HostArmada Review, an Honest Verdict on the Hosting

This HostArmada review covers the pros, the cons and my own experience with the host, with the screenshots to back it up.

Hostarmada Detailed Introduction

First, a bit about the company.

Hostarmada is a newly launched independent Hosting Company founded in the last quarter of 2019. Independent means they do not resell anyone else's hosting. They have their own team for everything, from server management to client support.

One of their support staff told me they have about 2,000 clients, which I think is a good number for a company this new. I moved this blog from SiteGround to HostArmada myself, after testing their hosting on a demo site and checking the performance. The reason is mentioned below

Technology used by Hostarmada Hosting

The most important thing about any host is its server technology and infrastructure. HostArmada runs cloud SSD servers like SiteGround, but on Linode Cloud infrastructure where SiteGround uses Google Cloud.

What makes their servers more powerful than SiteGround and other providers is LiteSpeed. If you have not met it before, LiteSpeed boosts a normal Apache server without getting in its way.

-> Siteground Honest Review of 2020

The image above shows server load dropping to very low once LiteSpeed is on. That means the same server can handle more visitors and requests. It balances the load and speeds up both Apache and PHP. For More about Litespeed Visit here.

LiteSpeed also works very well with WordPress, and if you add LiteSpeed's free QUIC CDN your website will load faster than a rocket.

Then there is the LiteSpeed plugin for WordPress. It handles code and image optimisation and makes caching smooth. Together, these are why HostArmada's servers outperform normal cloud infrastructure.

Server Location Provided by Hostarmada

For a young company, HostArmada's server locations impressed me. One of their executives, Bogdan Toshev, confirmed what I had found: they run on Linode Cloud infrastructure, which means Indian users get an Indian server.

They have servers in ->

• USA West Fremont, CA,
• South Canada Toronto, ON
• Europe London, UK
• USA Central Dallas, TX
• USA East Newark, NJ
• Europe Frankfurt, DE
• Mumbai India, IN
• Asia, Singapore, SG
• Sydney Australia, AU

You can better recognize geolocation of all servers provided by HostArmada by checking the above image

Hostarmada Server Uptime

Next, uptime, which you should check before choosing any host.

From my research before this review, I can say with confidence that their server setup is flexible enough that you will not notice any real downtime.

Here is last few month Uptime details provided by Hostarmada itself about their Uptime.

From the above picture, you can see 100% uptime and Ping of Hostarmada Hosting and this monitoring is done by me personally using freeping.io a free website monitoring tool.

I monitored and tested their hosting myself for 8 months. Here is the uptime report for those 8 months.

• December 2019 average uptime: 100%
• January 2020 average uptime: 100%
• February 2020 average uptime: 100%
• March 2020 average uptime: 99.99%
• April 2020 average uptime: 99.99%
• May 2020 average uptime: 99.98%
• June 2020 average uptime: 99.99%
• July 2020 average uptime: 99.98%

From this statistic, you can calculate average Uptime of Hostarmada for last 8-months that comes to approx 99.99%.

Hostarmada Speed Test

I have tested Hostarmada hosting with default WordPress installation with twenty-twenty WordPress theme from 30+ different location with 3+ speed test tool including google page insight.

Please note that I have not used any CDN and Optimization or Cache plugin while taking the test, which means its a default WordPress site test.

Speed Test by Google Page Insight

This test is for mobile loading time but the desktop was also the same and you can see it is pretty fast. Speed is one of the main factors in on page SEO, because it cuts bounce rate and lifts conversions.

-> Know more about on page SEO

2. Speed Test By GTMatrix

As you can see on Gtmatrix Speed Performance Report that a 261 KB page takes just 2.8 seconds to load even without any compression and speed optimization. Also, no CDN used anyhow.

3. Speed Test by Dotcom-tools

I have tested their speed with 25 location using dotcom-tools for this particular Hostarmada Review So that you can get a better understanding and can decide which hosting to choose at this range of price. Please visit here to see the live speed test report.

Pros of Using Hostarmada Hosting

HostArmada's biggest strength is its powerful hosting infrastructure. Here are the other pros.

Cons of Hostarmada

I did not run into any major problems with HostArmada, but a few things are worth knowing

If you have found other pros or cons, post them in the comments and I will add them to this review.

Hostarmada Plan And Pricing Review

You might expect cloud, SSD and LiteSpeed to cost far more than normal hosting. It does not. You get a reliable, powerful and well optimised platform without paying a premium for it.

-> HostArmada Shared Hosting Plan <-

-> HostAramda VPS Hosting Plan <-

Payment Methods

Payment methods matter for any purchase, whether it is hosting, a domain or a tool. Few things are more irritating than reaching checkout and finding your payment method missing.

So let me tell you here that how many and which payment methods are supported by Hostarmada Hosting.

For this time they accept Visa (USD Enabled) and PayPal (USD enabled). Like other hosting provider they do not offer different site for different country which means local payment methods are not going to work there.

Take India. To pay on the HostArmada website, you need a card with international cross border payments enabled, and most Indian users do not have one. If you are interested and do not have such a card, contact me and I will help you step by step.

Tools and Dashboard of Hostarmada

Hostarmada provides traditional cPanel to monitor and Manage hosting and website. I have attached the cPanel Dashboard picture that shows all tools provided by them. So let see them one by one.

They provide all the tools and features that you need to manage your website like Free SSL Certificate for encrypting, Daily backup for making your site ready to restore any time and many more tools like that.

As usual Cpanel, you can monitor the usage of hosting and can access everything from FTP to MySQL database.

WordPress Management Software inside cPanel

They provide Softcalculous to manage any type of CMS like WordPress, Magneto, BBPress etc.without too much experience with one click. You can easily create and manage your blog using their one-click WordPress Installation.

-> Learn All About Blogging complete WordPress tutorial for beginners (free PDF)

Free Professional Emails (mail@yourdomain.com)

I am a big fan of hosts that include free professional email with SSL encryption, because a professional address earns more trust and more conversions from customers. HostArmada includes it in the cPanel dashboard.

From here you can create professional email and forward them to your gmail to keep a copy of every email received on your pro email.

Daily Backups

Backups matter even more than hosting, because sites do crash and a backup is how you recover. HostArmada has a daily backup tool built into cPanel. It is not a WordPress plugin. It works inside cPanel to store and restore backups.

Free SSL

SSL is essential for user trust and security on any blog, and HostArmada includes it free with its hosting.

Free Speed optimizaton

Hostarmada offer free website optimization by their team in less than 1 hr. It is a nice extra, since nobody likes paying separately for speed optimisation. They usually set up the LS Cache plugin and tune it for your site

LiteSpeed + LS Cache + Quic Cloud CDN

As I have already mentioned above that they are using LiteSpeed Technologay which is very fast and secure. In addition with lightspeed they integrate QUIC Cloud CDN on demand that will speed up your website an give your user a fast experience.

How to order Hostarmada Hosting in any Country by any Payment Method

Conclusion

After using and monitoring HostArmada myself, I would go with them without hesitation. I will give Hostarmada a rating of 4.4 out of 5.

Both my own experience and my research say you cannot expect more at this price. It is the best affordable host with cloud SSD and LiteSpeed if speed is what you are after.

If you need any personal support regarding hosting you can Comment below or contact me anytime.

Thank You