Is Cloudcone worth it?
Cloudcone suits buyers who want low monthly prices on cloud servers and a stack that also covers email and DDoS protection.
The homepage says pricing starts at $0.00564 per hour. The SC2 Starter Plan costs $5.20 per month, and the SC2 Premium Plan costs $63.09 per month with 11 vCPU cores and 16 GB RAM.
Support is described as in-house, and engineers respond every day, within a few hours, which suits teams that want human help.
What is Cloudcone?
Cloudcone describes its mission as building an unmatched stack of cloud services, fully managed by friendly humans.
The homepage lists Scalable Cloud Servers, Hosted Business E-mail, Dedicated Servers, One-Click Applications, Virtual Private Servers, DDoS Protection, Private Cloud and Additional IPv4. Virtual Private Servers are described as affordable yet powerful, for general purpose VPS computing. Hosted Business E-mail is aimed at custom domains, and DDoS Protection covers up to 1 TBP/s across the network.
What Cloudcone sells
Dedicated servers are fully managed Dell dedicated machines with dedicated resources, deployed in a day. Scalable cloud servers are described as high performance, for powerful computing.
Where Cloudcone came from
Cloudcone was born from Quadcone, which launched in 2012, and Cloudcone itself launched on a much larger scale in 2017. The About page traces its start to that earlier product and its wider launch.
Is Cloudcone legit and safe to use?
CloudCone LLC. lists a Sheridan, Wyoming address and office branches in the USA and Sri Lanka. Its About page also gives a history of cloud deployments and partnerships.
The privacy policy says CloudCone does not sell, trade or otherwise transfer personally identifiable information to outside parties. The contact page lists hello@cloudcone.com and says enquiries are answered within 24 hours on business days, so you can confirm details before paying.
Company details and track record
CloudCone LLC. has an address at 30 N GOULD ST STE 6329, Sheridan, WY 82801, and office branches in the USA and Sri Lanka. The About page says it became an official cPanel partner, deployed over 150,000 cloud instances and acquired over 4000 affiliates.
How we evaluated Cloudcone
This Cloudcone review is based on the company's own published pages: the homepage, About page, privacy policy, support policy and contact page.
HostSiftly did not sign up for or test the service. Prices, plan specifications, the support policy and privacy wording come from the text on those pages.
Customer feedback here means testimonials the company publishes on its About page, which the company selects.
Cloudcone output quality and limits
Facilities, network and security claims come from the About page, the homepage and the privacy policy.
DDoS Protection covers up to 1 TBP/s across the network, which the homepage presents as a platform feature.
Facilities and network
Electrical power comes through two active lines linked to separate diesel generators and backed by two redundant UPS units. The network has a bare minimum of 192 lines of dark fiber among each divergent path.
Security and scanning limits
The privacy policy says CloudCone does not use vulnerability scanning, scanning to PCI standards or malware scanning. Payments go through a gateway provider and are not stored on Cloudcone servers, and sensitive information is encrypted via SSL.
Cloudcone key features
The homepage presents a stack of cloud services that covers servers, email, IP addresses and DDoS protection.
The About page describes its dedicated servers as fully managed Dell machines with dedicated resources, deployed in a day.
Cloud servers and dedicated machines
Scalable cloud servers are described as high performance, for powerful computing. Virtual Private Servers are described as affordable yet powerful, for general purpose VPS computing.
Email, IPs and one-click apps
Hosted Business E-mail for custom domains uses premium SMTP endpoints and claims a 99% email delivery rate, footnoted as targeting recipients inbox. One-Click Applications, Private Cloud and Additional IPv4 round out the list.
Cloudcone pricing and plans
Pricing starts at $0.00564 per hour, and the homepage shows prices for each SC2 plan.
The SC2 Starter Plan costs $5.20 per month ($0.00699 per hour) with 1 vCPU core, 1 GB RAM and 20 GB RAID-10 SSD disk.
The SC2 Premium Plan costs $63.09 per month ($0.08480 per hour) with 11 vCPU cores, 16 GB RAM and 320 GB RAID-10 SSD disk.
Every SC2 plan includes 3 TB bandwidth, 1x IPv4 and 3x IPv6, KVM virtualization, and auto-backups and snapshots that can be enabled.
What users say about Cloudcone
The About page shows customer testimonials, and they focus on support and value.
Testimonials are chosen and published by the company, so read them as a selected sample. The support policy makes its own promise: engineers respond to requests every day, within a few hours, which is a claim to check after you order.
No complaint themes appear on the pages reviewed, so the cons here come from policy wording and published claims.
What testimonials say about support
Testimonials on the About page praise good speeds, good hardware for a low price and strong customer support. Several testimonials praise the support team directly.
Support, refunds and cancellation
Support is handled by an in-house department, and the policy gives a response window measured in hours.
The support policy says support is handled by an in-house department rather than an outside agency.
Response times and channels
The support policy says Support Engineers respond to requests every day, within a few hours. Requests are opened by logging into the Client Area and starting a conversation in the chat box.
Contact and enquiry times
The contact page says enquiries are answered within 24 hours on business days, with email at hello@cloudcone.com. Use the contact page for enquiries that do not need an open support request.
Who should use Cloudcone
Cloudcone suits small businesses and developers who want cheap cloud plans with human support.
Buyers who need business email on their own domains will find the email product on the same stack. Teams that plan to rely on the 99% email delivery figure should check it against their own mail results first. Anyone starting small should compare the SC2 Starter Plan at $5.20 per month with the SC2 Premium Plan at $63.09 per month before choosing.
Final verdict on Cloudcone
Cloudcone offers low-priced cloud plans and a broad product stack, including email and DDoS protection.
Check the plan you need, since prices rise from $5.20 per month on the SC2 Starter Plan to $63.09 per month on the SC2 Premium Plan.
Read the privacy policy before buying, since the company says it does not use malware or PCI scanning. Support engineers respond every day, within a few hours, according to the support policy.