Maxko Hosting

What Maxko Hosting actually is

MAXKO Hosting is the hosting arm of MAXKO d.o.o., a Croatian company operating since 2008 out of Sisak, with a second office in Benha, Egypt. It sells VPS instances, dedicated servers, and shared/reseller hosting from datacenter capacity in six countries, and it behaves like the small regional provider it is: a personal touch, a configurator with every add-on priced in public, a looking glass, an API, and a Discord and Telegram channel alongside the ticket system. One housekeeping point before anything else: the company's main domain for this business is maxko-hosting.com. The similar maxko.org domain belongs to the same corporate family but hosts a free MMORPG game server listing — character levels, castle siege schedules and all — so make sure you are on the hosting site before you hand over payment details.

The product shape is conventional KVM virtualisation with a genuinely granular order form. You pick a location (Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, the Netherlands, or South Africa), size CPU, RAM, and NVMe storage à la carte, choose an OS (AlmaLinux, Windows Server, and friends), add control panels (cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin), security add-ons (Imunify360, KernelCare, CXS, mail scanning), pick an IPv4 subnet up to /26 and an IPv6 block up to /40, and select a support tier. Remote management is via KVM, deployment is billed as instant after payment, and BYOIP/BYOASN is available for €5 per month.

The infrastructure story is more interesting than the plan grid. The Croatian footprint is a Tier III facility in Zagreb (Selska cesta 122, per their own FAQ) plus a second Zagreb site in Buzin, with N+1 power and cooling, diesel generators and UPS, biometric access, and multiple Tier 1 upstreams. Beyond Croatia there are nodes in Meppel (Netherlands), Nyíregyháza (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Belgrade (Serbia), and Johannesburg (South Africa). The company holds an ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS certificate, announces itself as RIPE AS211619, publishes a looking glass and system status page, and claims 500+ Gbps of global capacity with BGP-optimised routing.

Pricing: what you really pay

The VPS configurator is the honest core of the offering. The base configuration — 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 1× 50 GB NVMe SSD, 100 Mbps uplink, one IPv4 (/32), a /64 of IPv6, AlmaLinux, basic support with 48-hour response, billed monthly — totals €14.00 per month including tax, with €0 setup. RAM scales at €2 per extra GB (6 GB adds €4, 32 GB adds €30); storage upgrades run €4 for 100 GB NVMe, €15 for 250 GB, €25 for 500 GB; port speed goes from 500 Mbps (€5) through 1 Gbps shared (€10) to 10 Gbps (€360); extra IPv4s start at €2 for two addresses. Backups are an add-on, not a giveaway: €5 monthly, €10 weekly, €15 daily. Support tiers step from basic 48-hour response (included) to Bronze at 24-hour response for €5 more.

Software add-ons are priced the same way: cPanel with unlimited accounts €20, Plesk or DirectAdmin €5, LiteSpeed €15, Softaculous €7, JetBackup €5, Imunify360 €10, WHMCS €10. One quirk to note: enabling SMTP (€5) is only available on the Croatia location and disables IPv6 when active — read that line twice if you plan to send mail from a dual-stack host.

Shared hosting is sold yearly: the production web-hosting package at €50 per year (50 GB SSD, unlimited bandwidth and domains, cPanel, CloudLinux, LiteSpeed, Softaculous) and a reseller package at €200 per year with unlimited cPanel accounts. Dedicated servers are custom-quoted HP ProLiant hardware — an entry BL460c G9 with 2× Xeon E5-2680 v3, 128 GB DDR4, 2× 1.2 TB SAS, unmetered 1 Gbps is listed at €130 per month. Maxko also supports an unusual spread of payment rails: PayPal, Skrill, CoinGate, BTCpay, and Utopia.

Against the big European clouds, €14 per month for 4 vCPU and 4 GB RAM with NVMe is fair rather than exceptional — the value here is the location mix (Croatia, Serbia, South Africa), the à-la-carte IP addressing, and tax-inclusive pricing, not rock-bottom per-GB rates.

Performance & infrastructure

The hardware baseline is HPE and Intel Xeon, with NVMe SSDs as the standard VPS disk (the NVMe tag on this listing is accurate — the base config ships 50 GB NVMe, not SATA). Networking is the standout: native dual-stack IPv6 everywhere with a /64 included free, subnets available to /26 and /40 respectively, unmetered traffic claims on the homepage, 100 Mbps as the entry uplink scaling to 10 Gbps, and DDoS filtering included on all VPS plans — with the Netherlands location advertising free 3 Tbps DDoS protection specifically.

On reliability, the claims are strong: "99.999% infrastructure uptime across all core systems" on the homepage, Tier III certification for the Zagreb facility, N+1 power and cooling, and an ISO/IEC 27001 information-security certificate in the footer. We treat the five-nines figure as a marketing claim rather than a contractual SLA — no credit-backed service level agreement appears on the public pages — but the Tier III, ISO 27001, and published status page are verifiable signals that someone here cares about operations.

Performance is untested by us. Our benchmark programme (/benchmarks) covers the big European compute hosts; Maxko is not in it, and we found no independent measurement of their network or disk. Editorial judgment only: the peering position in Zagreb with direct EU backbone access and multiple Tier 1 upstreams should serve Croatia and the Balkans well, while Amsterdam-fronted workloads may prefer the Meppel location. The company's own BGP-optimised routing claims and looking glass let you verify latency from your own eyeball networks before committing.

Where it falls short

Start with the basics: this is a small company (Tracxn lists around five employees, with modest reported revenue). Small means personal support and flexible custom work — and it also means your uptime depends on an organisation without the balance sheet of a hyperscaler. The five-nines marketing claim without a published SLA is exactly the kind of gap we mark down: if availability matters contractually, negotiate it.

The support model is honest but thin at the bottom tier: 48-hour response is the included level, and 24-hour response costs extra. "24/7 real person customer support" is the homepage promise; the pricing table suggests that promise is triaged by plan. Read both before you assume you are buying managed hosting — you are buying infrastructure with support tiers attached.

Transparency gaps remain despite the good configurator: no published datacenter-count confirmation beyond the order form's country list, no independent uptime history we could find, and very little third-party review coverage in English. The South Africa and Egypt presence is a differentiator for regional customers and a compliance question mark for EU-only workloads — decide which matters more.

Finally, the domain situation deserves a mention as a trust matter. Running a serious hosting business on maxko-hosting.com while maxko.org displays a game server is confusing at best; we have corrected our own listing to point at the right site.

Who should pick this

Our pick for Croatian and Balkan businesses, and anyone who needs quality VPS capacity in South East Europe or South Africa with European tax treatment. If your users are in Zagreb, Belgrade, Sofia, or Johannesburg, the latency argument is simple, and the ability to grab /29s and /28s of IPv4 without enterprise contracts is genuinely useful for mail and VPN workloads.

Also a reasonable fit for agencies and resellers: the WHM/cPanel add-ons, reseller hosting at €200 per year, and per-item pricing let you build a hosting business on top without negotiating a partner programme.

We would not pick Maxko for: workloads needing a credit-backed SLA, teams that want benchmark-proven performance data before buying, GPU or big-compute projects, or buyers who prefer vendors with deep English-language documentation and large community ecosystems.

Key takeaways

• MAXKO d.o.o. (Sisak, Croatia; trading since 2008) sells VPS, dedicated, and shared hosting from maxko-hosting.com — note maxko.org is a game site, not the host.
• Base VPS: 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe, 100 Mbps, /32 IPv4 + /64 IPv6 at €14.00/month including tax, €0 setup; add-ons priced à la carte (backups €5–€15/month).
• Six deployment countries: Croatia (two Zagreb sites), Netherlands, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, and South Africa — no Germany despite older listings.
• Native dual-stack IPv6, free DDoS filtering on all VPS (3 Tbps advertised in the Netherlands), ISO/IEC 27001 certificate, Tier III Zagreb facility.
• "99.999% infrastructure uptime" is a marketing claim without a published credit-backed SLA; included support response is 48 hours (24h costs €5 more).
• Right fit for regional EU/Balkan/Africa workloads and resellers; wrong fit for SLA-driven or benchmark-sensitive procurement.

Sources

• https://www.maxko-hosting.com/
• https://www.maxko-hosting.com/services/vps
• https://www.maxko-hosting.com/services/vps-croatia
• https://www.maxko-hosting.com/services/dedicated-servers
• https://www.maxko-hosting.com/services/web-hosting
• https://maxko.org
• https://platform.tracxn.com/a/d/company/531bee22e4b0f7e16635f86f/maxko