Zoner.fi review

First impression

Zoner started out as an ISP in 2005 but soon made the switch to hosting. The company is based in Vantaa, Finland and offers its services in both Finnish and English. Here, you’ll find shared web hosting and WordPress hosting as well as VPS hosting products with data centers located in Finland, Germany, Netherlands, the U.K., the U.S., and Singapore.

Create your own homepage with layouts designed by professionals! The website engine contains about 200 templates that you can freely use in the implementation of your website.

The homepage engine also contains many useful features. Implement multilingual homepages, an online store or connect, for example, social media services to your pages.

Editing homepages is easy, and the homepage editor requires no coding skills at all! Click and drag elements in the editor to the places you want.

Trial period

They don't offer a free trial service though all Zoner.fi plans are also backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee if you’re not satisfied with your hosting.

Billing cycle

Zoner.fi’s web hosting plans fall within the spectrum of mid-range pricing. They’re definitely not the cheapest prices out there, but they’re still quite reasonable for a European host. Zoner’s WordPress and VPS hosting plans start at a higher price point somewhere within the mid to high-range, but you also get a lot more value here since they come with great performance.

In terms of storage and bandwidth, the former is a bit low while the latter is within a respectable range considering the price. Their web hosting service billing cycles can choose Monthly, Annually, and/or per 3 Years plans.

Control panel

Zoner doesn’t provide any control panel yet for WordPress hosting, but you can manage your site using secure channels like SSH or WP-CLI. This is one problem I found with the Zoner platform, since it means that you need to have a certain level of technical proficiency to get the most out of the WordPress plans here. The upside is that these WordPress plans are cloud-based and come with automatic updates (including your plugins and themes).

Limits

Zoner’s hosting packages include some pretty impressive features on top of all the hosting essentials:

• Free domain registration;
• Free SSL certificates;
• Multisite hosting;
• Daily automatic backups;
• Storage from 1 GB to 80 Gb (for shared or WordPress hosting);
• Up to 500 GB of monthly bandwidth (for shared hosting).

Zoner.fi has packages that will suit a wide range of user needs. While 1 GB of storage is only suitable for the most basic websites, you can get up to 80 GB, not counting the customizable Enterprise plan. The same goes for the available bandwidth. You’ll also be taken care of with a domain and SSL certificate.

Security

Zoner.fi offers a free SSL certificate that is included as standard in web hosting and WP-Cloud subscriptions. An SSL certificate enables a secure connection between your website and the user's browser. If the site uses an unencrypted connection, most browsers warn the user about the security risk. 

Their web hosting, reseller hosting and WP-Cloud services include a basic SSL certificate, which is completely sufficient for most. With more comprehensive SSL certificates, you can arouse the trust of the website visitor, and they are often necessary, especially for larger companies.

OS

The company offers Linux, and Windows operating services on their servers to get all the raw performance of the server for your resource-intensive websites & applications.

Support

You can reach the customer support team via email, phone, or live chat. However, Zoner’s phone lines are only available between 08:00 and 18:00 Finland time. They claim to answer calls within an average of 23 seconds, which is very impressive. Bear in mind that there aren’t any toll-free numbers, however, so you’ll have to pay for the international call charges. Alternatively, Zoner’s support staff also respond very quickly to live chat queries and are usually very polite and helpful:

Conclusion

Zoner might not be the cheapest host on the block, but there’s no doubt that it provides a high-quality service with global data center locations and great live chat support.

FAQS:

💢Are the homepages made with Kotisivukone responsive?
The pages created with the homepage engine are responsive and work perfectly on all devices.

✅Can the web hosting be upgraded from one level to another?
Yes you can. Updating the web hosting is a very simple operation, where their customer service changes the size of the web hosting at your request. You can update the web hosting by sending them an email at tuki@zoner.fi .

❇️The differences between a web host and a virtual server?
Web hosting is a low-cost maintenance solution where your own website is located in a shared environment, i.e. there are also other customers on the same server. However, the amount of disk space you ordered and enough bandwidth and resources are naturally reserved for your own web hosting.

A virtual server , on the other hand, is a more advanced solution, where one virtualized server always has the services of only one customer. WordPress users should check out our hosted WP.one services.