Hostwinds, comparedGood support, American company.

Hostwinds does the mid-market well: reasonable prices, support that answers, and a catalogue that covers shared through to dedicated. The comparison is the same one as every US provider on this page.

6 minute read · Their pages last read 30 juillet 2026 · Corrections welcome

The one you are looking at

Hostwinds

Where: United States, Netherlands
Site: hostwinds.com

What they are genuinely good at

Support quality above what the price point usually buys.
A full catalogue from shared hosting to dedicated machines under one account.
A Dutch region alongside the US ones, which some competitors at this level lack.

This estate

DediPrivacy

Where: eight jurisdictions, eight companies
Site: dediprivacy.com

What we publish that most do not

Every price, including bare metal, GPU by the second and colocation.
A signed warrant canary, a quarterly transparency report and the inventory of records that exist.
Mitigation on before an attack starts, and an SLA that credits itself from the incident record.

Row by row

What each of us publishes.

Not what each of us believes. Every row below is a page you can open on either site, or an answer that is not there.

Their column reflects their own public pages, read on 30 juillet 2026. marks a thing we could not find published — it is not a claim that they do not do it.
Published?	Hostwinds	DediPrivacy
Sign up without identity documents No name, no address, no document, at any spend level.	No	Published
Settles in cryptocurrency Accepted as payment, not as a gift-card workaround.	No	Published
Accepts Monero The only widely accepted asset that is private by default.	No	Published
Every price published The whole catalogue on a page, with no “contact us” tier.	Published	Published
Signed warrant canary Cryptographically signed, dated, and on a schedule.	Not published	Published
Transparency report with figures Notices received, and how many were acted on.	Not published	Published
Law-enforcement guide published The inventory of records that exist, before you ask.	Partly	Published
Log retention stated as a number Hours or days, not “minimal” or “as required”.	Partly	Published
A separate legal entity per jurisdiction So a judgment in one country does not reach the servers in another.	No	Published
Uptime SLA credited automatically Credited from the published incident record, with no claim form.	Partly	Published
DDoS mitigation included On every product, at no extra charge, with no protected-IP upsell.	Partly	Published
Bare metal, GPU and colocation Beyond virtual machines, on the same account and policy.	Partly	Published

On eleven of the twelve rows above, this estate publishes an answer and we could not find one published there. Tell us if a row is wrong

A Dutch region does not change the company

The Dutch region is genuinely useful for European latency. The company selling it remains American, and a complaint is addressed to the company. This is the same point the Vultr page makes and it is the one most often misread across this whole market.

What is published

An SLA exists and is claimable, which is the industry norm; here it credits automatically from the incident record with no claim form. The canary, the quarterly notice count and the record inventory have no equivalent, because resisting is not what that business sells.

Where they are stronger

Managed shared hosting with a panel and a support team behind it. Ours exists and is published with everything else, but a managed relationship is not what this estate is built to sell.

Questions people actually ask

Is the Dutch region offshore?

The hardware is in the Netherlands; the supplier is American. Whether that counts depends entirely on who you expect to hear from.

Do you offer managed hosting?

Managed in the sense of a maintained LiteSpeed stack and a panel, yes. Managed in the sense of somebody administering your application, no.

Buy theirs instead if

You want a conventional US provider with real support and no interest in the jurisdiction question.
Shared hosting with a panel is the actual requirement and you want it managed.
Their price and region mix fits and being identified is fine.

That list is here because a comparison that cannot name a reason to buy the other one is an advertisement. If any of those three is you, they are the better buy and this page has done its job.

Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue

Others of the same kind

Good engineering, and a compliance department. What changes when the company holding your disk is answerable where the complaint is filed.

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