Tweak Your Biz: AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Review (2023)

Best for Small Businesses

If you’re here, you’re looking to (potentially) purchase one of AccuWeb’s Cloud hosting plans

With so many cloud hosting options, choosing the wrong one can harm your traffic and your business. If you’re unaware (or maybe you are), switching hosting plans can be a pain in the A**.

You’re in luck. I’m Garrett, and I’ve spent the last ten years building a digital agency, first as a web designer/developer and next as an owner.

In that timeframe, I worked with hundreds of companies on different hosting plans and spent a significant amount of time with AccuWeb.

How did we test AccuWeb’s cloud hosting?

We did the heavy lifting on this one and setup a staging site at tybtestsite.com that we popped on AccuWeb’s cloud-hosting virtual servers.

Here’s what you’ll get in this review.

Hosting Speed Test
Hosting Uptime Test
Hosting Features and Plans
Ease of Use (cPanel)
Hosting Security
Customer Support Review

Let’s nerd out and dive in!

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Overview

AccuWeb provides reliable, robust, and secure cloud hosting services to small businesses and individuals.

They offer a variety of features, including 100% hardware uptime, full root access, daily and weekly backups, and your choice of the operating system.

AccuWeb’s servers are powered by vCPU processors and Enterprise-grade SSDs. They provide unlimited bandwidth and free SSL certificates.

Their cloud hosting plans start at $7.99/month for their basic plan, which includes 1GB of RAM, 1vCPU, and 30 GB of Storage. They also offer other plans with more features based on the needs of your business.

This is all excellent brochure info, though. How does it stack up in real life?

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Pros and Cons

While AccuWeb hosting is top-notch, there are also some drawbacks to their cloud hosting platform.

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Pros:

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Cons:

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Deep Dive

AccuWeb has several different plan offerings for their Cloud hosting.

General Purpose
Memory Optimized
CPU Optimized
Storage Optimized
Cloud with Windows OS

Their General Purpose plan is the basic plan (the one we tested) and it offers 1GB of RAM, 30 GB of storage, and 1vCPU processor. Let’s see how it did! Spoiler alert, it killed it on speed.

$ 7

Monthly

1 GB RAM
1 vCPU
30 GB Storage

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$ 32

Monthly

8 GB RAM
1 vCPU
30 GB Storage

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$ 24

Monthly

4 GB RAM
2 vCPU
30 GB Storage

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AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Speed Review

After setting up our staging site, we left it up for a month and tested the speed throughout that timeframe. The results were better than expected.

AccuWeb’s Cloud hosting was consistently fast, loading pages in under 0.2 seconds (not bad!). According to their website, they promised fast speeds, and they delivered.

Here are our full GTmetrix results.

Grade: A
Largest Contentful Paint: 839ms
Total Blocking Time: 100ms
Cumulative Layout Shift: .01

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting GTmetrix Results

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Uptime Review

Uptime is another important factor to consider when choosing a hosting company. We tracked AccuWeb’s uptime over the course of the month, and it held up at 99%+ for the entire time.

We were impressed with this result! This means that your website won’t go offline (or even slow down significantly) due to server issues.

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Features Review

When it comes to features and plans, AccuWeb has you covered. They offer a variety of plans to fit the needs of your website or business.

All of their plans include the following features.

Dedicated IP Address
Complimentary Backups
Built-in Microsoft Windows Firewall
Fully Scalable Resources
Full Root Access
Choice of Operating system (Linux or Windows)
DDoS Protection (more on that in the security section)
100% Hardware uptime

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Ease of Use

This is one of the areas where it was lacking (for beginners). Once you get past the initial setup, AccuWeb is fairly easy to use.

But getting past the setup is where it gets tricky. The cPanel that AccuWeb uses isn’t as intuitive as some of their competitors and can take some time to get used to.

We found ourselves having to refer back to the AccuWeb’s customer support (which was great) to get things humming along.

AccuWeb cPanel

AccuWeb Cloud Hosting Security Review

Security is always a top priority when it comes to hosting.

We were pleased to see that AccuWeb takes security seriously. All of their plans include DDoS protection and IP whitelisting, as well as detailed data reports and monitoring features.

They also use Microsoft Windows Firewall to protect their servers from malicious attacks.

Out of the hosting organizations we’ve tested over the years, we can say that AccuWeb has top marks when it comes to security.

AccuWeb Customer Support Review

AccuWeb Offers 24/7 customer support via live chat or email (no phone call support).

Remember the hiccups we hit when setting up our site? Well, AccuWeb’s customer support team was responsive and knowledgeable.

We asked many questions, and they were always eager to help.

Overall, they had a quick response time, and when they didn’t get back to us after hours, they quickly followed up in the morning.