HTS.ru review

First impression

Nice design, user-friendly interface. The prices are quite low: Shared hosting from $1.30 and VPS from $7 per month. In addition, the company offers discounts for Shared hosting packages bought for more than 3 months. Moreover, they offer a free one year .ru, .рф, .msk.ru, .spb.ru, . su, .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info or .me domain registration, if total order amount is more than $16.15. Furthermore, the website transfer is absolutely free and they have their own control panel.

As for VPS hosting, the main thing that caught the eye was that both SSD and HDD packages are at the same price. What’s more, you can build you own VPS servers, depending on your needs. Dedicated servers are slightly more expensive, however, there are a lot of packages at your choice.

Trial period

HTS offers a 10-day trial period for Shared and VPS hosting packages. In addition they provide moneyback guarantee. In order to get the details regarding the policy, it is required to contact their support team.

Billing cycle

Monthly, quarterly, annual and biennial cycles are available for Shared and VPS hosting. Dedicated servers have only monthly billing cycle.

Control panel

The company offers their own control panel with Shared hosting plans. It is simple and intuitive. For VPS and Dedicated it’s possible to install DirectAdmin or ISPmanager panels at an additional cost.

Limits

Usual disk space, RAM and CPU core limitations are applicable for VPS and Dedicated packages. For instance, the most expensive VPS packages (at $23.50) have the following limits: 2x2.4 GHz CPU, 4GB RAM and 32Gb SSD disk storage. Moreover, you can use this kind of hosting for file and media storage which is very rare among hosting providers. As for Shared hosting the number of domains, email accounts, MySQL databases and FTP users as well as bandwidth are unlimited.

However, it is prohibited to use more than 2.5% of server resources. Also, the inodes are limited to 500000. Regarding the traffic, it’s considered to be unlimited in case the inbound and outbound traffic correlation is 1:10. If not, it comes at an additional cost - $1.26 per 1Gb.

Security

There is not much information regarding security measures available on the website. The company provides server monitoring, an SSL certificate and anti-spam protection. Also, daily backup is available for Shared hosting. So, we can assume that all further security measures are under your own responsibility.

OS

Linux runs on Shared servers. For VPS plans it’s possible for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora or OpenSUSE to get installed for free. As for Dedicated servers, you can install any operating system. In case you bought a package with server management, the support team can install FreeBSD or any Linux distributive.

Support

The company provides 24/7 ticket, phone and Skype (calls only) support. The average ticket response time is about 2 hours. The representatives are polite, accurate but not very proactive. The knowledge base is good, articles cover most of the basic cases.

Conclusion

This hosting can be used by both beginners and proficient users.The control panel is quite comfortable and simple. Also, the company provides lots of free bonuses. Although the moneyback policy is vague and the security features are not fully described, this hosting can be considered as a good, reliable and cheap one.