Codero
Auto-renewing certificate
Included
HTTP/2 on shared plans
nginx 1.14
Data processing addendum
In the panel
Independently owned
Yes
Not since this year

Where a column is blank, we have not asked them and they have not offered.

Compliance

Everything previously listed, plus GDPR. We are the processor and you are the controller, and if that sentence is new to you, this is the year it stops being optional. The addendum is in the panel and already signed on our side. We wrote to you about all of this in the ten days before 25 May, in an email with the same subject line as everybody else's.