GoodHost Plants A Flag For Aussie-Owned Hosting With New Four-Tier Lineup From $5/mo

While a wave of well-known Australian web hosts has been absorbed into US-owned consolidators over the past decade, Sydney-based GoodHost is going the other way. The 100% Australian owned and operated provider has today unveiled a refreshed product range and transparent flat pricing, available immediately at goodhost.com.au, doubling down on local ownership at a time when the rest of the industry is consolidating, rebranding and offshoring.

The new GoodHost lineup spans four tiers, all hosted in Australian data centres and backed by Australian phone support:

• Starter (cPanel) from $5/mo: 200% CPU, 1 GB RAM. Built for HTML sites, landing pages and simple brochure sites.
• Business (cPanel) from $18/mo: 400% CPU, 3 GB RAM. The sweet spot for WordPress, Elementor Pro and moderate traffic.
• Performance (cPanel) from $39/mo: 600% CPU, 6 GB RAM, 6 MB/s IO, 4,000 IOPS, 50 concurrent processes. Engineered for WooCommerce, membership sites and high-traffic WordPress.
• WordPress (Container) from $45/mo: Dedicated container hosting with 400 to 800% dedicated vCPU and 4 to 8 GB dedicated RAM. No noisy neighbours, no shared throttling, automatic WordPress updates included.

All pricing is in AUD, ex-GST, with no lock-in contracts and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The angle nobody else is taking

"We've watched others sell out. We won't," said Scott Nailon, Founder of GoodHost. "Australian customers keep ringing US-owned brands expecting the team they've known for years, and getting a script. Long-time names like Digital Pacific, Crucial, Panthur and Anchor have all ended up under offshore ownership through Hostopia and its US parent Deluxe Corp. We're not interested in that path. GoodHost stays Australian. The servers stay Australian. The phones get answered in Australia by people who can actually fix things."

GoodHost is operated by Faith Computing Pty Ltd, a family-owned Australian company. The team behind GoodHost brings more than 20 years of experience in the local web industry through sister brand Sites By Design. The business has no outside investors and no plans to sell.

The standout: container-based WordPress hosting

The headline addition to the lineup is the new WordPress Container product, which moves serious WordPress workloads off traditional shared cPanel and into isolated containers with dedicated vCPU and RAM allocations. The result is consistent performance under real-world load, no contention from neighbouring sites, and automatic WordPress core, plugin and theme updates baked in.

It is aimed squarely at agencies, ecommerce operators and professional sites that have outgrown shared hosting but do not want the cost or complexity of running a managed VPS.

What's included on every plan

Every GoodHost tier ships with free SSL, daily backups with self-serve JetBackup restores, free migration from any host, Imunify360 security with ModSecurity and the OWASP firewall, AccelerateWP performance tuning, and AI-assisted fast answers alongside human Australian phone support. The support line (1800 931 000) is staffed Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm AEST.

Existing customers do not need to migrate to access the new tiers. Plan changes are handled in-place with no downtime and no migration fees.

About GoodHost

GoodHost is a 100% Australian owned and operated web hosting business, trading under Faith Computing Pty Ltd (ABN 94 138 361 510). Headquartered in Sydney, GoodHost serves Australian small and medium businesses, web agencies and resellers from Australian data centres, with Australian-based phone support and no lock-in contracts. The company operates dedicated support for customers in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

More information: goodhost.com.au

Media contact

Scott Nailon, Founder GoodHost (Faith Computing Pty Ltd) 
Phone: 1800 931 000 Email: scott@goodhost.com.au 
Web: goodhost.com.au

Notes to editors

The four Australian hosting acquisitions referenced in this release are publicly documented. Digital Pacific was acquired by Hostopia Australia (a subsidiary of US-based Deluxe Corp) for $52 million in 2017. The same article confirms Hostopia's prior 2017 acquisition of Melbourne-based Panthur, and Digital Pacific's earlier acquisitions of Sydney-based Crucial and Anchor Hosting, all of which subsequently came under the Hostopia/Deluxe umbrella.

Primary source: techpartner.news / CRN Australia coverage, "Australian hosting provider Digital Pacific acquired by Hostopia for $52 million" — https://www.techpartner.news/news/australian-hosting-provider-digital-pacific-acquired-by-hostopia-for-52-million-470804

Additional verification for the Crucial acquisition is available in the original announcement at crucial.com.au/press-release/digital-pacific-acquires-crucial/.