2GB Hosting Review: Do We Recommend Them?

2GB Hosting is a Jaipur, India-based web hosting company. It was founded by a “young group of tech entrepreneurs,” who we can’t seem to find on the internet. During the research, the only names we found were David Runyon, the founder of 2GB Hosting (which seems like a fake persona), and Naveen Sharma, the founder of HRNTIPL (a company that used to own 2GB Hosting, as per web archives). 

It was founded way back in 1997, making it the oldest hosting company we’ve ever researched about. However, the proverb “old is gold” doesn’t apply here or with almost any technological item.

Sure, 2GB Hosting has been upgraded with time, but is it enough to compete with the best of the bests? Let’s find out!

4 good things about 2GB Hosting

To survive the oversaturated hosting market, a company needs to be good in some aspects, if not all. 2GB Hosting has the following elements in their favor:

1. Affordable pricing

Low cost is perhaps 2GB Hosting’s primary USP (Unique selling point). It’s priced even lower than our favorite cheap hosting, Hostinger.

The base shared hosting plan, 202GB Hosting, costs a mere 495 rupees/year. That’s just a bit above 40 rupees per month. Moreover, you only need to pay yearly to avail the price, which is excellent for absolute beginners with almost zero budget. With most hosting providers, you need to pre-pay for 2-4 years to get the services at introductory pricing ⁠— not with 2GB!

The mentioned price is excluding GST (goods & service tax), though. So add 18% to whatever number’s mentioned on their website.

2. Good server response time in India

If your primary visitors are from India, you’d appreciate 2GB Hosting for its server response time. 

Server response time is the total time it takes for a web browser to get a response from the server. If the server response time is >200 ms, visitors will start noticing latency and probably leave even before the site opens. 

We tested 2GB Hosting’s server response time using Bitcatcha, and these were the numbers:

In short, 2GB’s customer service is unreliable.

2. Frequent outages

For your website to do what it’s meant to do (provide information, sell products, attract leads, etc.), it needs to be live. Uptime is a metric that shows how much time a website was available. 

Ideally, you want your site to be live 24/7/365, i.e., 100% uptime. But anything above 99.95% is acceptable in practice. Our uptime test on 2GB hosting showed 99.87% uptime, which is below average. Moreover, we have seen many of their customers complain about frequent outages ⁠— one guy had his server down for 4 days!!

So, if your website’s availability is crucial to what you do, we’d suggest to stay away from 2GB Hosting and go with Hostinger instead.

3. Mixed customer reviews

Checking other customers’ experiences with the hosting company is a part of our routine. When we did the same with 2GB Hosting, we found some customers seem to like them; some don’t.

We usually look at TrustPilot reviews, but it’s a 5 on 5 there, and most reviews look like paid reviews/spam reviews. Therefore, we checked their Facebook page.

Here’s a perfect screenshot that sums up how recommendable is 2GB Hosting situation:

If you are looking for reseller hosting, we would recommend you A2 Hosting. As for 2GB packs, each plan allows unlimited domains, unlimited bandwidth usage, and unlimited emails. The only difference is in the storage you need to divide and resell.