Why VPS-4-ALL
Most hosts still start customers on shared hosting: hundreds of sites on one server, all competing for the same CPU and memory. One busy or compromised neighbor can slow down, or expose, everyone else. It's cheap to sell, but it isn't good for your site.
We believe every website deserves its own VPS. VPS-4-ALL is our campaign to make that the standard, and to help make shared hosting a thing of the past.
Why we're crowdfunding
Web7 Technologies is privately owned and bootstrapped. We've never taken investor money, and that's exactly why we can put customers first. It also means we pay for every server out of our own revenue.
Right now that's a problem. Memory prices have climbed sharply, and the RAM for our next generation of high-clock servers costs far more than it did even a year ago. We could raise prices or cut corners. We'd rather ask the people who'll actually use those servers to help us build them.
So here's the deal: back the campaign, and you get hosting from day one plus our WP Pro 4 plan at $300/yr for life, normally $456/yr. That's $156 saved every year you host with us.
Founders, in every sense
Because we're bootstrapped, our customers are our only funding. When you back VPS-4-ALL, you're not just buying hosting. You're helping build Web7 itself, which makes you a founder in a very real sense. That's why we call our backers Founding Backers.
You're also helping build something bigger than one company: a web where a fast, isolated VPS is the standard, and shared hosting is no longer used.
How it works
1
Back the campaign for $300/yr
Sign up through the campaign and pay your first year up front. That price is yours for as long as you keep your plan.
2
Start hosting on WP Basic 4
Your fully managed VPS is set up right away, with free migration of your existing WordPress sites.
3
Get upgraded to WP Pro 4
Within 6 months of backing, or as soon as we reach 50 backers, whichever comes first. We handle the move for you.
What you get
You're hosting from the moment you back us. Here's how your server changes when your upgrade arrives:
Right away
WP Basic 4
Within 6 months
WP Pro 4
CPU cores
4
6
Peak clock speed
3.0 GHz
5.5 GHz
RAM
4 GB DDR4
4 GB DDR4
5 GB at 100 backers
NVMe storage
24 GB
48 GB
Monthly bandwidth
300 GB
750 GB
Daily backups
30-day retention
30-day retention
60 days at 100 backers
Sites & email
Unlimited
Unlimited
Milestones
The more backers join, the more every backer gets, including those who joined first. Milestone rewards apply to everyone.
29 of 500 backers
Next milestone: 50 backers
25
30-day backups
Daily backup retention went from 7 days to 30 days for every Web7 customer.
Reached
50
WP Pro 4 for everyone
Every backer is upgraded to WP Pro 4 right away, without waiting for the 6-month mark.*
21 to go
100
+1 GB RAM, 60-day backups, and more
Every backer gets an extra 1 GB of RAM, and daily backup retention doubles from 30 to 60 days. Plus, existing customers already on WP Pro 4 have their plan reduced to the $300/yr backer rate, because they backed us early in their own way.
71 to go
200
Secret reward
Unlocks at 200 backers.
171 to go
300
Secret reward
Unlocks at 300 backers.
271 to go
400
Secret reward
Unlocks at 400 backers.
371 to go
500
Secret reward
Unlocks at 500 backers, our campaign goal.
471 to go
* What "right away" means: we start building the new server as soon as we reach 50 backers. We build our servers ourselves, so timing depends on parts availability, and each server takes a few days to configure and test before it goes live. We expect the new server to be online within two weeks of reaching 50 backers. Then we migrate backers in the order they signed up, so the earliest backers move first. While we build, we'll send regular time estimates, and we'll let you know if anything changes.
Where the money goes
Campaign funds go toward the memory and hardware for the high-clock servers that will run WP Pro 4 plans in our SOC 2 certified data center in Albuquerque. It's hardware we own and run ourselves, not capacity rented from someone else.
Risks and challenges
Hardware prices and supply can change quickly, and that's the biggest risk to any timeline. We've built the campaign so that risk sits with us, not you:
- You get hosting immediately. Your WP Basic 4 server is live the day you back us, so you're never paying for nothing.
- Your upgrade is guaranteed within 6 months, whether or not we reach 50 backers.
- Your price is locked at $300/yr for life, even if the campaign falls short of its goal.
If something does affect delivery, we'll tell backers directly by email, and post updates on this page.
Updates
We're live, with 29 Founding Backers already on board
The VPS-4-ALL Crowdfunding Campaign is officially open. Thank you to our first 29 Founding Backers! You've already unlocked our first milestone: at 25 backers, daily backups for every customer went from 7 days to 30 days. Next stop: 50 backers, when everyone moves to WP Pro 4 without waiting for the 6-month mark.
We'll post every campaign update here and email it to backers. Once our blog launches on December 1, updates will be posted there too.
About us
Web7 Technologies has been independent since 2020. We sell fully managed VPS hosting only, never shared hosting, on servers we own in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Support comes from the same in-house team that builds and runs the hardware. Read our story and see where we're headed.