Pros & Cons
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- Robust cloud, dedicated, reseller, and VPS packages
- Prorated VPS plans
- Powerful, high-end server specs
- Excellent uptime
- Terrific customer service
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- Expensive
- Lacks shared hosting 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 Eddie Bauer, Home Depot, National Geographic, Porsche, and Symantec. 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 has Linux- or Windows-based shared servers that give small- and medium-sized businesses room to grow (starting at $12.95 per month, renewing at $17.59 per month).
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
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 $196 per month) ups the ante by including 32GB of RAM and 400GB of SSD storage. Contact Liquid Web if you want to spec out a more powerful server.
(Credit: Liquid Web/PCMag)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 is our top pick for VPS services that cater to 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 only charges for the number of days you use the service per month, which is particularly beneficial if you decide to cancel your account (you'll receive a refund for the unused time).
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 as high as $493 per month for 10TB of data. Other extras include cybersecurity monitoring through ThreatDown ($34 per month per server), firewall services provided by Cisco, and server protection supplied by Imunify360 and Server Secure.
Dedicated Hosting
To build a website on the strongest possible foundation, consider Liquid Web's enterprise-class dedicated server plans. With dedicated hosting, your site utilizes a 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 server with a single quad-core processor, two 480GB solid-state drives (with a 1TB backup drive), 10TB of monthly data transfers, and 16GB of RAM (starting at $88 per month) to a server with high-end, 32-core processors with two 960GB NVMe drives (and a 1TB SATA backup drive), 10TB of monthly data transfers, and 128GB of RAM (starting at $647 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, SMBs should consider the many dedicated hosting packages offered by AccuWeb. On the low end, they start at $103 per month (for 4TB of storage, 32GB of RAM, and 20TB of monthly data transfers); on the high end, they start at $2,503 per month (for 23TB of storage, 256GB of RAM, and unlimited monthly data transfers).
GPU Hosting
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 $1.35 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, 7.68TB NVMe RAID-1 storage, and 768GB of DDR5 RAM. The cost? $9.91 per hour.
WordPress Hosting
Liquid Web has three types of WordPress web hosting: Managed WordPress Hosting, WordPress VPS, and Dedicated WordPress servers.
Managed WordPress has various plans based on the number of websites you need, which can be adjusted 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, which includes 250 websites, 800GB storage, 10TB monthly data transfers, 30-day backup retention, assisted website migration, Cloudflare Enterprise, DDoS protection, Web application firewall, and a free staging area for testing your site.
WordPress VPS options are divided into General, Memory-Optimized, and CPU-Optimized plans, with an Essential and Advanced version of each, totaling 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 $66 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).
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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.
Due to your company's needs, Bluehost may prove attractive due to its expansive feature set, which includes unlimited site hosting, monthly data transfers, domains, subdomains, and storage. For more robust WordPress services, WP Engine (the top pick for enterprise-class WordPress hosting) excels by providing Enterprise servers for larger WordPress-related projects. In fact, you must contact WP Engine regarding two of its three tiers before you can get started.
Cloud Hosting
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 four CPU cores, 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
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)Hostwind's reseller plans mirror its shared hosting plans, starting at $6.99 per month, which includes unlimited email, storage, and data transfers. On offer are dedicated and VPS packages of both Linux and Windows varieties, as well as shared hosting, which is currently limited to Linux. The servers have the same RAM and storage amounts as those supplied by Hostwinds directly, 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. The managed hosting environment is specifically designed for WordPress and its associated plug-ins. In fact, you don't have to install the CMS, as it comes preinstalled. Once logged into WordPress, we created posts, pages, and galleries as we would with any other self-hosted WordPress site.
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.
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 has free nightly backups, which will safeguard you should your site suffer massive 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 has a stated 99.9% uptime promise, so you can expect your site to be accessible the vast majority of the time.
Customer Service and Money-Back Guarantee
Liquid Web has an excellent Heroic Support customer service team, a squad of knowledgeable individuals who assist you within a minute if you reach out by phone or chat, or within 30 minutes if you submit a help desk ticket. We fired up the web chat on a weekday afternoon 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.
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 only provides prorated refunds on monthly cloud servers, and most of its other services are non-refundable. Considering the amount of money a company will likely spend on Liquid Web hosting, it would be nice to see more refund options. Liquid Web contends that it's not possible because most services are custom-tailored to the user.
Robert Anderson contributed to this review.