Hostwinds Promo Codes & Deals

Hostwinds' Basic shared hosting plan lists from around $3.29 a month on its official pricing page, though third-party reviews report the introductory rate closer to $5 depending on when you check and which term you select. All shared tiers include unlimited bandwidth, storage, databases, and email accounts regardless of price.

Hostwinds' unmanaged VPS plans start around $4.99 a month for Linux or Windows, giving root access without the extra cost of full management. Managed VPS, where Hostwinds handles server administration for you, runs meaningfully higher, so unmanaged only makes sense if you're comfortable administering your own server.

Hostwinds Cloud hosting bills hourly rather than monthly, starting around $0.007 an hour, which works out to roughly $4.99 a month if a server runs continuously. This billing model suits short-lived or bursty workloads you can spin up and tear down, rather than a website that needs to stay online indefinitely.

Hostwinds' support team will transfer your existing website, files, and email over from another host at no charge, aimed at removing the technical hassle of switching providers. You'll get instructions to preview the migrated site before it goes live, so you can confirm everything works before pointing your domain over.

Hostwinds' money-back guarantee is limited to 72 hours from your payment transaction, a sharp drop from the 60-day guarantee the company reportedly offered in the past. Refunds are prorated for unused service rather than a full refund, and domains, SSL certificates, IP addresses, and hourly-billed products are excluded entirely.

Hostwinds bundles the Weebly drag-and-drop website builder into every shared hosting plan at no additional cost, useful if you want a working site without touching code or a separate CMS. It sits alongside the standard cPanel and Softaculous one-click installer already included on the same plans.

Rather than capping bandwidth, disk space, or email accounts by tier, Hostwinds applies the same unlimited allowances across its Basic, Advanced, and Ultimate shared hosting plans. The real differences between tiers come down to the number of websites you can host and support priority, not raw storage or traffic limits.

Hostwinds' dedicated server line starts in the neighborhood of $106 a month, with full control over RAM, storage, bandwidth, and IP address allocation rather than fixed configurations. As with VPS, dedicated servers ship unmanaged by default, so factor in management costs if you don't have in-house server expertise.

Hostwinds' Business Hosting tier mirrors the Shared Hosting plans in structure but runs on LiteSpeed Web Server with fewer accounts sharing each server, aimed at sites that need more consistent performance than budget shared hosting typically delivers. It's a middle step up before committing to a full VPS.