Editor's opinion
Lorienz Galarpe
I am a website designer and developer for over 7 years now, and I worked with several hosting companies in the past for each website project I handle.
First impression
Fornex doesn’t provide too much information about themselves, but they are a European hosting company that has been around providing hosting and infrastructure related services since 1999. They are headquartered in Malaga, Spain and have facilities located all over Europe including Ukraine, Russia, the Netherlands, and Germany. They regularly update their services and website to keep the experience modern and enjoyable to use.
Fornex provides a wide variety of configurations and pricing plans for dedicated servers, VPS, and shared web hosting products. Not only can you likely find a solution that perfectly suits your budget and resource requirements, but you can take advantage of geographically-diverse facilities for greater performance.
It’s easy as 1,2,3 to register or create an account on Fornex, just simply click on the Sing up button and you’ll be redirected to the Signup page and fill up the form field and activate the link sent to your email address.
Managing your account dashboard is just easy as well, you’ll be redirected first to Orders page after Logging in to your account, you can manage your Storage, DNS, Tickets, Finance, Partners, and Settings.
Trial period
Fornex.com don’t offer a free trial on any of their hosting services, you also only get a 7-day trial period with shared hosting or VPS plans. However, you still have to make an upfront payment for VPS and will be refunded upon request.
Billing cycle
All of their hosting plans offer monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual billing with discounted rates for longer billing periods with a 20% discount for annual billing. They also accept a decent range of payment options that even include Bitcoin.
Control panel
Fornex users have the ability to manage their websites or projects completely from creating databases, email addresses, connecting domain names, install wordpress websites, install SSL certificates or even stored any kinds of files.
Web-disk is a tool that works like Cloud Storage. You can manage files on your server as if the web disk were your computer's local drive. This interface allows you to view all your mailboxes and delete old or large messages.
Limits
They do have different limitations on their web hosting services, the Starter plan named WEB-25 can host up to 25 website, with up to 20GB storage, 2 CPU cores, and 1GB RAM. And the highest plan can host up to 100 websites, up to 65GB storage, 8 CPU Cores, and 4GB RAM.
Website builder
Fornex has it’s own page builder tool to create website and with plenty of Themes to choose with, you can manage it through their cpanel dashboard.
Security
They offer a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate that is included in all hosting service plans. They include a few security features for your website in its web hosting plans, but they’re minimal. You get a basic SSL certificate for free for the first year.
SSL certificate name** - the name of the certificate that will be displayed in the control panel. It is recommended to specify the name of your domain.
OS
Their hosting services offer Linux, Windows, and MAC operating service servers.
Support
Their 24/7 support services are available for all their products. Whenever I’ve engaged in their 24/7 live chat, their agents have been prompt in their responses, and I’ve consistently connected with English-speaking support personnel. Additionally, you can contact them via email and phone, where my experiences have been similar, although emails naturally have a slightly longer response time.
Conclusion
Pros |
Cons |
- 99.99% Uptime guarantee for VPS;
- A wide variety of pricing plans;
- Multiple data centers throughout Europe;
- Free or purchasable administration services.
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- Fornes only offers a 7-day free trial;
- Limited features on backend interface.
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Whatever important services or features Fornex doesn’t seem to provide out-of-the-box, you can purchase as an added feature. Overall, they are an excellent provider of high-quality hosting products that are well-suited to the modern digital landscape.
FAQ
✴️How long will it take to install the server?
Usually they try to deliver the server within 1 business day, but depending on the number of orders, the installation period can take 14 days. If you have not received the server after 2 weeks from the order, you are entitled to demand a full refund from them. Reporting month (billing period) starts when the server is ready, not the time of payment. VPS (virtual servers) orders are activated within 5-15 minutes after payment.
❔Who owns the equipment?
Absolutely all hardware belongs to their company. They have constant physical access to each server, which allows them to fix any technical problem at any time of the day or night. If you want to rent a server that is not among the offered rates, they can assemble a server of any configuration for you, to order.
👉Where are the servers physically located?
When ordering a server, in the detailed description, they always specify the country of its location. Please note that they will try to work only with those DCs, which show good results in the return of traffic in the RF. At the moment they install all their new equipment in data centers First-colo (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), WorldStream (Naldwijk, Netherlands), DataLine (Moscow, Russia), Datasource (Hünenberg, Switzerland), Global IP Networks (Dallas, USA), Volia (Kyiv, Ukraine).