Objective review Prohoster.info

Editor's opinion • Anastasia Sarkisyan Hosting Expert (2 years' experience) Her main responsibility is to write hosting companies overviews, articles and creating content in general.

First impression

Pleasant website design and a very user-friendly interface. Apart from the Russian website version, they have a Spanish, English and Chinese versions that are under construction.

Shared hosting packages are rather cheap: from $2.50/mo to $13.50/mo. The main feature of these packages is that only disk space is limited. What’s more, the disk quota varies from 5Gb to 100 Gb, so it’s quite easy to find a suitable package. Moreover, Shared servers are very secure. Another distinctive peculiarity of this hosting provider is that they allow adult content on their Shared servers. So far, the majority of hosting providers restrict this kind of content not only on their shared servers but on VPS and Dedicated ones as well.

ProHoster offers a variety of VPS hosting packages. Generally, they are cheaper in comparison to other hosting providers: from $2.60/mo to $58.90/mo. The characteristics are rather good. For example, the most expensive package (at $58.90) includes 4 CPU cores, 32 Gb RAM, 200Gb SSD and 1 IP address. Additionally, all of the packages have unlimited bandwidth. Moreover, the company offers Windows VPS servers. They actually are VPS servers with KVM virtualization, so you can install any OS on them.

Dedicated servers are not very expensive, however, the are quite weak. For instance, at least half of the servers are powerful desktop computers rather than servers. Although these servers cost not that much, it would be better if they had a detailed tech specs description. It is possible to choose the servers location: Ukraine, Russia, Netherlands, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg or USA.

Trial period

The company offers a 14-day trial period for all Shared hosting packages.

Billing cycle

Shared hosting packages have monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annual and biennial cycles. VPS and Bulletproof Dedicated servers as well as Dedicated servers located in Ukraine, Estonia, Luxembourg, Netherlands and USA have monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual billing cycles. Dedicated servers located in Russia and Lithuania can be purchased only for one month.

Control panel

ISPmanager is included to each Shared hosting package. Vesta or ISPmanager can be installed on VPS servers for free. As for Dedicated servers, it’s possible to use ISPmanager on them at no additional cost.

Limits

Shared hosting packages have limited disk space, however, all other features such as number of domains, email accounts and FTP-users are unlimited. Server resources are restricted. For example, RAM volume limit varies from 460 Mb to 2Gb depending on the package. You can find this information in the detailed description of the the plans. VPS and Dedicated servers have their usual disk space, number of CPU cores and RAM limits. Also, the company provides 100Mbps port with unlimited bandwidth for these plans.

Security

For Shared hosting packages the company provides anti-DDoS protection, application firewall, anti-spam tool (SpamAssassin) and a few antiviruses: ClamAV, Virusdie and Madlet. As for VPS and Dedicated servers, server security is under your own responsibility. The company only offers paid anti-DDoS protection that is quite expensive (starting from $75/mo).

OS

Shared hosting servers run on CloudLinux. Debian, CentOS and Ubuntu can be installed on Linux VPS; Windows Server 2008/2012, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, FreeBSD - on Windows VPS. As for Dedicated server, it’s possible to install Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 or any other OS, if you have the image of it.

Support

ProHoster provides ticket, chat and email support. They work every day from 9am till 7pm Ukrainian time. The representatives are quick and helpful but not proactive. Also, it is possible to purchase additional technical support for VPS and Dedicated servers at $10/hr. The representatives are able to help with all kinds of queries regarding server management and maintenance. The knowledge base is not big, covers only basic topics.

Conclusion

The company provides a variety of Shared and VPS hosting packages. Shared servers are extremely secure. VPS servers quality-price ratio is excellent. Moreover, ProHoster has a very qualified support team. On the other hand, Dedicated servers are rather outdated. Also, servers security is under your responsibility for both VPS and Dedicated servers. Due to this, Shared hosting is suitable for both beginners and proficient users. However, we would recommend VPS and Dedicated servers mostly to professionals as server management requires some knowledge and experience.