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Webslice

New Zealand host that sells a container platform on virtual machines at a fixed monthly price and a metered serverless PHP platform built on AWS.

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Containers by the month, PHP by the request.

Webslice was founded in 2004 in Auckland and has belonged to SiteTech Group, the company behind SiteHost, since an acquisition announced in 2017. It sells two platforms. Webslice Containers rents a Linux virtual machine in a chosen location at a fixed monthly price, patched by Webslice, onto which the customer provisions containers from prebuilt images: Apache or Nginx with PHP, plus Python, Node.js, .NET and Ruby stacks, with MariaDB or MySQL integrated into the console and MongoDB or SQL Server as service images run from the shell. Code arrives over SSH, SFTP or a git clone the customer runs inside the container. An SSH session is a temporary container with the application container mounted into it, and nothing outside the home directory persists.

Webslice Serverless is a PHP platform built on AWS, with a region picked per site. Each site costs a flat monthly fee plus metered requests, runtime, storage and bandwidth, scales to zero, and deploys from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, from a zip dropped into the console, or over SFTP. MySQL is the one database engine, priced per database plus usage. A CDN the company built itself after Stackpath shut down its CDN at the end of 2023 sits in front of every site by default and caches static files only.

Worth knowing

The serverless platform publishes a page of limits: a request timeout, a per-site concurrency cap, a temporary filesystem and a cap on sites per account, some of them raised on request. Spend limits pause every site and database in a team once the monthly figure is reached. Neither platform offers a New Zealand location.

Email support and a Discord are free; chat, phone, application-level help, one-click restore, container cloning and automatic image updates come with the paid support tiers, billed as a monthly fee plus a charge per container, so an unmanaged container is updated by hand. Billing is in US dollars by Visa or Mastercard only. The terms ask for thirty days’ notice, give no refund for an unused subscription, and add a ten percent penalty to a late payment.

Identity

Founded
20042
Ownership
Subsidiary4
Parent
SiteHost4
Status
Active

Deployment

Deployment
Git, File transfer, Control panel111213

Regions and law

Regions
United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Singapore, Australia2324
Headquarters
New Zealand3
DPA
Standard, published25

Other features

DNS hosting
None27
CDN
Included28
Test domain
Included2729
Collaboration
Team members30
Staging
Paid add-on26

Support

Support
Email, Chat, Phone26
Hours
Around the clock26
Tiering
Better on paid plans26
Published SLA
no21

Sources

  1. 2026-09-06: description, Audience
    webslice.com
  2. 2026-09-06: Founded
    webslice.com/about
  3. 2026-09-06: Headquarters
    webslice.com/contact-us
  4. 2026-09-06: Ownership, Parent, 2017 acquisition
    sitehost.nz/blog/press-release-sitetech-group-acquires-webslice-ltd
  5. 2026-09-06: Operating system
    docs.webslice.com/containers/servers/overview/
  6. 2026-09-06: Metal, Runs on, Use cases, Software
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/overview/
  7. 2026-09-06: Use cases
    webslice.com/serverless-php-hosting
  8. 2026-09-06: Runtimes, Managed databases
    docs.webslice.com/containers/overview/
  9. 2026-09-06: Software
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/cms-guides/overview/
  10. 2026-09-06: Software
    docs.webslice.com/containers/technical/umbraco/
  11. 2026-09-06: Deployment
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/deployments/git/
  12. 2026-09-06: Deployment
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/deployments/file/
  13. 2026-09-06: Deployment
    docs.webslice.com/containers/ssh-sftp/overview/
  14. 2026-09-06: Shell
    docs.webslice.com/containers/ssh-sftp/privileges/
  15. 2026-09-06: Managed databases
    docs.webslice.com/containers/databases/overview/
  16. 2026-09-06: Managed databases
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/databases/
  17. 2026-09-06: Backups, Typical ceiling, Free tier
    webslice.com/containers
  18. 2026-09-06: Backups
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/backups/
  19. 2026-09-06: Pricing model, Entry price, Starting price
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/pricing/
  20. 2026-09-06: Currencies, Billed, Payment
    docs.webslice.com/teams-billing/billing/
  21. 2026-09-06: Exit, Money back, Published SLA, late payment
    webslice.com/policies-compliance/terms-and-conditions
  22. 2026-09-06: Free tier, Minimum contract
    webslice.com/serverless
  23. 2026-09-06: Regions
    docs.webslice.com/containers/servers/locations/
  24. 2026-09-06: Regions
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/regions/
  25. 2026-09-06: DPA
    webslice.com/policies-compliance/data-processor-agreement
  26. 2026-09-06: Support, Hours, Tiering, Staging
    webslice.com/support-management
  27. 2026-09-06: DNS hosting, Test domain
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/domains/
  28. 2026-09-06: CDN
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/cdn/
  29. 2026-09-06: Test domain
    docs.webslice.com/containers/features/domain-alias/
  30. 2026-09-06: Collaboration
    docs.webslice.com/teams-billing/teams/
  31. 2026-09-06: own c d n
    webslice.com/blog/cdn-why-build
  32. 2026-09-06: serverless limits
    docs.webslice.com/serverless/limits/
  33. 2026-09-06: spend limits
    docs.webslice.com/teams-billing/shock-protection/
  34. 2026-09-06: automatic updates
    docs.webslice.com/containers/features/auto-updates/
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