Tsohost Review
Bottom Line
A scalable, affordable hosting solution designed to bring a spread of features to businesses of any size
Executive Summary
Tsohost has secured its place as an affordable website hosting provider offering feature-packed plans that fit every budget. With 24/7 support and state-of-the-art technology, the available plans make it easy for anyone, and any business, to get a site online fast.
Best For
Budget-conscious business owners that need a scalable solution to grow with their needs.
Tsohost Highlights
99.98% average uptime
Fast page load time for website content
Extended benefits even on basic plans
Pros
60-day money back guarantee
1-click app installation (WordPress, Drupal, Zencart and more)
Free daily backups for all service plans
Up to 100GB of storage and up to 1,000GB of bandwidth
Cons
No hybrid hosting for the most basic plan
Unlimited POP3 mailboxes only at the Ultimate plan
Limited phone support hours not ideal for international/traveling clients
Ease of Use
Tsohost offer a relatively quick and painless signup process that begins with choosing one of its cloud hosting plans. With multiple payment options including credit card and PayPal, signup goes quickly. After gaining access to your account you’ll be able to log into your cPanel dashboard. This is the interface you’ll use to administer your hosting account.
cPanel is a very popular backend for managing hosting accounts, with an intuitive and simple to use interface that is easy to navigate. Even if you’re not familiar with web hosting and this is your first time in cPanel, the icons and labeling make it easy to find where you need to go with minimal guidance. If you do find yourself stuck, there’s help content within cPanel to guide you.
Everything you need to manage your website can be found in cPanel. With an extensive selection of applications, you can use the one-click install option to rapidly deploy apps like WordPress, making it easy to get a site up and running in just hours.
Return on Investment
The problem with a lot of hosting companies is the packages offered tend to provide just a taste of the features actually available. To get better features you need to upgrade to the highest tiers. That approach isn’t really attractive to small businesses, hobby website owners, and those looking for affordable website hosting.
This is an area where Tsohost excels. The plans – even the most inexpensive and basic plans – come with free daily backups which is a huge benefit. Couple this with the one click hosting, POP3 mail accounts, MySQL databases and even multisite hosting and you get quite a bit more for your money than you do with typical hosting companies.
For example, it’s not uncommon for shared hosting companies to offer just 1 MySQL database and just one site on a hosting account. The most basic account from Tsohost offers multisite hosting and up to 3 MySQL databases.
Customer Support
Customer support is an area where Tsohost wins considerable favor for UK and local clients. Their customer service is available on all major channels – including phone, email, social media a network ticket system customers can use.
Company customer support responds quickly, regardless of the medium you choose to reach them, and their team is available 24/7 – but not on all channels. This is where the support comes up a little shy. Telephone support is only available from 7am to midnight GMT. That’s a wide selection of hours for local customers, but if you’re an international customer or traveling through other time zones, you could have trouble reaching their support team.
On the upside, Tsohost has released added an expansive knowledge base to help customers troubleshoot issues and help them find solutions much faster.
Scalability
Even though most features are available in virtually each of the four shared hosting plans, there’s still a great deal of scalability. For smaller businesses or those who are not yet experiencing high traffic volumes, the basic hosting packages are more than sufficient.
As traffic load increases, and you develop a need for more bandwidth, more space, more email addresses and such, you can one-click upgrade your account for additional coverage in a flash. This keeps your business and website operating smoothly without interruption, with nearly unlimited scalability. If you hit a point where even the Ultimate shared hosting plan doesn’t offer enough storage or bandwidth, Tsohost also offers dedicated hosting services that are more ideally suited for enterprise level clients.
Lite – 14.99/year
Standard - 2.99/mo
Professional – 4.99/mo
Ultimate – 19.99/mo
Features
Tsohost offer an impressive feature list spanning each of its plans, giving you all the support and tools you need to create and manage a professional website.
This includes:
Multi-site hosting on a single hosting package
Friendly support available 24/7
1-click app installation
UK based data center with state-of-the-art technology
Free site migration
Multiple MySQL databases to support all the popular programming languages
POP3 email support so you can get emails@yourdomain
Easy file access either through an FTP client or through cPanel’s file management system
There are also a host of advanced features for those who like to handle things directly like changing PHP versions, editing crontab, setting autoresponders and more – all that is available through the intuitive cPanel and direct access.
Conclusion
Tsohost is an impressively scalable solution that’s highly affordable, making it a top choice in shared cloud hosting for startups, hobby websites, and small to medium businesses. The feature set is great, and it’s nice to see a popular backend in place like cPanel that’s easy to use – even for novices.
Tsohost has a couple negative marks against it with limited phone support hours, and no free domain on certain pricing plans, but those can be let go when you consider that Tsohost has crafted a service that will continue to grow with you, your site, and your traffic.
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As traffic load increases, and you develop a need for more bandwidth, more space, more email addresses and such, you can one-click upgrade your account for additional coverage in a flash.
About Partner Name
Short bio
Industry: Web hosting
Founded: 2003
Founder: Darren Lingham, Adam Smith
Geos: UK/Global
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