Shared hosting plans and packages

What does Hostens brand stand for?

Hostens is a leading European hosting provider based in Lithuania. Оur cheap web hosting puts the focus on individuals and small business owners. Hostens aims to provide high-quality shared hosting packages without any hidden conditions for the best price on the market.

We strive to be different from other shared hosting providers. We do not mislead our customers with catchy phrases and big promises that we can't keep. While "unlimited shared hosting bandwidth" does look amazing, it is just as impossible. The truth is that it's hard to find anything "unlimited" in technology, let alone cheap shared hosting plans.

While many customers skip reading the Terms & Conditions, they fall for the offers they receive, despite the clauses. If customers overuse the resources supplied by the hosting providers, their sites will most likely be shut down without any prior warning. So clients end up paying way more for shared web hosting services than they have planned, leading to a bad experience.

At Hostens, it's our primary goal to deliver exceptionally affordable web hosting service, without tricking our customers. All of our hosting plans include features that our clients will receive.

Our plans have fixed prices and won't force you to pay more for your hosting services, whether we talk about VPS hosting or shared hosting. Unlike some hosting providers, Hostens won't charge 3-4 times the price when you have to renew your plan. In fact, your renewal hosting plan price will not change.

On top of the high-quality hosting services, we aim to provide the best possible customer support. At Hostens, we answer any type of questions concerning your web hosting, and we can help you find the best shared web hosting plan. We will also assist you with more technical subjects.

What is shared hosting?

Shared web hosting, often referred to as web hosting, is one of the most common ways to host your website. It is the most economical option as the overall costs of server maintenance are shared among several customers.

Shared hosting allows several websites to use one physical server by sharing its storage, computing power, network, and other resources. It means that many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet.

The main advantages of shared hosting are:

- Its price. Shared web hosting is by far the most affordable way to host a website. The price of Hostens shared hosting starts at $0.90 per month.

- Its flexibility. You are welcome to choose from plenty of shared hosting packages, depending on your needs. If you host a small website that does not have such high a traffic, and 20 GB disk space is enough for you, the smallest shared hosting package costs less than 1 dollar per month. Also, you are able to upgrade (or downgrade) your service anytime.

- Its ease of use. Hostens shared web hosting package comes with an easy-to-use cPanel control panel included. cPanel is one of the most popular and trusted web hosting control panels. It is a perfect tool for setting up blogs, e-commerce sites, and any other business or personal websites. cPanel with Installatron (Website builder) offers an easy, one-click installation of almost 200 most popular blogging platforms, content management or some other web applications, such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop, phpBB, and more.

The cPanel control panel includes such features as file management, database/domain administration, email accounts management, statistics, and analytics.
- Its worry-free maintenance. As technical maintenance is already included in your shared hosting package, no specific knowledge is required. Hostens is going to take care of all the maintenance issues. Furthermore, technical customer support is always ready to consult you and answer all your questions, which is not so common in the virtual private server (VPS) service. The shared hosting provider is the one responsible for servers’ management, software updates, security issues, and technical support. It means that the customers get a ready-to-use service and do not need to worry about technical issues anymore.

However, shared hosting has some limitations. Usually it has less functionalities and customization options compared with VPS hosting. Also, because server is shared among several users, a suddenly increased traffic to your website can cause serious performance issues.

When do I need shared hosting?

Just like our slogan says, web hosting is a home for your website. It means that you cannot have your blog, e-shop, photography portfolio, or another kind of website live on the Internet without shared hosting. This means you definitely need to use shared hosting services in order to build a website for your business or hobbies.

Furthermore, shared hosting is usually used in order to have an email account. As email has become the primary communication tool at work and in personal life, there is a huge need to have an email account with your custom domain (for example, [email protected]). This service is a premium one and differs from popular free webmail sites such as Google or Yahoo, because it provides an ad-free email hosting.

Using even the smallest shared hosting package here at Hostens, you can get as many as 100 email accounts.

Should I use shared hosting or VPS hosting?

When it comes to deciding on the type of hosting services - whether it is shared hosting or VPS, you have to answer the main question – what is the purpose of my website? If you have a small website and expect up to 500 visitors per day, and there is no need for customized solutions, shared hosting may suit you.

However, sharing a server can limit your site’s performance when traffic level goes up. This is why, if you are more sensitive regarding resources’ sharing, you should think about VPS hosting, where much fewer users use the same resources.

VPS hosting is a technically superior solution in almost every way. That is why VPS hosting is usually needed when there is a need to have your own set of services and customizable disk space.

Also, please keep in mind that VPS hosting is usually recommended only to experienced developers and sysadmins, as it is a self-managed service. It means you should have a strong technical background or a pro server admin in your team.

Finally, if your website is expecting a substantial increase in traffic within a few months, you can always move on to VPS hosting.

Are shared hosting plans you offer good for Wordpress or ecommerce?

Absolutely Yes.
Our shared server hosting solutions are the right fit for for beginners who want to install Wordpress on their own. You will find Installatron in Control panel, that can do all the job for you. You will have to upload your favorite theme and fire up your website for 27/7 online presence.
You can host you custom made Ecommerce website or chose from the world favorite CMS’s: WooCommerce, Joomla, Drupal and many others.

Do you offer 24/7 support?

We are pround to introduce a global 24/7 customer support service available online anytime.
All customers will be assisted with web hosting account management, pre-sale questions, domain registration, transfer, and other similar queries round the clock.

Which monthly shared hosting plan should I choose?

We do our best to offer affordable web hosting packages to our clients. If you choose any plan you will be guaranteed the best value for that given price.
Start from the smallest S10 package. If you see that you need more recourses, you would easily upgrade it to the higher one.

If you have other factors that can influence your decision check details of the packages that we offer or look up our offers for VPS servers.

Why should I use Hostens hosting service?

As there are plenty of shared hosting providers out there, choosing a reliable one can be tough. We want to help you, so here we have listed a few major reasons why you should choose us:

- Our experience. Hostens is a part of the leading web hosting provider in Lithuania, named ‘Interneto Vizija’, which successfully serves more than 100 000 customers. The company was founded in 2003, and only 2 years later became the largest web hosting provider in Lithuania.

- Data center. Hostens runs TIER III data center located in the geographic midpoint of Europe – the Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Our data center is also the largest one in the region.

The data center infrastructure
● Location: Lithuania, Vilnius
● Built according to TIER III standard
● 2 independent 2 MW power inlets
● 3 x 664 kW diesel generators
● 4 x 275 kW uninterruptible power supplies
● 6 x 146 kW “freecooling” cooling system
● 2 independent optical communication inputs
● 140 server racks
● Redundant power and internet connection for each rack

- Customers’ trust. We are a well-reputed shared hosting company with many favorable reviews on such platforms as HostAdvice.com, Trustpilot, Shopper Approved, and others. Feel free to check them out!

- Location. Talking about web hosting business, servers’ location really matters. . Having your website hosted on the continent where your customers are based makes your services more reliable and efficient.

We run our own data center in Vilnius, Lithuania, at the crossroads of East and West and the geographical heart of Europe, in addition, we offer two more locations around the globe: Washington DC, USA, and Singapore, Asia.

Do you have any advice on how I can create a website without any technical skills?

Look no futher. Within one hour you can create a website like a pro. You do not need any technical or programming experience to build an excellent website for your portfolio, e-commerce or business representation. Try out this website builder with no registration: https://www.hostens.com/website-builder/
Keep the website you created on Hostens hosting and get more visitors from all over the world!
The website builder is totally free of charge and is included in all web hosting packages.

Hamster is glad to offer all that a small business, an artist or a craftsman may need. You can have a free domain and a free website-builder for the start of your project without any effort in mere minutes.
Select a yearly billing cycle of web hosting package and get the following domains free of charge:
.online
.site
.store
.tech
.website

Can I get a discount on domain names?

You will be surprised - Hostens offers five domains free of charge! Select any of our web hosting packages with a yearly billing cycle and get any of these domains totally free of charge for the first year:
.online
.store

Why do I need a domain name?

They say that nowadays if you are not online, you don’t exist. A domain name helps you create your own unique online identity that nobody else has. Getting a domain name allows you to maintain your uniqueness, because once you will get a domain name, nobody else will be able to register the same name as yours. Make it easier for people to find you instantly.

Do you offer money-back guarantee?

We're so confident that you will like our services therefore we offer 30 days money-back guarantee for all our web hosting services.