Top Web Hosts in New Zealand
Every month we publish our list of the top five hosts in New Zealand, all based on our strict testing and review process.
1. HostPapa 9.5/10
Another top spot for HostPapa – consistently great service with a dedicated focus for New Zealand customers with multilingual support and great server locations. For the New Zealand market, HostPapa keeps outperforming everyone else by a great margin.
Top Features
FREE Domain Name & SSL Certificate
FREE Website Builder & One-on-One Training
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
Starts at $1.95/mo NZD
Over 4127 visits today
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
100% Satisfaction Guarantee
Award Winning Service & Support
HostPapa Overview
Reasons to Buy:
Tons of add-on service options
Intuitive dashboard and quality of service
Feature rich shared plan starting at just $0.95/mo
World-class support that’s truly available 24/7
Very attractive intro prices without a huge renewal spike
Reasons to Avoid:
Very limited options on VPS plans
Site Speed 10/10
Next generation hardware outperforms typical shared hosting setups out there. Robust enterprise infrastructure is one of the key strength points for this host.
Support Quality 9.5/10
Multilingual and distributed, we’ve put the support to the test day and night over and over — we would almost say that this is engineer level support on some of the queries we had, top marks.
Site Builder 9.0/10
Typical arsenal of professional templates with a great site builder allows you to build a professional-looking website rather easily.
Security 10/10
SSL Certificate included free in every plan, EV options available, higher tier plans offer full enterprise WAF at the edge as well as automated backup and malware scanning and removal. Security is as good as it gets.
2. IONOS Hosting By 1&1 8.4/10
Europe’s largest hosting provider and domain name registrar, IONOS has a customer-focused approach to website management and offers a good variety of website products and services.
Top Features
Free domain name for 1 year
Free email account
Free SSL security certificate
Reasons to buy
99.97% uptime
Solid user interface
1 click installs for 70+ apps
Reasons to Avoid
Loading speed is just OK
No free website transfers
Start at $9.84/mo NZD
Over 2211 visits today
3. GoDaddy 8.1/10
With 20 million customers, GoDaddy is a powerhouse. They’ve made recent changes to their products and services to improve their quality, and it shows.
Top Features
Low first-year domain costs with free privacy protection forever
Provide marketing services
Custom logos with the GoDaddy Logo Maker
Reasons to buy
The largest domain name registrar out there
A huge variety of available services
Unlimited bandwidth and disk space
Reasons to Avoid
Customer support is not always 24/7
Customer support can be inconsistent
Start at $4.19/mo NZD
Over 1483 visits today
4. FreeParking 7.6/10
Based in New Zealand, FreeParking offers a variety of web hosting solutions, but doesn’t have any dedicated server options.
Top Features
Unlimited subdomains
Unlimited email addresses and email traffic
140+ free 1-click install apps
Reasons to buy
Easy-to-use customer interface
Free domain for life
Reasonable pricing
Reasons to Avoid
Frequent email issues
Support not available 24/7
Start at $13.42/mo NZD
Over 712 visits today
5. OpenHost 7.2/10
Founded in 2008, OpenHost has servers in New Zealand and offers and wide variety of web hosting solutions to suit any business’s needs.
Top Features
Free domain
Free SSL certificate
Unlimited subdomains
Reasons to buy
Servers in New Zealand
14-day free trial
Windows and Linux support
Reasons to Avoid
Pricier-than-average hosting
Pre-sales support could be more responsive
Start at $8.60/mo NZD
Over 544 visits today
Four Foundational Pillars
All our testing and reviews can be broken down to our four foundational pillars of quality. All these factors (and more!) are put under our rigorous review process.
Site Speed
Speed is typically the most obvious thing to notice about your site’s performance. Users love fast websites as does Google, the faster the site is, the better it ranks so we have it in our first spot.
Support Quality
Knowledgeable and helpful support should be the building block for every great company. Any support team can answer a question, but few go above and beyond to help customers — we value that.
Site Builder
Because plenty of people choose to build their sites themselves or select pre-built templates, we have the site builder (and templates offered) very high on our ranking priority.
Security
Another foundational metric, most hosts offer the standard SSL certificate, but few are really secure and built on top of security-first principles. There is a lot that goes into security, other than just SSL.
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