HostV VPS Hosting Review

HostV VPS Hosting - Editor's Review

HostV was founded in 2007 by Cirtex Hosting as a new division for providing premium VPS hosting, hybrid servers, and dedicated server solutions. The staff behind HostV have been in the hosting industry for over 7 years and are a trusted name for Virtual Private Servers service.

HostV offers their VPS hosting as managed VPS or unmanaged VPS depending on your skill level. Their most popular VPS hosting package is their VZ1 managed VPS server that offers 50GB disk space, unmetered bandwidth, 512MB RAM, for a competitive price. Please see our HostV VPS hosting plans page for specific plan details.

HostV managed VPS plans come with cPanel VPS as the control panel option. HostV unmanaged VPS plans come with Virtuozzo only.

All HostV customers enjoy their 24/7 support via live chat and helpdesk, 99.9% Uptime Guarantee and a 30-Day money back guarantee! HostV vows to stay online, stay current, be professional, to support you, and listen to their customers. This is part of their publicly posted guarantee they have on their site.

HostV VPS Hosting - Price Value Review

Note: VPS Host Reviews only considers the monthly rate for HostV VPS pricing comparison and rating since the majority of VPS customers prefer to pay monthly.

Although HostV is priced very competitively for their VPS hosting and dedicated servers. When VPS Host Reviews compares HostV to the rest of the VPS competition for managed VPS hosting, HostV is priced as one of the lowest in the industry. For unmanaged VPS, they are also priced right in line with the lowest prices we've seen.

HostV VPS Hosting - Reliability Review

HostV has an active presence on several web hosting forums and actively discusses any problems customers may run into with their web hosting. On top of that, we have found most of the complaints that were posted were resolved in a timely fashion.

Overall, HostV has kept up on their promise of active and responsible technical support.

HostV VPS Hosting - Customer Support Review

HostV was recently put to the test in March, 2010 when one of their VPS nodes, during routine maintenance, had a rare RAID card failure resulting in data corruption on all hard drives. They also experienced an issue with the data restore process and was forced to restore each account manually which is very time consuming.

Based on the threads we have read, we found HostV did the best they could do under the circumstances. Our only complaint was the fact that some customers were down for over a week during this rare event and were only offered a month of free service. But overall, we felt HostV handled the issue very professionally. It is always good to compare customer service when something catastrophic happens, we did, and they past the test.

• Toll-free 24/7 telephone support for sales, technical support, billing, and abuse.
• Skype 24/7 support
• Live chat
• Helpdesk email ticket system
• Limited frequently asked questions
• Extensive video tutorial library
• iPhone app and Android app for reaching HostV support while on the go
• Community forums

Overall, the editors at VPS Host Reviews rate HostV as excellent for customer support.