Hostinger
4.7
Score
Cheapest reliable host with a polished beginner experience.
$2.99/mo intro → $10.99/mo renewal
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The VPS price database
We scrape every provider’s VPS pricing at every billing term. Here’s the best value per RAM tier right now — ranked by effective monthly cost, not the teaser price.
| # | Provider & plan | Specs | Best price | $ / GB RAM |
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home.pl
VPS Linux XS
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1 CPU · 2 GB · 60 GB | $0.60/mo at 12 mo | $0.30 |
| 2 |
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GreenCloudVPS
Budget KVM Sale 1
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1 CPU · 2 GB · 20 GB | $1.25/mo at 12 mo | $0.63 |
| 3 |
C
CloudCone
SSD VPS 2
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2 CPU · 2 GB · 26 GB | $1.63/mo at 12 mo | $0.82 |
| 4 |
C
CloudCone
SSD VPS 3
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3 CPU · 3 GB · 41 GB | $1.80/mo at 12 mo | $0.60 |
| 5 |
H
HostVDS
Burstable 2
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1 CPU · 2 GB · 20 GB | $1.99/mo at 1 mo | $1.00 |
| # | Provider & plan | Specs | Best price | $ / GB RAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
D
dogado
Cloud Server S 4.0
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2 CPU · 4 GB · 100 GB | $1.07/mo at 12 mo | $0.27 |
| 2 |
H
home.pl
VPS Linux S
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2 CPU · 4 GB · 120 GB | $1.40/mo at 12 mo | $0.35 |
| 3 |
C
CloudCone
SSD VPS 4
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4 CPU · 4 GB · 55 GB | $1.97/mo at 12 mo | $0.49 |
| 4 |
G
GreenCloudVPS
Budget KVM Sale 2
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2 CPU · 4 GB · 35 GB | $2.08/mo at 12 mo | $0.52 |
| 5 |
D
DatabaseMart
Express Linux VPS
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2 CPU · 4 GB · 60 GB | $2.87/mo at 24 mo | $0.72 |
| # | Provider & plan | Specs | Best price | $ / GB RAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
H
home.pl
VPS Linux M
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4 CPU · 8 GB · 240 GB | $2.80/mo at 12 mo | $0.35 |
| 2 |
G
GreenCloudVPS
Budget KVM Sale 3
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4 CPU · 8 GB · 60 GB | $3.75/mo at 12 mo | $0.47 |
| 3 |
C
Contabo
Cloud VPS 10
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4 CPU · 8 GB · 75 GB | $4.32/mo at 12 mo | $0.54 |
| 4 |
C
CloudCone
SSD VPS 5
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8 CPU · 8 GB · 111 GB | $4.80/mo at 12 mo | $0.60 |
| 5 |
P
ProHoster
VPS-2-1-SSD
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2 CPU · 8 GB · 60 GB | $5.02/mo at 12 mo | $0.63 |
VPS Finder
Answer three questions, get the plans that fit — no spec guessing.
Open tool →Term Savings
See what committing for 12–48 months really saves per provider.
Open tool →Value Rankings
Every RAM tier ranked by effective monthly cost.
Open tool →Renewal Calculator
What your “$2.99/mo” host costs across three years.
Open tool →Editorial picks
This year’s top three
Of the 9 hosts we’ve fully reviewed, these lead on score — renewal honesty included.
Bluehost
4.3
Score
WordPress.org's recommended host for beginners starting out.
$3.99/mo intro → $9.99/mo renewal
SiteGround
4.6
Score
Premium shared hosting with managed-grade speed and security.
$2.99/mo intro → $17.99/mo renewal
Side by side
Compare the front-runners
Starting price, the renewal you’ll actually pay, the money-back window, and what’s bundled — all in one row.
| Rank | Provider | Starting | Renewal | Money-back | Free SSL | Free domain | Free migration | Support | Visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Hostinger | $2.99/mo | $10.99/mo | 30-day | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 24/7 | Visit → |
| #2 | Bluehost | $3.99/mo | $9.99/mo | 30-day | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 24/7 | Visit → |
| #3 | SiteGround | $2.99/mo | $17.99/mo | 30-day | ✓ | — | ✓ | 24/7 | Visit → |
| #4 | DreamHost | $2.89/mo | $10.99/mo | 97-day | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 24/7 | Visit → |
| #5 | HostGator | $3.75/mo | $10.99/mo | 45-day | ✓ | ✓ | — | 24/7 | Visit → |
| #6 | GreenGeeks | $2.95/mo | $13.95/mo | 30-day | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 24/7 | Visit → |
Find hosting for your use case
Shortlists tuned to what you’re building — each with its own ranked picks and buyer’s notes.
Best WordPress Hosting
WordPress powers around 43% of the entire web, so almost every host claims to support it. These are the providers that actually do it well — fast servers, managed updates, and support that knows WordPress.
View picks →Best Ecommerce Hosting
For an online store, hosting is revenue infrastructure. A slow checkout or a sales-day outage costs real money, so these picks are judged on speed, uptime, and the security a store actually needs.
View picks →Best Hosting for Beginners
Your first host should be easy to use, honestly priced, and quick to get help from. These picks are ranked for first-time site owners — not for the features you will never touch.
View picks →Best High-Traffic Hosting
When traffic surges, fixed-resource hosting falls over. These picks are built to scale — autoscaling, load balancing, a CDN, and uptime guarantees that hold up under a spike.
View picks →Best Hosting for Agencies
Agencies need to manage many client sites under one roof — ideally white-labelled. These picks are ranked on multi-account management, per-client isolation, and room to mark up.
View picks →Best Cheap Web Hosting
Cheap hosting is easy to find and easy to get wrong. These picks are the budget hosts that stay genuinely affordable at renewal — not just on the first invoice.
View picks →No sponsored rankings
How we rank — and why you can trust it
We buy or trial the plans, score them against fixed criteria, and publish the weighting. Affiliate links keep the lights on — they never change the order.
Price honesty (intro vs renewal)
20%Renewal pricing is where most hosts ambush customers. We weight transparency heavily.
Uptime and performance
20%Measured against the published SLA over the trailing 12 months where data is available.
Support quality
15%Response time, knowledge of the agent, and channels offered.
Ease of use
15%Time-to-first-site for someone who has never used cPanel.
Feature breadth
10%Free SSL, free domain, free migration, backup frequency, staging environments.
Scalability path
10%Whether the same provider can take you from shared to VPS without a painful migration.
Value at renewal
10%The score after intro pricing expires — the price you actually live with.
The basics worth checking before you sign up with any host.
Frequently asked questions
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Hostinger for most people: it has the lowest reliable intro pricing, a beginner-friendly control panel, and 24/7 chat support that actually responds. The honest caveat is that renewal pricing is roughly 4× the intro rate, so commit to the longest plan you can stomach.
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It can be — the bottom of the market includes both careful operators (Hostinger, IONOS) and chronic over-sellers. The signal is whether the host publishes an uptime SLA, what the renewal price looks like, and whether independent trackers show consistent uptime over the trailing 12 months.
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For a personal or small-business WordPress site, Hostinger or SiteGround. For a high-traffic or revenue-critical WordPress site, Kinsta — it costs 5× more but includes premium CDN, daily backups, and staging environments that pay for themselves the first time something breaks.
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When response times stay above 800ms even after caching, when you regularly hit memory or CPU limits in your control panel, or when you need root access for software your shared plan does not allow. Cloudways is the easiest first VPS because it abstracts the server administration.
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Most include one free .com or equivalent on annual or longer terms — but only for the first year. Renewal of the domain is your responsibility and usually costs $15–$20. Bluehost, Hostinger, SiteGround, and DreamHost include it; Kinsta and Cloudways do not.
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Generally yes, with two consistent exclusions: domain registration fees are usually non-refundable, and the window starts the day you pay, not the day you launch. DreamHost has the longest at 97 days; most others land at 30–45 days.
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Yes, for any audience outside your home country. Most managed hosts now include Cloudflare or equivalent at no extra cost — Kinsta and Cloudways do this transparently. Shared hosts often require you to wire Cloudflare up yourself, which is a 10-minute job but a real one.
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For a typical WordPress site, two to four hours if your new host offers free migration (most on this list do). The bigger cost is DNS propagation downtime, usually under an hour if you lower the TTL on your DNS records 48 hours in advance.