winhost Reviews & Product Details

Winhost is a web hosting service offering various options at competitive prices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface has a somewhat outdated design. Developers should work on developing a better design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many things to like. The cost, it is very affordable. The fact that you can connect to your websites using IIS Manager is great, and they keep the servers up to date with the current versions of SQL Server and ASP.NET.

Whenever I opened a support ticket, I would get a real reply (not an automated one) in 30 minutes or less and they are very responsive.

Finally, the technical documentation/FAQ section they have is very complete.

I've used them for about five years and very happy with them. I've always used the Max plan which is super affordable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Publishing using WebDeploy from Visual Studio can be something between a hassle, nightmare or total web server breakdown. Stay away from webdeploy with this hosting provider, seriously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy setup, easy to use interface, very good pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not very easy to upscale in case of growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I been using their service for more than 2 years. So far very reliable and stable, no issues at all. For my project that are mainly .net based sites, this is good place to host them, either for testing purposes, or live systems (web sites);

A big list of features, and they are focused only on Windows Hosting / .NET.

Microsoft IIS Manager tool can be used to administer your sites. Also you can publish your site directly from Visual Studio.

Allows multiple Application Starting Points. (but if you abuse it, the performance will go down).

Winhost provides both Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012 and MYSQL under the same account, no extra cost, and the Database space is reasonable.

Latest Microsoft servers versions, and .NET framework, ASPX, MVC. PHP also included.

The control panel is easy to use, Includes email service and an administration web site.

App installer for popular applications: DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Moodle and others.

Payment options, goes from Monthly, Quarterly and 1 year and 2 year.

The knowledge base has a good deal of technical notes that will help you with any general configuration questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The email global quota is small and needs to be divided among all email accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.