NetArtMulti-site European hosting where storage, a CDN and an SLA matter more than the monthly rate
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Loaded plans with a published SLA |
from $112.50/yrCloudHosting Start, promotional first billing period — 100 GB, unlimited sites and mailboxesrenews at $18.75/mo ($225/yr) standardVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 3 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 4 of 5 |
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✓Included |
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A genuinely well-specified business plan attached to the steepest renewal structure we track. CloudHosting Start bundles 100 GB, unlimited sites and mailboxes, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, a CDN and a 99.9% SLA — but the $112.50 first year becomes $18.75/mo, the highest standard shared rate on this site, and a .com goes from $10 to $60/yr with WHOIS privacy charged on top. Buy it for the inclusions with the standard price in front of you, not for the headline.
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IONOSBargain hunters who read the renewal fine print first
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Lowest first-year cost — if you plan the exit |
from $1/moPlus plan, 12-month termrenews at $14/moVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 3 of 5 |
Performance: 3 of 5 |
Support: 4 of 5 |
✓Included |
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The $1 deals are real and the renewals are steep — IONOS discloses both on the same page, which is more than some rivals do. Fine value if you diarize the renewal date; expensive if you set and forget.
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KnownHostOwners who want a published renewal price and a fast ticket queue
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Disclosed renewals, low-density servers |
from $6.71/moBasic Web Hosting, 3-year commitmentrenews at $8.95/moVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 4 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 5 of 5 |
✓Included |
✓Included |
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The rare shared host that prints its renewal price next to the promo price — and the gap is 1.3×, not 4×. Ticket-first support with a 3-minute typical response is the other reason the r/webhosting crowd keeps naming it.
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ScalaHostingSites that will outgrow shared hosting and want a managed VPS with its own free panel
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Managed cloud VPS with SPanel |
from $2.95/moMini, 36- or 12-month prepay ($11.95 month-to-month)renews at $11.95/moVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 4 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 4 of 5 |
✓Included |
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ScalaHosting's real product is the managed cloud VPS and SPanel, its free cPanel alternative — the shared plans are the on-ramp. Renewals are printed on every card, which we credit; the entry-tier step is 4×, which we count.
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20iAgencies, resellers and growing sites that want flat monthly pricing with no inode limits
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Reseller-grade platform, flat monthly billing |
from $15/moStartup, month-to-month ($1 for the first month)renews at $15/moVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 4 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 4 of 5 |
✓Included |
✓Included |
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A UK-built platform with a Dallas data centre, sold in the US at flat monthly prices ($1 for the first month, then $15/mo for the entry plan) with no contract, no inode limits, free unlimited migrations and a white-label reseller panel that costs nothing. The trade-offs: there is no annual discount so the entry price is 3–5× the budget hosts, and the terms allow a price rise on 14 days' notice despite the 'no contract' framing.
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AccuWebHostingBudget shared, Windows/Plesk and self-managed VPS buyers who read the renewal grid before the promo price
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Windows hosting and cheap VPS, US-based since 2003 |
from $2.79/moBootstrap++, 36-month prepay ($5.79 month-to-month per the store; $3.79 yearly per the blog)renews at $2.79/moVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 3 of 5 |
Performance: 3 of 5 |
Support: 4 of 5 |
✓Included |
✓Included |
$Paid add-on |
A New Jersey company (Vaghasia Group, since 2003) that is one of the few budget hosts still selling Windows shared hosting with Plesk and MSSQL, alongside cPanel Linux plans from $1.99 and self-managed VPS from about $5. It publishes renewal grids for the shared lines, which we credit — and those grids show most intro prices renewing at 2.5–2.9×, contradict the blog's 'renews at the same price' claim for two of Bootstrap++'s three billing cycles, and stop entirely at VPS, dedicated and reseller. The terms carry an early-termination fee equal to the rest of the term. Fine for a Windows site or a cheap test VPS; read the grid, not the card.
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DigitalOcean
Best for Developers Developers comfortable on the command line
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Predictable developer VPS |
from $4/mo1 vCPU / 512 MiB / 500 GiB transferVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 3 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 3 of 5 |
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The cleanest VPS UX on the market — predictable pricing, great docs, almost no marketing fluff.
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VultrDevelopers who want broad region coverage
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Wide global region coverage |
Entry VPS — check current pricingNot yet price-verified |
Ease of use: 3 of 5 |
Performance: 5 of 5 |
Support: 3 of 5 |
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If region availability or high-frequency compute matters, Vultr usually has a node where the competition doesn't.
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Linode (Akamai)
Best Overall Developers who want a long-standing, predictable VPS provider
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Reliable developer-first VPS |
from $5/moNanode 1 GB — 1 vCPU / 25 GB SSD / 1 TB transferVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 4 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 4 of 5 |
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Two decades of developer VPS experience now backed by Akamai's network — boringly reliable in the best way.
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Hetzner Cloud
Premium Pick Cost-conscious teams that can host in EU regions
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Best price-to-performance |
from €5.49/mo (~$6.49) + VATEU regions, shared vCPU (CX23)Verified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 3 of 5 |
Performance: 5 of 5 |
Support: 3 of 5 |
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Unbeatable price-to-performance if EU or US-East regions work for you — half the price of US hyperscalers for similar specs.
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OVHcloudTeams that need wide global footprint and bare-metal options
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Wide footprint and bare-metal mix |
from $4.54/mo12-month upfront, 2 vCores / 4 GBVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 3 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 3 of 5 |
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Massive global footprint and serious bare-metal options — but the UX shows its enterprise heritage.
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ScalewayEU-native developers who want modern compute options
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EU-native cloud |
from ~€6.55/moDEV1-S, 2 vCPU / 2 GB, hourly billingVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 4 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 3 of 5 |
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A modern alternative to the big EU hosts, with ARM and GPU instances and a notably cleaner UI than the incumbents.
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AWS LightsailTeams already in the AWS ecosystem who want simple VPS pricing
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Simple VPS inside AWS |
from $5/mo512 MB / 2 vCPU / 1 TB transfer, with public IPv4Verified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 4 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 3 of 5 |
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Lightsail removes most of AWS's complexity for simple workloads, with a clear path into the full AWS stack if you ever need it.
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KamateraSelf-hosted workloads that need outbound SMTP, an odd hardware shape, or a server for three days
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The VPS that doesn’t block port 25 |
from $4/mo1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM / 20 GB NVMe / 5 TB transfer, or $0.014/hr billed by the minuterenews at $4/moVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 3 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 3 of 5 |
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The one provider in our VPS set that does not block outbound port 25 — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Hetzner and Lightsail all do. If you are self-hosting a mail server, that single policy difference outranks every benchmark on this page. Kamatera also sells arbitrary configurations rather than fixed sizes, bills by the minute, and runs a 30-day trial worth up to $100. Against that: backups are a paid add-on, the SLA document guarantees 99.9% while the marketing pages advertise 99.95%, and that document reserves the right to reject any credit claim “at Kamatera’s sole discretion and for any reason.” Buy it for the policy freedom and the hourly billing, not for a contractual uptime promise.
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UltaHostBuyers who want a cheap DDR5/NVMe VPS or VDS in one of ~25 cities and will treat the 40%-off price as a first-term price
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Cheap NVMe VPS and VDS in 25+ locations |
from $4.59/moVPS Basic (1 core, 1 GB DDR5, 30 GB NVMe), 36-month prepay; $6.89 month-to-month, $5.52 on the default 2-year termVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 3 of 5 |
Performance: 4 of 5 |
Support: 3 of 5 |
✓Included |
✓Included |
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A Delaware-incorporated host (founded 2018, incorporated 2021) with an unusually wide footprint — VPS and VDS on AMD EPYC with DDR5 and NVMe in around 25 cities from Seattle to Seoul — at low prices: a 1-core VPS from $4.59/mo on three years or $6.89 monthly, managed and unmanaged at the same price. The problem is the paperwork. Every card says 'Renews at' the 40%-off sale price while the terms say renewal is 'at the then-current, non-promotional rate' and the homepage calls the discount a limited-time flash sale; the refund policy excludes the default two-year term, the dedicated line entirely, and 'plans purchased using a special promotion'; and there is no SLA behind the '99.99% uptime guarantee'. Good hardware, unverifiable promises.
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HostColorBuyers who want cheap US or European dedicated servers on a 12-month term and can live with thin documentation
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Low-cost dedicated and edge servers, US + EU |
from $79/moXeon E3-1265Lv3 dedicated (4 cores, 16 GB, 480 GB SSD), 12-month term; $109 month-to-monthVerified October 2026 |
Ease of use: 2 of 5 |
Performance: 3 of 5 |
Support: 3 of 5 |
$Paid add-on |
✓Included |
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A Delaware-registered, founder-owned host (since 2002) whose real business is dedicated and edge servers in Michigan, New Jersey, Dallas and seventeen European cities, with a 4-core Xeon from $79/mo on a 12-month term. The shared and VPS lines exist but the website quotes four different price sets for the same shared plans, hides a $10 VPS setup fee until the cart, and publishes no renewal price at all. Buy the dedicated servers on their merits; treat everything else on the site as a draft.
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