Shared hosting: everything you need to get started, hassle-free

What our shared hosting includes

Hosting del Sur's shared hosting is designed to be the simplest and most complete option in the Uruguayan market. Every plan includes everything you need to have a professional website up and running, without having to buy add-ons separately or deal with "sorry, that feature is only available on the Enterprise plan."

• cPanel — the world's most widely used control panel. File management, MySQL databases, email accounts, domains, backups, and usage metrics, all from a clean interface proven by millions of users. If you've worked with hosting before, you already know cPanel. If not, we'll guide you.
• Free SSL — Let's Encrypt certificates with automatic renewal. Your site will have the green padlock in the browser from day one, at no extra cost and without you having to do anything to maintain it.
• Unlimited business email — create all the accounts you need: info@, sales@, admin@, each employee with their own. Includes webmail (Roundcube), IMAP/POP3 access for Gmail, Outlook, and Thunderbird, anti-spam with SpamAssassin, and up to 1,200 messages per hour per account. No ridiculous storage limits.
• NVMe SSD drives — the fastest drives available in hosting. Your pages load faster, databases respond in milliseconds, and backups are generated without impacting site performance.
• PHP 8.x with OPcache — the latest stable PHP version with opcode cache enabled, which significantly speeds up any modern CMS. Compatible with WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and any current PHP application.
• Automatic backups with JetBackup — daily, incremental backups with one-click restore from cPanel. If you accidentally delete something or an update breaks something, you can roll back in minutes.
• SSH, WP-CLI, and Git — for those who know how, shared hosting also includes command-line access to automate tasks, version code, and work just like in a professional development environment.

Who shared hosting is for

Shared hosting is the right choice for the vast majority of web projects. If your site doesn't receive hundreds of thousands of monthly visits, if you don't need to install specialized software requiring root access, and if you prefer someone else to handle server administration while you focus on your business, shared hosting is for you.

• SMEs and businesses — that need an institutional website with their product catalog, contact information, location, and perhaps a blog. Without complex e-commerce ambitions, but with the professionalism of a custom domain and business emails.
• Independent professionals — lawyers, accountants, architects, doctors, psychologists. A website is your business card 24/7. With shared hosting you can have it running in a day, with a contact form, WhatsApp integration, and a services page.
• Landing pages and portfolios — if you need a simple page to showcase your work, capture leads, or present a product, shared hosting is more than enough. And when your project grows, migrating to a VPS is straightforward and drama-free.
• WordPress sites — WordPress runs perfectly on well-configured shared hosting. With PHP 8.x, OPcache, and optimized MySQL, a WordPress site on our hosting loads in under 2 seconds. If your site is larger or has heavy traffic, we have a specific WordPress plan with Redis and more resources.

CloudLinux LVE: your guaranteed resources

"Shared hosting" sounds like you're sharing resources with others, and that's true. But the difference between well-managed shared hosting and bad shared hosting lies in how that sharing is managed. We use CloudLinux with LVE (Lightweight Virtual Environment), a technology that assigns precise CPU, memory, I/O, and process limits to each account on the server.

This means that if one of the other accounts on the server has a traffic spike — or a poorly coded plugin that consumes excessive CPU — your site isn't affected. LVE detects excessive usage and limits it before it degrades the performance of other accounts. It's like living in a building where each apartment has its own electricity meter: what your neighbor uses doesn't affect your bill.

Additionally, CloudLinux includes CageFS, which isolates each account's file system. This prevents an attack or vulnerability on one site from compromising others. And Hardened PHP, which automatically patches known vulnerabilities in older PHP versions, protecting sites that for some reason can't update yet.

Shared hosting vs free hosting

Free hosting options exist. Free empanadas exist too, and we all know how those turn out. Free hosting funds its servers with ads on your site, selling your data, or limiting resources to levels that make your page load in 10 seconds. Your domain becomes "yourbusiness.wordpress.com" or "yourbusiness.blogspot.com," which says a lot — and nothing good — about your company's professionalism.

With our shared hosting, starting at US$59 per year — less than US$5 per month — you get your own domain, business email accounts, SSL, backups, and a human support team that responds in minutes. The difference between free and US$5 per month is the difference between a hobby and a business. If your project is a business, there isn't much to think about.

Free migration with zero downtime

Already hosted elsewhere and want to switch? We migrate your site at no cost and without it going offline at any point. We copy all your files, databases, email accounts, and configurations to our server, test that everything works, and only when it's all ready do we update the DNS. For your visitors, the change is imperceptible. For you, it's peace of mind.

The migration includes any CMS: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop, Magento, or static HTML sites. If you have special configurations (redirects, custom .htaccess files, cron jobs), we migrate those too. And if you have doubts about whether your site will work the same on our hosting, we do a test migration first, check that everything works, and only then make the final switch.