Hosting prices change constantly, and much of what is published about them is copied from a provider’s sales page and never checked again. This page explains what we do instead, including the parts we cannot do.
Three levels of evidence
Every provider we mention carries one of three labels, shown next to its name in the article.
- Running in production. This site, or another site we operate, is hosted with this provider right now. We can speak to the control panel, billing and renewals from our own account.
- Hands-on account. We have or have had an active account, including trials. We can speak to signup, the dashboard and documented limits, but not to long-term reliability.
- Vendor data. We have not used this provider. We report published prices and published limits only, with a link to the source of each figure.
At the vendor-data level we do not describe load times, uptime or what support is like. If you see a performance claim on this site, it either comes from an account we pay for or links to whoever measured it.
What we currently host where
- Hostinger: running in production (this site is hosted on Hostinger).
Every other provider covered on this site is currently labeled vendor data. This list changes, and when it does, the labels in our articles change with it.
Renewal prices
Every price table on this site shows what a plan costs during the introductory term and what it costs when that term ends. A table with only the entry price is misleading, because the entry price is the one number the provider makes sure you see.
Renewal figures come from the provider’s own pricing page, checkout flow or terms of service. Each table states the date it was last checked. We re-check quarterly, and if a figure goes more than 120 days without a check we mark it as pending verification rather than presenting it as current.
Promotional prices
Introductory prices are often temporary promotions, for example around Black Friday. When a table shows a promotional price, we say so, and we treat the renewal price as the number that matters for your budget.
What we do not do
We do not run uptime monitoring across dozens of providers, and we do not publish speed benchmarks we have not run. Both would require paid accounts on every host we cover. We would rather tell you that than publish numbers we did not measure.
We also do not rewrite provider feature lists. When a limit matters, we link to the page where the provider states it, so you can check whether it is still true.
Corrections
If a figure on this site is wrong or out of date, email hello@thehostingcorner.com. We fix it and note the change.