# PW Hosting

> PW Hosting LLC provides static websites, PHP/MySQL container hosting, hosted email, DNS, and domain services. Official website: https://pwhosts.com/.

## Start here
- [Sign up](https://admin.pwhosts.com/signup): Create an account in the customer portal.
- [Admin portal](https://admin.pwhosts.com): Manage existing services and billing.
- [Pricing](https://pwhosts.com/#pricing): Public catalog rates in USD, billed monthly unless prepaid.
- [API documentation](https://admin.pwhosts.com/api-docs): Authoritative authentication, endpoints, request bodies, and response schemas. Consult these docs before constructing API requests; this overview is not an API specification.
- [Support](https://admin.pwhosts.com/contact-support): Human help; support@pwhosts.com.

## Services
Websites, email, and DNS are separate services on one account. Each can be used on its own or combined on the same domain.

## Hosting catalog
- Static: $3/month per static site. Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront delivery, custom domain HTTPS, single-page app support, 1 SFTP login. No server-side PHP or databases. Static sites require PW Hosting DNS on their domain.
- Small: $10/month per container. 1 website, 1 MySQL database, 2 SFTP logins, 128 MB memory with bursts up to 768 MB.
- Medium: $20/month per container. 1 website plus 10 extra folder websites, 5 MySQL databases, 2 SFTP logins, 256 MB memory with bursts up to 1,152 MB.
- Large: $90/month per container. 1 website plus 9,999 extra folder websites, 25 MySQL databases, 2 SFTP logins, 512 MB memory with bursts up to 1,920 MB.
- Extra folder websites share the container's resources. These are not separate containers or unlimited resources.
- Default account pool: 10 GB disk storage and 10 GB monthly network traffic, shared across the account rather than allocated to each site.
- Additional disk storage: $1 per added GB per month. Additional monthly network traffic capacity: $1 per added GB per month. These are separate capacity add-ons.
- Hosted email: $10/month per primary mail domain. Alias domains are included at no extra charge. Webmail, IMAP, POP3, and SMTP. Email does not require PW Hosting DNS; it works with an external DNS provider.
- DNS: $5/month for the first DNS-enabled domain and $0.25/month for each additional domain. Amazon Route 53 hosted zones, editable in the portal or API. Subdomains can share a parent zone at no charge. A domain with paid web hosting and primary email has its DNS fee waived. Bundled domains are ordered first: a waived first domain consumes the $5 slot; subsequent domains use the $0.25 slot unless also waived.
- Example bundle: Small website + email + DNS on one domain is $20/month (DNS waived). Static + email + DNS on one domain is $13/month.
- Signup links can preselect a starting point with `?package=`: static, small, medium, large, email, dns, or bundle (Small website + email + DNS).
- Domain registration, renewal, and transfer rates vary by domain and are shown in the portal before purchase.
- Yearly billing: 13 months of service credit for 12 months of payment at current rates, not a permanently discounted monthly rate.
- Migrated accounts can have account-specific pricing; the customer's billing portal is authoritative for their account.

## Automation
The API covers domains, DNS, email, websites, and static deployments. Static deployment publishes files to S3 and invalidates CloudFront. Use the API documentation for exact operations, authentication, and permissions. Public product information is available in server-delivered HTML without executing JavaScript.

## Policies
- [Terms of Use](https://pwhosts.com/terms.html)
- [Privacy Policy](https://pwhosts.com/privacy.html)
- [Acceptable Use](https://pwhosts.com/acceptable-use.html)
- [Anti-Spam](https://pwhosts.com/anti-spam.html)
- [DMCA and Abuse](https://pwhosts.com/abuse.html)

## Customer guides
- [Support and guide library](https://pwhosts.com/guides.html)
- [Mail settings](https://pwhosts.com/mail.html)
- [Webmail](https://pwhosts.com/webmail.html)
- [SFTP](https://pwhosts.com/sftp.html)
- [Forwarding](https://pwhosts.com/forwarding.html)
- [Bounces and complaints](https://pwhosts.com/bounces-complaints.html)
- [Mail delivery](https://pwhosts.com/mail-delivery.html)
- [Two-factor authentication](https://pwhosts.com/2fa.html)
- [Email specifications](https://pwhosts.com/email-specifications.html)
- [Apple mail configuration](https://pwhosts.com/mobileconfig.html)