Almost every host quotes you year one. We publish the renewal rate next to it, plus the specs that actually differ — so you can see which $2.99 deal becomes $18 and which one stays put.
Cloudways
flat
Hostinger
×3.0
SiteGround
×6.0
ChemiCloud
×4.8
The sweet spot between shared hosting and running your own server. You pay per hour on real cloud VMs and Cloudways handles the stack. No renewal trap, because the price never was…
We track published pricing, the renewal rate you pay in year two, and the specs that actually differ between hosts. Rankings are editorial judgements from that research plus aggregated public customer feedback — not from a lab we do not run.
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Price every host over the term you will actually stay — using the renewal rate, and how long each intro price is really locked for.
Three claims, each with the figure behind it. Every one is checkable on this site.
Every score is a weighted average of five criteria, not a judgement call. Here are the weights:
Most comparison sites quote the intro rate alone. Across the 16 hosts we track, the renewal price averages:
14 of 16 hosts raise the price at renewal; 2 hold it. Both figures are on every review page, with the date each was checked.
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