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FlatPress Hosting

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Basic
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Starting at $6.71/mo
Renews at 8.95/mo

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Standard
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Starting at $9.71/mo
Renews at 12.95/mo

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Professional
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Starting at $14.96/mo
Renews at 19.95/mo

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Premium
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Starting at $29.96/mo
Renews at 39.95/mo

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KnownHost provides leading hosting performance to bloggers around the globe, and we’ve been in the business since 2006 – so we know what our customers want. We know that if your content isn’t online and in front of your audience, then it isn’t performing. That’s why we offer 99.99%+ average uptime to every customer, big and small. We think your FlatPress hosting plan should deliver exactly what we promise and nothing less. KnownHost provides a cutting-edge, SSD-backed Cloud hosting environment, with USA-based technical staff on-hand 24/7.

We match you with the FlatPress hosting plan that’s right for your needs, and we’ll make sure your hosting performs seamlessly day in, day out.

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Expert, USA-Based Support

We want our customers to know that the support they’re getting is easy to access and always there when needed. KnownHost offers 24/7, 365 day-a-year support, with all our technical staff based in the USA.

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A Proven Hosting History

Hosting isn’t something we’re new to – we’ve been in the business for 16 years and counting. KnownHost has a verifiable track-record that you can see for yourself – just look up our customer reviews.

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Leading, Dependable Performance

It’s our promise to you that you’ll always receive 99.99%+ uptime for your FlatPress blog hosting plan. We only use the best hardware and software to power our hosting, and the result is uptime performance you won’t find anywhere else.

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Affordable, Growable Hosting

As the size and needs of your blogging site grow, so too do our hosting options. When it’s time to upgrade, we have a range of Shared, Reseller and VPS hosting plans available – and we can even take of things like migration for you.

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Access to Softaculous

Softaculous gives you access to more than 400 applications, from enhanced blogging tools to CMS and eCommerce systems. And installing them is easy from the control panel we include with every hosting plan we provide.

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DNS Configuration Support

If you’re not too confident with DNS, our support staff can manage configuration changes for you and help make the process hands-off, quick and painless.

Compare Web Hosting Plans.

Basic
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Professional
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Premium
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*As low as $19.98/mo

Domain

Point of address used to access your website within a preferred browser.

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CPU Core

1 CPU Core

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6 CPU Core

Memory Limit

1 GB

2 GB

4 GB

6 GB

Cloud Storage

10 GB

25 GB

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Email Accounts

The number of email accounts you can create for your account either POP3 or IMAP.

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25

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MySQL Databases

Using MariaDB tuned for performance, KnownHost ensures database optimization.

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Premium Bandwidth

Information transferred from your account to visiting users.

Unlimited

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Inode Limit

Number of individual files that can exist within a single cPanel account.

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Free SSL

Get covered with 90 day renewable certificates provided by Let's Encrypt.

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PatchMan

Premium service to automatically patch known vulnerabilities found in your software.

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LiteSpeed

Drop-in replacement for Apache. Proven better performance over Apache and NGINX.

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Isolated Resources

KnownHost provices specific configurations for each package, guaranteeing your account resources.

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Zend OpCache

Dramatically increases performance of wbesites that utilize PHP and are compatible with OpCache.

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Object Caching

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cPanel

Premium favored control panel that allows ease of management for related webhosting features such as emails, domains, ftp, etc.

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Imunify360

All inclusive protection that monitors, scans and actively performs actions to secure accounts. Protection from malware, viruses, sql injections and more.

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CloudLinux Isolation

Account isolation with guaranteed resources. What you buy is yours, experience no issues as a result of noisy neighbors.

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DDoS Protection

Complimentary protection. KnownHost's network is protected up to 1Tbps.

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Free Backups

Complimentary redundant backup schedule, all handled by KnownHost.

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Raw Access Logs

Direct logging in which shows user IP, refferer, and useragent associated with the visit.

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Available PHP Versions

5.6, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3

5.6, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3

5.6, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3

5.6, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3

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Need More Information About
FlatPress Hosting?

KnownHost can help with managed migrations for your site and content, so you don’t have to worry about downtime and your audience missing out. Our support staff will help whether you’re moving to KnownHost or switching from one of our hosting plans to another. Best off, migration is free from most common control panels like Plesk to cPanel.

Any time you raise an issue with our support staff, our goal is to respond within five minutes. Our team is there 24/7 and ready to help with any issues you might encounter. We won’t pass you from person to person, and we won’t leave you without an answer.

We’ve been in the hosting business for 20 years, and you can see our proven, verifiable track record. We deliver, as standard, 99.99%+ average uptime – something you won’t find anywhere else. We know that your blogging site always needs to be up and performing – and that’s just what we provide.

We include Litespeed, Litemage and LSCache on all Shared and Reseller plans for speed optimization – installed, configured and ready to go. Additionally, we can provide additional RAM upon request if you want a little more power behind your site.

As soon as you sign up for one of KnownHost’s hosting plans, we’ll include a free SSL certificate for your site. If you’re looking for a premium SSL certificate, then we can there too. We offer premium certificates from Comodo, RapidSSL and GeoTrust, with a range of options from which to choose.

With the one-click install Softaculous, you can access more than 400 applications. Whether you want to add increased eCommerce capabilities or freshen up your CMS, Softaculous puts all the functionality you need right at your fingertips.