Semi-dedicated Web Hosting with a 30-Day Free Trial

Our semi-dedicated web hosting will meet the always increasing web server resource requirements of your traffic-hungry sites like corporate portals, online stores, forums, company blogs, etc. Don't worry yourself about pages loading slowly and many site downtimes caused by server overload issues.
Your semi-dedicated server is equipped with all the features usually limited to shared website hosting plan, such as a advanced Hosting Control Panel, a Web Apps Installer, a Website Installer, free website templates, just to mention some.

MORE RESOURCES, LESS SERVER ADMIN

Step up when shared hosting is too small but a full server is unnecessary.

Semi-dedicated hosting is the middle path for websites that need more room while keeping the convenience of a managed hosting environment.

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More headroom

Designed for workloads that have outgrown entry shared hosting.

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Hosting-style management

Keep the familiar hosting workflow instead of managing a full OS.

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Upgrade path

A useful step before VPS or dedicated infrastructure for the right workload.

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GUARANTEES
AI Coding Agent Feature The AI Coding Agent is an AI builder that lets you build new websites and apps or manage and improve existing ones.
Yes Yes
OpenClaw Feature OpenClaw is an AI agent that can be designed to automate and run digital tasks.
Yes Yes
1-hour Account Activation Feature Your semi-dedicated plan will be activated for you within 1 hour after signup. This is the maximum time period necessary for the proper configuration of your own Semi-dedicated Server.
Yes Yes
24/7 Customer Support Feature We provide your customers with general and pre-sale support via support tickets, email and phone and with 24/7 technical assistance via email and ticketing system.
Yes Yes
Published response-time SLA Feature We guarantee that technical tickets are handled within the published SLA; sales enquiries may take 12–24 hours.
Yes Yes
99.9 % Service Uptime Guarantee Feature With our services your semi-dedicated server will be guaranteed 99.9% of uptime and stability.
Yes Yes
30-Day Limited-Functionality Trial Feature Sign up for our 30-Day Limited-Functionality Trial to see what makes our hosting services special. No credit card required.
Yes Yes
Monthly Price
$37.00 /mo $27.00 /mo
BASIC FEATURES
Data Storage Feature Disk space is the amount of storage you receive when signing up for a web hosting account with us. It can be used for uploading any type of files – text documents, HTML documents, images, etc.
Unlimited Unlimited
Data Transfer Feature Monthly Traffic is the term used to describe the amount of data transferred and the number of visits made to a web site for a given period.
Unlimited Unlimited
CPU Core(s) Feature This is the maximum processing time that a semi-dedicated server account can utilize of the CPU of the whole server.
2 1
MySQL queries/h Feature This is the maximum number of MySQL queries that can be made through a semi-dedicated server account per hour.
130000 90000
Domain Name Registration / Transfer Feature Domain name registration is the process of obtaining a unique name for your website on the Internet. A newly registered domain is automatically tied to name servers, representing the IP address to which it should point.
Domain name transfer refers to a change of the domain registrar, while the domain owner stays the same. The process is also associated with a change of the domain name records to the new registrar`s.
Depends on domain Depends on domain
FREE FEATURES
No Set-up Fees Feature Our semi-dedicated packages do not include any set-up fees. You will be only required to cover the monthly service fee for the selected semi-dedicated server plan.
Yes Yes
Online Website Builder Feature With all of our shared hosting packages you will get a free online website builder that does not require any design skills or experience since it includes multiple templates and makes website creation a breeze.
Yes Yes
50+ Free Apps Installer Feature Our 1-click Application Installer is included with all our shared hosting packages and it gives you access to install over 50+ applications - you can have a blog, a forum or a shopping cart set up within minutes with just a few clicks and no technical skills.
Yes Yes
Free VPN Access Feature Access blocked websites or use country-restricted services by routing your Internet traffic through a secure connection using multiple access points around the world.
50 GB 50 GB
Marketing Tools Feature If you need help to get your website more popular, the easy-to-use marketing tools that are included with each package come to the rescue. You can submit your website to search engines as well as publish news and stories.
Yes Yes
Administration Tools Feature All the packages are provided with Hotlink protection, IP blocking, .htaccess generator and other tools which make advanced administration easy.
Yes Yes
Video Tutorials Feature Over 40 clips are available through different sections of the web hosting control panel so that you can start finding your way with ease.
Yes Yes
Online Documentation Feature After carefully studying the questions and difficulties our clients experience with the web hosting control panel and our services, we have compiled an extensive help section with lots of FAQs and tutorials that will help you along the way.
Yes Yes
CONTROL PANEL
GreatHosts CP Control Panel Feature The GreatHosts CP control panel is an control panel that is a result of hard work aimed at providing advanced functionality combined with easy-to-use and intuitive design.
View Demo View Demo
Multi-lingual Interface (multiple languages) Feature We have clients from all over the world and therefore the web hosting control panel is available in multiple languages and more are on the way to facilitate our international clients.
Yes Yes
Colour Skins Feature And to make working with our web hosting control panel even more pleasant you can choose the colour theme that suits you best.
Yes Yes
DOMAINS & SUBDOMAINS
Hosted Domains Feature You can host with us any top level domain name and this feature shows you how many domain names you can host with each of the shared web hosting packages.
Unlimited Unlimited
Subdomains Feature Subdomains, also known as child domains, are domains that are part of a larger domain. For example anything.my-best-domain.com is a subdomain of the domain name my-best-domain.com
Unlimited Unlimited
Parked Domains Feature When you register a domain name just to reserve it for future use, you can use the domain parking feature which allows you to point it to a temporary page (for example "Under Construction") or simply redirect the domain to another site.
Unlimited Unlimited
Full DNS Management Feature The web hosting control panel provides you complete access to manage all DNS records of your domain name like changing the A record to point to a different host or the MX records to choose a different mail server to handle your e-mails.
Yes Yes
Custom A and MX Records Feature The A record of the domain name specifies the IP address where the domain name resolves to while the MX records of the domain name specify the mail servers that handle the e-mail of the domain name.
Yes Yes
CNAME Records Feature The CNAME record of the domain name redirects the domain to another domain`s A record and therefore creating a CNAME record removes the A record of the domain.
Yes Yes
AAAA/SRV/NS/TXT Records Feature The advanced features of the web hosting control panel allow you to set up IPv6 related records such as the AAAA record which is used for mapping hostnames to IPv6 addresses. The SRV record (also known as Service record) is used for defining the location of servers for specified services - the hostname and the port number. The NS (Name Server) records of the domain name specify which server handles all the DNS records for this domain name. The SPF e-mail authentication system derives information from the TXT records of the domain name.
Yes Yes
Full Whois Management Feature We provide you complete access to manage the WHOIS record of the domain name as much as the registry allows you. There are specific restrictions for some of the TLDs and you should refer to the Domains page.
Yes Yes
Registrar Lock Option Feature This is a security feature available for some TLDs to prevent unwanted domain transfers and thus protect your domain name from theft.We grant you access to lock and unlock the domain names at will via the web hosting control panel.
Yes Yes
EPP Transfer Protection Feature Some TLDs require this specific EPP transfer authorization key to process domain transfers. This is used in addition or instead of the Registrar Lock for further protection. You can easily obtain the EPP key for your domain names via the web hosting control panel.
Yes Yes
ID Protection Feature We offer an additional service for all TLDs that support this feature to protect your personal data becoming public in the WHOIS record. That is the best way of protection against spammers and possible identity theft.
Optional Optional
E-MAIL SERVICES
Mailboxes (POP3/IMAP & SMTP) Feature The mailboxes you create with us support POP3, IMAP and SMTP protocols that allow you to use mail client applications such as Outlook and Thunderbird to access and manage your e-mail.
Unlimited Unlimited
Webmail Feature You can choose from the three webmail applications we offer to access and manage your e-mail from any computer in the world that is connected to the Internet without any setup or configuration.
Yes Yes
E-Mail Forwarding Feature This feature allows you to receive the same message in two or more e-mail addresses at the same time or simply redirect all incoming messages from one mailbox to another.
Yes Yes
Auto-responders Feature If you enable this feature for a specific e-mail account, an e-mail message with a pre-defined text written by you will be automatically sent as a reply to every e-mail that you receive.
Yes Yes
Catch-all e-mails Feature This feature allows you to collect any messages that have been sent to a mistyped e-mail address @yourdomain.com.
Yes Yes
Mailing Lists Feature The mailist list allows you to send the same message to multiple recipients (that have subscribed to the list) at the same time.
Unlimited Unlimited
Mailing List Members Feature This feature shows you how many people can be subscribed to the same list.
Unlimited Unlimited
Anti-spam Protection Feature This e-mail feature protects you from receiving unwanted e-mail messages. If the advanced features are properly adjusted, SpamAssassin will filter up to 99% of the spam.
Yes Yes
SPF Protection Feature The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) prevents forging of the "FROM" field and thus it protects your domain names from being used for spamming.
Yes Yes
Anti-virus Protection Feature The ClamAV software has numerous advanced features that guarantee your anti-virus protection by scanning all incoming mail for viruses.
Yes Yes
Custom MX Records Feature The ability to change the MX records of the domain name or simply add more MX records with different priority allows you to control who is handling your mail service.
Yes Yes
WEBSITE CONTROLS
Advanced File Manager Feature The web hosting control panel is equipped with an advanced file manager that will allow you to easily create, delete, move and rename files and folders. It has many other useful features like the ability to work with drag&drop operations.
Yes Yes
FTP Accounts Feature The FTP account allows you to establish an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) connection to the server for faster and easier uploading.
Unlimited Unlimited
FTP Manager Feature The web hosting control panel provides you with an FTP Manager that you can use to create FTP accounts with different level of access for each one as well as change the password or delete existing accounts.
Yes Yes
SSH/Telnet Feature This feature allows advanced users to access and manage the account via secure connection to the server through an SSH/Telnet encryption software.
Yes Yes
Web-based SSH Feature Web Console is a web-based application that allows to execute shell commands on a server directly from a browser (web-based SSH).
Yes Yes
Website Manager Feature The easy-to-use web hosting control panel is also featured with a remarkable website manager that provides you full control over your domain names and subdomains.
Yes Yes
Custom Error Pages Feature This feature allows you to change the error page that website visitors see if the requested page from your website is not opening for some reason.
Yes Yes
Custom Apache Handlers Feature This is an advanced feature useful for experienced webmasters to determine how the server will treat various webfiles opposed to using the default Apache configuration.
Yes Yes
Custom MIME Types Feature This is another feature for advanced webmasters that allows them to determine how browsers will treat various files and file types.
Yes Yes
Password Protected Areas Feature Enabling a password protection for a certain folder allows you to grant access to a single user or group of people and keep it out of reach for the public..
Yes Yes
Guest Users Feature With our Guest Users feature, you can grant temporary access to different sections of your hosting account to third parties. This is particularly beneficial when partnering with developers or designers, enabling you to maintain control over the information they can view without exposing your entire account.
ADVANCED TOOLS
PHP Support Feature PHP is one of the most used scripting languages when it comes to creating dynamic web pages and we are proud to support PHP 5.6 through 8.5 to ensure that your website will work flawlessly.
Yes Yes
MySQL Databases Feature MySQL is a very popular SQL database server capable of working with various scripting languages such as C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP and Python. This feature shows how many MySQL databases you can use with each particular package.
Unlimited Unlimited
MySQL Database Storage Feature This features shows you what is the amount of data that can be stored in all your MySQL databases as a total.
Unlimited Unlimited
phpMyAdmin Access Feature phpMyAdmin is a tool that provides complete access to manage your MySQL databases via easy-to-use interface.
Yes Yes
PostgreSQL Databases Feature PostgreSQL is a more advanced database system known to be stable and providing better data integrity. This feature shows how many PostgreSQL databases you can use with each particular package.
Unlimited 5
PostgreSQL Storage Feature This features shows you what is the amount of data that can be stored in all your PostgreSQL databases as a total
Unlimited 160 MB
phpPgAdmin Feature phpPgAdmin is a tool that provides complete access to manage your PostgreSQL databases via easy-to-use interface.
Yes Yes
Zend Optimizer Feature This software optimizes the work of PHP based applications by enabling them to load and execute Zend Guard encoded files.
Yes Yes
Perl Feature Perl is one of the general purpose programming languages widely used for web development and thus it is supported by our servers to provide a wider choice for you.
Yes Yes
Over 3400 Perl Modules Feature Perl modules are packages of software code universally adopted to speed up future developing and you get over 3400 such modules with each of our shared hosting packages.
Yes Yes
ImageMagick & GD Library Feature Both ImageMagick and GD Library are used for working with image files like PNG, GIF and JPEG among others when generating thumbnails, graphics, charts, etc.
Yes Yes
Python Feature Python is another general purpose programming language supported by all of our shared hosting packages and its aim is to combine very clear syntax with remarkable power.
Yes Yes
IonCube Feature Just like Zend Optimizer, IonCube also enhances the performance of PHP applications by enabling them to easily operate with IonCube encoded files.
Yes Yes
Server Side Includes Feature Server Side Includes are bits of coding that can be integrated into html files to tell them to include other information to be displayed as well. It is a good way of saving time and making sure the exact same information is displayed when it has to appear on different pages.
Yes Yes
SSL Certificate Generator Feature SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the most common way of securing webpages used especially when sensitive data is collected such as personal or billing information. The SSL Certificate Generator will provide you with unsigned SSL code that needs to be approved by an authorized registrar.
Yes Yes
Cron Jobs Feature Crontab is a command that allows scheduling tasks for future executing and is most widely used for repeating tasks executed at regular intervals.
Unlimited 5
InnoDB Feature The latest edition of InnoDB offers serious improvements in efficacy, reliability and usability.
Yes Yes
Varnish Feature Varnish Cache is an HTTP accelerator that can improve the speed of your web site.
1 Instance 1 Instance
Memcached Feature Memcached is a general-purpose memory caching system for increasing the load speed of dynamic database-driven websites.
1 Instance 1 Instance
Node.js Feature Node.js is a software platform for building highly scalable network apps, built on Chrome`s JavaScript runtime.
1 Instance 1 Instance
WEBSITE STATISTICS
Webalizer Web/FTP Stats Feature Webalizer is an advanced web statistics application that provides you extensive reports of the current and previous months with graphics for each month and detailed daily statistics including referral URLs
Yes Yes
Access Log Manager Feature When you activate the access logs for a certain hostname, there will be a record of every visit and every hit within your site. You can export the log in a text file for external statistical analysis.
Yes Yes
Error Log Viewer Feature When activated the error log keeps a record of every warning or error that occured on your website so that you can examine them and rectify the issues related to the website.
Yes Yes
Traffic Stats Feature This feature allows you to monitor the total of incoming and outgoing data transfer for each hostname in your account separately.
Yes Yes
MySQL Stats Feature This feature provides you information about the daily amount of queries made by each of your databases with an hourly average calculation as well.
Yes Yes
Load Stats Feature This tool provides you with detailed information about the CPU usage generated by your account over different periods of time - yearly, monthly, daily or even for 6 hour intervals.
Yes Yes
OS, CONNECTIVITY AND BACK-UP
Stable Linux with Apache Feature Linux is the leading server operating system known to be a stable environment with high security and great productivity and that is why it is used by the 10 fastests supercomputers in the world. Apache is the most popular web server that runs more websites than all other webservers combined.
Yes Yes
2.5 Gbit Network Feature The data center is using top quality routers and carriers allowing an outstanding Internet connection with combined speed of 2.5 gigabits per second.
Yes Yes
Help UPS & diesel back-up generator Feature We have powerful UPS devices in place and a diesel generator in case of prolonged outages to ensure the uptime of the network.
Yes Yes
CUSTOMER SERVICE
24/7 Customer Support Feature We are here for our customers 24 hours a day and seven days a week - no holidays, no excuses!Different channels of communication are available to suit you best depending on the issue or query that you have.
Yes Yes
Phone Support Feature Phone availability varies by line and region. 24/7 technical support is available through tickets for technical questions; sales and billing response times follow the published service terms.
Yes Yes
24/7 Ticket Support Feature Our support tickets operators are waiting to assist you with your questions and problems in real time to ensure our services are always a better experience for you.
Yes Yes
Integrated Ticketing System Feature Whenever you experience technical difficulties, our professional technicians are at your disposal so all you have to do is simply open a ticket from within your web hosting control panel. Technical tickets follow the published SLA, with an average reply time of about 25 minutes. Sales enquiries may take 12–24 hours.
Yes Yes
PRICING
Monthly price
$37.00 /mo $27.00 /mo
     
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