IncogNET

What the company is

IncogNET is the hosting brand of Incog NET LLC, which the about page gives as its business legal name. The home page says the company has been operating since 2020, and the about page says it ran as Incog.Host before its registration as an LLC. It was started by one founder who has worked in web hosting since the early 2000s. The footer describes the business as a brand of The Internet Speech & Privacy Company, and the about page gives a business address in Sheridan, Wyoming.

For a site operator the company is a small host with a privacy and free speech orientation. It sells CloudLinux shared hosting, KVM virtual servers, DNS hosting and domain registration, plus a WireGuard VPN, with a hosted email service listed as coming soon. The terms describe every service as unmanaged unless otherwise specified, so the customer runs the site and the server.

What it sells an operator

The CloudLinux shared plans are the entry point for a site. They run on CloudLinuxOS Pro with CageFS, which the page says isolates each account's resources, and they include DirectAdmin, Softaculous one-click installs, daily encrypted off-site backups with self-service restore, an Apache and Nginx stack, Redis, free Let's Encrypt SSL, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Shared hosting is sold in Kansas City and Amsterdam, with Stockholm and Sofia marked sold out on the plan table. Shared customers can also opt in to mirroring a site to the Tor and I2P networks at no charge.

The shared price ladder read in October 2026 starts with the Starter plan at $40 a year, billed annually only, with 20 GB of NVMe storage, 10 TB of transfer and 5 domains. The Professional plan lists at $8 a month, with 75 GB of NVMe storage, 30 TB of transfer, a 2.5 Gbps port, 2 CPU cores and 2 GB of RAM, and unlimited domains, emails and databases.

The KVM virtual servers are the larger product, built on AMD Epyc CPUs and NVMe storage and managed through the VirtFusion control panel. In October 2026 the 512 MB plan lists at $4.62 a month with 1 vCPU, 15 GB of NVMe, 5 TB of transfer and a 1.5 Gbps port, and the 2 GB plan at $12 a month. The larger plans step up to 5 Gbps ports, though many of them are marked out of stock in every location. Each VPS comes with one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64, with more available at checkout. The VPS locations are Liberty Lake in Washington, Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Sofia, and the plan table marks Kansas City sold out. The operating system list covers Linux, BSD and Windows Server; Windows needs a license key the customer supplies and at least 4 GB of RAM. Customers can mount their own ISO, and every VPS plan includes 5 free off-site snapshots. The VPS FAQ says commonly abused mail ports are closed by default and can be opened case by case for a one-time $5 fee, as of October 2026.

The domain page read in October 2026 lists .COM at $17.76 a year, and every domain includes the IncogNET WHOIS privacy proxy and a free IncogDNS subscription. The company says it is CentralNIC and ST Registry accredited, is not ICANN accredited, and resells other TLDs through third-party registrars. Its proxy registration places the order under the company's own name and address, which it will change to the customer's details on request. Domains registered elsewhere can use IncogDNS from $6 a year per domain. The DNS page describes a small anycast network with extra unicast nameservers, DNSSEC with automatic key management, and zone import and export in BIND format.

The home page says all services include DDoS protection by default and describes the wider network as 10 points of presence across North America and Europe. Hosted email is still under development, with plans and pricing not final; the page says the mail servers will sit in Sofia, Bulgaria, on dedicated hardware.

The adult content policy

The knowledge base states that IncogNET allows the hosting of legal adult content in all regions except Finland. The shared hosting FAQ says the company prohibits illegal adult content, illegal network activity, illegal marketplaces and spam, and that legal content and free speech are protected. The free speech page frames the test as content that is legal in the United States and complies with the terms.

The AUP adds that websites on the network that let the public upload, share or create content, naming adult websites among them, should be strictly moderated and responsive to all complaints, and the terms make the customer responsible for moderating what users share. Sexual material depicting minors is forbidden in plain terms. The VPS FAQ says the company does not offer bulletproof hosting and does not allow phishing, malware distribution or other blatantly illegal activity. Crypto mining is prohibited.

The pages set out no separate approval step for adult accounts and no record-keeping rule for adult publishers. Registration asks only for an email address, and the FAQ says the company does not ask for a name or phone number.

Copyright, abuse and resource rules

The copyright clause, updated in June 2023, prohibits using the services to make public any material from an IncogNET IP that the customer has no permission to redistribute, naming IPTV streams and shared videos, pictures, music and ebooks. The AUP says the rule always applied to the US locations and now applies to the Netherlands as well, citing a changing legal landscape there. Abuse reports go to a dedicated abuse department in the client portal.

The terms reserve the right to suspend or terminate a service without prior notice. After a suspension for a policy violation the company says it will try to reach the customer by email, and an account that does not respond within 5 days or more may be canceled.

Resource limits are stated in numbers. A shared account that uses more than 25% of its allocated CPU for more than an hour is in breach, and a VPS that uses more than 30% for longer than an hour is also in breach. On VPS plans, a customer who exhausts the monthly bandwidth is throttled to 250 Mbps until the next month instead of being suspended. Spam can lead to suspension without notice, with termination as a last resort.

Payment, renewal and refunds

Payment options are a mix of crypto and card rails. The terms list in-house processing of Bitcoin, Monero, Litecoin, Dash and Dogecoin, with other coins handled through the Trocador exchange aggregator. The fiat options are PayPal, card and SEPA through Stripe, and GoCardless for ACH and international bank payments. Prices are set in US dollars, with euro prices updated daily.

Renewal invoices go out 10 days before the renewal date, and auto-debit accounts are charged on that date. Dedicated servers are suspended 1 day after a missed payment, shared and VPS accounts after 5 days, and any account more than 15 days overdue is terminated, with its data and backups deleted.

The terms give shared and VPS customers a 72-hour refund period from deployment and say domain registrations and dedicated servers are not refundable. The CloudLinux FAQ words the 72-hour window as running from the time a PayPal, card or Stripe payment is processed, and it says that accounts suspended for abuse get no refund. Crypto payments are non-refundable. A downgrade is refunded pro rata as service credit.

Getting started and support

Shared, VPS and WireGuard services are set up automatically after payment clears. Only .ST domains activate instantly; other TLDs are reviewed by hand, which the domain page says can take 12 hours or more, with the queue processed twice a day. Most dedicated servers are set up within 12 to 24 hours, and unpaid orders may be deleted after 24 hours.

Support runs through tickets in the client portal, which sorts requests into sales and billing, domain and DNS, shared hosting, VPS or dedicated, WireGuard and abuse. The terms say there is no response-time guarantee and that most requests are answered within 24 hours, with sales tickets last in the queue. The CloudLinux FAQ says the company aims to answer within 72 hours and expects basic hosting familiarity from the customer.

Company and track record

The about page says the company is registered as Incog NET LLC, with a registration date in April 2021, and that it operated as Incog.Host from November 2020. It describes itself as a free speech and privacy company and publishes a PGP key for private contact.

The company is open about its hardware. The FAQ says the Kansas City location is made up entirely of hardware the company owns, while Washington and Pennsylvania are about half owned and half leased, with a stated plan to move toward full ownership.

Who it suits

IncogNET suits an adult operator who wants a low-cost starting point, such as a single site on CloudLinux shared hosting or a small KVM server, and who is comfortable with unmanaged service and ticket-based support. The domain and DNS products suit an operator who wants registration, privacy proxy and nameservers in one place.

The limitations are real. The terms and the CloudLinux FAQ give different support response targets and word the refund window differently, the adult statement excludes Finland and sits beside strict moderation duties for upload sites, and several larger VPS plans are out of stock. Because the services are unmanaged, the operator carries the server work.

The strength of the offer is cost and control: published prices, a written adult statement, a choice of US and European locations, custom ISOs and 5 snapshots on every VPS plan, and a company that describes its own hardware openly.