Customizable Options.
Basic
Web Hosting
Starting at
$6.71/mo
Renews at
8.95/mo
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Website
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Core
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Memory Limit
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NVMe Storage
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Email Accounts
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MySQL Databases
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Premium Bandwidth
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Included
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cPanel Included
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Certificates
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Optional
Standard
Web Hosting
Starting at
$9.71/mo
Renews at
12.95/mo
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Websites
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Core
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Memory Limit
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NVMe Storage
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Email Accounts
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MySQL Databases
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Premium Bandwidth
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Included
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cPanel Included
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Certificates
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Optional
Professional
Web Hosting
Starting at
$14.96/mo
Renews at
19.95/mo
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Websites
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Cores
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Memory Limit
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NVMe Storage
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Email Accounts
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MySQL Databases
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Premium Bandwidth
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Included
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cPanel Included
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Certificates
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Included
Premium
Web Hosting
Starting at
$29.96/mo
Renews at
39.95/mo
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Websites
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Cores
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Memory Limit
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NVMe Storage
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Email Accounts
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MySQL Databases
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Premium Bandwidth
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Included
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cPanel Included
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Dedicated IPv4 Included
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Certificates
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Included
* Based on 3 year commitment
20+ Years of Trusted Hosting
KnownHost has been delivering consistently praised hosting solutions for over 15 years. Backed by glowing customer reviews and a reputation for unmatched support, we’re the trusted choice for businesses that demand reliability.
Just The Basics.
GNU social application hosting needs more than speed and dependability to be great, which is why we’re including dozens of features FREE where other hosts would charge extra.
Great Speeds- Best Uptime
- Top Security
- Full Management
- Free SSL Certs!
- Free cPanel!
- Free Softaculous!
The More Technical Stuff.
USA Management
Our 100% fully managed hosting plans have entire teams of USA-based technical staff dedicated, 24x7x365, to making sure all matters relating to your hosting environment are working as intended.
DDoS Protection
The security team has worked overtime in creating a layer of protection, stopping your website from receiving automated DDoS attacks by those hordes of zombie computers that plague other hosts.
cPanel
We’ve got cPanel included in your hosting account, free of charge, so that you can administer all the day to day matters of your hosting, email, databases and files, quickly and without frustration.
Backup
Backing up your GNU social account is automatic. Our system makes 3 snapshots, 1 weekly and 2 daily, allowing you to restore to an earlier point in time with just a few quick clicks.
SSL Certs
Protecting your server and your visitors is ideal. That’s why we’re bundling free SSL certificates with your GNU social hosting account. Communication gets encrypted, protecting requests to/from your hosting.
Setup
Instant setup is a reality, with the entire hosting account set up, ready to go, backups running fully automated, cPanel configured, DDoS protection in place – all instantly, following your hosting order.
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Domain
Point of address used to access your website within a preferred browser.
CPU Core
Memory Limit
Cloud Storage
Email Accounts
The number of email accounts you can create for your account either POP3 or IMAP.
MySQL Databases
Using MariaDB tuned for performance, KnownHost ensures database optimization.
Premium Bandwidth
Information transferred from your account to visiting users.
Inode Limit
Number of individual files that can exist within a single cPanel account.
Free SSL
Get covered with 90 day renewable certificates provided by Let's Encrypt.
Dedicated IPv4
PatchMan
Premium service to automatically patch known vulnerabilities found in your software.
AMD EPYC CPU's
We use AMD EPYC CPU's to provide an exceptionally fast experience.
NVMe Backend
Built on a specifically designed architecture, we utilize the best to ensure performance.
24/7/365 Support
Support available at all times, whenever you need it, wherever you are.
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Ultimate Performance
Using only the best hardware, optimized for performance. We know hosting.
Free Migrations
Providing free migrations from supported panels, let us handle it for you.
White Label
Instant Setup
LiteSpeed
Drop-in replacement for Apache. Proven better performance over Apache and NGINX.
HTTP/2
Protocol built to ensure faster response by allowing connections to send/receive multiple requests.
QUIC-HTTP/3
Succesor to HTTP/2, HTTP/3 provides even much faster response over HTTP/2 connections.
Isolated Resources
KnownHost provices specific configurations for each package, guaranteeing your account resources.
Zend OpCache
Dramatically increases performance of wbesites that utilize PHP and are compatible with OpCache.
Optimized By Professionals
KnownHost servers are built with performance in mind. Only the best performing servers for our customers.
Quic.Cloud CDN
Cloudflare
Object Caching
cPanel
Premium favored control panel that allows ease of management for related webhosting features such as emails, domains, ftp, etc.
Integrated File Manager
Panel provided file manager to allow access and control over user files and folders.
Multiple Languages
Panel supported language pack for use of customers all over the world.
DNS Management
Panel provided DNS editor to handle A, TXT, CNAME and other types of records.
Imunify360
All inclusive protection that monitors, scans and actively performs actions to secure accounts. Protection from malware, viruses, sql injections and more.
CloudLinux Isolation
Account isolation with guaranteed resources. What you buy is yours, experience no issues as a result of noisy neighbors.
WP Brute Force Protection
Provided by Litespeed to protect accounts from wp-login targeted attacks.
Security Team
DDoS Protection
Complimentary protection. KnownHost's network is protected up to 1Tbps.
SFTP & FTPS Access
Secure FTP connections over SSH or TLS.
WP-CLI
Command line interface for managing WordPress installations.
phpMyAdmin
Interface for MySQL Databases. Providing the ability to import, export or make adjustments as required.
Python CLI
Command line interface for executing scripts within your user space.
MariaDB
Seamless Package Changes
Managed Services
Automatic Updates
Security Patches
Optimized Servers
Redundant Network
Redundant A/B power
99.995% Uptime Hosting
Balanced Servers
WebMail Choices
RoundCube
Secure POP3
IMAP
SMTP
Autoresponders
SpamFilter Control
Ability to fine-tune your spam settings to handle how it scores incoming emails.
Global Filters
Filtering control that applies to all emails associated with the account instead of just one.
Free Backups
Complimentary redundant backup schedule, all handled by KnownHost.
Softaculous
All in one installer that allows for one-click installation of many popular scripts and software.
Expert Staff
Available 24/7/365, assistance when you need it for whatever you may need!
Webalizer
Vulnerability Stats
Raw Access Logs
Direct logging in which shows user IP, refferer, and useragent associated with the visit.
SSH Access
Integrated Git Versions Control
Available PHP Versions
* Based on 3 year commitment
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Need More Information About
GNU Web Hosting?
The backup system included with GNU social hosting accounts is fully automated and 100% preconfigured based on a daily cycle. You’ll have access to 2 daily and 1 weekly backup, all stored off-server for added security. The backup system is setup before you ever login the first time. If you need more, just shout and we can get you additional backups.
After sign-up, you’ll get 30 days to decide if you’re satisfied. Our 100% guarantee covers you, so that you’ll get money back if you don’t want to stick around beyond the 30 days.
Your hosting account is under your control, and as such you can install more than just GNU social. Whether you use Softaculous or not, you’ll be able to install multiple applications on your account, limited only by the available resources set out by your plan. Want more? We can upgrade you, no problem.