WEDOS

What WEDOS actually is

WEDOS (the name compresses WEBHOSTING, DOMAINS, SERVERS) is a Czech hosting company founded in 2010 that did something almost no host its size does: it built and operates its own data centers. Within 31 months of launch it claimed the top spot in Czech web hosting, and it remains the country's largest domain registrar. The operating company, WEDOS Internet, a.s., sits in Hluboká nad Vltavou in South Bohemia, and everything customers get runs on hardware in two proprietary facilities — no resold hyperscaler capacity, no rented colocation floor.

The product spread is broad by regional-host standards: shared web hosting (the NoLimit family plus a LowCost entry tier and a WordPress variant), mail hosting, a website-builder product, WMS (a managed web-hosting server with reserved resources), virtual servers, dedicated servers, and WEDOS Cloud. Alongside the retail hosting sits WEDOS Global — an anycast platform selling DDoS protection, IDS/IPS filtering, managed DNS, CDN, and VPN, with 120+ global PoPs and 5,000+ servers by the company's count. That security stack was built for WEDOS's own network first and sold second, which is the right order of operations in our view.

One naming note before anything else: the Czech retail brand is now VEDOS (vedos.cz), while wedos.com carries the international and enterprise-facing offer. The history, infrastructure, and company are the same. Listings that treat "WEDOS" and "VEDOS" as separate companies are wrong.

Pricing: what you really pay

WEDOS prices in Czech koruna and the entry prices are among the lowest we track anywhere. The shared-hosting lineup on the English order page runs: LowCost at 33 CZK/month for the first year (coupon LOWCOST, 39.93 CZK incl. VAT), renewing at 53.51 CZK excl. VAT (64.75 incl. VAT); NoLimit at 39 CZK/month first year (coupon NOLIMIT, 47.19 incl. VAT), renewing at 100 CZK excl. VAT (121 incl. VAT); Extra at 99 CZK/month first year, renewing at 200 CZK excl. VAT (242 incl. VAT). Roughly a third of the Czech market picks NoLimit — the vendor says 81% of customers choose it — and the comparison page is laid out honestly, renewal prices printed next to intro prices rather than hidden at checkout.

NoLimit gives unlimited SSD disk space under a fair-use policy tied to active website data, unlimited traffic, unlimited domains, subdomains, databases, and email accounts, on Apache with any PHP application supported. LowCost caps SSD space at 10 GB. Extra buys more CPU and RAM for demanding sites. All shared plans include Let's Encrypt SSL, multiple PHP versions, MariaDB, cron, log access, backups, and one-click installers.

VPS pricing (VEDOS's English pages) starts at 146 CZK/month (~6.10 EUR as published by the vendor) for the entry SSD VPS — 2 CPU threads, 8 GB RAM, 60 GB SSD at the 8-module configuration is 1,168 CZK/month — with Pro SSD VPS from 253 CZK/month. Be aware the VPS line itemises what shared hosting bundles: the first IPv4 address is 1 CZK/month, additional IPv4 addresses 100 CZK/month, and snapshots (50 CZK per module) and daily internal backups (25 CZK per module) are paid add-ons. IPv6 is free, first address and every additional one.

For our /benchmarks readers used to euro pricing: WEDOS's koruna prices are genuinely cheap at the entry tier, but the currency, VAT handling (prices quoted excl. and incl. 21% VAT), and coupon codes make direct comparison a small exercise in arithmetic.

Performance & infrastructure

The infrastructure is the reason to take WEDOS seriously. DC1 — nicknamed "The Bunker" — is a converted civil-defence shelter from 2010, modernised between 2018 and 2020 for 20 million CZK: new transformer station, two generators, reinforced free cooling, and two independent branches of both power and connectivity. It carries three independent internet routes from two providers at 3x100 Gbps, with at least 2x10 Gbps per rack and HPE Moonshot cabinets at 4x20 Gbps, staffed around the clock with in-house electricians living minutes away. DC2, built from 2014, cools servers by oil immersion and water cooling — billed as the first commercial deployment of that technique at up to 10,000-server scale — and dumps the waste heat into the town swimming pool in winter.

On availability, WEDOS publishes a formal SLA with tiered guarantees depending on the tariff: 99.9% to 99.99% by product, with the NoLimit line's availability guarantee recorded at 99.98% and a compensation mechanism — claimable within 30 days, with a free month of service as the stated remedy. That is a real, credit-backed commitment rather than a marketing number, and it is unusually good at this price point. The 7-day money-back window is short.

The WEDOS Global layer (DDoS protection, IDS/IPS, anycast DNS with 3-17 ms response times in Europe, CDN with 120+ PoPs) underpins the whole platform, and shared hosting customers ride on infrastructure protected by it. For a host of this size to own its scrubbing and DNS stack is the part competitors cannot copy cheaply.

Where it falls short

Czech-centrism is the practical limit. The company is genuinely internationalising (English, Polish, French, German and other language fronts, EUR/PLN/USD display), but the heart of the operation — support culture, documentation, the registrar business — is built around the Czech and Slovak market. English-language support exists (24/7 per the vendor) but depth of English documentation trails the big global hosts. For a UK or US buyer, timezone and language friction are real.

The pricing apparatus needs attention: coupon codes for first-year prices, per-module VPS pricing where every add-on scales with your module count, VAT shown both ways, and "unlimited" on NoLimit governed by a fair-use policy aimed at active website data (i.e. not a place to park archives). Snapshot and backup charges on VPS are the kind of à-la-carte stacking we flag in our /category/vps-providers reviews — cheap headline, add-ons adding up.

Scale has edges too: two data centers, both in one small Czech town — admirable redundancy engineering, but a single geographic footprint with no EU-West or US region. The corporate layer is also in transition (the WEDOS Group structure includes a Luxembourg entity behind wedos.eu), which matters little operationally but is worth knowing for procurement.

Who should pick this

Our pick for WEDOS is the Czech, Slovak, or Central European business that wants local hosting on genuinely owned infrastructure, with data residency in the EU and pricing that undercuts Western European hosts by a wide margin. E-shops and WordPress sites on the NoLimit plan, agencies standardising on a local provider, and anyone who values knowing exactly which building their data sits in — WEDOS will tell you, down to the cooling method.

It also fits technically-minded buyers who want cheap KVM VPS capacity in the EU and don't mind paying small add-on fees for snapshots and backups, and security-conscious teams wanting DDoS/DNS/CDN services from a provider that runs its own anycast network.

We would not pick it for: US or APAC audiences, buyers needing multiple geographic regions, or teams that want frictionless English-first onboarding and documentation. Nor is NoLimit's "unlimited" a fit for archive storage — the fair-use policy targets active website data.

Key takeaways

• Czech host founded in 2010 running two of its own data centers in Hluboká nad Vltavou: DC1 (modernised civil-defence shelter, 3x100 Gbps transit) and DC2 (oil-immersion cooling, waste heat reused locally).
• Entry shared hosting starts at 33 CZK/month for the first year (LowCost) and 39 CZK/month (NoLimit), with renewal prices printed openly next to intro prices.
• Formal SLA with tiered guarantees (99.9-99.99% by tariff; NoLimit recorded at 99.98%) and a claimable one-month credit remedy — rare at this price.
• VPS line from 146 CZK/month, but snapshots (50 CZK/module) and backups (25 CZK/module) are paid add-ons; IPv6 is free, IPv4 costs extra beyond the first.
• WEDOS Global — its own DDoS, IDS/IPS, anycast DNS and CDN platform with 120+ PoPs — protects the underlying network.
• Czech retail is now branded VEDOS; wedos.com carries the international offer. Best for CEE buyers wanting owned EU infrastructure at local prices; wrong fit for multi-region or English-first needs.

Sources

• https://hosting.wedos.com/en
• https://vedos.cz/en/vps-ssd
• https://vedos.cz/en/vps-ssd/doplnkove-sluzby
• https://vedos.cz/sk/vedos-wedos-historie
• https://wedos.com/
• https://wedos.com/conditions-2/hosting/
• https://whtop.com/plans/wedos.com/46520