AlphaHost Review

AlphaHost is a hosting company out of Riga, Latvia that says they have been in business since 2001 but after doing a little investigation, I can only confirm their site has been online since 2011. AlphaHost offers the following hosting services Shared Hosting, VPS/VDS, Dedicated Servers, and Cloud services, they also sell domains.

AlphaHost servers use SSD hard drives and offer SSL, below are details on the shared hosting plans

Alpha	Beta	Gamma
3 GB Disk Space	10 GB Disk Space	30 GB Disk Space
1 Domain	3 Domain	10 Domain
5 Subdomains	15 Subdomains	50 Subdomains
Unlimited Bandwidth	Unlimited Bandwidth	Unlimited Bandwidth
Mailboxes 20	Mailboxes 60	Mailboxes 200
Webmail ✔️	Webmail ✔️	Webmail ✔️
Antispam Protection ✔️	Antispam Protection ✔️	Antispam Protection ✔️
Autoresponder and forwarding Antispam Protection ✔️	Autoresponder and forwarding Antispam Protection ✔️	Autoresponder and forwarding Antispam Protection ✔️
Mysql Database (with phpMyAdmin)	Mysql Database (with phpMyAdmin)	Mysql Database (with phpMyAdmin)
# of Databases 1	# of Databases 3	# of Databases 10
Ftp Accounts 3	Ftp Accounts 9	Ftp Accounts 30
FTP and FTP-SSL (TLS) access	FTP and FTP-SSL (TLS) access	FTP and FTP-SSL (TLS) access
❌	❌	SecureFTP over SSH
cPanel	cPanel	cPanel
Package Installer (install Joomla, WordPress, PHPBB2 with just a few clicks)	Package Installer (install Joomla, WordPress, PHPBB2 with just a few clicks)	Package Installer (install Joomla, WordPress, PHPBB2 with just a few clicks)
PHP5 (with Zend Optimizer and ionCube)	PHP5 (with Zend Optimizer and ionCube)	PHP5 (with Zend Optimizer and ionCube)
❌	Scheduled Tasks (CronJobs)	Scheduled Tasks (CronJobs)
Web Statistics (Webalizer)	Web Statistics (Webalizer)	Web Statistics (Webalizer)
Daily Backup	Daily Backup	Daily Backup
DNS Management	DNS Management	DNS Management
❌	❌	SSH Access
		$11.28/month
	6 months prepaid $4.51/month	6 months prepaid $9.01/month
1 year prepaid $1.97/month	1 year prepaid $3.94/month	1 year prepaid $7.89/month
2 year prepaid $1.41/month	2 year prepaid $2.82/month	2 year prepaid $5.63/month
Free Setup	Free Setup	Free Setup
Free Migration	Free Migration	Free Migration

AlphaHost Virtual Private Server Pricing examples are below.

	VPS Level 1	VPS Level 2	VPS Level 2	VPS Level 3
CPU Limit	1 core	2 core	3 core	4 core
RAM Memory	1GB	2GB	3GB	4GB
Hard Disk Space	30GB	60GB	120GB	250GB
Traffic	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Price paying monthly	$14.10/month	$21.11/month	$35.21/month	$56.34/month
Price Prepaid every 6 months	$11.27/month	$16.90/month	$28.17/month	$45.07/month
Price Prepaid every year	$9.86/month	$14.79/month	$24.65/month	$39.44/month
Price Prepaid every 2 years	$7.04/month	$10.56/month	$17.61/month	$28.17/month
Setup fee	Free	Free	Free	Free

AlphaHost offers you modern VPS/VDS hosting.

VPS (Virtual Private Server) or VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server) – a service where the user is provided with a so-called virtual dedicated server. In terms of management of the operating system for the most part it corresponds to a physical dedicated server. In particular: root-access, its own IP addresses, ports, filtering rules.

Inside the virtual server, you can create your own versions of system libraries or modify existing ones, the owner of the VPS can delete, add, modify any file, including files in the root and other service directories, and install custom applications or customize/modify any software application available to it.

Ordering the VPS service you get:

• Guaranteed amount of resources (memory, processor time, disk space).
• Full control over the server (root access)
• Ability to configure any system parameters and applications.
• The ability to install your version of system libraries or modify existing ones.
• Ability to install any software.
• Your own IP-addresses
• Capability to create your own Web, Mail, FTP, as well as Game Servers.

VPS service is ideal for creating online stores, gaming markets, as well as any Internet service required to run non-standard software on the server.

AlphaHost.lv uses virtualization technology KVM. KVM is a cutting-edge technology on the market of virtual servers. Unlike other technologies, KVM guarantees the selection of resources and does not allow the use of overselling. I.e. if the physical server has 8GB RAM, clients will allocate only 8 virtual servers 1GB RAM each. Same with the disk space.

In addition, KVM allows your VPS to use all available CPU resources at a time, but not less than the minimum guaranteed for your service plan.

All physical servers used to create VPS have Intel quad-core processors, as well as Raid1 array (2 mirrored hard drives) in order to provide the client’s data safety storage.

The following operating systems may be installed on Virtual Dedicated Server at your option:

• Linux Debian
• Linux CentOS(installed by default with cPanel or ISPManager)
• Ubuntu Linux
• Microsoft Windows

* All prices on this page include VAT(21%). VAT applies to orders made from Latvia. The same applies to orders made from the EU unless a valid EU VAT registration number is supplied.

Some other Stats provided by SemRush that might interest you about AlphaHost they have 0 backlinks from 0 different referring domains, They have an Authority Score of 0 which is as bad as it gets, 50% of their organic search traffic comes from The Netherlands while 40% comes from the U.S.A. 10% from Russia and 0.1% from other countries. The majority of AlphaHost‘s search engine traffic comes from the Following keywords below.

1. Alpha Hosting Webmail
2. Alphahost
3. Assign a domain name to an IP address
4. How to reset joomla password
5. How do you assign a domain name

Some details about the speed of the host, now these may not be the same speeds you’ll get since first it will depend on the services you buy, your website design, size of images/videos, etc.. also the host may or may not be using a faster server to host their hosting sales page at any rate here is the speed information tested on there front page.

GTmetrix – gives them an E grade with 583% Performance and 72% Structure tested from Vancouver, Canada.

Pingdom – gives AlphaHost a C grade of 78 tested from London, United Kingdom.

Page Speed Insights – gives their Cell phone page speed a 47 and a 72 for Desktops.

Dotcom Tools gives the following –

Location	Performance	Full Page Load	DOM Complete	Page Size
Tel-Aviv	Slow	4.22 s	4.15 s	476 KB
Amsterdam	Slow	2.91 s	2.79 s	476 KB
Montreal	Slow	19.09 s	19.05 s	476 KB
Hong Kong	Slow	5.56 s	5.46 s	476 KB
Miami	Slow	4.20 s	4.12 s	476 KB
Average Duration	VERY SLOW	7.20 s	7.11 s

Site Checker – gives them 43 out of 100 with a load time of 5.54 seconds For Mobile Phones and 67 out of 100 for Desktop loading in 1.53 seconds tested from Riga, Latvia.

More test results are listed below –

Test from Montreal
Total Time	1744 ms
Resolve Time	298 ms
Connection Time	129 ms
Download Time	137 ms
IP Address	159.148.27.2

RESPONSE DETAILS
Total size	21 kB (20,732 bytes)
Status	200 OK

RESPONSE HEADERS
Date	Sat, 26 Feb 2022 03:54:12 GMT
Server	Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)
X-Powered-By	PHP/5.4.45-0+deb7u14
Set-Cookie	889ebbfb67b437297afd2a178223b0cc=1tdi8b5fjongj3te934i48jqq0; path=/; secure; HttpOnly,67b2ee48cd5199308be5f68297bc48bf=en-GB; expires=Sun, 26-Feb-2023 03:54:12 GMT; path=/; secure
P3P	CP=”NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM”
Expires	Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified	Sat, 26 Feb 2022 03:54:12 GMT
Cache-Control	no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma	no-cache
Vary	Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding
Content-Length	6063
Keep-Alive	timeout=5, max=100
Connection	Keep-Alive
Content-Type	text/html; charset=utf-8

The Conclusion is looking like they have decent hardware and the pricing won’t break the bank and they speak at least 3 languages so check them out if what you see above looks like they are worth it.

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