Stromonic.com review

First impression

NOTE! Leapswitch Networks Pvt. Ltd. has acquired Stromonic Hosting.

Stromonic website is easy to navigate and simple in UI/UX. The services are aggressively focused on managed WordPress hosting solutions. The hosting platform also offers:

• Domain Registration/Transfer;
• Email Hosting;
• WooCommerce Hosting Solution.

For agencies and value-added resellers, Stromonic has something called “Growth Suite” which is a normal reseller hosting alternative.

Stromonic website comes with detailed information about its platform features which could be helpful to make a decision to go with it. This hosting company has some advantages:

Stromonic Cloud: According to its claim, Stromonic has created its own cloud infrastructure as an alternative to Google or AWS cloud which allows this hosting to have more control and customization over its infrastructure. Its cloud infrastructure builds with the latest AMD EPYC processors, fast NVMe disk storage, and a 10GB/s backbone network which allows Stromonic to achieve 3-5x better performance than other public clouds.

Optimized Stack: The company is using its own version of the optimized server stack which includes LiteSpeed Cache, Fast PHP, Redis, MariaDB and a tool to find slow PHP requests called “PHP X-Ray”. This combo server stack is capable of handling thousands of real-time visitors at the same time.

Stromonic CDN: Stromonic has built its own custom content delivery network which comes with 93+ global data centers around the world. The data centers store static files of their clients' websites such as:

1. Images;
2. Videos;
3. HTML;
4. JavaScript;
5. CSS;
6. And serve these contents from the nearest data center to a website visitor.

Auto Spin Up: All websites hosted under its platform will have an auto spin up benefit which means during sudden load spikes the system will automatically allocate more resources to the viral website, and automatically remove extra resources when it isn't required.

Web Application Firewall: It is something that only certain hosts integrate into their platform. This security feature protects websites from all possible admin login attacks, SQL attacks, script injection attacks.

Moving on to the next part, let’s talk about pricing. The plans are starting from $14.95 per month and go up to $89.95 per month. All the plans come with a free domain, multiple WordPress installs, enterprise CDN, and easy-to-use Staging. The plans come with certain limits over the number of websites, disk space, and bandwidth, otherwise, all features look similar.

Trial period

Stromonic does not have any kind of trial options. Instead this host has a long 45 days easy refund policy. If you are displease, you can ask for a full refund within this period.

Billing cycle

WordPress hosting packages have only two billing cycles - monthly and annually. Ordering for one year you will have two months of discount automatically.

Control panel

All the managed WordPress hosting plans come with the popular cPanel.

Limits

Stromonic has not placed any traditional resource-based limitations on its plans, there are no limits on inodes (file limits), no limits on the number of MySQL database as well. Instead, it only has disk storage and bandwidth limits on its plans.

Security

The company offers DDoS attacks protection by default along with WAF and Cloud Firewall security features. Its system also includes real-time CloudScanner which will actively isolate suspected malware-infected files into a safe place. For safety reasons, hosting company backup all websites every day and stores them for the next 14 days on backup servers. You have the option to download your website backups at any point of time.

OS

Stable Linux OS (CentOS) has been used on Stromonic`s servers, and it has made its own tweaks to modify it according to its infrastructure. 

Support

Stromonic offers 24/7 live chat support from its website, ticket support from the client area dashboard. The support agents are fast to respond over live chat and ticket system. They have Knowledge Base articles that covered the getting started guides to troubleshooting issues. 

Conclusion

Stromonic has innovated some features into its planform which made its stand out from the crowd. Also, it does not seem it is ordinary web hosts, they are performance-oriented. Its clients will have some extra benefits and features over other normal hosting companies. And, if you are looking for something premium to try out, Stromonic could be a host on your shortlist.