About Us

Sylvan Servers itself is just one person (like many resellers, actually) but even in the event that Sylvan Servers itself ever closes then your services will simply be transferred over to Resellers Panel, which in contrast is one of the largest web hosting providers and employs many people and has utterly fantastic customer service (indeed, honestly the best web hosting customer service I've personally ever encountered yet — I thus use them for hosting all my own sites now, though not all my domain names). You can thus be assured that you are in safe hands, both now and into the future! The interface and services of Resellers Panel are also wonderful!

Anyway, with that essential context now clear, I will make precise the nature of Sylvan Servers and its altruism. In a nutshell Sylvan Servers operates as follows:

1. Sylvan Servers has a web hosting resellers account at Resellers Panel, who provides a pre-built but customizable web hosting reselling system that "we"/I then set up, resulting in this website you are reading. Anybody can create a reseller account there. It is easy.
2. Only some of the format and text of this site can actually be modified by me, which is why you will see sudden differences in style, manner of speech, and rhetoric in some parts of this site, especially compared to this page. Basically, anything that sounds like something a typical generic web hosting salesperson would say that you see on this site was probably written by them (Resellers Panel) and not me. Likewise can be said for brochures, etc. The images also cannot be modified by me. I personally wouldn't pick stock images.
3. Sylvan Servers sets its own reseller prices for Reseller Panels' services to the lowest possible values (hence the lowest possible profit) for all resold services except for the web hosting services themselves, which in contrast are periodically set to precisely $1 per month ($12 per year) above the minimum price across the board. You can even verify this yourself if you create an account over there and then compare the prices they let you set to what is offered here at Sylvan Servers. Indeed, Sylvan Servers is therefore probably one of the lowest cost web hosting providers for Hepsia control panel hosting (and other use cases) that exists.
4. Due to the above mentioned price structure, no matter what hosting service you buy through Sylvan Servers (no matter how weak or powerful, etc) we will receive (whenever freshly up-to-date) ~$12 profit per year as profit, half of which will therefore later be donated to nature conservation by the end of each calendar year. Specifically, all donations are currently intended for the National Forest Foundation. Sylvan Servers is not associated with or endorsed by them. "We"/I am just a donor.
5. Only Sylvan Servers (not you) can claim that donation as a tax deduction. Sylvan Servers itself is not a charity! The donations are motivated by my desire to protect the woodlands and the natural health and future of the world. I love nature and wanted a way to both sustainably protect it and have income, hence Sylvan Servers was born.

Even the various upsell options (e.g. more server RAM) available in the web host interface are periodically updated by me to be as low as Resellers Panel will allow. Therefore, if you want low cost access to Hepsia-based web hosting from an ethics-oriented web hosting reseller (me) without having to yourself become legally bound to be a web hosting reseller for them then Sylvan Servers will likely be pretty much ideal for you. Sylvan Servers abides by a very strict standard of ethics and a vigorous will to do at least some real good in the world.

PS: If you buy web hosting from any Hepsia-based web host (such as Sylvan Servers here, or Resellers Panel itself, etc) then they will try to upsell you via their user interface to buy a paid SSL certificate, but in reality you can get a free one by clicking the "Add an SSL Certificate" button on the Hepsia web panel interface adjacent to your website in the website list/table and then clicking the option for getting a "Let's Encrypt" certificate instead of clicking on the much more prominent "Order" button. The paid one is probably slightly better, but the free one is adequate for most sites. As you can see, transparency and ethics matters to me.

Note also that Sylvan Servers is not an "eco-friendly" or "green" server provider, although "we"/I am highly sympathetic to that! The servers that we are intermediary resellers for are normal industry-standard high-performance servers. The only aspect of Sylvan Servers that is formally eco-friendly or green is the fact that 50% of profits as resellers (not to be confused with Resellers Panel's profits) will be donated to nature conservation causes at the end of the year.