Windows hosting
with many services

Hoststar's Windows hosting offer provides you with a wide range of services for your website or web application.

High-speed SSD Windows hosting

Our Windows web hosting offers you webspace upwards of 50 GB SSD for your website data and emails.

MSSQL databases

Various Microsoft SQL databases with plenty of memory are available to you.

E-mail addresses and redirects

Unlimited e-mail addresses and mailboxes.

Register and manage domains

Starting from 25 activatable domains with any number of domain aliases. 400+ domain endings can be registered.

Free SSL certificates

Free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt automatically activated for all domains.

Free support

Do you have any questions? We will be happy to answer them and help you by phone and e-mail!

Our Windows hosting package for you

We have equipped our Windows hosting package with many functionalities and inclusive services so that you can realise a wide range of websites and web applications. You can find out exactly what our Windows hosting package includes here on this page. If you have individual requirements, simply contact us.

Win Entry
2085
CHF per month
Order
Win Biz
2965
CHF per month
Order
Win Plus
3840
CHF per month
Order
High performance thanks to SSD storage
High performance thanks to SSD storage
High performance thanks to SSD storage
50 GB SSD web storage
75 GB SSD web storage
100 GB SSD web storage
25 activatable domains
50 activatable domains
75 activatable domains
2 GB MSSQL storage
5 GB MSSQL storage
10 GB MSSQL storage
5 MSSQL databases
10 MSSQL databases
15 MSSQL databases
10 ODBC connections
25 ODBC connections
50 ODBC connections
no traffic limit
no traffic limit
no traffic limit
HTTP/2
HTTP/2
HTTP/2
unlimited email mailboxes
unlimited email mailboxes
unlimited email mailboxes
external database access
external database access
external database access
GDPR-compliant
GDPR-compliant
GDPR-compliant

High-performance thanks to
SSD and DELL brand hardware

Thanks to solid-state drives (SSD), high-performance server hardware and modern technologies, your web content is displayed quickly to the user, which reduces the bounce rate and can improve your ranking in search engine results.

SSD storage is around 5 times faster than mechanical hard drives, so even if your server is accessed many times simultaneously, there will be no downtime or long wait times for the user.

Have everything under control with My panel and Plesk

My Panel is the central administration interface and starting point for all our services that you can use with your Windows hosting. You can manage all hosting settings via Plesk, a well-known and versatile hosting control panel solution. You can access Plesk conveniently and without an additional login via My Panel. You can also operate both My Panel and Plesk on the go via smartphone or tablet.

In short, you can keep an eye on all your subscriptions with us via your My Panel. The handling and design is simple and easy to understand, even for people with no technical experience—at Hoststar we value ease of use highly!

Convenient domain management

In the My Panel, you can see all your domains and manage them administratively as well as register additional domains. You can configure all your technical settings such as DNS entries via Plesk.

E-mails anywhere, anytime

Access your emails conveniently via webmail or your favourite email program from anywhere and at any time. You can easily manage your email addresses and mailboxes via the Plesk panel.

With Windows hosting, you can set up as many e-mail addresses, forwarders and mailboxes as you like. You have 10 GB of storage space available per e-mail account.

Free SSL certificates

SSL encryption between the web server and web browser is now standard.

You can easily set up free SSL certificates issued by Let's Encrypt for all your domains and subdomains via Plesk. Of course, you can also use other SSL certificates, which you can either purchase from us or externally.

SSL stands for "Secure Sockets Layer". It's therefore an encryption protocol to ensure secure data exchange in the network. This prevents access by third parties. SSL has officially been called TLS since 1999, but SSL is still in use. This encryption is particularly important in the e-commerce sector, for example!

Install web apps
easily

Install popular web applications such as WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal in your Windows hosting in just a few steps. You can choose from around 20 leading applications.

Infrastructure
& security

We always make sure that our infrastructure is up to date: We use the latest Windows server operating systems, ASP.NET and .NET framework, the latest versions of PHP, up-to-date MSSQL databases and modern hardware. Thanks to our SSL certificates, the secure transfer of data is always guaranteed.

With our monitoring service and the statistics server, you always have complete control: Be it the current status of all services in the real-time view, an overview of visitor numbers per page or a list of the sources of your website visits. This and much more information is displayed in a centralised and visually clear manner.

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Free pictures
for your website

Pictures from Hoststar gives you access to an extensive photo database. You have over a million images at your disposal to illustrate your website - and the best thing is that you can use the images free of charge and without attribution for both private and commercial purposes!

External database access

You can also access your MSSQL databases externally if required. You also have 10 ODBC connections at your disposal, which can, for example, be used with Microsoft Access and Excel. Use your Windows hosting as a central database for your Access data.

DNSSEC support for more security

DNSSEC is used to protect the DNS system from manipulation that could, for example, redirect the user to another location. To protect DNS entries from misuse, they must be signed. The necessary keys can be generated via Plesk, which must then be deposited with the registrar of the respective domain.

Windows hosting with
search engine optimisation (SEO)

With your own high-performance server, you're also in a strong position when it comes to visibility and SEO. The following factors have a positive influence on the indexing of search engines and therefore on your visibility:

Website speed

Search engines index websites based on their loading times, among other things. Slow websites hinder the crawling process of Google bots and therefore those pages are ranked lower. Users also abandon a website if it loads too slowly.

Security

The more secure a website, the better it is rated by search engines. SSL certification plays a major role here because if a site is secure, not only the user, but also Google, will trust it. It's an open secret that Google and other search engines favour sites with encryption over those without.

Accessibility and performance

With Windows server hosting, your website is always available, even at peak times when other sites are overloaded. What's more, you don't have to worry about Google penalising your website due to frequent overload and it no longer being ranked.

As a rule, the availability of a server should not be below 99. With high availability, the uptime of a server should even be 99.99% per year. With our Windows hosting, these kinds of uptime numbers are guaranteed!

All our services
for your hosting

If you opt for a web hosting package from Hoststar, there are a number of additional services that you benefit from as a customer. Most of these services are free of charge.

My Panel

The central dashboard for everything.

Mail

Manage emails, contacts and appointments in Webmail

Software

Countless web programs for direct installation

Pictures

Millions of professional images to choose from

Monitoring

24/7 monitoring shown in real time

Statistics

Meaningful, clear statistics

Domain Manager

Central, simple and straightforward domain administration

Domain Check

Detailed search for domains

SEO

Search engine registration, analyse & optimise websites

VPN

Anonymous and secure on the internet

SSL

Comprehensive SSL certificates for greater security

SecureWeb

Secure websites for you and your visitors

ID-Hero

Protection for your identity

Hoststar Safe

Retain control over your identity

Move

We move your website to Hoststar

One-off charge of CHF 89.00

Free support

If you have any questions about our Windows hosting, you will find numerous step-by-step instructions in the support area. If this is not enough, our support staff will be happy to help you free of charge by e-mail and telephone.

Frequently asked questions
about Windows hosting

What is the difference between Linux and Windows web hosting?

The main difference is the server operating system used. For Linux, Apache or Nginx are usually used as the web server, while Internet Information Services (IIS) are used for Windows. There are also differences in the database server: Microsoft SQL Server is used under Windows and MySQL or MariaDB are usually used under Linux.

The scripting language PHP can be used on both systems, as can ASP, which was originally developed only for Windows servers. The .NET framework, on the other hand, only runs on Windows. Neither system is better or worse than the other. Ultimately, whether a Windows or Linux hosting solution is used depends on the requirements of the solution.

Can I switch between Linux and Windows web hosting?

There is no general answer to this question. If you read the question about the differences between Linux and Windows hosting, you'll see that there are similarities. Even if it is possible to switch to the other server system, you should always ask yourself whether the change makes sense.

If you'd like to switch from one of our systems to the other, please contact us so that we can clarify whether a change is possible and makes sense.