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Israel
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Found this hosting to be the best efficient and cost effective hosts among the existing ones. A better user experience and satisfied performance of the dedicated servers.
I would suggest you to have a 24/7 support on call facility, to enhance service quality and faster troubleshooting.

Date of experience: July 5, 2018
Arizona
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I had to submit documentation a total of three times. No where in the instructions did it say an electronic signature was not permitted, and I was told to blur out my debit card information on the actual card but had to provide the number on paper? That doesn't make any sense.

Date of experience: September 4, 2023
Illinois
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Took less than 24 hours to get but...
February 18, 2022

It took less than 24 hours from placing the order to getting the email that the server was ready to go. However, login credentials were provided in an email instead of adding the info to my account with them. This is a minor issue since the account they provided has been disabled already but it is not a good model.

Date of experience: February 18, 2022
Brazil
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Hostwinds rocks
August 30, 2016

My experience with Hostwinds is almost half year for now, but I am already sure that I'll stay with them for long term. That is because they have shown me their high skills in server administration and I see they can handle any issue quickly. My websites with them are up, loading quickly and software is always updated and properly adjusted for working like a clock. Their techies are skilled enough and available almost always.

Date of experience: August 30, 2016
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I use Hostwinds shared hosting services and I have to say that I'm almost satisfied: no uptime, fast servers, good price. Support appeared a bit slow in solving issues. But I think that is okay for that type of services I'm getting.

Date of experience: January 10, 2017
Texas
1 review
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Inexperienced at creating a web site
February 19, 2022

I picked this service because I am inexperienced and they advertised site building software, Webby, I think. There are absolutely no instructions on how and where to start. You would think that they would at least refer to some place that would help. I paid a year in advance and unless I find something I missed before, I will be attempting to get my $ back.

Date of experience: January 20, 2022
Canada
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Great products, pay attention to cost
February 16, 2021

Great products, service and quick responses. I'm very happy with the experience so far. The only negative aspect was that the pricing for the service listed both included and optional features, and I did not catch the difference in the language used (features included vs features offered). Besides that, the list of options available allowed me to tailor what I wanted and select my favorite OS.

Date of experience: February 16, 2021
GB
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Error during checkout
October 6, 2022

When I tried to check out I got a error from your website.

I tried again and it was successful. Unfortunately, I ended up with two purchases.

Your agent Aaron managed to cancel one of them though.

So overall not a good or smooth experience

Date of experience: September 6, 2022
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The price is great!
September 20, 2018

The price is great! As someone who is just starting out, their services is really helpful especially the live chat, they responded professionally and answered all my questions without giving me the run around.

Date of experience: September 19, 2018
California
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Streamline the automated renewal process.
December 10, 2022
Updated review

Your renewal message is too vague. If you have it set up to be automatically renewed, the heads up message should read "your renewal will happen automatically," NOT "it's going to expire, renew today."

Date of experience: December 10, 2022

I chose Hostwinds several years ago
December 10, 2020
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I chose Hostwinds several years ago.

Date of experience: December 10, 2020
Croatia
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Fast server and support
December 22, 2016

During the past year I've received no technical troubles or unexpected errors. Everything is perfectly optimized and adjusted for fast and stable performing. Support team is skilled and polite, no complains on their job.

Date of experience: December 22, 2016
New Zealand
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I was looking for cheap web host based on ssd storage and found Hostwinds it is really good. There are many useful free tools for creating and running any sites. Customer support is good, there are skillful workers who are always online and ready to help and solve any trouble. The team that I worked for as an intern was amazing. Everyone person in the team was very helpful and very welcoming.

Date of experience: April 2, 2019
Florida
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During my experience i worked with more than several hosting companies, couple of them even bragging about the level of support they do offer.

HostWinds, is outclassing them all by mile.
Thank you very much for being here for us :).

Date of experience: August 10, 2017
Czechia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Me and my friend who is using Hostwinds` VPS are getting high level service from them. And I suspect everyone else gets either. My monitoring shows 99.97% stability and no packets lost during up time. Performance of servers is their strongest feature that they should be proud of. Support team is armed with good linux knowledge and answering rather fast.

Date of experience: August 29, 2016
Philippines
1 review
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Hostwinds is easily the most useful and organized web hosting site. Look no further if you need reliable customer service, affordable prices, and a way to boost your traffic for your own site. My favorite feature would have to be the live customer support- whenever you need questions answered; the employees are there to help you.

Date of experience: February 14, 2019
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Best Experience!
April 22, 2016

As a way to say 'thank you' I am posting this review of Hostwinds web hosting service.
Uptime. I track my websites stability all the time and can share my statistics it is 99.99% and 100% for last month. There also were no network outages or packet loss monitored.
Support. I am skilled enough to manage my website, but I submitted 10 tickets connected with questions regarding their services, like database limits, mail servers and so on. I have received clear detailed reply approximately in 5-10 minutes.
As I already said I want to say thank you, Hostwinds, you have brought best hosting experience to me.

Date of experience: April 21, 2016
Philippines
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I used to be with another web host and they charged about 3 times more and had less than 20% of the features these guys currently have. When we were using cPanel based email services, one of my friends referred us to Hostwinds. The control panel makes it very easy to navigate everything for someone who doesn't know too much about the intricate workings of web hosts and servers. Their staff is very active and responsive. Whenever I found any issues they solved quickly.

Date of experience: May 27, 2019
Czechia
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Hostwinds have been a generally excellent host. Their prices on dedicated servers are unbeatable, and their recovery tool is not only useful as such, but enables you to self-install any version of linux onto the server. All of that being said, my website has never gone down and the speeds from Hostwinds servers are very good. You get plenty of space and bandwidth and I had no problem installing various scripts to my site. There was one slight problem a year or so ago where a few of my files magically disappeared.

Date of experience: July 9, 2019
Luxembourg
1 review
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I had some issues with redirecting my domain while maintaining my email and hosting services with Hostwinds. All of their support personnel are amazing. They are knowledgeable, kind and helpful. No matter what my concerns have been throughout my three months with them, I have always received the best customer support ever. My thanks to all that are there to provide excellent service.

Date of experience: January 31, 2018
Costa Rica
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I decided to switch over to what I thought was a better hosting company. WRONG! I went to migrate over some websites and they switched up the migration with one domain information being put in another domain and then losing information.

It took 4 days to fix it. I had a plan with 2 TB of bandwidth which is plenty for me. WRONG AGAIN!

Day 8 I was at 3.84 TB of data, Day 9 5.36

It was a server attack that I am now being billed for.

Date of experience: April 22, 2019

Overview

Hostwinds has a rating of 4.1 stars from 681 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Hostwinds most frequently mention customer service, support team and top notch. Hostwinds ranks 5th among Web Hosting sites.

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