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Web hosting
Where the renewal price and the real limits hide.
Hosting pages put the price you pay in year three next to the price on the banner, and list the limits (visits, backups, staging) that decide whether a plan fits. Measured speed and uptime appear only when our own monitors have run long enough to say something.
Pricing and specs are captured on a date. Speed and uptime numbers are labeled as synthetic measurements from our own probes and only shown after 60 days of data. How we review web hosting.
Shared and budget hosting
Low-cost shared plans where introductory and renewal prices differ most.
DreamHost
Independent US host whose Web Hosting plans state a monthly visit allowance, with monthly billing or prepaid terms up to four years.
$1.99/mo48-month term, renews $7.99/mo
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GreenGeeks
Eco-focused shared host using cPanel, with daily backups and staging on every plan and prices that roughly quadruple at renewal.
$2.95/mobilled yearly, renews $13.95/mo
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Hostinger
Low-cost shared and cloud web hosting with free domain, email and SSL, priced on long prepaid terms that renew higher.
$2.99/mo48-month term, renews $10.99/mo
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SiteGround
Premium-leaning shared host on Google Cloud with daily backups and its own Site Tools panel, with a large jump at renewal.
$2.99/mobilled yearly, renews $17.99/mo
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Managed WordPress hosting
Hosts that run WordPress for you, with caching, backups and staging built in.
Cloudways
Managed cloud servers on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud, billed hourly, with unlimited sites per server.
$11/mobilled monthly
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Kinsta
Premium managed WordPress host on Google Cloud infrastructure, with plans sized by visits or bandwidth and per-site pricing.
$30/mobilled yearly
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Rocket.net
Managed WordPress host built around a Cloudflare Enterprise edge network, with unmetered visitors and a no-renewal-hike pricing promise.
$25/mobilled yearly
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WP Engine
Long-running managed WordPress host; the Essential plan is sized by sites, visits and storage, with Core and Enterprise sold through sales.
$28/mobilled yearly
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Domain registrars
Where to register a domain, compared on first-year and renewal prices.
Namecheap
Large budget registrar with free WHOIS privacy, first-year sale prices and noticeably higher renewals on most extensions.
$7.98/yrbilled yearly, renews $45.48/yr
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Porkbun
Low-cost registrar with free WHOIS privacy and flat pricing on .com and .net; some extensions have a cheaper first year.
$7.98/yrbilled yearly, renews $11.84/yr
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Spaceship
Newer budget registrar with free domain privacy, low first-year sale prices and the ICANN fee shown as a separate line.
$4.98/yrbilled yearly, renews $31.05/yr
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Business email
Email on your own domain, compared per user and by billing term.
Microsoft 365 Business
Business email on Exchange with Teams and Office apps, priced per user, with a 20% higher price for month-to-month billing.
$7/mobilled yearly
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Proton Business
End-to-end encrypted business email from Switzerland, with Workspace plans that add Drive, VPN and Pass.
$6.99/mobilled yearly
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Zoho Mail
Low-cost business email from $1 per user a month on annual billing, with a limited free plan and Workplace bundles.
$1/mobilled yearly. Free plan too
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