Web Hosting Comparison 2026

Seven web hosts, compared only on what their own pricing pages and contracts actually say: the entry plan, what it costs to start and to renew, the uptime figure the provider is contractually committed to, and the support that tier includes. Every cell is scoped to the one plan named in its row, and every figure is linked to its source below.

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All figures were captured on 20 July 2026 from a single connection, located in Europe. They are what one visitor saw on one day.
Hosting prices vary by region. Several providers detect your location and serve a different currency, and sometimes a different number. Rows marked † served a non-USD currency from where we fetched — SiteGround redirected to its EU storefront, and DreamHost's page carried the same numeral against both a dollar and a euro sign. We have printed what we actually saw rather than converting it, because a converted price is not a price anyone was quoted.
Check the price on the provider's own site before buying. Intro rates are tied to the committed term shown, and where a renewal price is not published we say so rather than estimate it.

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Seven web hosts compared on entry plan, introductory and renewal price, published uptime SLA, and included support. Figures captured 20 July 2026.
Host & plan	Price (intro → renewal)	Published SLA	Support	Verdict	Visit site
Hostinger Premium	$2.99/mo intro rate, 48-month term then $10.99/mo	99.9% Per month. Remedy: 5% of the monthly fee as service credit, claimed within 30 days.	24/7 support Billed as "priority 24/7 expert support"; the channel is not specified on the plans page.	Lowest intro price here — but it renews at roughly 3.7× on a four-year commitment.	Visit
Bluehost Starter	$3.99/mo intro rate, 36-month term then Not published	99.99% Shared hosting bought on or after 5 March 2025 only; excludes Reseller, VPS and Dedicated. Remedy: one coupon per month at 5% of the monthly fee.	24/7 chat Phone support starts at the Business tier, not on Starter.	The strongest SLA among the entry shared plans here — but the renewal price is not published anywhere on the plans page.	Visit
SiteGround StartUp	€2.99/mo† intro rate, 12-month prepaid then €15.99/mo	99.9% Measured on an annual basis (ToS Art. 5). Remedy: one month free between 99.9% and 99.00%, plus one month per further 1% lost, capped at 12 months.	24/7 chat, phone and tickets All three channels are included on the entry plan.	The only entry plan here that includes 24/7 phone support. Also the steepest renewal step-up in the table, at over 5×.	Visit
WP Engine Startup (Essential)	$30/mo first-year promo, billed annually then Not published	99.95% Standard SLA. The 99.99% figure WP Engine markets applies only where an Enhanced SLA is designated — not to this plan. Remedy: 5% of monthly fees per full hour beyond target.	24/7 chat Chat plus phone starts at Professional, not on Startup.	Managed WordPress at the highest entry price in this table. Note the SLA that applies to this plan is not the one on the marketing pages.	Visit
Cloudways Flexible — DigitalOcean 2 GB / 1 vCPU / 50 GB	$11/mo standing rate, not an intro offer then Same — no step-up	None published Cloudways publishes a support-response SLA only, which states it covers the support console and "in no case" the availability of the underlying cloud provider. Availability is DigitalOcean/AWS/GCE/Vultr/Linode’s.	24/7 chat and tickets Faster response-time tiers (3 h / 30 min / 10 min) are paid add-ons.	The only paid standing rate here, so no renewal cliff. In exchange, it publishes no uptime commitment of its own.	Visit
Cloudflare Pages Workers Free	Free static asset requests unmetered then 100,000 requests/day shared with Workers, resetting at midnight UTC	None published Cloudflare publishes an uptime SLA for Business and Enterprise plans only. Free and Pro have none.	Community forums and Discord No direct support channel on the free tier.	Free for static sites within a daily request cap. No SLA and no direct support at this tier — that is the trade.	Visit
DreamHost Web Hosting Launch	2.89/mo† intro rate, yearly term then 10.99/mo	100% Remedy: one day of hosting credited per hour (or part hour) of interruption, capped at 10% of the next pre-paid renewal. Excludes announced maintenance, customer code and upstream providers.	24/7 chat and email No phone support listed.	The strongest published uptime commitment in this table, by contract rather than by marketing claim.

What this table does not measure

Speed. We have not run our own load tests, and no independent benchmark covers all seven of these providers on comparable plans. Rather than publish a rating scale we invented, we have left speed out. The most credible public source we found is Review Signal's WordPress hosting benchmarks, but participation is opt-in and it tests only three of the hosts listed here, at different price tiers.
“Published SLA” is a contract, not a measurement. It is the uptime the provider commits to in writing, together with what you get if they miss it. It is not observed uptime — that would need our own monitoring, which we do not run. Where a provider publishes no uptime SLA for the tier listed, the cell reads None published. We have not substituted an industry-average number in its place.
SSL is not compared because there is nothing to compare: all seven include a free SSL certificate on the plan shown.

Sources

Every price and SLA above was read from the provider's own pricing page or service agreement on 20 July 2026. Providers change these without notice — check the source before you buy.

Hostinger (Premium) — Pricing · SLA
Bluehost (Starter) — Pricing · SLA
SiteGround (StartUp) — Pricing · SLA
WP Engine (Startup (Essential)) — Pricing · SLA
Cloudways (Flexible — DigitalOcean 2 GB / 1 vCPU / 50 GB) — Pricing · Support SLA
Cloudflare Pages (Workers Free) — Pricing · Plan SLAs
DreamHost (Web Hosting Launch) — Pricing · SLA

Two of the seven rows are affiliate links: Bluehost and Cloudways. The rest are plain links or, in DreamHost's case, no link at all. The order of this table is unchanged from before and is not arranged by what pays us — the host with the strongest published SLA here earns us nothing. See our disclosure.