Features and Pricing

Unlike most WordPress hosting providers, HostWinds doesn’t give you a selection of pre-configured plans. Instead, you start off with a basic hosting plan as your baseline, with the option to upgrade to basic business plans or purchase separate add-ons if you want better resources or additional features.

Limitless Space and Data Transfers at Baseline Prices

The advertised $3.50 a month gets you unlimited disk space and bandwidth, which is miles beyond what you’d usually get from other providers at that price point (or with any of their comparable plans). The lack of limits gives you more freedom to develop your site and grow your audience, though that’s undercut slightly by HostWinds’ insistence on limiting you to hosting one website per account. Even the available resource upgrade option, which bumps you up to Hostwinds’ Basic Business plan, still doesn’t let you host more than one domain on the same account. From what we’ve seen, there’s no option to purchase the ability to host more websites either, at least for HostWinds’ WordPress hosting program. If you’re looking to host more than one site, this is not the provider for you.

That said, HostWinds’ WordPress hosting runs on Litespeed servers, so aside from the sweet one-two punch of unlimited storage and bandwidth, you’ll also have the assurance that the one website you can have will at least have stellar loading times. If you’d like to go beyond Litespeed and use a content distribution network (CDN), though, tough luck: HostWinds makes no mention of including any such service with its plans, and there are no options to add one when you register.