Hosting run by the developer who answers your tickets.
phas is a small, independent Australian host. No call centres, no offshore tier-one scripts — fast servers in Melbourne, and a developer who actually knows how they're configured reading every ticket.
Where your site lives
- Melbourne, VIC Australia Online
Isolation
Rootless containers
Storage
NVMe SSD
Backups
Premium Backups add-on
Servers in Melbourne, Australia
Free SSL, migration & email forwarding
Support from a real developer
No lock-in contracts
Why phas exists
Most hosting today is a support queue in front of a reseller account. You raise a ticket, a script asks you to clear your cache, and the person replying has never touched the server your site runs on. phas is the opposite of that.
phas is owned and operated by an experienced Australian developer. The same person who configures the servers, tunes the stack, and ships the platform is the one who reads your ticket. That means answers that actually solve the problem — often with a fix rather than a workaround.
Your sites run on our servers in Melbourne, under Australian privacy law. No overseas call centres, no lock-in contracts, and pricing you can read in one line.
The way hosting should work
Talk to a real developer
No tier-one scripts. Your ticket goes straight to the person who runs the platform. Support 8am–8pm Australian Eastern time, 7 days. Outages first.
Genuinely local
Servers in Melbourne: low latency across Australia, a short hop for New Zealand, and your sites under Australian privacy law.
No lock-in
Month to month or yearly, your call. Leave whenever you like — no exit fees, and we'll even help you move.
Honest pricing
One clear price per plan. No setup fees, no introductory rate that jumps at renewal, no feature paywalls.
Secure by default
Free SSL, per-account container isolation, and sensible hardening from day one.
In it for the long run
A host you can build a business on — responsive, stable, and here for the long term.
Things we deliberately don't do
Every one of these is common in hosting. We think each one is a worse deal for you, so we say so instead.
- Teaser pricing
- No 70%-off first year that doubles at renewal. The price on the page is the price, and domains renew at the going registry rate with the exact amount emailed a week ahead.
- Bundled mailboxes
- Hosting-plan email means small quotas and spam trouble. Every domain gets free forwarding instead, and we recommend providers who do inboxes properly. Our picks.
- "Free" same-server backups
- A copy on the same disk as your site is lost with it. Premium Backups keeps 30 days of encrypted daily copies off-site, for $10 a month. How it works.
- Noisy neighbours
- Every account runs in its own container with hard CPU and RAM limits for its plan, so no single site can take over the server.
- Lock-in
- Cancel from your dashboard, transfer a domain out with no exit fee, and if you're leaving we'll help you move rather than make it hard.