Hostwinds at a glance
Hostwinds is a US hosting provider founded in 2010 by Peter Holden and headquartered in Seattle. In April 2026, HostPapa announced it had acquired Hostwinds LLC, and the brand continues to operate with the same service for customers.
The lineup is broad, from shared hosting to VPS, cloud and dedicated servers and colocation. Hostwinds says it owns and operates its infrastructure rather than relying on third parties.
The company says its network is built with 2N redundancy from routers to fiber paths.
Data centers and locations
Hostwinds runs servers in three locations: Seattle and Dallas in the US and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. That gives solid coverage for the US West and Central regions and for Western Europe.
There are no locations on the US East Coast, in Asia or in Oceania, so audiences there will see higher latency.
Servers and plan lineup
VPS plans come in managed and unmanaged versions for both Linux and Windows. Unmanaged plans are cheaper and include full root, SSH and VNC access but no technical or administrative support for the server itself, and you can upgrade to managed at any time.
Cloud servers are billed hourly and scale more easily. VPS storage is SSD rather than NVMe, ports are 1 Gbps and bandwidth depends on the plan. Nightly backups to object storage and zero-downtime snapshots are available from the portal. Current prices are in the table below.
Cloud add-ons include block volumes that can move between servers, object storage and load balancers, and one-click images make it quick to launch WordPress or a LAMP stack.
Control panel, API and support
Everything runs through the Cloud Control Portal: DNS, firewall, block volumes, snapshots, load balancers, IPv4 and IPv6, object storage and an API. OS options include Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu and Windows, plus one-click images for WordPress, LAMP, Virtualmin, CentOS Web Panel and ISPmanager.
Support is available 24/7/365 via live chat and phone, but on unmanaged plans it covers account and infrastructure issues rather than server administration.
Billing and payment
Hostwinds accepts major credit cards, PayPal (with a billing agreement for recurring payments), stablecoins through Stripe Crypto (paid manually per invoice) and Alipay for customers connecting from China. Hourly services are rolled into a condensed monthly invoice.
Prorated refunds are available for eligible services after cancellation, as described in the billing documentation.
Who it suits and who it does not
Hostwinds suits users who want an established US provider with a choice between managed and unmanaged VPS, hourly cloud servers and Windows options in one account. Managed plans are a reasonable pick for small businesses without a sysadmin.
Its limits are the small footprint of three locations and SSD rather than NVMe storage on VPS plans. Teams that need Asian or East Coast locations should look elsewhere.