Email hosting is priced per mailbox per month, which makes it one of the few hosting products where the advertised figure is close to the real one — there is rarely an intro-then-renew step. What varies is storage per mailbox, whether the price is per mailbox or for a bundle, and whether a domain is required. Every figure below was read from the host's own email hosting page on the date shown, not from its shared hosting price, which is a different product entirely. Note that this list is incomplete: BigRock, Bluehost, Cloudways, HostGator, Namecheap Hosting block automated requests, so we could not read their email hosting prices. Several of them do sell email hosting — their absence here means we could not verify a price, not that the product does not exist.
The best value on this list if you pay for 24-48 months upfront. Performance is solid for a shared host and there is an India datacenter. The catch is the renewal: roughly 3x the…
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| Hostinger From USD 0.39/mailbox/mo | 8.1 | $0.39 | — | $14.04 | 7.5 | 30d | hPanel (custom) | India, Singapore, Indonesia, US, NL, UK, LT, BR | ✓Domain ✓SSL ✓Migration |
| ChemiCloud From USD 1.00/mailbox/mo | 8.1 | $1 | — | $36 | 8.6 | 45d | cPanel | US, UK, NL, DE, IN, SG, AU, CA | ✓Domain ✓SSL ✓Migration |
| IONOS From USD 1.00/mailbox/mo | 7.1 | $1 | — | $36 | 6.4 | 30d | IONOS panel (custom) | DE, UK, ES, FR, US | ✓Domain ✓SSL –Migration |
| FastComet From USD 1.99/mailbox/mo | 8.0 | $1.99 | — | $71.64 | 8.4 | 45d | cPanel | US, UK, NL, DE, IN (Mumbai), SG, JP, AU, CA | ✓Domain ✓SSL ✓Migration |
| GreenGeeks From USD 2.95/mailbox/mo | 8.0 | $2.95 | — | $106 | 8.0 | 30d | cPanel | Chicago US, Montreal CA, Amsterdam NL, Singapore SG | ✓Domain ✓SSL ✓Migration |
Because the advertised price is an introductory rate for your first term only. Across the hosts on this site the renewal price averages about 3.5 times the intro rate, and reaches 8 times at IONOS. It is disclosed in the provider's terms, just rarely next to the number in the large font. Full explanation here.
For a small site, $3 to $6 a month is normal once the introductory period ends — not the $1 to $3 you see advertised. Over three years the hosts we track range from about $29 to $1,260 depending on the tier and how long the intro rate is locked. Use the true cost calculator to price your own term rather than guessing from a monthly figure.
Often yes, for the first term. The question is what happens after it. A host at $2.89 that holds the rate for 36 months is genuinely cheap; one at $2.99 that holds it for 12 and renews at $17.99 is not. Cheap is a property of the whole term, not the first month.
The intro rate applies for the whole first term, so a longer term is real value — but it is billed in full up front, and refunds after the money-back window are usually pro-rata at best. Buy the longest term you are genuinely confident the site will still exist for, and no longer.
Yes, and most hosts will migrate it for you free to win your business, so the cost is your time rather than money. The three things that go wrong are DNS, email and cancelling the old account too early — this guide covers the order to do it in.
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