Chemicloud is a relatively new web hosting company established in 2016. BORING.
There are literally hundreds of new web hosting companies popping up every week there are
hundreds of already existing web hosting companies so why choose Chemicloud? Well,
out of curiosity I've been using their services on and off now for several months and I've summarized
the top 5 things that really stuck out for me. Chemicloud will pay for your website name out of
their own pocket each year if you host with them. Obviously, this sounded way too good to be true
so I've decided to contact their support team and ask about if there are any hidden fees and
no. The support agent explained that 1 domain with every plan is free for a lifetime,
no catch. This saves you around $10 to $15 per year or a very significant
singular dollar per month. Chemicloud has all of the necessary hardware to make your website fast
and they even advertise it on their site. You get lightspeed servers php 8.0 and a cloudflare CDN.
For some reason, they're hiding these features
inside their control panel. They don't want anyone to know about them.
While there is a one-click WordPress installer it installs a completely fresh and empty WordPress
instance, if you want to take advantage of the extra features you'll need to go into your cPanel
and activate lightspeed cache then change the PHP version to 8.0 yourself. And here's the difference
between my website with these features off and on it's literally a 2 times increase in speed. So,
if you plan to use Chemicloud activate all of your free stuff that's given to you or even better yet,
Chemicloud activate these features for people automatically. So, the thing is that Chemicloud
actually offers a lot of bang for your buck. Well at least on paper... The cheapest plan the
starter one for $3.95 a month gives you 1 CPU core and 1 gigabyte of RAM with an 150 000 inode limit.
This is enough to handle around 140 website visitors at the same time or around 100 000
visitors in a month. So, if your website is significantly smaller than these numbers
sorry to say but Chemicloud wouldn't be a good fit for you because you would be paying
for resources you're not even using. Basically, bye-bye money! If you only want a small website
check out Hostinger, they have plans for around $1 a month and they're perfect for small sites
that get up to 10 000 visitors per month. I have a coupon code for both Chemicloud and Hostinger
that I'll leave in the description down below. Chemicloud is promising to keep your website
online 99.99% of the time this means that they promise your website won't be offline
for more than 4 minutes and 20 seconds a month 4 20. if for some reason drunk raccoons break into
their server room and 1 of them just accidentally unplugs all of these servers resulting in your
website being offline, chemicloud will give you 1 free month of hosting and an additional 1 month
for every 4 minutes of downtime after that. However, I tried to confirm if this is true by
monitoring my website using an independent monitoring program my site actually did
go below 99.99%, but chemicloud wouldn't accept this because in the end they still
use their official server logs to determine downtime. Which makes sense actually. So,
to not get cheated make sure to always visit their official server reports to see active incidents
schedule downtime and past incidents if you're using chemicloud monitor this often! I've actually
contacted their support like 5 times over the past month and I've gotten a response within
less than 1 minute every single time. My questions were answered accurately and problems were solved
efficiently. The thing is that this is by far the best support I've experienced
all year both in response time, willingness to help and just the response accuracy alone.
But as it stands i feel like chemicloud is a great hosting company being held back by their pricing.
It's just a bit too high to recommend easily since you have to commit for at least 3 years to get a
good price with them. From what I've experienced and the price to performance ratio they're best
fitted for medium sized projects and for people who will need to contact the support quite often.
But if you're looking for best cheap web hosting providers make sure to watch this video next!