KnownHost : High Performance Hosting for Your Business

 If you are new in Web Development or searching for good shared hosting then you can use KnownHost. In this article, I will introduce you to the KnownHost review.

Where you will get a detailed introduction about the KnownHost and their services. KnownHost is an American based hosting company which is working since 2005.

It has private ownership and has become a great brand in the list of hosting providers list with having customers in 150 countries worldwide. If you are a person who counts quality and do not care about the cost then you should check KnownHost.

KnownHost is providing high performing VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and Dedicated servers, with the guarantee of fast performance, fast connection speed, high availability and plenty of storage. 

 Plans and pricing

Although KnownHost is best known for its managed hosting services, other options are not far behind when it comes to quality, reliability and budget-friendly pricing. These options include shared, reseller, VPS, WordPress, managed (and unmanaged) cloud hosting, dedicated servers and additional cloud services. All of these solutions have enough different-sized plans to fit most needs and offer flexible billing cycles where you can choose whether you want to be billed on a monthly, semi-annual, annual or triennial basis.

The simplest shared hosting plan starts at $3.47 (originally $8.95) for a month and will support up to one domain, five e-mail accounts and two MySQL databases. In addition, this package includes 5GB of storage on cloud, unmetered bandwidth, an SSL certificate (and you’ll get one with each domain with KnownHost) and (optionally) the Patchman (a malware “killer”).

With all of its hosting plans KnownHost will offer you an “unconditional” 30-day money-back guarantee, which is nowadays a must-have for all providers that want to keep up with the industry standards.

Payment methods that KnownHost accepts are rather regular fare: credit cards and PayPal.

Ease of use

There are a few things one should know before deciding to go with one of KnownHost’s solutions, so let’s start with the good ones. If you already have a website, KnownHost will migrate it to their server charge-free. If this is your first website, there are no additional (or hidden) setup fees and it should be up & running in a flash. However, if you were specifically looking for a Windows hosting, you’ll have to look elsewhere, since all of KnownHost’s hosting solutions are Linux-based.

If you are not certain which hosting plan is perfect for you, don’t hesitate to get in touch with KnownHost‘s support team since they are more than willing to lend a hand. When you select a hosting type, you’ll be presented with a few various-sized plans with their most prominent traits highlighted. If you scroll further down you’ll see all of their features, as well as additional information about performance, control panel, security, supported applications and more.

After choosing a plan, you’ll be prompted to create your account with KnownHost and provide quite a bit of personal information (you can even add a fax number – remember those?), choose a billing cycle, payment method, set a password and proceed to a checkout. In addition, you can include a few add-ons (such as premium backups) for an extra cash and decide if you want to be a part of KnownHost’s mailing list.
When they promised an instant setup, they weren’t exaggerating and since cPanel is one of their key features, creating your new website should be as painless as possible. If for whatever reason you’re not sure about the cPanel, KnownHost supports WHM and DirectAdmin, so there is a choice. Popular one-click installer Softaculous is included, so all well-liked apps will be at your disposal in a flash, WordPress included.

Speed and experience

Considering that KnownHost promises an “ultra-high performance”, we have been compelled to check what GTmetrix had to say about that. After performing this test on KnownHost’s main website we were blown away with the results. The page loaded completely in 1.5 seconds, which is just a fragment of the average result of 8.1. At the same time, it took 52 requests, which looks rather good compared to the average of 98. In conclusion, GTmetrix rated the speed performance of KnownHost’s main website with an A (99%), which is one of the best results so far.

KnownHost promises all of its users an “unparalleled” uptime of 99.99% and (according to UptimeRobot) it delivers on that promise. During the monitoring period of one month our tool failed to capture a single moment of downtime. Although there were a number of oscillations in response time, these were not the reason for concern.

Support

KnownHost takes pride in having completely on-shore customer support. This implies they were not ready to compromise the quality of their support for the sake of saving money by outsourcing it to the countries where the cost of labor is cheaper. Their “outstanding” support team is always on duty, which means it’s available 24/7/365. There are several ways to contact them and they include e-mail, ticket and live chat.
As for self-help options, they include a knowledgebase (labeled as “KnownHost Public Wiki”) and a community forum, which is something we don’t see often enough. The knowledgebase is packed with a variety of articles and pretty well organized. The guides among the numerous articles are sorted by the level of difficulty to help users find those which are best suited for them and their needs.

The support forum provides additional information on hosting-related topics and most questions are answered either by other users or by the members of KnownHost’s support team.