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About Us

Three people, one rack of servers, no ambition to be bigger.

HostSNAP has been three people since 2019 and one person for a few years before that. We like it at three. Here's the actual story, and who you're emailing when you write to us.

How this started

It started with one server and a handful of friends' sites.

Our founder set up HostSNAP in 2013 to host a few friends' small-business sites after getting tired of recommending hosts that buried people in upsells. What started as one shared server grew, slowly and on purpose, into three people: the sysadmin still runs the servers, a second person joined in 2016 to handle support and billing so the sysadmin could stop doing both at 11pm, and a third joined in 2019 to design and build sites for customers who didn't want to build their own.

We've had chances to grow faster than this. We've turned them down. A support inbox that three people can actually read beats a queue that fifty people triage.

Who you're emailing

The whole team.

Sysadmin Guru

Runs the servers, the backups, and the 2am pager if something goes down. Started hosting sites as a side project in 2013 and never really stopped.

Support Ninja

Reads support@hostsnap.net and answers most of it directly. If your invoice looks wrong or your DNS won't propagate, this is who you're talking to.

Design Wizard

Designs and builds every site we sell as a design package, and keeps our own site from looking like a hosting company built it.

Where things actually run

No mysterious "cloud." An actual rack, in an actual building.

Denver, Colorado

We rent rack space in a Tier III colocation facility. We don't own the building or the generators; we own and manage what's bolted into our rack.

99.95% average uptime, 2025

We're not going to promise five nines like the enterprise hosts do. We post real outages on our status updates, not spin.

What we won't do

The small print, in plain language.

Surprise renewal hikes

Your renewal price is the same as your signup price. We don't lure you in low and triple it a year later.

Chatbots pretending to be us

If you email us, a person reads it. We'd rather answer slower and be right than answer instantly and be wrong.

A control panel we invented

You get standard cPanel and WHM. If we ever switch away from that, we'll tell you well before it happens.

Want to talk to one of us before you sign up?

No sales call, just an email. We'll tell you honestly if we're not the right fit.

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