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Your hosting.
On speaking terms.

An AI assistant built into every panel page. An MCP server that connects to Claude Desktop in 30 seconds. VPS, shared hosting, and domains — one login, no surprises.

99.99%30-day uptime
~47sAverage VPS deploy
24/7Monitoring & support
$0.007Starting hourly rate
AI-native hosting

Your servers.
Ask them anything.

A built-in AI assistant that already knows which server you're looking at. And an MCP server you can plug straight into Claude Desktop.

Panel assistant · Any language

It reads your logs.
You ask the questions.

A floating assistant available on every panel page. It knows which service you're viewing — no copy-pasting server names or IDs. Ask why your site is slow, what's eating disk, or how to add an SSL cert. Works in any language you type in.

  • Context-aware — knows the service you're on
  • Responds in any language you type in
  • Read-only by default — confirms before touching anything
  • Bring your Anthropic key or use the shared one
How Roost AI works → It already knows which server you're looking at.
or connect from your editor
Claude Desktop → Settings → MCP → Add server
Server URLhttps://app.roosthosting.com/api/mcp
Bearer tokenGenerate in Profile → AI Keys
Model Context Protocol

Never open a terminal
just to check something.

Generate a token in the panel. Paste the server URL into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client. Your logs, disk, services, and stats live in your editor from that point on.

Claude Desktop Cursor VS Code Any MCP client
See MCP setup → Your terminal, but it answers back.

One panel.
Three things hosted.

VPS, shared hosting, and domains — all managed in the same place. No juggling vendors, no juggling logins.

VPS Hosting

From $0.007 / hour · billed from credit

Full root access, NVMe SSD, dedicated CPU and RAM. Spin one up, scale it, or tear it down in seconds.

  • Hourly credit-based billing
  • Open-source monitoring agent
  • One-click OS reinstall
  • Snapshots + daily backups
Configure a VPS →

Shared Hosting

From $3.50 / month · cPanel SSO

Standard cPanel hosting, provisioned the moment you pay. Auto SSL, one-click SSO, daily backups.

  • One-click cPanel SSO from your panel
  • Free Let's Encrypt SSL
  • Email, databases, subdomains
  • Daily off-site backups
See plans →

Domains

From $9.99 / year · 400+ TLDs

Register, transfer, or manage domains alongside your hosting. WHOIS privacy free by default.

  • Free WHOIS privacy on every domain
  • Auto-renew with a circuit breaker
  • Nameservers + DNS in the panel
  • Frictionless transfer-out
Search a domain →

Hourly billing,
without surprises.

A prepaid credit balance with two numbers always visible. You know what's reserved and what's free to spend.

The Roost Hosting credit system

Reserved and available — shown separately, always.

Top up a credit balance. We deduct each VPS's hourly rate every hour. The panel shows both available (spend it now) and reserved (locked to cover your active servers' next 24 hours). No invoices arriving from nowhere.

  • 01
    Per-server reservationEach active VPS reserves enough credit for 24 hours.
  • 02
    Auto top-up, capped at 3 / daySet a threshold and amount. A circuit breaker stops runaway charges.
  • 03
    Runway badge on every server"3 hours left" if you're cutting it fine. Email warnings long before suspension.

Credit balance

Auto top-up · on
Available
$42.18
Reserved
$15.30
ServerIPRateReserved
web-01137.59.42.18$0.007/hr$5.10
db-prod137.59.42.41$0.014/hr$10.20
Last top-up · $20.00 · 3 days agoTop up

Built for people who
have done this before.

Early-access feedback from our first hundred users — developers, agencies, and small studios.

★★★★★

"The reserved-vs-available split is the first credit system I've seen that doesn't make me do mental math at 1am."

Indie SaaS founder · Bangalore
★★★★★

"We moved a dozen client sites over. cPanel SSO from a panel that actually looks like 2026 — that was the sell."

Web agency lead · Manchester
★★★★★

"Asked the AI why a deploy failed. It tailed the right log, found the bad env var, pointed at the line."

Backend engineer · Berlin

How we compare.

An honest look at where Roost Hosting fits. No fear-mongering, no asterisks. See the full breakdown →

Roost HostingBig-name cloudBudget hourly hostTraditional shared host
Hourly VPS billingYes — prepaid creditYes — postpaidYesNo
Reserved vs. available splitAlways visibleNot exposedNot exposed
cPanel shared hostingIn the same panelSeparate productRareYes
Domain registrationSame panel, 400+ TLDsSeparateResoldYes
AI assistant + MCP serverBuilt-in, MCP readyNoNoNo
Open-source monitoring agentOne commandYesHypervisor only
Auto top-up circuit breakerMax 3 / dayUnboundedUnbounded

Simple pricing.

No contracts, no setup fees. See all tiers →

VPS · S1
$0.007/hr
≈ $5.10 / month at 730 hrs · 1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM
  • 25 GB NVMe SSD
  • 1 TB bandwidth
  • Monitoring agent
  • Snapshots + backups
Configure
Shared · cPanel
$3.50/mo
cPanel SSO · daily backups · free SSL
  • 10 GB NVMe storage
  • Unmetered bandwidth
  • Email, databases, subdomains
  • 1 free .com on annual
Configure

Frequently asked.

Honest answers. If something's missing, talk to a human via support.

How does hourly VPS billing work?

You top up a credit balance. We deduct your VPS's hourly rate each hour. The panel shows two numbers: available (what you can spend) and reserved (locked to cover active servers' next 24 hours). Email warnings well before any suspension.

What's the minimum top-up?

$5.00. Card or PayPal. Auto top-up is capped at 3 charges per day as a circuit breaker.

Can I bring my own AI key?

Yes. Add an Anthropic key under Profile → AI Keys. Stored encrypted; only the last-used timestamp is shown.

Do you offer cPanel?

Yes. Shared hosting is provisioned via WHM/cPanel with one-click SSO. No second password.

How fast is provisioning?

VPS instances are online within ~60 seconds. Shared hosting is auto-provisioned in under 30 seconds.

Where are your data centers?

Singapore, Frankfurt, New York, and Los Angeles. Tokyo, Sydney, São Paulo, and Mumbai on the roadmap.

Is there a refund policy?

Hourly VPS is prepaid — you're not on the hook for a month you didn't use. Shared and annual plans get a 7-day refund on first purchase.

Can I transfer my domain in?

Yes. Enter your domain and EPP code on the transfer page. Most transfers complete in 5–7 days.

Hosting that doesn't
make you think about hosting.

Deploy a server in under a minute. Pay by the hour. Cancel any time.