Pros & Cons
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- Robust cloud, dedicated, reseller, and VPS packages
- Prorated VPS plans
- Powerful, high-end server specs
- Terrific customer service
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- Lacks shared hosting plans
- Refunds only available for select plans
Liquid Web Hosting Specs
| 24/7 Customer Support | |
| Cloud Hosting | |
| Dedicated Hosting | |
| Linux Servers | |
| Linux Servers - Cloud | |
| Maximum RAM - Dedicated | 128 |
| Maximum RAM - VPS | 16 |
| Maximum Storage - Cloud | 917GB |
| Maximum Storage - Dedicated | 30 |
| Maximum Storage - VPS | 200 |
| Reseller Hosting | |
| Unlimited Email | |
| Unlimited Monthly Data Transfers - WordPress | |
| Unlimited Storage | |
| VPS Hosting | |
| Windows Hosting - Cloud | |
| Windows Servers | |
| WordPress Hosting |
Businesses require robust web hosting services to maintain their online presences, and Liquid Web is one that many large brands trust. The company provides a range of cloud, dedicated, reseller, virtual private server (VPS), and WordPress server packages, providing sufficient flexibility and muscle to power popular online destinations such as Activision, FedEx, Major League Baseball, and Red Bull. Liquid Web excels in managed hosting, handling all your site's administrative duties and support tasks, regardless of complexity and scale. Although it commands a hefty premium, this excellent web host is well worth the price of admission and earns our Editors' Choice award for enterprise-class managed web hosting.
Shared Hosting, Renewal Rates, and Server OS Options
Shared hosting, which individuals and small businesses typically use, is a "roommate" tier. With it, your website literally shares a server and its resources with other websites. It's not the most powerful web hosting, but it's cheap web hosting. However, Liquid Web does not have shared plans. If you're looking for that type of service, HostGator is an excellent place to start. It offers Linux- or Windows-based shared servers that give small- and medium-sized businesses room to grow (starting at $13.95 for the first month, then $17.59 per month after).
Liquid Web may not offer shared plans, but it does have a suite of high-powered hosting options, including VPS, dedicated, and cloud plans, which are highlighted in this review. Please note that their listed prices reflect their renewal rates, not the introductory pricing highlighted on Liquid Web's website. In many cases, the introductory rates only kick in if you sign up for a three-month subscription. In a nice touch, each Liquid Web hosting tier lets you choose either Linux or Windows as the server operating system (expect to pay at least $37 for the latter OS's licensing fee).
VPS Hosting: A Low-Cost Step Up From Shared Hosting
Do you need a server with significant power but without a high price tag? Consider Liquid Web's VPS plans. VPS hosting is a higher level of shared hosting that supplies your website with significantly more powerful system resources.
The entry-level plans start at a reasonable $5 per month. It includes 1GB of RAM, 30GB of solid-state drive storage, and 1TB of monthly data transfers. On the other end, Liquid Web's high-end option (starting at $178 per month) ups the ante by including 24GB of RAM and 540GB of SSD storage. Contact Liquid Web if you want to spec out a more powerful server.
Liquid Web's VPS RAM and storage allocations are among the best we've seen for their price point. That's a big qualifier, however, given Liquid Web's prices. Hostwinds (starting at $10.99 per month) is our top pick for VPS services for SMBs (our primary audience), but Liquid Web is worth considering if you're shopping for enterprise-level hosting. Unlike many other VPS services we've reviewed, Liquid Web charges only for the number of days you use the service each month, which is particularly beneficial if you decide to cancel your account (you'll receive a refund for unused time).
(Credit: Liquid Web/PCMag)The host has many add-on features for your VPS plan. For example, you can add Acronis Cyber Backups for data protection (different from Acronis Cyber Protect, which includes anti-malware tools). Acronis starts at a base price of $17 per month for 250GB of data and goes up to $2,251 per month for 50TB of data. Other extras include cybersecurity monitoring via ThreatDown ($34 per server per month), Cisco firewall services, and server protection from Imunify360 and Server Secure.
Dedicated Hosting: Fairly Priced, Full Server Power
To build a website on the strongest possible foundation, consider Liquid Web's enterprise-class dedicated server plans. With dedicated hosting, your site uses the server's full system resources rather than sharing them with other sites. This is one of Liquid Web's primary hosting services.
Liquid Web's dedicated servers come in a variety of configurations, ranging from a self-managed server with a single quad-core processor, a 383GB solid-state drive, 10TB of monthly data transfers, and 12GB of RAM (starting at $111 per month) to a fully managed server with high-end, 32-core processors with a 3.2TB NVMe drive (and a 1TB SATA backup drive), 10TB of monthly data transfers, and 192GB of RAM (starting at $587 per month).
Like its VPS plans, Liquid Web has add-on services for dedicated servers. For example, you can add advanced DDoS protection (for $111 per month) or the aforementioned ThreatDown cybersecurity. Clearly, Liquid Web's dedicated servers are designed for businesses that require optimal website performance and are willing to invest in it.
That said, webmasters creating resource-hungry sites should consider the many RAM-packed dedicated hosting packages offered by AccuWeb. On the low end, they start at $142 per month (for 40TB of storage, 64GB of RAM, and 1TB of monthly data transfers); on the high end, they start at $2,166 per month (for 9.6TB of storage, 1.1TB of RAM, 1TB of monthly data transfers, and generally higher specs).
Note that Liquid Web also has game-focused dedicated servers starting at $74.80 per month.
GPU Hosting: A New Way to Host
Liquid Web also offers Nvidia-powered GPU hosting, a relatively new category. These plans are designed for companies that wish to train large AI models and tackle complex workloads.
(Credit: Liquid Web/PCMag)This form of dedicated hosting starts at $1.07 per hour and features 32 cores, 1.92 TB of NVMe Raid-1 storage, and 128GB of DDR5 RAM. At the highest end, you'll get what Liquid Web describes as the pinnacle of high-performance GPUs: 48 cores, 3.84TB NVMe RAID-1 storage, and 1TB of DDR5 RAM. The cost? $7.19 per hour.
WordPress Hosting: Many Ways to Build
Liquid Web has three types of WordPress web hosting: Managed WordPress Hosting, WordPress VPS, and Dedicated WordPress servers.
Managed WordPress offers various plans based on the number of websites you need, with the number adjustable using a handy slider. The most basic plan is Spark Launch (starting at $6 per month), which allows you to build one site, utilize 15GB of storage, and enjoy 2TB of monthly data transfers. Its most robust plan is Enterprise Elevate ($1,227 per month), which includes 250 websites, 800GB storage, 10TB monthly data transfers, 30-day backup retention, assisted website migration, Cloudflare Enterprise, DDoS protection, and a free staging area for testing your site.
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WordPress VPS options are divided into General, Memory-Optimized, and CPU-Optimized plans, with Essential and Advanced versions of each, for a total of six plans. The Essential General plan, for example, has 2 vCPUs, 2 GB of memory, 40GB of storage, and 10TB of monthly data transfers (starting at $103 per month). The Advanced version ups the ante with 4 vCPUs, 4GB of memory, 100GB of storage, and 10 TB of monthly data transfers (for $111 per month).
For higher performance, Dedicated WordPress hosting provides even more resources. This category has four plans. The lowest tier, Intel E-2356G, has six 3.2GHz CPU cores, 10TB monthly data transfers, 32GB of storage, two 960GB SSD storage drives, and 500GB of Acronis Cyber Backups for $223 per month. The highest tier, Enterprise, includes 800GB of storage, 10TB of monthly data transfers, 70GB of Acronis Cyber Backups, and support for up to 250 websites for $1,227 per month. These are surprisingly versatile and robust plans, with valuable resources for WordPress websites of all sizes.
Given your company's needs, Bluehost may be attractive for its expansive feature set, which includes unlimited site hosting, monthly data transfers, domains, subdomains, and storage. For that reason, it's an Editors' Choice pick for WordPress hosting.
Cloud Hosting: Multi-Server Resources
With cloud hosting, your site's resources are shared across multiple servers. As a result, there's a lot of flexibility should you need to expand server resources.
(Credit: Liquid Web/PCMag)Liquid Web has cloud VPS hosting with eight tiers. The entry-level plan (starting at $5 per month) has 1GB of RAM, 30GB of storage, and 1TB of bandwidth. On the high end, you can spec a hosting package with 960GB SSD storage, 32GB of RAM, and 8TB of monthly data transfers for $308 per month. The Windows version has the same specs as the Linux version.
DreamHost, a web host that caters more toward small businesses, has packages that start at $4.50 per month (for 512MB of RAM, 80GB of storage, and unlimited monthly data transfers) and top out at $48 per month (for 8GB of RAM, 80GB of SSD storage, and unlimited monthly data transfers). At the high end, Ionos has powerful cloud hosting for enterprise-level clients. Please read that review to explore Ionos' many cloud hosting options.
Reseller Hosting: An Easy Way to Start a Hosting Company
If you're looking to get into the web hosting business for yourself but don't want to manage servers, bandwidth, and other infrastructure-related matters, check out Liquid Web's excellent reseller web hosting packages. The plans, starting at $169 per month, include an exclusive WebHost Manager Complete Solution (WHMCS) plug-in and instant provisioning.
The dedicated and VPS reseller packages have the same RAM, monthly data transfers, and storage amounts as those that Liquid Web supplies directly. Again, there are no shared reseller hosting plans. Liquid Web also allows you to apply your own branding to the servers you rent and provides 24/7 technical support.
(Credit: Liquid Web/PCMag)Our Editors' Choice winner for reseller hosting, Hostwinds, offers hosting plans that mirror its shared tiers. They start at $6.99 per month and include unlimited email, storage, and data transfers. On offer are dedicated and VPS packages for both Linux and Windows, as well as shared hosting, which is currently limited to Linux. The servers have the same RAM and storage as those provided directly by Hostwinds, which is not always the case with other reseller platforms. Hostwinds also lets you apply your own branding to the servers you rent, and it provides 24/7 technical support.
Building a Website With Liquid Web
We quickly crafted a website using a Liquid Web WordPress package, which was specifically designed for WordPress and its associated plug-ins. In fact, we didn't have to install the CMS because it was preinstalled.
Once logged into WordPress, we created posts, pages, and galleries as we would with any other self-hosted WordPress site. It was a breeze. The WordPress installation's back end contained several themes. We found an attractive one and applied it to our site to give it a snazzy look. Of course, you can also use a WordPress theme purchased elsewhere.
Liquid Web lacks AI-powered website-building tools, but that isn't a huge loss.
Security and Uptime
Liquid Web has you covered on the security front. The company offers a range of tools, including firewalls, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), virtual private networks (VPN), and malware scanning and removal services. It also offers free nightly backups to safeguard your site should it suffer severe damage.
Website uptime is one of the most important aspects of a hosting service. If your site is down, clients or customers will be unable to find you or access your products or services. You do not want that. Liquid Web offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee, so you can expect your site to be accessible most of the time.
Customer Service and Money-Back Guarantee
Liquid Web has an excellent 24/7 Heroic Support customer service team, a squad of knowledgeable individuals who assist you within a minute if you reach out by chat, or within 30 minutes if you submit a help desk ticket. We fired up the web chat on a weekday morning to ask a representative about the difference between dedicated and VPS hosting. Seconds later, a representative came to our aid and provided a friendly, thorough explanation. We were impressed with the speed and thoroughness of the response. Note that if you want to get someone on the horn, you're out of luck. Liquid Web lacks phone tech support, which is commonplace for web hosting services these days.
Since Liquid Web is pricey, it's unfortunate that the service lacks the standard 30-day money-back guarantee, which is typical in the web hosting industry. The company provides prorated refunds only for monthly cloud servers, and most of its other services are non-refundable. Given the amount of money a company is likely to spend on Liquid Web hosting, it would be helpful to see more refund options. Liquid Web contends that it's not possible because most services are custom-tailored to the user.