The price you’re quoted isn’t the price you’ll pay.
Most web hosts discount the first term and charge the real rate when it renews. We publish both numbers for every plan we cover, with the date we checked and a link to the source.
- Renewal price next to every intro price
- Figures read on the vendor’s own pricing page
- We say which hosts we actually use, and which we don’t
- SiteGround StartUp12-month term+804%
- Hostinger Unlimited48-month term+509%
- Hostinger Premium48-month term+452%
- Bluehost Starter36-month term+150%
- Namecheap Stellarbilled yearly+144%
- Cloudways 2 GBbilled monthlyflat
USD before tax. Intro prices are November promotions and change often; renewals are the number to budget. Namecheap converted from $22.88 and $55.88 a year (renewal per its May 2026 price change). Full table with sources
Start from where you are
A ranking of “best hosts” is no use until you know what you’re building and how long you’ll keep it. Pick the situation closest to yours.
I’m building my first website
Cheap plans need a 3 or 4-year prepay and renew at several times the price. Know the year-five bill before you commit.
Hostinger renewal price 02My site is outgrowing cheap hosting
Shared, managed cloud or managed WordPress: the four-year cost of each, and the signs in your panel that say it’s time.
Managed vs shared 03I’ve picked a host, not a plan
The limits that decide it (sites, PHP workers, inodes, backups) side by side, and what the bigger plan costs at renewal.
Premium vs UnlimitedLatest guides
Every price on these pages links to the vendor’s own page and carries the date we read it.
Web hosting renewal prices compared: 13 plans, intro vs renewal
Sorted by the size of the jump, with the 4-year cost of each plan and the two flat-rate platforms that don’t play the promo game.
| Plan | Renews at | Jump |
|---|---|---|
| SiteGround GrowBig | $29.99/mo | +652% |
| DreamHost Launch | $10.99/mo | +280% |
| Bluehost Business | $13.99/mo | +100% |
Hostinger renewal price: what you pay after the promo
Every plan’s renewal rate, the 8-year cost and four ways to lower the bill.
Running in productionHostinger Premium vs Business, now called Unlimited
What changed with the rename, and when the extra $6 a month is worth it.
Running in productionCloudways pricing: what $11 a month really costs
Hourly billing, add-ons and the gaps on the official pricing page.
Vendor dataManaged WordPress vs shared hosting: the 4-year cost
When the upgrade pays for itself, and when it doesn’t.
Vendor data
Every claim carries a label
We don’t run a hosting test lab, and we won’t pretend to. Each provider on this site is tagged with how we know what we’re telling you.
We host a site there now
We can speak to the panel, billing and renewals from our own account. Today that’s Hostinger, which runs this site.
We’ve had an account
Signup, dashboard and documented limits, seen first-hand. No claims about long-term reliability.
Published figures only
Prices and limits from the provider’s own pages, each with a link. No speed, uptime or support claims.
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