Industry Technology Headquarters Palo Alto Type of business Private | Website hostt.com Founder John Rampton | |
Hostt is a Palo Alto, California-based technology company that provides free web hosting to business owners. The site offers thousands of templates and one-step installation of software add-ons, including PHP and Perl modules. In addition, Hostt uses a freemium model used in many other technology platforms, including mobile gaming, social networks, and SaaS tools.
Overview
Joomla Magazine writes that Hostt "provides six Add-on domains, unlimited parked domains, and unlimited sub-domains, full access to FTP, PHP, Apache and Control Panel (cPanel). It also allows .htaccess access". In addition, "Hostt offers free WordPress hosting with no limits" and "give[s] users full FTP access to their data so that they control every and own all the content on the site." John Rampton, the founder of the company has emphasized certain values about building community, including starting with a strong foundation, offering assistance, leaving management up to the community, focusing on specific members, fostering real relationships, and not using force.