When choosing the best cheap web hosting for your company, you must balance the desire to save money with the need to fulfill your business requirements. Many ultra-cheap web hosts exist, but choosing the absolute cheapest plans tends to be a false economy because they usually have limited disk space, poor performance, and lack of reliability. Instead, you should choose an inexpensive web host that performs well and has all the features that your business needs.
Keeping all that in mind, we put together a list of the top 10 cheap web hosting companies that we tested. They all offer above-average uptime, good customer service, useful features, and fair pricing. We chose providers that allow you to expand your web hosting as your business grows. Do note that most cheap web hosts will advertise a low introductory price for the first year, only to raise the price significantly for the following years. Be sure to factor this into your buying decision.
HostGator has three shared hosting plans, but the Hatchling plan offers the best value for money (Image credit: Hostgator)
1. HostGator
An unlimited plan at a fair price
Disk space: Unlimited | Bandwidth: Unlimited | Subdomains: Unlimited
You get all this for an introductory price of $2.75/month if you sign up for three years. After the intro period, you’ll pay $6.95/month, which is still reasonable. Besides the good pricing, you get a generous 45-day money-back guarantee and a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee.
InterServer sells shared web hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers (Image credit: Interserver)
2. InterServer
A fast, unlimited plan that never goes up in price
Disk space: Unlimited | Bandwidth: Unlimited | Subdomains: Unlimited
For your $5, you get unlimited disk space, email accounts, bandwidth, FTP accounts, and email forwarders. There’s more: you also get free SSL certificates, RAID and Cloudflare caching, automatic malware scanning, weekly backups, and a free website migration. With the one-click installer, you can easily install over 450 popular cloud apps, including software like WordPress, Joomla, osCommerce, Magneto, phpBB, YetiForce, and ownCloud.
If you’re looking for a cheap web host that has transparent pricing and doesn’t cut any corners, InterServer is a good bet.
IONOS rents dedicated servers, but its main focus is scalable web hosting (Image credit: 1&1 IONOS)
3. IONOS by 1&1
A great price on a capable service
Disk space: 10GB | Bandwidth: Unlimited | Subdomains: 10,000
With IONOS, you’re not locked into a long contract, so it’s easier to make these business decisions on the fly based on your current requirements. IONOS handily outlines how many visitors per minute that each plan should support. The Essential plan works for up to 50 visitors per minute to your site, the Business plan can handle up to 200 visitors per minute, and the Expert plan can handle 500 visitors per minute.
Other features include automatic daily backups and site scans, direct denial of service (DDoS) protection, a one-click installer for over 70 applications, 10 MySQL databases, a free domain for a year, 10 email accounts, a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee, and 24/7 customer service.
iPage’s introductory price has a 75 percent discount (Image credit: iPage)
4. iPage
Enticingly low introductory price on an unlimited plan
Disk space: Unlimited | Bandwidth: Unlimited | Subdomains: Unlimited
If you choose a three-year plan with iPage, you’ll pay $1.99/month for the first three years. After that, the price quadruples to $7.99/month, so factor that into your buying decision. With this plan, you get a free domain name, SSL certificate, and domain transfer. Disk space, bandwidth, and domains are all unlimited, subject to fair use.
Certain services, like daily automatic backups, domain privacy, and WordPress optimization, cost extra. A wide range of e-commerce solutions are available for setting up a shop, and there’s 24/7 phone and chat support.
iPage is a safe choice from a big industry player. The introductory price is excellent, but after the initial term, the service isn’t so cheap.
At the time of writing, there is a special where you get a free domain for a year with any hosting plan. The Basic plan includes support for one website, 10 MySQL databases, and an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. You get unlimited disk space and bandwidth too, subject to terms and conditions.
Hostinger has four reasonably-priced web hosting plans (Image credit: Hostinger)
But this ultra-cheap plan has severe limitations. You’re given just 100 GB per month, 10 GB of disk space, and one email address. No automatic backups of your website are taken, but you do get a free domain name and SSL certificate, 24/7/365 support, and a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee.
Though it’s more expensive at $3.99/month ($7.95 on renewal), the business Shared Hosting from Hostinger has all restrictions removed, so you can have unlimited websites, email accounts, and traffic.
One.com has been providing web hosting services since 2002 (Image credit: One.com)
7. One.com
Low introductory price, but not many features
Disk space: 50GB | Bandwidth: Unlimited | Subdomains: Unlimited
With the Starter plan, you get a free domain, one mailbox, 100 GB of web space, unlimited bandwidth, and 10 1-GB MySQL databases. Email mailbox size is only 5 GB, which is a little tight compared to the competition.
123 Reg has three more expensive plans if you find yourself needing more webspace, email mailboxes, or CPU power. This makes it easy to expand in the future.
tsoHost’s Economy plan costs £3.99/month + VAT, which is about $6.29. This is a discounted price for paying annually, and it should be noted that there’s no increase in price after the first year.
With this plan, you get a free domain name, 100 GB of storage, unlimited bandwidth, and 100 one-GB mailboxes. Other highlights are a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee, cPanel control panel, one-click app installer, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
If you need more from the service, there are three more expensive plans that you can upgrade to. As tsoHost offers cloud hosting instead of shared hosting, it’s easy to scale your service up or down as you see fit.
GoDaddy offers a wide range of different types of web hosting (Image credit: GoDaddy)
10. GoDaddy
Economy hosting that leaves room to grow
Disk space: 100 GB | Bandwidth: Unmetered | Subdomains: Unlimited
GoDaddy makes it easy to upgrade to its more powerful plans via a one-click purchase. Therefore, you could choose GoDaddy Economy at first and later expand to GoDaddy’s $16.99/month Ultimate plan when you have more traffic.
