Originally published at www.kznhost.com
The tier trap
Open any major hosting provider's pricing page and you'll find somewhere between 4 and 40 plans. Starter, Business, Professional, Enterprise, Plus, Pro, Turbo, Max. The differences between them are deliberately confusing — enough RAM to matter, but not enough to make the decision obvious. Enough storage to get started, but you'll need to upgrade within a year.
This isn't an accident. It's a business model. Get you in at the lowest price, wait for you to hit a limit, upsell. The hosting company profits from your growth friction. You pay for the privilege of figuring out which plan you actually need.
The single plan logic
KZNhost has one plan: three domains, 15GB SSD, unlimited bandwidth, SSL, daily backups, email hosting, one-click WordPress. €9.99/month.
That's it. No tiers, no upsells, no "but if you want email you need the Business plan." Everything a professional website needs is included. Nothing you don't need is bundled in to justify a higher price point.
The logic behind this is simple: I built this hosting environment for myself first. I needed something that handled multiple domains, had real storage for media-heavy sites, and didn't require me to think about bandwidth caps. One package that covered everything. Then I opened it to clients who had the same requirements.
What 15GB actually covers
15GB of SSD storage is more than most professional websites will ever use. A typical WordPress installation with plugins is 500MB-1GB. A photography portfolio with hundreds of high-resolution images might use 3-5GB. A small business site with regular blog posts might reach 2GB after several years.
The sites that legitimately need more than 15GB are either media distribution platforms (not what this hosting is for) or sites that haven't been maintained — storing five years of unoptimized image uploads, plugin files from abandoned installs, and database bloat. Good maintenance keeps sites lean.
Why three domains?
Most professionals have more than one project. A developer with a portfolio site, a side project, and a client site they're managing. A designer with their main brand, a studio site, and a personal blog. Three domains covers the realistic use case without selling you capacity you'll never use.
Each domain gets its own isolated hosting environment, SSL certificate, and email hosting. Not subdomains of a shared domain. Real separate domains.
The NOC monitoring angle
What makes KZNhost different from standard managed hosting isn't the plan structure — it's what's running behind it. The infrastructure is monitored by ToTheNOC, a boutique NOC operation run by the same engineer who built and maintains this hosting environment.
That means when something goes wrong — and eventually something always does — the person who knows the infrastructure best is already watching it. Not a ticket queue. Not a helpdesk reading a runbook. The engineer who built the stack.
Most hosting companies at this price point don't offer that. You're on shared infrastructure managed by a team that might have 10,000 other customers. Response times reflect that reality.
Who this is for
KZNhost is for professionals who want their hosting to work and want to stop thinking about it. Designers, developers, photographers, agencies, small businesses. People who are excellent at what they do and have no interest in managing infrastructure.
It's not for high-traffic e-commerce sites processing thousands of transactions per day. It's not for video streaming platforms. It's not for anyone who needs dedicated hardware or custom server configurations. If that's you, there are better options and I'll tell you so.
KZNhost is managed hosting by a senior NOC engineer. Deploy your hosting or read about the stack.
