Cloud hosting
A serviced hotel for your site: book more rooms when traffic arrives, pay for what you used. 15 listings.
Starter: $1.95 a month to start, $70.20 over three years with the renewal. Average score 3.8 of 5.
Each host's cheapest plan of that kind. "Best rate" takes the term with the lowest monthly price, often 3 or 4 years paid upfront; "Prepay 1 yr" shows what you pay if you only commit for a year at a time. * = the host does not publish a renewal price, so it is counted at the intro price. Cloud86 converted from EUR at 1.1.
The listings
Kinsta
Premium managed WordPress hosting on Google Cloud for busy sites
Hostinger
Low-cost shared and cloud hosting with a simple custom panel
SiteGround
Managed WordPress hosting with strong support and a steep renewal
Cloudways
Managed servers on top of big cloud providers, billed by the hour.
DreamHost
Independent US host with fast response times and monthly billing
HostArmada
Cheap NVMe cloud shared hosting with a 45-day refund window
IONOS
Low-cost shared hosting and cloud servers from a large European provider
ChemiCloud
Low-priced NVMe cPanel hosting with LiteSpeed and a long refund window.
DigitalOcean
Self-managed cloud servers for developers, billed by the second.
Hostwinds
US host with cPanel shared plans, VPS, cloud and dedicated servers.
Kamatera
Customisable cloud servers billed by the hour or month
FastComet
Cheap-to-start cPanel hosting with datacenters in Asia and Europe.
Hetzner
Low-cost German cloud and dedicated servers for people who run their own stack.
HostGator
Budget cPanel hosting with unmetered bandwidth and many sites per plan
TMDHosting
Mid-priced shared and WordPress hosting with six datacenter regions.
Check before you sign
Four things that matter for cloud hosting.
- Hourly or monthly billing
- Resizing without moving out
- Which cloud runs underneath
- Bandwidth limits and overage prices