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  • AWS with the complexity removed and a fixed monthly cap, if your region is a cheap one.From $5/moDetail for AWS LightsailWeb Hosting · VPS & Cloud
  • Charges $35 on day one and $35 in year three — no intro rate, no renewal jump.From $35/moDetail for BigScootsWeb Hosting · Managed WordPress
  • A WordPress.org-recommended host whose $3.99 needs three years up front and then doubles.From $3.99/mo introDetail for BluehostWeb Hosting · Managed WordPress
  • Real no-code apps, priced on workload units rather than the sticker on the plan.From $69/moDetail for BubbleWeb Hosting · Website Builders
  • Nineteen dollars a year for ten one-page sites, and it does exactly that and nothing more.From $0.75/moDetail for CarrdWeb Hosting · Website Builders
  • Managed hosting on top of a raw cloud server, billed hourly with nothing to sign.From $11/moDetail for CloudwaysWeb Hosting · VPS & Cloud
  • The cheapest RAM per euro here, quoted in EUR and only at a two-year commitment.Custom pricingDetail for ContaboWeb Hosting · VPS & Cloud
  • Plain cloud servers at a price that never changes, provided you can run them yourself.From $4/moDetail for DigitalOceanWeb Hosting · VPS & Cloud
  • The fastest way to get a good-looking marketing site live, with a page cap to watch.From $10/moDetail for FramerWeb Hosting · Website Builders
  • The cheapest real hosting here, if you can live with paying four years in advance.From $2.99/mo introDetail for HostingerWeb Hosting · Managed WordPress
  • Genuinely fast managed WordPress that charges the same price at renewal as it did on day one.From $35/moDetail for KinstaWeb Hosting · Managed WordPress
  • Akamai's cloud arm, and the only VPS here that will actually refund you.From $5/moDetail for LinodeWeb Hosting · VPS & Cloud
  • One of the few managed hosts whose advertised price never goes up on renewal.From $9/moDetail for Liquid WebWeb Hosting · Managed WordPress
  • Automattic's managed WordPress host, priced annually only and metered above the plan.Custom pricingDetail for PressableWeb Hosting · Managed WordPress
  • Enterprise Cloudflare on every plan, unmetered visits, and a written promise of no renewal hikes.From $25/moDetail for Rocket.netWeb Hosting · Managed WordPress
  • Good shared hosting with the steepest renewal jump on this list — $2.99 becomes $17.99.From $2.99/mo introDetail for SiteGroundWeb Hosting · Managed WordPress
  • Priced by how many people log in, which is the number that grows when you succeed.From $25/moDetail for SoftrWeb Hosting · Website Builders
  • Polished templates with a 7% cut of memberships on the entry plan that nobody quotes.From $25/moDetail for SquarespaceWeb Hosting · Website Builders
  • Cheap hourly cloud servers in a lot of cities, and it gives no refunds at all.From $3.50/moDetail for VultrWeb Hosting · VPS & Cloud
  • Design-tool power and real CSS output, with a learning curve to match.From $25/moDetail for WebflowWeb Hosting · Website Builders
  • A real free tier, provided you accept a Wix subdomain and Wix's ads on your site.From $19.77/moDetail for WixWeb Hosting · Website Builders
  • The enterprise-default managed host, whose advertised price is first-year only and whose renewal rate it will not print.From $30/moDetail for WP EngineWeb Hosting · Managed WordPress
  • European provider offering the most compute per dollar we have measured.From €3.79/moDetail for HetznerWeb Hosting · VPS & Cloud

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