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HostSlick Discontinuation of Shared-Hosting Packages
From HostSlick:
Dear valueed clients,
to put forward our transformation into a IaaS / Bare-Metal Server only Business we have Discontiuned selling any Shared-Hosting packages on our Website and stopped accepting new orders for those. This was already done by 1st January 2025.
Existing packages are not affected and will contiune to run. However the Shared-Hosting Product Line is now discontiuned and not updated in future.
HostSlick does hereby inform to not offer Shared-Hosting (and its Reseller Products) anymore.
We will now focus on Bare-Metal/Dedicated Servers and VPS. We also added a Webpage for High Bandwidth Dedicated Servers (10Gbit, 40Gbit and up)
https://hostslick.com/10gbit-servers.php
For the VPS packages we as well put OpenVZ out of our website. From now on all VPS Packages are KVM only.
We will soon instruduce new VPS plans as well with AMD Epyc, Intel, NVME and Enteprise only SSDs from now on.
This will happen in the next months. We are still to decide if we will make them 10Gbit or just 1Gbit/5Gbit. The new VPS plans metrics are still to be decided.
We except to release our new VPS Packages Q3/2025.
As we contiune to develop, during the same time we also about to upgrade all existing dedicated servers which have still 1Gbit uplinks, to 10Gbit fiber uplinks.
Already from 1st January 2024 (a year ago) we have been only setting up/delivering servers with minimum 10Gbit Fiber ports.
We have planned this all long time and also upgraded the network in October to deliver high amounts of bandwidth - here
HostSlick is well growing, we re-stock on average 50 or more additional Servers every month and are ordering another 96 servers in february. We soon will be out of space in our reserved alley in the datacenter and except to add another 15+- Racks in the Summer once our datacenter has built out their new sector.
This has come as we find ourself not in the Shared-Hosting business. Also because of unstable license vendors which keep increasing their prices while the turnover and marging on this products are very very low where its not worth it to run this and many more reasons.
Thank you for being with us! Lets start into a awesome 2025!
@HostSlick
1. What happens to lifetime shared hosting packages? Will they continue to work?
2. What happens to other shared hosting packages? Will it be possible to keep renewing them?
3. What about support for the shared hosting plans going forward?
4. Will the offered software such as PHP, LiteSpeed, Softaculous, etc. be updated in the future too?
Comments
That was Definitely not Written by Max. No forensics Needed, he Capitalizes every Other word for Some reason.
Probably cant afford the license costs anymore
Are open source alternatives still not at that level yet? I just think if providers shifted to open source control and billing panel wouldn't it bring down like all the licencing costs?
@HostSlick
Email says it all.
There is no change for existing ACTIVE Shared products. Ordering new ones just isnt possible anymore.
I have already done this beginning of the year and removed the offers on Website. I just wasnt sure if we are gonna cancel all end of Billing Period or Just let them contiune to run.
But as its only 5 Shared hosting nodes we just let them contiune to run. Out of hundreds of servers they barely produce any costs anyway other then licenses.
I've seen a lot of people here on LET say good things about Hestia Control Panel (AKA HestiaCP) which is free and open-source.
I decided to give it a try a few days ago and the results were promising. The upcoming 1.9 looks even more so, with PHP 8.4 support, the ability to import from cPanel & DirectAdmin and so on.
Having said all that, I'm not sure how well it would fair in a shared hosting environment, what with no CloudLinux support. Not sure if there's a HestiaCP equivalent of CloudLinux' CageFS or DirectAdmin's Bubblewrap.
It says in the text "Shared-Hosting Product Line is now discontiuned and not updated in future." So I guess they will just leave it as it is without making updates
Correct. The Plans are not updated and just left as is.
The Server (Software ) itself are being updated.
We just never really succeed in the Shared Hosting very much. You see its only 5 Nodes too.
We grow exponentially with other products, mainly dedicated servers. So its time to focus on that even more. And thats why no new orders are accepted for Shared. It was basically always a dead product line to be honest with myself.
So the shared packages will get support for new php versions? Have I understood correctly?
This assumes that they have the technical capabilities to manage a FOSS alternative.
all shared hosting packages canceled. riding a dead horse makes no sense. now everything moves to the @MannDude
I'm absolutely happy with @NameCrane
I've read also good things about @MannDude
@HostSlick
I’d like to know what’s happening with my BF2023 OpenVZ plans. Raised a ticket Jan 1 that all four of the services were down and not appearing to be manageable at all from the control panel. Yet to get an acknowledgement or response to the issue. OpenVZ also seems to be on the out but for now I can’t access the services at all and I’m not aware of what the plan is for those active services.
Please take a look at #784393