Independent since 2002
Ahosting has been privately owned since the first server went in, which is unusual in an industry where most brands now answer to the same three parent companies. It means nobody upstream sets our renewal prices, and it is why the price you sign up at is the price you renew at.
Everything below is checkable. Where we could not verify a number, we left it out rather than round it up.
The company
Ahosting started in 2002 with a single server and the belief that a small site deserves the same uptime as a large one. We never took outside money and we never sold, so the company has stayed the size where the person answering your ticket can also change the server configuration that caused it.
Our machines live in a Tier III carrier-dense facility in Detroit, Michigan, with 16 MW of utility power, 10 MW of generators carrying 48 hours of fuel on site, and 22 carriers in the building. We publish that facility's actual specification rather than a summary of it, because a number that matters to your compliance team should be one you can check.
The stack is deliberately unexciting: cPanel and WHM, LiteSpeed with LSCache, CloudLinux for account isolation, daily offsite backups. None of it is proprietary, so if you ever leave, everything you learned here still applies somewhere else.
Most hosts fund the advertised first year with the second one. We do not, and being independent is the reason we can afford not to. WP Bronze is $2.79 a month and it is $2.79 a month at renewal.
2002
Founded, and independent ever since
99.9%
Uptime commitment in the SLA
24/7
Helpdesk staffed by people
30 days
Money-back period on hosting plans
Who runs it
Founders, 24 years in web hosting
Adnan and Erkan started Ahosting in 2002 on one server and one idea: that a website should not be slow or offline because its owner picked the cheap plan. Two decades later they still set the technical direction, still review the hardware before it is racked, and still read the tickets that come in overnight.
Their background is cPanel and WHM environments, server infrastructure and web performance work, which is why the decisions here tend to favour the boring, portable choice over the fashionable one. The free dedicated IP on every plan, the move to LiteSpeed, and the decision not to raise prices at renewal were all theirs.
What is different here
Not a feature list. Six places where we chose the more expensive option and kept it in the base price.
Every shared and WordPress plan includes a dedicated IP address at no extra cost. It gives the site a stable address that is not shared with unrelated accounts, and it is what makes private nameservers and IP allowlisting possible. Most hosts at this price sell it as an add-on or not at all.
We run LiteSpeed Web Server with LSCache rather than Apache. In our own WooCommerce lab test, enabling LSCache cut empty-cart response time by 6.9 times. That is a figure we measured on our own stack, not one we took from a vendor slide.
We use cPanel and WHM, the panel most hosts, most tutorials and most developers already assume. A custom panel locks your experience to one supplier. If you outgrow us or simply want to leave, what you learned here still works.
Transcoding needs root, custom binaries and CPU that is not throttled, which is why shared hosting cannot do it anywhere, ours included. We sell FFmpeg hosting as a VPS with root access and uncapped cores, and a dedicated server when one virtual machine stops being enough.
Our team moves the site: files, databases and email accounts, with 95% of migrations completed in under twenty minutes and nothing to pay for it. There is no plugin to install and no maintenance window for you to schedule.
The introductory price is the renewal price. No promotional first term, no increase on the second invoice, no setup fee appearing at checkout. It is the single decision customers tell us they notice most, usually in year two.
What we sell
Every price below is read live from our billing system, so the number on this page is the number on the order form.
LiteSpeed with LSCache, staging on every plan, automatic updates and a dedicated IP.
General cPanel hosting for sites that are not WordPress, with the same stack underneath.
Tuned so cart and checkout stay dynamic while catalogue pages are cached.
Full root access, your choice of operating system, provisioned in minutes.
Bare metal in the Detroit facility, handed over with root access.
Registration, transfers and certificates, at the price we pay plus a margin we do not hide.
Since 2002
A free dedicated IP, LiteSpeed with LSCache, cPanel, daily offsite backups, staging on every plan and a migration our team runs for you. Signed up at $2.79 a month, renewed at $2.79 a month.
36-month term. Renews at $2.79/mo, no increase and no setup fee.