GoPBN Review

About

GoPBN launched in late 2016 by hosting professionals. They are by far the most expensive host so let's see if they can justify the price.

Hosting

You can select locations on where you want to host. They support WordPress, Joomla and Ghost and have a simple deployment process.

Nameservers are big brand (ClouDNS, Durable DNS, Digital Ocean).

Their plans start at $5 for 1 blog. GoPBN is by far the most expensive provider reviewed. Even with 100 blogs, you're still paying $3.5 per blog.

Footprints

Some IPs are owned by known hosts (Vultr, OVH), but most are unknown that we've never heard of. Nameservers are good - big brand.

Server headers are the same, default pages are the same and MX records are setup the same. That's definitely a red flag for us.

Security and Ease of Use

Unfortunately the sleek look of the website and dashboard doesn't translate into good user experience. You need to go through a cumbersome detailed checkout process, with registration and email verifying.

Once you're in, the process to deploy blogs is pretty simple but once that is done there is not much automation - no backups, updates or 1-click logins.

Verdict

GoPBN is by far the most expensive service we tested and there is nothing that justifies the difference in price with other hosts.

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Analysis

GoPBN
Hosting
Hosting Providers	Cheap Hosts
DNS Providers	Host & Brand DNS
IP locations	90% EN-lang
Footprints
Hosting
IPs
Nameservers
Server Headers
X-Powered By
Default Page
PHP Version
MySQL Version
Apache Version
Open Ports
SOA records
MX records
Security
Automatic WordPress updates
Daily backups
Security and performance setup
HTTPS support
Automatic removal of deindexed blogs
Ease of Use
1-Click WordPress Setup
1-Click Login
Automatically set email mailbox
Automatic nameserver configuration
Tools for deindexation prevention
Dashboard with SEO metrics
Free transfer service