AlexHost Review – Worst Cheap Hosting Out There?

Ever paid for something so useless you felt like setting your money on fire would’ve been more productive?

Yeah… that’s how I feel after my wild ride with AlexHost.

This story starts with a hopeful website project and ends with 503 errors, headaches, and a steaming pile of unmet expectations.

Let’s get into it. This is my full review of AlexHost, and let me be blunt: this is not a hosting service—this is a digital crime scene.

Part 1: The Promise vs. The Brutal Reality

So I went looking for a budget hosting plan, something simple, just to launch a one-pager WordPress site. I chose the LiteSpeed Mini Hosting plan from AlexHost, which is, by the way, not their cheapest plan (I can only imagine what’s the experience there).

With a promo code and semi-anually billing, that’s what I paid:

This plan officially comes for 5.90€ / Monthly. Which is not even that cheap!

What was I going to use it for? A simple website with a poll at the top and some text/images, and a comments section.

• One page
• One image
• A form
• 10-15 common plugins, the same ones you’d find on any small business site

Sounds like a no-brainer, right?
Spoiler: I could never get it to work.

The problems started almost immediately. I’m talking about a simple, single-page WordPress site with just one image, a form, and a few standard plugins. Nothing crazy, right? But this thing was constantly throwing 503 Service Unavailable errors. Seriously, it was happening even before the site was live or had any traffic. It was impossible to even do basic development work.

Let me paint this clearly: I NEVER EVEN LAUNCHED THE SITE.

Why?

Because I couldn’t even install a plugin without the dashboard freezing, crashing, or vanishing altogether.

AlexHost’s Immediate Upsell and Blame

And guess what? Instead of actually looking into why my super-minimal site was failing, AlexHost’s very first response was to tell me to upgrade. Like, seriously? They immediately suggested my current plan was just too weak, even though my site was barely anything.

After a few days, I tried to delete 10 images in the media library and instantly got 503 server error again…
That’s where I messaged them this:

Well, the hosting is created and optimized for different CMS, including wordpress, and works well for many other users.
Unfortunately there are cases them some plugins or components can’t create overload issues due to incompatibility version of php and/or disabled/enabled php extensions, which may cause some functions of this plugins not to work properly and throw the errors.
Other issue may be in php limits, which can be set by user, which are required by plugins, and the default ones not to be enough, this one also can cause issues.
All of these have to be analyzed and chheck what exactly is causing the disruption and adjusted accordingly.

AlexHost’s final response was just dismissive. They basically said, “What do you want us to do?” and told me I was free to buy a VPS and figure it out myself.

And to illustrate how bad things are around here, I’m now having server timeouts, and guess what I’m doing to cause this huge overload of your perfectly optimized systems?

I’m trying to bulk delete 10 images in the Media Library…

They said these things “have to be analyzed,” but did they offer to help me analyze them? Nope.

What REALLY Went Wrong

I was beyond mad. How could they say it wasn’t their fault? Was my server dead slow? This hosting plan is absolutely useless. They need to either yank it from their offerings or actually make it, you know, usable. I couldn’t save a page, couldn’t install a plugin without a 503 or some other error. Is that “normal limits” for a hosting plan? My site wasn’t some resource monster. I told them they better fix their crap or the bad reviews would start raining down. While I was typing that, I couldn’t even download my backup file because the site was offline again. It’s just unworkable, an unusable piece of shit.

Let’s break it down:

1. The shared hosting plan is severely underpowered
   It couldn’t even handle a barebones WordPress setup. That’s unacceptable in 2025. Even free hosting services handle this better.
2. Resource limits are a joke
   They claim I “hit the limits,” but what limits? I wasn’t even processing any real traffic. The site was in development. No traffic. No media. Just a few plugins and… poof. Game over.
3. No transparency or accountability
   Instead of admitting they oversold the plan or throttled the hell out of it, they just threw the blame at me.
4. Unhelpful, dismissive support
   At no point did they genuinely troubleshoot the issue. Everything was just:
   • “It’s your fault.”
   • “Buy something more expensive.”
   • “We don’t do refunds at this point.”
5. Horrible communication
   Support messages were riddled with typos, inconsistent logic, and zero empathy. It felt like arguing with a robot that was trained to gaslight.

❌ Final Verdict: Avoid AlexHost

Let me make this 100% clear:
Do not buy the cheap hosting plan from AlexHost.

Heck, I’m not even sure I trust their VPS now, because if this is how they treat users, I wouldn’t trust them for my business site.

If you’re serious about your site – even just a landing page—look elsewhere. You’ll save yourself:

• Hours of frustration
• Repetitive 503 errors
• Garbage-tier support replies

💡 My Advice? Try These WP Hosts Instead

• Cheap – Hostinger
• Premium – Rocket

If you’ve had a similar experience with AlexHost, let me know. Misery loves company—and maybe, just maybe, if enough people speak up, they’ll either fix their plans or stop offering ones that can’t handle basic web hosting.

For now, I’m off to rebuild my site – this time, on a host that doesn’t crash if you blink too fast.