Rocket.net Review 2026: If You Read Nothing Else
Rocket.net is a fast, no-fuss managed WordPress host for sites that cache well. If you run a store or pass 50GB of bandwidth a month, a ScalaHosting VPS is the better buy.
Starter is $30.00/mo ($25.00/mo on annual billing) for 1 site and 50GB of bandwidth. Pro is $60.00/mo for 3 sites and 100GB, a $30 step up. Prices do not rise at renewal.
Our speed numbers are for the Starter plan, measured at Rocket.net's CDN edge from 10 locations (how we test): 32ms from New York and 42ms on average, with 0 errors on a 0 to 250 client ramp and 99.979% uptime over 54 days.
Buy Rocket.net Starter if you:
- Run a blog, news or brochure site that the cache can serve
- Have visitors spread across regions
- Want managed WordPress with Cloudflare Enterprise and no server to run
- Stay under 50GB of bandwidth a month
Buy ScalaHosting instead if you:
- Run WooCommerce or a members site, where most pages skip the cache
- Use more than 50GB a month: ScalaHosting's plan page lists unmetered bandwidth
- Want server-level control and a 8.4x faster CPU
Every site sits behind Cloudflare Enterprise. Behind the edge, Rocket.net's own pages list Dual Intel Xeon Gold servers; support once named an older Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 from 2013 for our Starter server, which we could not confirm. Rocket.net joined hosting.com in August 2025, under the private-equity-backed World Host Group.
$30.00/mo Starter · 1 site · 50GB bandwidth · overage $0.08/GB
What Rocket.net Gets Right
- Every site sits behind Rocket.net's CDN edge: Starter answered in 32ms from New York, 42ms on average across 10 locations (edge)
- No failed requests on our load ramp: 0 errors in 8,250 requests, 66ms average
- Uptime 99.979% over our 54 days window
- No price rise at renewal: $30.00/mo monthly or $25.00/mo on annual billing
- SSH, SFTP, WP-CLI, staging, daily backups and free migrations
- 30-day money-back guarantee (not on Enterprise plans)
What Our Testing Exposed
- Origin CPU not printed per plan: Rocket.net's pages list Dual Intel Xeon Gold servers; support once named an older Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 (2013), which we could not confirm
- Bandwidth is capped at 50GB a month on Starter, with overage billed per GB
- One WordPress site on Starter; no email hosting
Our Benchmark Records (Starter Plan)
- TTFB at the CDN edge, New York: 32ms
- Uptime (54-day window): 99.979%
- PageSpeed score (mobile): 87
$30/mo
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
Why ScalaHosting Outperforms Rocket.net
- AMD EPYC 9474F, PassMark 102,255, about 8.4x the score of the Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 support once named for Rocket.net (unconfirmed)
- 38ms origin TTFB (no CDN) from New York
- 58ms with 100 concurrent users, 0 errors on the ramp
- Unmetered bandwidth and free SPanel
- Free website migration, offsite backups and a dedicated IP
- Anytime money-back guarantee
Honest Downsides
- Entry Cloud renews at $39.95/mo after the intro term
- A managed VPS, so less hand-holding than Rocket.net's one-click WordPress setup
Our Benchmark Records (Entry Cloud)
- Origin TTFB, New York (no CDN): 38ms
- Uptime (54-day window): 99.99%
- PageSpeed score (mobile): 85
$29.95/mo
Anytime Money-Back Guarantee
Speed: TTFB at the CDN Edge by Location
Starter answered in 32ms from New York and 42ms averaged over 10 locations. These are edge figures: the response comes from Rocket.net's Cloudflare edge, from each test city to our Starter test site.
Every location answered in 58ms or less. Google puts a "good" TTFB at 800ms or under.
What it means for you: if most of your pages are cacheable, your visitors get these times wherever they are. Pages that skip the cache are served by the origin, covered next.
The CDN and the Server Behind It
Rocket.net's speed comes from its Cloudflare Enterprise CDN. Its Help Center says every site is served through Cloudflare on the Enterprise tier in 250+ locations, and its network page says 330 points of presence.
Rocket.net's homepage puts its averaged TTFB at about 83ms, measured on customer sites. That is the cached, edge number.
What the edge serves, and what it does not
Cloudflare's own cache documentation says it does not cache HTML or JSON by default, so ask Rocket.net what is cached for your site. Whatever the cache does not serve is answered by the origin server.
The server: which CPU is behind the edge?
Rocket.net does not print a CPU per plan. Its private-cloud page lists the servers as "32 Cores Dual Intel Xeon Gold" with 128GB RAM. Earlier, Rocket.net support named the Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 as the processor of the server our Starter site ran on; we hold no copy of that reply, so treat it as unconfirmed. That older chip was released in 2013 and ranks #1,543 of 5,999 server CPUs on PassMark, with a multithread score of 12,150.
ScalaHosting's CPU scores 8.4x the chip support once named; against Rocket.net's listed Xeon Gold servers the gap would be smaller. For cached pages it makes no difference, because the edge answers and the origin is never touched. It matters for every request the cache skips, which is why a store or a members site belongs on faster hardware.
Load Test: Ramping to 250 Concurrent Clients
We ran a cycling ramp of 0-250 concurrent clients against the Starter site from US-East, with the CDN in front as Rocket.net sets it up.
Rocket.net absorbed the ramp without a single failed request
Across 8,250 requests it returned 0 errors. The average was 66ms, the 95th percentile 122.17ms and the 99th 218.99ms: the slowest one request in a hundred still came back in well under a quarter of a second.
For long spikes of traffic the cache cannot serve, such as a sale or a launch on a store, use the 30-day money-back window on your own site.
Uptime: 54-Day Monitoring Window
Rocket.net guarantees 99.99% uptime on every plan, and Starter's 99.979% lands just under it. All three hosts are in the same class, so uptime is not the deciding factor.
Rocket.net's status page lists its data centres; Mumbai and Singapore each appear twice.
Bandwidth Limits and Overage
Bandwidth is the limit that turns into an invoice. Visitors are unmetered, but each plan has a monthly bandwidth allowance and overage is billed at $0.08 per GB.
A site that uses 200GB a month on Starter pays $30.00/mo plus $12 of overage, $42 in all. That is more than ScalaHosting Entry Cloud costs month to month ($34.95/mo). Rocket.net's WP Engine comparison box describes Starter as 250,000 visits, so check your page weight against the 50GB before you pick it.
Rocket.net Pricing
Every plan includes the Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, SSL, staging and backups. Annual billing takes about two months off. Rocket.net's pricing page promises no price increases on renewals, offers a $1 first month, and gives a 30-day money-back guarantee on all services except Enterprise plans.
Starter against ScalaHosting, by bandwidth
Rocket.net is cheaper month to month while you stay inside 50GB. On annual billing ScalaHosting is cheaper, and it renews at $39.95/mo after its intro term.
The Acquisition: World Host Group
Rocket.net now sits inside World Host Group (WHG), a private equity-backed hosting group. The route there matters, because most reviews get it wrong.
Rocket.net was not bought by WHG directly. It joined hosting.com in August 2025, and hosting.com is A2 Hosting renamed: WHG acquired A2 in January 2025, and A2 rebranded to hosting.com that April. Ben Gabler, who founded Rocket.net, became Chief Product Officer at hosting.com; Jessica Frick took over as General Manager of Rocket.net.
Brands under the same parent:
- Rocket.net (managed WordPress), joined August 2025
- hosting.com, formerly A2 Hosting, acquired January 2025 and renamed April 2025
- FastComet (shared/cloud hosting), acquired 2025
- Stablepoint, Webcentral, HostingRaja and roughly 30 other brands
hosting.com's acquisition page describes a "Luxembourg-based parent company" and names Oakley Capital among its investors. Private-equity ownership can change pricing and support over a few years. Rocket.net's pricing page currently promises no price increases on renewals. For hosts under other private-equity owners, see the Bluehost review for the renewal price and the HostGator review for its CPU.
Features and Dashboard
Rocket.net's custom dashboard is easy for non-technical WordPress owners, and it is the product's strongest feature after the CDN. If you have never used cPanel and do not want to, it is easier to navigate than SPanel or cPanel.
Included
- Cloudflare Enterprise CDN on all plans, with a one-click toggle
- 1-click staging and automatic WordPress updates
- Daily backups you can view, restore and download
- Free SSL and free site migration by Rocket.net's team
- File manager, SSH, SFTP and a WP-CLI terminal
- Free WP Umbrella site management and client reporting
- Free WP Rocket on Starter, Pro and Enterprise
Not included
- Email hosting: use Google Workspace, Zoho Mail or another provider
- Root access and custom server settings
- cPanel or Plesk
- Object Cache Pro and Relay: Enterprise only on the pricing table
Developers and agencies who need server-level access are better served by ScalaHosting's SPanel or Cloudways' developer dashboard.
WooCommerce
Rocket.net can host a small WooCommerce store, but a store is where the CDN helps least. Cart, checkout and account pages are dynamic per user, so the origin server answers them, not the CDN.
- Small store, mostly product browsing: Rocket.net Starter works, because product pages cache.
- Busy store, many checkouts or logged-in customers: ScalaHosting or Cloudways, where the server does the work.
- High-traffic store: Rocket.net's Enterprise plans have dedicated CPU, RAM and NVMe on its private cloud, priced through a sales call.
Test your own checkout inside the 30-day money-back window. For store hosting from other providers, see our best WooCommerce hosting comparison.
WordPress Benchmark Score
Our WordPress benchmark scores CPU and memory, filesystem, database, object cache, WordPress core and network out of 10.
Starter scored 8.4/10, level with ScalaHosting Entry Cloud (8.4/10) and below Cloudways Vultr HF (9/10) and Kinsta (9/10). On PageSpeed Insights mobile it scored 87, and 99 on GTmetrix.
Support
Rocket.net's support is live chat and tickets on every plan, per its pricing FAQ. Its home page tile quotes LiveChat figures: 4.9 out of 5 from 6,014 ratings, 98% satisfaction and a 49-second typical reply.
On Trustpilot, Rocket.net holds 4.8 from 272 reviews, on a claimed profile with no recent history of inviting reviews.
Rocket.net vs ScalaHosting
Bottom line: ScalaHosting Entry Cloud has the faster load-ramp average (25ms against 66ms), higher uptime, a 8.4x higher CPU score, unmetered bandwidth and a lower annual price. Rocket.net is cheaper month to month ($30.00/mo against $34.95/mo), puts a CDN edge in front of every site and has no server to run.
Rocket.net vs Cloudways
Cloudways wins on the load-ramp average (32ms against 66ms), the WordPress benchmark score (9/10 against 8.4/10), uptime (99.99% against 99.979%) and month-to-month price ($16.00/mo against $30.00/mo).
Rocket.net wins on managed simplicity: no server to configure. Cloudways asks you to tune PHP workers, Redis and caching. For a full Cloudways analysis, see our Cloudways review.
Rocket.net vs Kinsta
Kinsta wins on the load-ramp average (44ms against 66ms), the WordPress benchmark score (9/10 against 8.4/10) and uptime (99.99% against 99.979%).
Rocket.net wins on price for several sites: Business is $100.00/mo for 10 sites, while Kinsta's Single 20GB is $35.00/mo month to month for one.
Who Rocket.net Is For, and Who It Isn't
Rocket.net is a good fit if:
- Your site is almost entirely cacheable: a blog, news site or brochure site, where visitors get the edge speed (32ms from New York, 42ms over 10 locations).
- Your audience is spread across regions: Cloudflare Enterprise flattens distance better than a fast server in one city.
- You do not want to administer a server: the CDN is included and on by default.
- You are stepping up from shared hosting and want managed WordPress without a VPS.
Skip Rocket.net if:
- You run WooCommerce or many logged-in users: those pages are answered by the origin server, not the CDN.
- You use more than 50GB a month: 200GB on Starter costs $42, more than ScalaHosting Entry Cloud month to month ($34.95/mo).
- You need server-level access: SSH, SFTP and WP-CLI are included, but not custom server configuration. Cloudways or ScalaHosting suit developers better.
- You manage many sites: Pro ($60.00/mo) covers 3 and Business ($100.00/mo) covers 10. Work out the per-site cost against the alternatives.
- You need email hosting: it is not included.
- Ownership matters to you: Rocket.net sits inside World Host Group.
Ad-supported sites should know that Rocket.net no longer supports Ezoic. Its help article still carries the older compatibility guide below that notice.
Moving away: ScalaHosting lists free website migration on its plan page.
Full Test Report: Rocket.net Starter
The export from our test suite for Rocket.net Starter: server response time (TTFB, at the CDN edge), behaviour under a 0 to 250 client load ramp, the GTmetrix and PageSpeed captures, our WordPress hosting benchmark, and 54 days of uptime tracking with the day-by-day calendar.
Starter
FAQ: Rocket.net
Is Rocket.net worth it in 2026?
For a cacheable site and an owner who does not want to run a server, yes. Starter is $30.00/mo or $25.00/mo on annual billing, and it answered in 32ms from New York and 42ms averaged over 10 locations at Rocket.net's CDN edge. The catches are the 50GB bandwidth allowance and a 2013 server CPU (Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2) behind the edge. For a store, or a site above 50GB a month, ScalaHosting is the better buy. Rocket.net is unscored on this page.
What CPU does Rocket.net use?
Rocket.net does not print a CPU per plan. Its server pages list '32 Cores Dual Intel Xeon Gold' with 128GB RAM. Support once named the older Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2, released in 2013, for the server our Starter site ran on, but we hold no copy of that reply, so treat it as unconfirmed. On PassMark that older chip ranks #1,543 of 5,999 CPUs with a multithread score of 12,150. ScalaHosting's AMD EPYC 9474F scores 102,255 (8.4x higher) and SiteGround's Intel Xeon Gold 6248R scores 36,067.
Does Rocket.net include Cloudflare Enterprise CDN?
Yes. Rocket.net's Help Center says every site is served through Cloudflare on the Enterprise tier, in 250+ locations (its network page says 330 points of presence). At that edge, Starter answered in 32ms from New York and 58ms from Mumbai, 42ms on average over 10 locations. Pages the cache cannot serve, such as cart, checkout, account and logged-in pages, are answered by the origin server.
What are Rocket.net's bandwidth limits?
Rocket.net's pricing page lists bandwidth by plan: Starter 50GB a month, Pro 100GB, Business 300GB and Expert 500GB, with overage billed at $0.08 per GB. Visitors are unmetered, so bandwidth is the limit that can turn into an invoice. ScalaHosting's plan page lists unmetered bandwidth for its managed VPS plans.
Who owns Rocket.net?
Rocket.net joined hosting.com in August 2025. hosting.com is A2 Hosting renamed, acquired by the private equity-backed World Host Group in January 2025 and rebranded that April. The same parent owns FastComet and other hosting brands, with Oakley Capital among its investors. Rocket.net says it keeps operating independently, and its pricing page promises no price increases on renewals.
How does Rocket.net perform under load?
On a cycling ramp to 250 concurrent clients from US-East, Starter averaged 66ms with a 95th percentile of 122.17ms and a 99th of 218.99ms, and returned 0 errors across 8,250 requests.
Is Rocket.net good for WooCommerce?
For a small store, it can work. Cart, checkout and account pages are dynamic per user, so the origin server answers them, not the CDN cache. A store that lives on those pages is better on ScalaHosting or Cloudways. Rocket.net's pricing page lists a 30-day money-back guarantee on all services except Enterprise plans, so you can test your own checkout.
What is Rocket.net's uptime guarantee?
Rocket.net guarantees 99.99% uptime on every plan. Over our 54 days monitoring window Starter logged 99.979%: 16 minutes of downtime across 3 incidents. ScalaHosting Entry Cloud logged 99.99% and Cloudways on Vultr HF 99.99%. The three are in the same class.
How does Rocket.net compare to ScalaHosting?
Rocket.net is managed WordPress with a CDN edge; ScalaHosting is a managed VPS. Rocket.net Starter answered in 32ms from New York at the edge, ScalaHosting Entry Cloud in 38ms at the origin with no CDN. On the same 0 to 250 client ramp the averages were 66ms and 25ms, both with zero errors, and both score 8.4/10 on the WordPress benchmark. ScalaHosting has a 8.4x higher CPU score and unmetered bandwidth. Price: $30.00/mo against $34.95/mo month to month, $25.00/mo against $14.95/mo on annual billing.
What is Rocket.net's renewal pricing?
Rocket.net does not raise prices at renewal: after the $1 first month, Starter is $30.00/mo month to month or $25.00/mo on annual billing. Pro is $60.00/mo for 3 sites and Business is $100.00/mo for 10 sites. Starter includes 50GB of bandwidth, and overage is billed at $0.08 per GB.
What I Would Do If This Were My Site
Rocket.net is a fast edge in front of an old server. The edge is excellent for cacheable sites: 32ms from New York and 42ms over 10 locations, no errors on the load ramp and 99.979% uptime over 54 days. The dashboard is easy and the plan terms are simple.
Rocket.net lists Dual Intel Xeon Gold servers behind the edge (support once named an older Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2, unconfirmed), and Starter includes 50GB of bandwidth with overage billed on top. Month to month, Starter is $30.00/mo against $34.95/mo for ScalaHosting Entry Cloud; on annual billing it is $25.00/mo against $14.95/mo. ScalaHosting names its CPU and lists unmetered bandwidth.
- Blog, news or brochure site: buy Rocket.net Starter.
- WooCommerce, members or high-traffic site: ScalaHosting, with 38ms origin TTFB from New York, a 8.4x higher CPU score and unmetered bandwidth.
- Developer teams needing cloud flexibility: Cloudways, from $16.00/mo month to month, with 48ms origin TTFB from New York.
- Another managed WordPress option: Kinsta, with a 9/10 WordPress benchmark score against Starter's 8.4/10, at $35.00/mo month to month for one site.
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