PBN.Hosting Review

About

PBN.hosting is the only provider that runs exclusively on Content Delivery Network (Amazon AWS). As with everything, this has a few pros and cons. In general, PBN.hosting looks promising.

Hosting

PBN.hosting runs exclusively on Amazon Web Services. This means they only support static HTML sites and you need to manage everything through their clumsy dashboard. The benefit here is that they allow restoring sites from Archive.org.

We would love to see more CDN providers for diversification, like Rackspace or any other big brand name.

Their plans start at $59 for 20 domains.

Footprints

The main problem with PBN.hosting is their main feature - running exclusively on Amazon Web Services. Amazon is the provider of both IPs and nameservers. While they are large, we still wouldn't feel comfortable adding more than 10-15% of our whole PBN to AWS.

Other than that, the setup looks natural for a CDN.

Security and Ease of Use

The dashboard leaves a lot to be desired. There are way too many options for everything and they could easily cut most of them by presetting the most common setups. The interface feels like it's been made in an afternoon without any thought about the user experience.

Everything is managed through their dashboard - posting, managing and they even track some SEO metrics.

Transfer of WordPress sites to them is available with a plugin.

Verdict

While we'd love to have a better user interface and more providers, PBN.hosting in general is pretty solid. If you don't mind their poor dashboard, you can safely use them for around 10% of your network.

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Analysis

PBN.Hosting
Hosting
Hosting Providers	AWS
DNS Providers	Host DNS
IP locations	AWS (CDN)
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