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Most budget hosts hook you with a low price and double it at renewal. Z.com does the opposite. Its checkout prints “Renews at USD 1.91/mo” next to a Starter plan you buy at USD 3.98/mo. Das ist kein Tippfehler, and we checked it at every billing term.
This review draws on the live checkout data, the full Terms and Conditions and three review platforms. It also uses the few Reddit threads that mention Z.com at all. Im Gegensatz zu Affiliate-lastigen Bewertungen, we read the contract and tell you where it disagrees with the sales page. We haven’t tested Z.com servers ourselves, so every performance claim here is attributed to someone who did.
Gesamtbewertung: Z.com scores about 4.5/5 quer ungefähr 428 Bewertungen. Das ist 4.6 auf Trustpilot von 286, 4.7 on HostAdvice from 87, und 8/10 on WHTOP from 55. Strengths are flat renewal pricing and real parent-company infrastructure. The problems are downtime reports and a contract promising far less than the marketing does. Best suited for beginners in Southeast Asia on a long commitment.
One dated change matters before you read older reviews. Z.com WebHosting in Japan shut down at 23:59 auf 30 Juni 2024, after running since October 2015. GMO moved those customers to its Onamae.com Rental Server brand. So any review calling Z.com GMO’s Japanese shared hosting product describes something that no longer exists.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: August 2026. Preis- und Bewertungsdaten überprüft.
Besucherseite
| Name | Z.com |
| Bewertungen insgesamt | 404 |
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.3 |
| Webseite | https://web.z.com/us/domain/ |
| Die Anschrift | Gebäude (18), 7Etage, MICT-Park, Gemeinde Hlaing, Yangon 11051 |
| Serverstandorte | |
Anzahl der Bewertungen
Durchschn. Bewertungsergebnis
Kundendienst
Funktionen und Dienste
Z.com is the international brand of GMO Internet, Inc., the Tokyo company that started its internet business in 1995. The hosting side is narrow by design. Es gibt kein VPS (ein virtueller privater Server, where you rent a whole machine and control it yourself), no dedicated servers and no cloud console.
Angebotene Hosting-Typen
- Kostenloser Plan – 500 MB Speicher, eine Website, keine E-Mail, renewed every three months at no cost
- Standard Performance shared hosting – three tiers from 3 GB nach 50 GB, all on cPanel (das Standard-Hosting-Kontrollfeld)
- High Performance hosting – the same product with reserved RAM and vCPUs (shares of a processor core), 2 GB nach 16 GB
- Verwaltetes WordPress – three tiers with the WP Squared control panel and Extendify AI site builder
- WHM Reseller hosting – for reselling hosting to your own clients
- Domains and email – 580+ Domain-Endungen, plus Titan Business Email and Google Workspace
Wichtige Funktionen, die Kunden hervorheben
Three things come up on every platform.
- An unrestricted cPanel – budget hosts often strip features out of it. HostAdvice’s reviewer noted that Z.com doesn’t.
- Free SSL that covers subdomains – SSL is the certificate that turns a site into HTTPS. Ein Oktober 2025 reviewer praised that it covers any subdomain you create.
- Imunify360 and JetBackup – a commercial malware scanner and firewall, plus a restore tool. Both are paid add-ons at many competitors.
Standorte von Rechenzentren
Here’s the first real gap. Z.com never states where your site will physically sit. No plan page names a data center, and nor does the comparison table.
What we could verify: DNS puts the storefront on GMO’s own Bangkok network and the control panel in Tokyo. Both sit on autonomous system numbers registered to GMO companies, and that number identifies who owns a network. Aggregators list Singapore, while Z.com’s Philippine business page cites Japanese infrastructure.
So which is it? Nobody outside the company can say, and it matters for latency, the delay between a visitor’s browser and your server. For readers in Manila or Bangkok, any of those is fine. For Europe or the Americas, you’re buying blind. Unser Hosting-Leitfaden für die Philippinen covers hosts that publish locations.
Leistungserwartungen
No independent benchmark data exists for Z.com. We looked, and found no third-party speed or uptime test worth citing.

The closest thing is HostAdvice’s reviewer, who scored performance 8.2 aus 10 and found the test site “showed decent stability but slower-than-ideal server response.” Reliability is also the lowest of that platform’s five user sub-scores, beim 4.1 gegen 4.8 for features.
Kundenerfahrung
Über 286 Trustpilot-Bewertungen, Z.com holds 4.6 mit 82.5% rated five stars. The distribution repays a closer look. Ten and a half percent are one-star, making that the second-largest bucket, while four, three and two stars together account for under 7%.
That shape tells you something. People either have a smooth time or a bad one, mit wenig Mittelweg.
Was Kunden loben
Support responsiveness dominates. Trustpilot’s own summary describes staff as “Fachmann, hilfreich, and very responsive,” matching what individual reviewers write. HostAdvice users score support at 4.5.
Value for money is second. A Philippine agency user wrote in October 2025 that Starter “has everything you need yet the cost is so affordable.”
Ease of setup is third. Mehrere 2025 reviewers mention that registration, payment and cPanel access all worked without friction. Für eine erste Website, that counts.
Häufige Beschwerden
Downtime is the serious one. Three separate one-star reviews landed within 48 hours on 27 und 28 Oktober 2024, all from the Philippines, all describing an outage lasting days. One reads: “z.com is always down, downtime may reach up to 3 days to a week.”
It isn’t only history. EIN 30 Kann 2026 reviewer wrote that after 11 days of hosting, “6 days the service are not reachable.”
Domain problems are the second cluster. Ein Oktober 2025 customer unlocked a domain, paid the transfer fee, then was told the transfer had failed without being told why. Ein Mai 2025 buyer paid for a premium domain and watched it sit at “pending registration.”
Dritte, several customers were flagged as fraud and asked for government ID to buy a domain. Reviewers from India in June 2025 and Denmark in August 2025 both describe it. It’s presumably anti-abuse screening, but it lands mid-purchase.
One older theme needs context. Reviewers in 2023 complained that renewal prices doubled without warning. That contradicts today’s checkout, so those complaints describe a pricing model Z.com has since changed.
Community-Feedback (Reddit und Foren)
Here’s the most useful thing we found, and it’s an absence.
Z.com has almost no independent community footprint. Across eight years, r/SEO and r/webhosting produced three threads, one of them removed by moderators. Das 2018 thread opens with “Can’t find any legit reviews about this.” That’s still true.
The r/Domains thread from December 2024 is the revealing one. Someone asked whether Z.com was a reliable registrar before moving a .com there. The most-upvoted reply was simply: “I’ve personally never heard anything about them.” The poster concluded, “I will go with sav or ionos.” Nobody in that thread defended Z.com.
One earlier commenter did leave a specific warning: “Their DNS system is confusing. I cant get Github to work for it.”
One caution about the review data itself. Ein November 2025 HostAdvice review sits near the top of the page, bewertet 4.0. It calls Z.com “Owned by the Japanese e-commerce giant Z Holdings Corporation, which is part of the SoftBank Group.” It also says Z.com sells VPS and dedicated servers. Both are wrong. Z.com belongs to GMO Internet, and HostAdvice’s own FAQ on that page says VPS and dedicated aren’t available.
Support-Qualität
Der Support läuft über Live-Chat, tickets and a knowledge base. There’s no phone number on the English storefront, though the Vietnamese site publishes one.
Das 24/7 claim needs a caveat. Z.com advertises “24/7/365” Unterstützung. But HostAdvice’s reviewer found “live chat availability is limited to office hours,” and WHTOP lists Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Ticket coverage may well be round the clock. Live-Chat, on the evidence, ist nicht.
Trustpilot adds one more figure. Of the negative reviews in its recent measurement window, Z.com replied to a third, taking an average of five days.
When to Use Z.com
Z.com fits a specific buyer well.
Ideal für
Beginners in Southeast Asia building a first site: the free tier lets you learn cPanel at no cost. The paid entry tiers are among the cheapest anywhere. Payment runs through GCash and DragonPay as well as cards and PayPal, which matters without an international card.
Anyone who hates renewal shock: you can compute your three-year cost today and it won’t move. For a small business budgeting ahead, that beats a slightly lower first-year rate elsewhere.
Agencies running many small client sites: Starter allows unlimited websites and email accounts on 10 GB. Bei USD 107.28 für drei Jahre, the per-site cost gets very low.
Sie werden es zu schätzen wissen, wenn
- You want a full cPanel rather than a simplified custom panel, because Z.com doesn’t strip features out
- You need business email on your own domain, since Titan and Google Workspace are both offered (unser E-Mail-Hosting-Leitfaden compares them)
- Your audience is in Japan, Singapur, die Philippinen, Thailand or Vietnam
When NOT to Use Z.com
Kein Gastgeber passt zu jedem. Z.com is the wrong choice in four situations.
Schauen Sie woanders hin, wenn
You need a VPS, root access or a dedicated server: Z.com sells none of them. Das “Hochleistung” plans reserve RAM and CPU but remain shared cPanel accounts. To install your own software stack, schau woanders.
Your audience is outside Asia: Z.com won’t tell you which data center you’re on, and you can’t choose one. For a European or American audience, that’s a latency risk you can’t price.
Uptime is contractual for you: the marketing pages promise a “99.9% Service Level of Commitment.” An SLA, or service level agreement, is the clause that makes such a promise binding and pays you back when it’s missed. We searched the full Terms and Conditions, alle 135,031 Figuren, and the words “Betriebszeit,” “GRÜNER SALAT” und “service level” appear nowhere. If your uptime figure has to survive a lawyer reading it, this contract won’t carry it.
Warnsignale für Ihre Situation
- You want to pay monthly: monthly billing costs about four times the long-term rate, and the 30-day guarantee excludes monthly plans entirely. It covers only subscriptions of a year or more.
- You rely on the host’s backups: every plan card advertises “Free Automated Backups.” The contract says Z.com “does not warrant that it backs-up any Account or User Content” and disclaims liability for “ANY LOSS OF USER DATA.” Behalten Sie Ihre eigenen Kopien.
- You need a legal remedy close to home: the agreement is governed by Japanese law, and disputes go to a court in Japan.
- Telefonischer Support ist unerlässlich: there isn’t a number on the English site.
- Z.com-Bewertungen Von den Philippinen
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.64 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 167 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Indien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 2.33 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 9 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Singapur
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 3.29 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 7 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen von den Vereinigten Staaten
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.33 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 6 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Großbritannien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 2.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 4 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Japan
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.67 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 3 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Malaysia
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Norwegen
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Vietnam
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.50 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Nigeria
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 3.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Katar
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Algerien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Sri Lanka
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen Aus Saudi-Arabien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Kambodscha
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Bulgarien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Bangladesch
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Deutschland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 2.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Australien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Thailand
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen von Peru
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Marokko
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Z.com-Bewertungen aus Tschechien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
Z.com Plans and Pricing
Renewal note, und es ist gut: Z.com doesn’t raise prices at renewal. On a 12-month Starter plan you pay USD 3.98/mo and the cart says it renews at USD 1.91/mo. Personal renews at USD 3.03/mo after you paid USD 4.98/mo. Every other plan renews at what you paid.

Der Haken liegt woanders. The advertised shared prices need a 36-month term that the site’s own pricing table never lists.
Standardleistung (Shared Hosting)
Single: advertised at USD 1.68/mo. Real cost is USD 60.48 zum 36 Monate, US Dollar 47.52 zum 24, US Dollar 27.36 zum 12. Das ist 3 GB and one website.
Anlasser: advertised at USD 2.98/mo. Real cost is USD 107.28 zum 36 Monate, US Dollar 83.52 zum 24, US Dollar 47.76 zum 12. Das ist 10 GB, unlimited sites and email.
persönlich: advertised at USD 3.98/mo. Real cost is USD 143.28 zum 36 Monate, US Dollar 107.52 zum 24, US Dollar 59.76 zum 12. Das ist 50 GB.
Now the arithmetic. Z.com’s comparison table lists three terms: 1, 12 und 24 Monate. None produces the advertised price. Auf 24 Monate, Single works out at USD 1.98/mo, Starter at USD 3.48/mo and Personal at USD 4.48/mo. The headline rates appear only at 36 Monate, a term the table never lists. You find it inside the cart.
Hochleistung (Business-Hosting)
Four tiers with guaranteed RAM and vCPU, jährlich abgerechnet. Launch costs USD 130.00/year, Grow USD 258.00, Scale USD 386.98 and Thrive USD 516.00. Launch gives you 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs und 100 GB. Thrive gives you 16 GB, 8 vCPUs und 400 GB.
These renew flat, with no 36-month option. It’s still cPanel shared hosting with reserved resources, not a virtual private server, so there’s no root access.
Verwaltetes WordPress
Starter WP at USD 34.88/year, Growth WP at USD 59.88, Pro WP at USD 84.88. Here the advertised figures (US Dollar 2.91, US Dollar 4.99 und USD 7.07) match the 12-month rate exactly, so no digging is needed. All three renew flat.
One constraint the cards bury: every WordPress tier caps the database at 3 GB, including Pro. A busy store can hit that ceiling.

This line runs on Google Cloud rather than GMO’s own network, which Z.com states on the page. Vergleichen Sie es mit unserem managed WordPress guide bevor Sie sich verpflichten.
Versteckte Kosten, die es zu beachten gilt
- Monthly billing costs roughly four times more. Single is USD 6.98/mo month-to-month against USD 1.68/mo on 36 Monate. Launch is USD 32.00 gegenüber USD 10.83.
- Your free domain isn’t free next year. A .com registers at USD 11.99 und verlängert sich bei USD 17.99. Some extensions are worse: .biz registers at USD 5.68 und verlängert sich bei USD 22.99.
- Cancel inside 30 days and the domain cost comes off your refund. Z.com says so plainly.
- Backups and SSL are included, and migration is free. Kredit, wo er gebührt.
Preisurteil
The prices are honest in the way that counts most. What you pay in year two is what you paid in year one, or less. That’s rare, and it’s worth real money.
The presentation is where it slips. EIN “12 MONTHS FREE!” badge sits on the 36-month term. Yet the same cart prices 24 months of Starter at USD 83.52 und 36 bei USD 107.28. The extra year costs USD 23.76. Discounted, certainly. Kostenlos, Nein.
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 25
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Sites unbegrenzt
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 1
Z.com Transparency Score
How upfront is Z.com with the information a buyer needs?
- Firmeninformation: Exzellent. GMO Internet ownership is stated on every page, and the legal entity and Tokyo address are in the terms. Nothing is hidden here.
- Preistransparenz: Gut, with one real flaw. Printing “Renews at USD 1.91/mo” in the checkout beats what most competitors manage. But the headline prices need a 36-month term the public table omits, so the cheapest price a shopper can see is never the price advertised.
- Technische Dokumentation: Begrenzt. No data center is named and no independent benchmarks exist. Limits like the 3 GB WordPress database cap sit in small print, not the comparison table.
- Bedingungen und Richtlinien: Arm. Three marketing promises are absent from the contract or contradicted by it. Those are the 99.9% uptime figure, the automated backups, and the refund, since the terms call fees “nicht erstattungsfähig, in whole or in part.”
Gesamttransparenz: Gemischt. Z.com is unusually honest about who owns it and what you’ll pay next year. It’s unusually vague about where your site runs, and about what it owes you if things break.
One smaller sign of care: the US storefront is a Philippine site with the currency label swapped. Its terms page is titled “Z.com PH Terms and Conditions.” Its competitor table quotes rivals at “$169/mo” und “$221/mo,” which are peso figures carrying a dollar sign. The payment line reads “Credit Crad / GCASH / DragonPay.”
Alternatives to Z.com
If Z.com doesn’t fit, these three address its specific gaps.
For Root Access and a Chosen Region: Vultr oder DigitalOcean
Both hand you the whole machine, root access included. Vultr publishes 33 Daten Center, including Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore and Seoul, so you pick the city rather than guessing. You’ll manage more yourself, which is the trade.
For Domains Specifically: Dynadot, Porkbun or Namecheap
Most of Z.com’s one-star reviews concern domains rather than hosting: blocked transfers, fraud flags and pending registrations. These three are the registrars r/Domains members recommended in the very thread asking about moving a domain to Z.com. Buy the domain elsewhere and point it at whatever host you like.
For GMO Hosting That Isn’t Going Anywhere: Onamae.com Rental Server
This is where GMO sent its own Japanese Z.com WebHosting customers when it closed that product in June 2024. Gleiche Muttergesellschaft, and it’s the product GMO chose to keep. The site is Japanese-language, which is the obvious limitation.
Für das weitere Feld, sehen Sie unsere Asia shared hosting comparison.
Z.com earns roughly 4.5/5 über 428 Bewertungen. It’s a better deal than its price suggests, provided you commit for three years and live in Asia.
Das Fazit
The flat renewal pricing is real, and it’s rare. Buying Starter for three years at USD 107.28 and renewing at USD 1.91/mo beats almost every host advertising a lower opening rate. The full cPanel, the Imunify360 security and the free tier all add value.
What you give up is certainty. There’s no VPS path when you outgrow shared hosting, no published data center and no uptime commitment in the contract. Add a persistent stream of multi-day outage reports from Philippine customers. Weigh the 10.5% one-star share against the 82.5% five-star share.
Buy it for a small site in Southeast Asia at a price that won’t move. Skip it if you’ll need root access, a chosen region, or a guarantee you could enforce.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Is Z.com good for beginners?
Ja, and the free plan is a real reason why. Du erhältst 500 MB and a working cPanel at no cost, renewed every three months. Reviewers through 2025 describe registration and payment as painless. Support answers quickly during office hours.
Is Z.com worth the price?
On a three-year term, Ja. Starter costs USD 107.28 zum 36 months and renews at USD 1.91/mo, so year four is cheaper than year one. Monthly billing is another story: about four times the cost, and it voids the money-back guarantee.
Worüber beschweren sich Kunden am meisten??
Downtime leads. Three one-star reviews landed within 48 hours in October 2024, all describing outages of several days. Ein Mai 2026 customer reported six unreachable days out of eleven. Domain issues come second: blocked transfers out, fraud flags and ID requests. Slow ticket resolution is third.
Does Z.com offer VPS or dedicated servers?
Nein. Es ist “Hochleistung” plans reserve RAM and vCPU for you, but they’re still shared cPanel accounts without root access. Any review claiming Z.com sells VPS or dedicated servers is wrong. Sehen Sie sich unsere an Philippines VPS guide stattdessen.
Is Z.com good for WordPress?
It’s decent for small sites. The managed tiers add auto-updates, the WP Squared panel and the Extendify AI builder, and run on Google Cloud. Watch the 3 GB database limit, which applies even on the Pro tier. A busy store will outgrow it.
Does Z.com offer refunds?
Thirty days, with two conditions worth knowing. It covers only subscriptions of one year or more, so monthly plans get nothing. Z.com also deducts the cost of your free domain. Note that the main Terms describe fees as non-refundable, so the guarantee page is what you’d rely on.
