Liquid Web, founded in 1997 in Michigan, is a managed hosting provider serving businesses and agencies with VPS, cloud, and dedicated/bare-metal servers, plus a bare-metal Kubernetes hybrid offering. Its emphasis is fully managed, high-touch hosting backed by 24/7 expert support, a 100% network and power uptime guarantee, and a 30-minute hardware replacement SLA. VPS plans start at $5/month with self-managed and fully managed tiers. The company is independently validated for HIPAA, has passed PCI DSS assessment, and issues SOC 2 and SOC 3 reports, positioning it for regulated and SMB-to-midmarket workloads; it operates a family of hosting brands including Nexcess.
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Overview
- Founded
- 1997
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Cloud infrastructure
- Starting price
- $5/mo
- SLA uptime
- 99.99%
- Managed Kubernetes
- No
- Helm support
- No
- Free tier
- No
- Vendor lock-in
- Medium
- Open standards
- Yes
- Easy data export
- Yes
- Multi-cloud friendly
- Yes
- Org size
- Midsize
- Support tier
- Enterprise
- Ease of use
- 4/5
Managed hosting
- Support level
- Fully managed
- Datacenters
- 4
- Uptime SLA
- 99.99%
- Free migration
- Yes
- Automatic backups
- Yes
- Staging / clone
- Yes
- Managed updates
- Yes
- Free tier
- No