PlanetHoster Review 2020 – Know The Real Facts About This Web Hosting

Welcome to my PlanetHoster Review 2020. The idea of green web hosting has been welcomed by peoples and within few years, we have seen many green hosting companies have been…

Updated on October 20, 2020

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Welcome to my PlanetHoster Review 2020. The idea of green web hosting has been welcomed by peoples and within few years, we have seen many green hosting companies have been booming up. If you are looking for a green web hosting for your websites, here is our PlanetHoster review for you.

PlanetHoster Review 2020 – Our Expert Opinion

Contents Of This Review

Planethoster is a young web hosting company which only founded in 2007. They have more than 40000 customers worldwide and expanding the number of customers every year. Let’s look into the PlanetHoster review to know more about them.

About PlanetHoster Web Hosting

Before reading the PlanetHoster Review, let’s look into the History of PlanetHoster Web Hosting. PlanetHoster web Hosting company was founded in 2007 and they are providing Domain Name Registration, SSL Certificates, and various web solutions along with web hosting services. PlanetHoster is working hard to maintain a 100% uptime for its servers and by that way, they are giving best uptime to its client websites. More than 100000 websites are hosted by PlanetHoster and they have more than 40000 customers who all are using Hybrid cloud infrastructure of planet hotter.

Planet Hoster Review 2020 Updated With Discount Codes

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PlanetHoster Server Locations

PlanetHoster servers are located in Montreal, Canada and Paris, France. Their servers are highly protected by Anti-DDoS protection and Anycast DNS. PlanetHoster is an ICANN accredited web hosting company and that makes them more reliable.

  • Located in Montreal (Canada) and Paris (France).
  • 99.9999% Server Uptime Guarantee
  • 24/7 Camera surveillance / Physical Security
  • TIER III System to provide multiple active power and cooling distribution. It helps to maintain 99.982% availability.
  • Partnered with Arbor Network to protect your website from DDoS Attacks.
  • PlanetHoster has an Own Anti-malware suit to protect client website from malware attack
  • R1Soft tool for maintaining a Daily backup of your files.

Advantages Of PlanetHoster Web Hosting

  • The free domain name for customers who are choosing an Annual Plan.
  • 2% Cashback for every customer in every 3 months billing.
  • You can choose server Locations.
  • Easy to use control panels
  • Auto installer for WordPress, Drupal, and PrestaShop
  • Plan customization option
  • Free trial of 14 days for each plan

Disadvantages of PlanetHoster Web Hosting

  • Very Limited Packages
  • Only two server locations

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PlanetHoster Plans & Pricing

PlanetHoster has Three categories of Plans and its sub plans. Plans are named as World Platform, Multi-World Platform, and Hybrid Cloud.

About Planet Hoster World Platform Plans

World pLatform has three plans named as The World, World Plus, and World Mega. Each World Plan will give you the benefits of Unlimited SSD Storage, Unlimited Bandwidth, and Free Unlimited SSL Certificate. You can also enjoy extra perks like Unlimited emails and Unlimited Databases.

PlanetHoster Plans

The basic plan of World Platform plans was named as The World Plan and it costs 6.04$/month. It includes one CPU, 4GB RAM and you can host only one website with this plan. The best advantage of these plans was, you can customize each plan according to your web hosting needs. There is an option to upgrade your RAM up to 24GB and CPU up to 8 CPU.

The World Plus plan includes 2 CPU, 8GB RAM, and you can host unlimited websites if you choose this plan. The customizing option is also available with this plan too. World Plus plan will cost 8.06$/month and additional enhancement of features will cost extra.

The Mega Plus Plan will cost 12.09$/month. This plan includes 4 CPU, 12 GB RAM, and Unlimited SSD Disc space along with Unlimited website hosting option.

These plans can be used as a free trial for first 14 days and if you are satisfied, you can continue their service by paying the required amount.

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PlanetHoster Uptime and Load Time

Using Uptime Robot, Uptime value will be calculated for each and every web host before we are reviewing it. We will analyze overall uptime, uptime for last 30 days and for the last 24 hours. PlanetHoster offered a 99.999% uptime and it is offered by most of the web hosting companies.

After analyzing the uptime for last 149 days, we have got an average uptime of 99.989% which is very near to the uptime value they offered. Uptime is 100% for the last 30 days.

Load time of a website has a major effect on the website SEO. The importance of speed should be considered while buying a web host. A  slow loading website may cause a loss of many good businesses.

We have tested the speed of PlanetHoster and the result of the Pingdom Speed Test has been given below.

PlanetHoster Load Time Test

The test website has a moderate number of files in it and it was running on WordPress. We have installed a basic WordPress theme and the page size was 1.7MB. We were fully satisfied with their server speed since it took only 838 milliseconds to load a web page with moderate page size.

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PlanetHoster Money Back Guarantee

PlanetHoster has a 14 days full money back guarantee which offers a full cash back if you cancel their service within 14 days after purchase. But it is necessary to cancel the service within 7 days to get a refund to your bank account. If you are canceling the service after 7 days of purchase, the money will be credited to you as a PlanetHoster credit.

The refund process may take maximum 14 days and within that duration, you will get your money back without losing any penny from it. But if you bought a domain or SSL certificate from them, you might have to pay for it. We didn’t get a confirmation about the exact amount deductible for the domain and SSL.

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PlanetHoster Customer Support

PlanetHoster a 24/7 support is given through the direct phone call as well as ticket system. Their ticket system is really supportive as you can prioritize your concerns. In case of critical prioritized issues you can expect a response from them within 4-5 minutes and for any normal priority concern their response time is a maximum of 60 minutes  .

Planet Hoster Phone Number of Customer Support

They have given an option to choose from two languages. If you are familiar with the French Language, you can take benefit of it. Otherwise, you can simply choose English as your language.

PlanetHoster Customer Support

Even though the existing support system is helpful, most of the customers prefer a live chat support system. It would be better if the service provider can implement  this in future.

PlanetHoster Review 2020 – Conclusion

They are good for up time and load time. Also they provide a good customer support and even if you host a website with more than 3 MB page size, the load speed is comparatively much better than similar providers. They have to reduce the price to attract more customers to compete with the other premium web hosting companies. 


We highly recommend PlanetHoster to our visitors. Their promotional rates are very good. The clear and simple interface makes them more convenient to even novice customers also. PlanetHoster is an all in one solution for those who would like to start a new website or a blog or even an e-commerce site

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