is*hosting VPN review: score, privacy and prices
3.20
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Other (usenet, hosting, tunnels) median 2.5
- Other (usenet, hosting, tunnels)
- Jurisdiction:Estonia, alliance not disclosed
- Founded2005
- Data completeness87%
- Checked2026-10-15
- VLESS / Reality
- Trial without a card
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Censorship bypass5.7 vs 0.5
- Platforms and support7.1 vs 3.9
- Price and fair terms4.2 vs 3.4
Weakest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction1.3 vs 2.3
- Network and streaming2.5 vs 2.8
- Security and protocols1.8 vs 1.8
- Auto-renewal on by default
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Other (usenet, hosting, tunnels) services in the main ranking (None services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
is*hosting VPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.31.3
What earned points
- No-logs policy +2
- Independent no-logs audit +3
- No-logs confirmed in court +1
- Warrant canary +1
- Transparency report +1
- Sign-up without email +1.5
- Account number sign-up +0.5
- Stores connection IP (penalty) −3
- Public incident (penalty) −2
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Security and protocols20% of the score · segment median 1.81.8
What earned points
- Kill switch +2
- DNS leak protection +1.5
- RAM-only servers +1
- Post-quantum encryption +1
- Perfect forward secrecy +0.5
- Security audit +2
- Open-source clients +1.5
- 2FA +1
- Multi-hop +1
- Bug bounty +1
- Only PPTP / L2TP (penalty) −2
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Price and fair terms15% of the score · segment median 3.44.2
What earned points
- Free plan +1.5
- Free trial +1
- Trial without a card +1
- Crypto payments +1
- Cash payments +0.5
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Censorship bypass15% of the score · segment median 0.55.7
What earned points
- Stealth / obfuscation +2
- VLESS / Reality +1.5
- Trojan +1
- Hysteria2 +1
- Shadowsocks +1
- AmneziaWG +1
- obfs4 +0.5
- TUIC +0.5
- NaiveProxy +0.5
- Mirrors or Telegram channel +0.5
- VoIP in the UAE (claimed) +0.5
- Manual configs +0.5
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Network and streaming10% of the score · segment median 2.82.5
What earned points
- 10 Gbps servers +1
- Dedicated IP +0.5
- Port forwarding +0.5
- MENA locations +0.5
- Torrenting allowed +1
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Platforms and support10% of the score · segment median 3.97.1
What earned points
- Routers +1
- Browser extensions +0.5
- Split tunneling +1
- Ad / tracker blocker +1
- 24/7 live chat +2
- live chat +0.5
- Support on Telegram +0.5
- Status page +0.5
is*hosting VPN pricing
The cheapest way in is €6.01 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, is*hosting VPN renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep is*hosting VPN running: the first term, then renewals at the published renewal price. Where no renewal price is published, plans shorter than a year are counted as repeat payments at the current price; longer plans show a dash after their term. Converted to euros at the rates used in our data (1 USD = €0.86). The lowest cost for each period is marked.
| Plan and first term | First payment | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private VPN / Amnezia / 3X-UI XRay / Outline, 1 mo | €6.01 | €72.14at the current price | €144.27at the current price | €216.41at the current price |
Compare is*hosting VPN’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private VPN / Amnezia / 3X-UI XRay / Outline | 1 mo | $6.99 | $6.99 | €6.01 |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 14 (EU consumer statutory withdrawal, pro-rata deduction for used service; goodwill refunds discretionary, up to 25% deduction in first month)
- Refund conditions
- no refund if IP blocked in a country
- Free trial
- 1 (24h on request via chat), site (support chat)
- Card needed for trial
- No free test period; payment only if service is renewed
- Auto-renewal
- auto-renewal available (saved payment method)
- Payment methods
- Visa; Mastercard; crypto; UnionPay; Boleto; Alipay
- Renewal note
- auto-renewal with saved payment method; renewals refundable under same policy; disabling auto-renew does not cancel current period
Everything is*hosting VPN publishes
Every fact we collected about is*hosting VPN, as the provider and reviewers state it. Empty fields are left out; key fields we could not find say “Not stated”. “Partial”: only on some platforms, servers or plans.
Company
- Legal entity
- WEBRAIN OÜ (reg. no. 16236489)
- Registered in
- Estonia
- Address
- Endla 4, 10142 Tallinn, Estonia
- Founded
- 2005
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- EN
- PT-BR
- ZH-HK
- ...
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Private VPN with Static IP
- Amnezia VPN
- 3X-UI/XRay VPN
- Outline VPN
- Billing terms
- monthly
- Cheapest price a month
- $6.99
- Monthly plan
- $6.99
- 1-year plan, a month
- ~5.59 USD effective (annual prepay = 12 months paid + 3 months free, marketed as 25% discount; base 6.99 USD/mo)
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Renewal
- auto-renewal with saved payment method
- renewals refundable under same policy
- disabling auto-renew does not cancel current period
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Prices seen from other countries
- 3X-UI/XRay, Outline, Private VPN, Amnezia: $6.99/mo each ($6.64 with is*smart); location surcharges e.g. Argentina/Colombia +$15, Chile +$7, most EU +$1.50, Finland +$1
- Dedicated IP add-on
- Yes included (+extra IPv4 add-on)
- Double VPN add-on
- Yes available (needs 2 VPN accounts)
- Other add-ons
- location surcharge +1/+1.5/+7/+15 USD
- Jabber server
- private Dropbox alt
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Affiliate programme
- Yes
- Affiliate commission
- 50% of first purchase (VPS/VPN/storage), lifetime up to 20%
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- accounts: 10+ OpenVPN, 5+ WireGuard, 2+ PPTP/L2TP, 2+ SOCKS5 (up to 20)
- Data limit
- No
- Speed limit
- No up to 1 Gbps
- Country restrictions
- Turkmenistan not guaranteed; no IP replacement/refund if blocked
Free plan
- Free plan
- No 24h trial on request only
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- Visa
- Mastercard
- crypto
- UnionPay
- Boleto
- Alipay
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- Yes
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Local payment methods
- Boleto
- Alipay
- UnionPay
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes auto-renewal available (saved payment method)
- Email needed to sign up
- Not stated
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 14 (EU consumer statutory withdrawal, pro-rata deduction for used service; goodwill refunds discretionary, up to 25% deduction in first month)
- Refund conditions
- Yes refund if IP blocked in a country
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 1 (24h on request via chat)
- Where the trial is offered
- site (support chat)
- Card needed for the trial
- No free test period; payment only if service is renewed
Server locations
- Countries
- 39
- Servers
- Not stated
39 countries listed. A link opens our ranking of VPNs with servers there.
Europe 23
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Romania
- Serbia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Americas 8
Asia and Oceania 8
- Middle East and North Africa
- TR only
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- Own servers
- Yes site: own server equipment in 39 countries
- Port speed
- up to 1 Gbps
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- Yes
- Static IP
- Yes
- Residential IP
- Not stated
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- Yes DoubleVPN add-on
- Tor over VPN
- Not stated
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Yes
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard✓ Yes
- OpenVPN✓ Yes
- IKEv2only PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, WireGuard, OpenVPN listed✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecYes
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocol✕ No
- VLESS / Reality3X-UI/XRay XTLS✓ Yes
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- Shadowsocks✓ Yes
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGAmnezia plan✓ Yes
- PPTP✕ Yes
- Other protocols
- Outline; Cloak (Amnezia)
- Encryption
- AES-256
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes VPS root access, configs
- Open-source apps
- Not stated
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- No built-in stealth mode; obfuscation via self-hosted Amnezia/3X-UI options
- Countries it claims to work in
- Russia (Amnezia+Cloak / Shadowsocks recommended)
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Not stated
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes DNS filtering of harmful domains
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Yes
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
What the privacy policy says is collected
Yes: collected. No: not collected. Partial: kept briefly or only in part. Not stated: the policy does not say.
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timesNot stated
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersMikroTik guide✓ Yes
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Netflix
- Not stated
- BBC iPlayer
- Not stated
- Disney+
- Not stated
- Prime Video
- Not stated
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- Yes
- Live chat 24/7
- Yes
- Email / tickets
- Yes support@ishosting.com; ticket system, Technical Support 24/7/365
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Server status page
- Not stated
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Not stated
- Admin panel
- Not stated
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Not stated
What users say
Reviews never change our score. Ratings are smoothed: a source’s average across all VPNs counts as 50 extra reviews, so a few five-star reviews cannot outrank thousands.
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Trustpilot
4.13 of 5, smoothed
From 200 collected reviews (raw average 4.25; all VPNs 3.66). Last 90 days: 4.50 from 8.
The company replied to 33 of 34 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 4.2 (266 reviews).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
12 Reddit and forum threads mention is*hosting VPN (titles and search snippets only).
Latest reviews and related rankings
Latest reviews
Short excerpts with a link to the original. We do not reproduce reviews in full.
Trustpilot · 1★ · 12 Oct 2026 · AE
Aftersale service is bad
Original reviewTrustpilot · 5★ · 05 Oct 2026 · CA
Quick and accurate answers to my questions
Original reviewTrustpilot · 5★ · 04 Oct 2026 · PL
Overall use for 4 years
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is*hosting VPN appears on 5 topic pages. Its place on each:
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Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://www.capterra.com/vpn-software/
- Pages checked
- ["https://www.capterra.com/vpn-software/ (not on page 1)", "https://www.capterra.com/p/10025684/ishosting/", "https://ishosting.com/llms.txt", "https://ishosting.com/en/vpn.md"]
- Other sources used
- legal_entity/registration_country/address/money_back/refund/renewal/autorenew: https://ishosting.com/en/refund-policy; affiliate_program/affiliate_commission: https://ishosting.com/en/affiliate-program; free_tier/port_speed/own_servers/adblock/pptp/l2tp/encryption/routers/country_restrictions: https://ishosting.com/en/vpn; email_tickets: https://ishosting.com/en/support; price_12m_pm, card_required_for_trial, ikev2, proprietary_protocol: https://help.ishosting.com/en/vpn-faq; stealth/kill/split inferred from product type (notes)
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