For the sites that need Windows, not the ones that merely tolerate it
If your application is built on ASP.NET, talks to MS SQL Server, or was written for IIS, Linux hosting will fight you the whole way. This is the other thing: a Windows stack with the Plesk panel on top, on servers in the United States, billed in rupees like everything else we sell.
- ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core
- MS SQL Server and MySQL
- Plesk control panel included
- Unmetered space and transfer
Prices are per month, billed for the term you choose. Two, three or four years take 10%, 15% or 25% off.
- PleskControl panel
- ASP.NET and .NET CoreApplication layer
- MS SQL Server and MySQLDatabases
- IIS 10Web server
- Windows ServerOperating system
Three plans, and only the number of sites really changes
Space, transfer and mailboxes are the same on all three. What you are choosing is how many separate websites you want to run on the account.
One Windows site or a first .NET application
- Websites
- 1
- Disk space
- Unmetered
- Data transfer
- Unmetered
- Email accounts
- Unlimited
- Free SSL certificate
- Included
- Control panel
- Plesk
- ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core and MVC
- MS SQL Server and MySQL
- One-click application installer
Five sites for a small company
- Websites
- 5
- Disk space
- Unmetered
- Data transfer
- Unmetered
- Email accounts
- Unlimited
- Free SSL certificate
- Included
- Control panel
- Plesk
- ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core and MVC
- MS SQL Server and MySQL
- One-click application installer
Ten sites, for an agency or a larger business
- Websites
- 10
- Disk space
- Unmetered
- Data transfer
- Unmetered
- Email accounts
- Unlimited
- Free SSL certificate
- Included
- Control panel
- Plesk
- ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core and MVC
- MS SQL Server and MySQL
- One-click application installer
Prices are billed up front for the term you choose and exclude taxes where they apply. A domain is not included; any domain bought with a plan is half price for its first year. "Unmetered" means space and transfer are not counted against a quota, not that the platform has no limits — the limits that do exist are further down this page.
The Windows stack, laid out
This is the part that decides whether your application will run. If something you depend on is not on this list, ask us before you buy rather than after.
Platform
- Windows Server
- IIS 10
- Plesk control panel
- BIND DNS
.NET
- ASP.NET
- ASP.NET Core
- .NET Core
- ASP.NET MVC 5
- Classic ASP
- WCF services
- WPF
- LINQ
Databases
- MS SQL Server
- MySQL
- MS Access
- myLittleAdmin
- phpMyAdmin
- Stored procedures
- MDF databases
Other languages
- PHP 7.4
- PHP 8.0
- PHP 8.1
- PHP 8.2
- Node.js
- Perl
- Python
Libraries and tools
- Crystal Reports
- Zend Engine
- Zend Guard Loader
- ionCube Loader
- jQuery
- Ajax and Ajax Toolkit
- Silverlight
- URL Rewrite
- ASP Upload
- ASP JPEG
- CDO and CDOSYS
Access and security
- SSH
- FTP over SSL
- Password-protected folders
- Hotlink protection
- Cloudflare
- ClamAV email scanning
Exact version numbers for Windows Server, SQL Server, MySQL and Plesk are confirmed when you order. The platform is patched and upgraded, and we would rather tell you what is on the machine on the day than publish a number that has since moved.
The same on all three plans
Nothing in this list is reserved for the larger plan. The plans differ in how many sites you may run, not in what the platform can do.
Plesk, free
Sites, sub-domains, email, databases, archives and DNS from one panel, with the interface most Windows administrators already know.
Free SSL, with SNI
A certificate on every site at no charge, and SNI so each site does not need its own IP address to serve HTTPS.
MS SQL Server and MySQL
Both are available on the same account, with stored procedures, views and the usual management tools, so a .NET application and a PHP one can live side by side.
One-click installer
Over three hundred applications, WordPress and Drupal among them, install from a menu rather than by hand.
SSH access
Shell access is available on every plan, including the smallest, so files and commands can be handled over an encrypted channel.
Email on your own domain
Unlimited mailboxes with IMAP, POP3 and webmail. Storage across all of them is capped at 10 GB, which is the one number worth knowing.
Cloudflare and ClamAV
DDoS protection and caching from Cloudflare, virus scanning on email, plus password-protected folders and hotlink protection.
Free migration
Moving an existing Windows site across is on us. Tell us where it lives now and we will do the copying and the checking.
Servers for this product are in the United States. If you need to be closer to visitors in Pakistan, our cloud hosting peers locally, but it is a Linux platform and will not run ASP.NET.
Backups are not included, and we will not pretend otherwise
This platform does not include a backup service, and keeping copies of your site and databases is your responsibility. We can ask for a restore from the platform's disaster-recovery copies, which cover roughly the last seven days, and there is a fee for it quoted at the time. It is a courtesy rather than a guarantee: it is not always possible, and it is not something to build a business on.
See cloud hosting- Keep your own backups — Plesk can make and download them on a schedule
- Export MS SQL databases separately; they are the part hardest to replace
- A disaster-recovery restore can be requested, charged per request
- Need somewhere to send them? Storage Hosting is built for exactly that
- Want backups that are guaranteed? Our cloud hosting includes them
The limits that actually exist
Shared hosting always has boundaries, and "unmetered" is not the same as "unlimited". These are the ones that apply here.
Unmetered is not unlimited
Space and transfer are not counted against a quota and you are not billed for them. Sustained use of 25% or more of a server's resources for over 90 seconds is where the line sits.
Email caps at 10 GB
Mailboxes are unlimited in number, but the total email storage on the account is 10 GB. A team that needs more wants business email on its own platform.
It is for websites
The account hosts sites and their email. It is not a file archive or a backup destination, and using it that way will get the files removed.
One site on the smallest plan
WSW1 is a single website. If you are running two, even small ones, start at WSW2 rather than planning to squeeze them in.
Shared, not dedicated
Other accounts share the machine. An application that needs guaranteed CPU or its own SQL Server instance belongs on a cloud server rather than here.
No Linux-only tooling
This is IIS, not Apache or nginx. Software that expects a Linux filesystem, cron or a LAMP stack should go on our Linux hosting.
Which of the two you actually want
Most websites do not need Windows. The ones that do, need it absolutely, and putting them on Linux wastes everybody's time.
Choose Windows if it is .NET
An application written in ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core, or anything built in Visual Studio against IIS, belongs here.
Choose Windows if it is MS SQL
If your data lives in MS SQL Server and moving it is not on the table, this is the platform that speaks to it natively.
Choose Windows if you know Plesk
Plesk is the panel here. If your team already works in it, that is a reasonable reason on its own.
Choose Linux for WordPress
WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and most PHP software run better and cheaper on Linux. Our business hosting is built for them.
Choose Linux for cost
Windows licensing makes this platform dearer for the same amount of room. If nothing ties you to Windows, do not pay for it.
Not sure?
Send us the application, or the name of the software, and we will tell you which one it needs. It takes us a minute and saves you a migration.
We do the moving, you check the result
- 1
Pick a plan and a term
Longer terms cost less per month: two years takes 10% off, three takes 15% and four takes 25%.
- 2
Send us the old account
Files, databases and email. We handle MS SQL exports and imports as part of the move rather than leaving them to you.
- 3
Check it before it goes live
The copy runs on a temporary address until you have tested the application properly. Nothing switches until you say so.
- 4
We point the domain
We change the records and watch them propagate, with the old host still up, so there is no window where the site is down.
Migration is free, and there is no limit on how many sites we move within your plan's allowance.
The rest of our hosting
Business Web Hosting
The Linux equivalent of this product, on the same reseller platform, and cheaper for the same amount of room.
Read more →Personal Web Hosting
A small plan on our own server for a first site, priced in rupees and billed once a year.
Read more →Cloud Hosting
Autoscaling Linux hosting with no resource caps and daily backups included.
Read more →Storage Hosting
Cheap capacity to send this account's backups to, from 200 GB to 20 TB, with rsync, FTP and one-click Nextcloud.
Read more →Managed Cloud Servers
A whole server, managed by us, when an application has outgrown what shared hosting can give it.
Read more →Windows hosting, answered plainly
Which versions of ASP.NET and SQL Server are on the server?
ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core and MVC are all available, along with MS SQL Server and MySQL. We confirm the exact version numbers when you order rather than publishing them here, because the platform is patched and upgraded and a number on a page goes stale. If your application needs a specific version, tell us first and we will check before you pay.
Which versions of ASP.NET and SQL Server are on the server?
ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core and MVC are all available, along with MS SQL Server and MySQL. We confirm the exact version numbers when you order rather than publishing them here, because the platform is patched and upgraded and a number on a page goes stale. If your application needs a specific version, tell us first and we will check before you pay.
Put the .NET application somewhere built for it
Tell us what the application is and where it runs now. We will confirm the platform suits it, move it across, and only switch the domain when you have tested it yourself.