We believe hosting services should be transparent. That's why we maintain hosting accounts with 18 of the world's biggest web hosts and subject them to performance testing.
We compare 18 web hosts against 56 metrics, including monthly and annual pricing and bandwidth, CPU, read/write, storage and database restrictions.
We compare 18 web hosts against 56 metrics, including monthly and annual pricing and bandwidth, CPU, read/write, storage and database restrictions.
99.99%
1625ms
$47.40
$143.40
Very good uptime; excellent features and customer service; poor response time and no free domain or website migrations.
99.93%
684ms
$71.40
$119.40
Excellent features and good customer service but uptime is variable and renewal prices are excessive.
99.99%
494ms
$71.40
$95.88
Excellent uptime and response time but it's poor on customer service and lacks some important features.
99.96%
461ms
$95.40
$131.40
Typically very good uptime and excellent response time but customer service is poor and admin panel is dated.
Compare all 18 hosts by what it costs if you pay 12 months in advance.
| Host | Annual price |
|---|---|
| SiteGround | $47.40 |
| Bluehost | $59.40 |
| Hostinger | $39.00 |
Compare all 18 hosts by whether they offer a free domain with new hosting subscriptions.
| Host | Free domain? |
|---|---|
| FatCow | Yes |
| A2 Hosting | No |
| HostGator | Yes |
HTTP/2 was the first update to the HTTP protocol in 20 years. See which hosts support it.
| Host | Supports HTTP/2? |
|---|---|
| Just Host | No |
| GoDaddy | No |
| SiteGround | Yes |
Learn more about, and compare 18 hosts by, limitations placed on entry processes.
| Host | Entry processes |
|---|---|
| InMotion | 20 |
| GreenGeeks | 100 |
| Namecheap | 20 |
99.94%
1416ms
$24.88
$24.88
Good uptime, features and value for money but no free domain and response time is average to poor;
99.99%
588ms
$59.88
$95.88
Excellent uptime and response time but offers poor customer service and lacks essential features.
99.97%
992ms
$11.88
$95.88
Solid uptime but limited customer service, excessive legalese and overbearing restrictions.
99.85%
1120ms
$47.40
$47.40
Great money back guarantee, good price and solid uptime but server restrictions are opaque.
99.84%
920ms
$52.86
$107.88
Great money back guarantee and good features however downtime and server resource restrictions are concerns.
100%
1673ms
$49
$179.40
Excellent uptime and mixed bag of features but exorbitant renewal prices and very poor response time.
99.94%
496ms
$39.00
$39.00
Variable but often good uptime; very good response time; excellent value but lacking core features.
99.97%
2209ms
$35.88
$119.88
Uptime is good and introductory prices are cheap but response time is poor and it's lacking core features.
99.70%
1369ms
$83.88
$107.88
Variable and typically average uptime; they place relatively strict control on server resources but they offer SSD drives and free SSL.
99.93%
1010ms
£94.99
NS
Nothing spectacular, nothing truly terrible. They're expensive relative to other web hosts.
99.92%
786ms
$65.40
$131.88
Uptime is good but slightly variable and they provide a free backup and restore service; no uptime guarantee and poor customer service.
99.51%
1581ms
$71.40
$95.88
Uptime is variable, their admin panel is weird and their restrictions are poorer than many; they offer a free domain and website migrations.
98.45%
2065ms
N/A
N/A
Very poor uptime and response time, avg. customer service and no uptime guarantee.