Hosting.com Alternative: One Company, Not A 25-Brand Group
If you are looking for a Hosting.com alternative, it helps to know what you are actually looking at. Hosting.com is A2 Hosting under a new name. World Host Group bought the company in January 2025 and it was renamed in April that year, ending a 23-year run under the original brand. The hosting is the same hosting. What changed is who owns it and how many other brands sit alongside it.
What Changes When You Leave The Group
One host, not a portfolio
FastCow is private and self-funded. Nobody bought us last year and nobody is folding us into a group of twenty-five other brands this year.
WordPress, and nothing else
Hosting.com supports somewhere north of 400 applications. We support one. Every setting on this platform is tuned for WordPress because there is nothing else on it.
Hardware we own, in places we name
Dallas and the UK, on our own machines. When something needs fixing at the server the person replying to you can get into it.
FastCow Against Hosting.com, Point By Point
What each company is built to do, and who it answers to. Two rows go to them.
How this was put together. Everything on the FastCow side is ours to stand behind. The Hosting.com side is drawn from their current site and from dated reporting of the acquisition. Sources: hosting.com and the acquisition report. Last reviewed August 2026. If any of this has changed since the acquisition, tell us and we will update it. The rest of our comparisons follow the same method.
What A General Host Will Not Do For You
Hosting.com supports more than 400 applications. That is a genuine strength and it is also the reason nobody on that support desk can be a WordPress specialist. Managed WordPress is a much narrower promise, and a far deeper one.
LiteSpeed on every plan, not just Turbo
The web server is LiteSpeed with server-level caching on everything we sell. At Hosting.com that is a Turbo-tier feature: the cheaper plans are Apache-based, so the speed you read about in the reviews is an upgrade rather than a floor.
Redis object caching, included
Free with every plan, not sold as an add-on and not something you install yourself on a VPS you then have to keep running.
We update the plugins
Core, plugins and themes are ours. A general host will tell you an out-of-date plugin is your responsibility, and they are completely right. That is precisely the work you are paying a managed host to take off you.
We fix WordPress, not just the server
A 500 error from a plugin conflict is a WordPress problem rather than a hosting problem, and most hosts will close the ticket saying so. We go in and fix it. If a vulnerable plugin got the site hacked, we clean it up rather than pointing you at your last backup.
None of that is an upgrade path. It is what the cheapest FastCow plan does on the day you sign up. See what the platform includes, or go straight to the plans.
When Hosting.com Is Simply The Better Buy
They sell a great deal we do not. Three cases where that settles it.
You need more than WordPress
VPS, dedicated servers, reseller accounts, domains, SSL and a site builder, across hundreds of applications. If you run a Magento store or resell hosting to your own clients, we do not have a product for you and they do.
You want a low starting price
$2.99 a month is below anything we sell. For a small brochure site that does not need managed WordPress, that is a perfectly reasonable place to be.
Your traffic is spread worldwide
Forty locations against our two regions. If your audience is genuinely global rather than concentrated in the UK and US, that footprint matters more than anything else on this page.
Coming Across From Hosting.com Costs You Nothing
No migration plugin, no export file, no weekend set aside. Our engineers move it by hand and you approve the result.
Send Us Access
Your cPanel or account login is all we need. We take an inventory first and tell you what we have found before anything moves.
Review A Working Copy
The whole site, rebuilt on a private address for you to pick apart. Databases, redirects, cron jobs and email, all checked before you commit.
Flip The DNS When Ready
You update the records, the certificate issues automatically, and the changeover happens with the old host still live behind it.
The Same Owners You Signed Up With
You have just read a page about a company that changed hands and changed name inside four months. It is completely fair to ask what stops the same thing happening here. The honest answer is that no promise on a web page is legally binding, so here is what we will actually commit to instead.
Privately owned, and staying that way
No outside shareholders, no VC board, and no exit being quietly lined up in the background. The people running the platform are the people who decide where it goes.
Self-funded since day one
We have never taken a funding round, so there is no investor sitting on a timetable waiting for a return on one.
If it ever changed, you would hear it from us
Not from a press release in April about a deal that closed in January. That gap is the part of a rebrand that actually costs customers their trust, and it is entirely avoidable.
Your rate does not move to pay for anything
No acquisition to service means no repricing to service it. What you sign up on is what you renew on, for as long as you stay.
Every one of those holds on the entry plan, not just at the top of the range. FastCow Hosting Limited, 39 C/O FastCow Hosting, Jefferson Close, London, England, IG2 6RZ. No parent company, no press release you find out from later. More about us and what we stand for.
Get A Straight Answer On Whether To Move
Send us your current bill and a month of traffic. We will tell you which plan fits, what it would cost, and whether moving is worth your time. If it is not, we will say so.
Hosting.com Alternatives, Straight Answers
Wondering what the rebrand means for your account? Ask us, we will not be coy.
Talk to us →Yes. World Host Group acquired A2 Hosting in January 2025 and the company was renamed Hosting.com in April 2025, ending a 23-year run under the original name. Accounts, servers and staff carried across the rebrand.
Not on the entry price. Hosting.com starts at $2.99 a month for shared hosting and $12.49 for WordPress, against $25 for our managed WordPress plans. They are not the same product: ours includes hand-done migrations, a WordPress engineer on support at every hour, and hardware we own. Send us your bill and we will tell you whether the difference is worth paying.
It rarely shows up on day one. It shows up later, in how support is staffed, how often hardware gets refreshed, and what happens to renewal pricing once the acquisition has to pay for itself. That is not a reason to panic about a rebrand, but it is worth knowing which group your host belongs to.
No. No. Your Hosting.com account keeps serving the whole way through. We rebuild on a private URL, you go through it properly, and the switch happens when you say so.
Core, plugin and theme updates run by us. Daily malware scanning with automatic cleanup. LiteSpeed and Redis object caching on every plan rather than on the Turbo tiers. And a support desk that will fix a WordPress fault, not only a server fault: a plugin conflict, a white screen after an update, or a site hacked through an outdated plugin are all our job rather than yours.
On breadth, yes, and by a distance. They sell VPS, dedicated servers, reseller accounts and hundreds of applications from 40 locations. We sell managed WordPress from two regions. If you need any of the rest of it, they are the better answer.