Why WebFaction?

Make your site faster

We put fewer people on each server than most hosting providers and as a result our servers tend to be faster and more stable. Also, we use the blazing fast Nginx to serve static content. You still get the power of Apache for dynamic content but for static content nothing beats Nginx.

Try us risk free and save some money

We have a 60-day moneyback guarantee: just cancel your shared hosting account for any reason within 60 days and we'll send you a full refund. Our prices are the most competitive for the quality of hosting and the features that we provide. Anything below that and we would have to put more people on each server which would mean higher loads, slower websites and more crashes.

Use all the cool tools

We have over 50 one-click installers in our control panel including Django, Rails, WordPress, Drupal and many more. No need to spend hours installing and configuring the software, database etc. All it takes is one click in our control panel and you're good to go.

Use our modern and flexible setup

Our setup is one of the most modern and flexible out there. We spend hundreds of hours building and testing our own RPMs to always provide you with the latest tools while still keeping our servers stable. And if you want to use something that's not already there you can just build it yourself and install it in your home directory: we provide you with all the tools to do that as well (much like a VPS)!

Scale as much as you need

Our unique multi-machine load balancing solution allows you to manage your account on multiple machines from our control panel. You can easily deploy your apps on multiple machines and our system will automatically provide load-balancing between these machines. Some customers have scaled up their sites to tens of machines for a fraction of the price of dedicated servers.

Get great support

Everybody agrees: our support staff is one of the friendliest and most knowledgeable out there. We go the extra mile to always give you a useful answer within minutes. Oh, and we never stop either! It doesn't matter if it's 3pm on a Sunday afternoon or 3am on New Year's day: we're always there for you!

Get rock solid hosting

We've been in business for over 6 years and we use some of the top datacenters in the world (from ThePlanet). The datacenter features redundant UPS systems, generator backup, VESDA detection systems, closed circuit monitoring of all areas and entrances, 24 hour guard manned security, redundant a/c systems, and fiber from 5 separate providers. Over the years we built our own monitoring systems which detect potential problems on servers before they can cause any crashes. We also put fewer people on each server than most hosting providers. As a result many people have reported that our servers were faster and more stable than our competitor's.

Fight spam

Our e-mail platform is one of the most complete out there and comes with everything you can think of: webmail, SMTP/POP/IMAP, SSL, mailing lists, e-mail forwarding, autoresponders, server-side rules etc. It also come with a strong spam filtering system that rejects hundreds of spam e-mails each minute.