About HostCrafter
Twelve years of building WordPress sites, and then the hosting we kept wishing existed.
We spent twelve years building WordPress websites before we built any hosting — blogs, micro-niche sites, WooCommerce stores, online tools. In that time we paid for a lot of hosting, and the pattern was always the same: fast for a month, slow by the third, and a support reply that had clearly not read the message.
The reason was never a secret. Shared hosting is sold by the account and the marginal account is nearly free to sell, so the machine keeps filling until the complaints outweigh the revenue. Nobody is being dishonest. It is just what the incentive does.
HostCrafter is what happens if you decide not to. We cap how many websites go on a server and then stop selling it — and because we have no ad budget to pay for, the money that would have gone there buys the next machine instead.
What we chose to build
Our own panel
Rather than cPanel. It does what WordPress needs — install, staging, backups, mail, SSL, PHP version — and nothing it does not.
Our own node software
Every server runs an agent we wrote. Adding a server is one command, and every account on it is rebuilt to match the current rules each time it starts.
Our own limits, enforced by the kernel
Every plan's CPU, memory and disk are cgroup limits and a real quota on the filesystem — not a fair-use paragraph somebody reads out to you after your site has slowed down.
Where we are now
We are small, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. What that buys you is that the person answering your chat message is the person who built the thing you are asking about.
If you want to know something about how the platform works before you trust a site to it, ask. We will give you a straight answer, including when the answer is that we are not the right host for what you are doing.
Managed WordPress, without the guesswork
Pick a plan, or ask us first — we would rather talk you into the right one than sell you the big one.
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