InterServer is a New Jersey hosting company, founded in 1999, that sells shared web hosting, cloud VPS, dedicated servers and colocation from its own U.S. facilities. It suits budget-minded site owners who want a low renewal price, and developers who want cheap, scalable VPS resources in the United States.
The headline price is $2.50/month for the first term on Standard web hosting, then $7/month on renewal. VPS hosting starts at $3/month per slice, and dedicated servers start at $166/month.
My InterServer review scores below are based on the current plans, policies and published customer feedback, checked on October 25, 2026.
| Overall | Features | Performance | Ease of use | Price | Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 9.0 |
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Data sheet of the host
InterServer is an American host with all of its data centers in the United States: the New York City metro area, Dallas and Los Angeles.
Hosting Types
- Shared web hosting (Standard, cPanel and Boost plans)
- Windows ASP.NET hosting
- Reseller hosting
- Cloud VPS (Linux, Windows and storage VPS)
- Dedicated servers and Rapid Deploy servers
- Colocation and storage hosting
Operating Systems
- Shared hosting: Linux with CloudLinux (Windows for ASP.NET plans)
- Linux VPS: AlmaLinux, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS-compatible images, Fedora, openSUSE, FreeBSD and others (KVM)
- Windows VPS: Windows Server with Remote Desktop (Hyper-V)
DataCenters
- Secaucus, Carlstadt and Jersey City, New Jersey (New York City metro, USA)
- Dallas, Texas (USA)
- Los Angeles, California (USA)
Shared Web Hosting
The first term costs $2.50 per month. Renewals are $7 per month on the Standard plan.
Boost Web Hosting
Boost plans keep the same monthly price from the start: $9.95, $19.95 and $69.95.
Cloud VPS
Each Linux slice costs $3 per month, billed monthly, from 1 to 32 slices.
Dedicated Servers
Buy It Now servers are stocked hardware with fixed prices. Custom builds are priced in the configurator.
About InterServer
InterServer was co-founded in 1999 by Mike Lavrik and John Quaglieri. It started with domains and reseller hosting and grew into shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and colocation, all run from facilities it operates or rents in New Jersey, Dallas and Los Angeles.
The company is best known for cheap renewals. Most shared hosts advertise a low first-term price and then double or triple it, while InterServer publishes a $7/month renewal right next to the $2.50 offer. That makes the real long-term cost easy to plan.
The main tradeoff is geography. With only U.S. data centers, InterServer makes the most sense for sites and apps whose visitors are mostly in North America.
Pros
- Low, published renewal price ($7/month on Standard hosting).
- $3/month VPS slices with 2 GB RAM, monthly billing and no contract.
- Free migration for web hosting accounts.
- Free DDoS protection, InterShield security and free Cloudflare CDN.
- 30-day full refund on web hosting plans.
- 24/7 support by ticket, phone and live chat.
Cons
- Data centers in the United States only.
- Standard hosting uses DirectAdmin; cPanel costs more ($8/month on renewal).
- Weekly backups only on the Standard plan.
- No refund or trial on VPS and dedicated servers.
- Managed VPS support starts at 8 slices ($24/month).
Technical Features
Score: 8.8/10
Unlimited storage, with real limits
The Standard plan lists unlimited storage, data transfer, email accounts and FTP accounts. The terms add the limits that matter: one account can't use more than 20% of a server's resources, and it is capped at 400,000 inodes (files and folders).
In practice, that's plenty for blogs, business sites and small stores. Backup archives, video files and file-sharing sites aren't allowed on shared hosting, so use InterServer's storage hosting or a VPS for those.
Resource limits you can actually read
InterServer publishes the account limits, which many budget hosts don't. The Standard plan gets 1 CPU core, 2 GB of memory, 1,024 IOPS, 100 processes and 30 entry processes, plus a 200 emails per hour sending limit.
Entry processes are the number of PHP requests your site can run at the same moment. Thirty is fine for a normal WordPress site with caching, but a busy WooCommerce store will hit it sooner.
Boost plans for busier sites
Boost keeps you on shared hosting but raises every limit. Boost 2 doubles the Standard plan (2 cores, 4 GB memory, 800,000 inodes), Boost 4 moves to 4 cores and 8 GB, and Boost X goes up to 10 cores and 20 GB of memory.
I'd pick Boost over a small VPS when you want more room without managing a server yourself. You keep the same control panel, the same email setup and the same support scope.
InterShield security and Inter-Insurance
InterShield is InterServer's own security layer. It combines a machine-learning firewall with virus scanning and copies protection rules across its servers, so an attack spotted on one server can be blocked on the others.
Inter-Insurance is the cleanup side. If an account is hacked, InterServer says it can clean, restore and harden it, and it also offers cleanup during a migration.
Caching, CDN and email delivery
Shared servers use SSD caching, LSCache (LiteSpeed Cache) and QUIC, with free Cloudflare CDN on every plan. LSCache does the most for WordPress, since it serves cached pages instead of running PHP on every visit.
Outgoing mail goes through InterServer's smart hosts instead of leaving straight from the web server. Messages are filtered for spam first, which helps keep the sending IPs off blocklists.
Free migration for web hosting
New web hosting customers get a free website transfer. The catch is the control panel: migrations are only cPanel-to-cPanel or DirectAdmin-to-DirectAdmin, and VPS or dedicated server moves aren't included.
If you're leaving a cPanel host, choose the cPanel hosting plan so the move qualifies. InterServer also says migrations may take 24 hours to start, so keep your old hosting active for at least a week.
Cloud VPS slices
The VPS works in slices. One slice costs $3/month and includes 1 CPU core, 2 GB of RAM, 40 GB of SSD storage, 2 TB of monthly transfer, a shared 10 Gbps port and one IPv4 address.
Each extra slice adds RAM, storage and transfer, and CPU cores grow by one for every two slices. InterServer doesn't describe the cores as dedicated, and host-node processor models vary, so treat them as shared virtual cores. Linux VPS runs on KVM, and Windows VPS runs on Hyper-V from 2 slices ($10/month).
If you need a lot of disk space, the storage VPS gives you 1 TB of SATA storage and 2 GB of RAM per $3 slice. I compare it with other options in my guide to cheap storage VPS hosting.
Control panels on VPS
You can add DirectAdmin, cPanel, Plesk or Webuzo to a VPS. DirectAdmin's personal license costs from $3.75/month, while cPanel pricing depends on the number of accounts and is shown in the order flow.
That makes InterServer a good base for a cheap VPS with cPanel, as long as you add the license cost to the slice price before you compare.
Dedicated servers
Dedicated servers are single-tenant physical machines with full hardware resources. Custom builds use AMD Ryzen, AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon processors, and every listed configuration includes 1 Gbps unmetered bandwidth, IPMI console access, DDoS protection and no setup fee.
Performance and Security
Score: 8.7/10
Uptime guarantee
InterServer's SLA guarantees 99.9% network availability per month, not counting scheduled maintenance. If it misses that, credits are handled case by case and capped at 50% of the base monthly fee.
You have to open a ticket within 7 days of the outage to claim a credit. The SLA covers the network and power, not your server's software or hardware failures, so it's a promise about the infrastructure rather than measured uptime for your site.
Hardware and network
Shared hosting runs on RAID-10 storage with SSD caching, and VPS slices use SSD storage on RAID-10 arrays. InterServer doesn't advertise NVMe for shared or VPS plans, while several Buy It Now dedicated servers do come with NVMe drives.
The VPS port is a shared 10 Gbps port. That sets the maximum interface speed, but the real throughput depends on how busy the host node is and on the route to your visitors.
DDoS protection
Free DDoS protection is included for all customers. When an attack is detected, traffic is rerouted to InterServer's scrubbing systems, filtered, and the clean traffic is sent back to your server.
This is a real advantage for game servers and other targets of floods. If that's your main concern, my list of DDoS-protected VPS providers compares it with other hosts.
Backups
Backups depend on the product. Standard shared hosting gets weekly offsite backups with JetBackup, so a restore could be up to 7 days old, while Boost plans get daily backups.
KVM VPS users can take manual snapshots and manual backups, stored for 45 days on services up to 1 TB. Dedicated servers have no backups by default, so plan your own remote copy from day one.
Where the servers are
All locations are in the United States. Visitors in Europe or Asia will see higher latency than they would from a closer server, although the free Cloudflare CDN helps with static files.
Ease of Use
Score: 8.6/10
Standard hosting uses DirectAdmin instead of cPanel. It covers the daily tasks (files, email, databases, DNS, SSL and FTP), but if you've used cPanel for years, the cPanel plan for $8/month on renewal will feel more familiar.
InterServer's app installer offers 461 scripts with one-click installs, including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and PrestaShop. That's enough to launch most sites without touching the command line.
The VPS is a different story. Below 8 slices, it's an unmanaged server: you handle the operating system, updates, firewall and software yourself, and InterServer only supports the infrastructure.
At 8 slices or more, managed support covers server-level problems like a crashed service, a broken database or a supported control panel that stops working. InterServer's managed support guidelines list $160/hour for work outside that scope. A new VPS is often ready within about 15 minutes after payment approval, according to InterServer's FAQ.
Price
Score: 9.4/10
InterServer's pricing is easy to understand. You pay a low first term, then a published renewal price, and the VPS is billed month to month with no contract.
WebHostingAdvices readers can lower the first month even further. The site's own coupon makes the first month of Standard web hosting $0.01 (Coupon: WHA1CENT).
Standard Web Hosting
The $2.50/month price applies to the whole first term, up to 24 months. After that, every term renews at $7/month:
| Billing term | First term | Renewal |
|---|---|---|
| 1 month | $2.50 | $7 |
| 6 months | $15 | $42 |
| 12 months | $30 | $84 |
| 24 months | $60 | $168 |
The cPanel hosting plan has the same $2.50 first month, then renews at $8/month. A domain costs $7.99 when you buy it with any web hosting plan.
Boost Web Hosting
Boost 2 costs $9.95/month, Boost 4 costs $19.95/month and Boost X costs $69.95/month. There's no low intro price to watch out for, since these are the regular monthly rates.
Cloud VPS
Linux VPS pricing is linear at $3 per slice per month: 4 slices cost $12, 8 slices cost $24 and 32 slices cost $96. Windows VPS costs $5 per slice, starting at 2 slices ($10/month).
VPS hosting is billed monthly only. Adding credit to your account in advance is possible, but there's no discount for it.
Extra IPv4 addresses are $3/month each, and control panel licenses are extra. For more VPS options, see my VPS hosting guide.
Dedicated Servers
Custom builds start at $166/month for an AMD Ryzen 9900X server with 12 cores and 64 GB of memory. Buy It Now servers started at $174/month (AMD Ryzen 5950X, 16 cores, 64 GB, NVMe storage) on October 25, 2026, and the cheaper Rapid Deploy and under-$99 servers were sold out.
Refunds and payment
Web hosting plans (Standard, Windows, Boost and WordPress) come with a 30-day full refund. VPS, dedicated servers, colocation and licenses aren't refundable once the service has started, so start with one month of VPS if you're testing.
InterServer accepts credit cards and PayPal, plus check or money order. Cancel at least 3 days before the renewal date, or the service renews for another period.
Reliability and Support
Score: 9.0/10
InterServer offers 24/7 support by ticket, phone and live chat. Its knowledge base is open about staffing: the busiest shift runs 8 AM to 6 PM Eastern, Monday to Friday, and evenings, nights and weekends have fewer agents.
Sales and billing work business hours, though the 24/7 technical team can answer basic questions outside them. The on-site team is based at the TEB2 facility in Secaucus, New Jersey, so hardware work in Dallas or Los Angeles needs a technician to be dispatched.
Customer feedback is mostly positive. On Trustpilot, InterServer had a 4.3 rating from 2,528 reviews as of October 25, 2026, and the most common praise was for knowledgeable support during migrations.
Negative reviews mention slow ticket replies during urgent problems and a few cases of slow or unstable servers. Those are individual reports, but they're worth keeping in mind if you need guaranteed response times.
Conclusion: Is InterServer Right for You?
InterServer is one of the few budget hosts where the renewal price stays low. At $7/month after a $2.50 first term, Standard hosting is cheaper to keep than most shared plans, and the published resource limits tell you exactly what you're getting.
The VPS is the other strong point. A $3 slice with 2 GB of RAM is hard to beat for a small Linux server, as long as you're comfortable managing it yourself or buy 8 slices for managed support.
I'd choose another host if your audience is outside North America, or if you need daily backups and cPanel on the cheapest plan. For U.S. sites that want low long-term costs, InterServer is a sensible pick, and the 30-day refund on web hosting lets you try it without much risk.
