Under $5 a month
Combine filters →Under five dollars buys shared hosting, maybe a tiny virtual machine. It may work to run one small website with little traffic. Take care about pricing tricks like renewal multiples: a first year at $2.99 renewing at $9.99. Where nobody charges at all, the register files it under free hosting instead.
48 providers start at under $5 a month, listed alphabetically. Mostly shared hosting, Virtual Private Servers and GPU cloud, of 13 categories in all. 53 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
By categories
Bare metal, GPU cloud, Platform as a Service, Serverless, Shared hosting and Virtual Private Servers.
By runtimes
By regions
Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States.
A
- Afrihost
South African ISP selling fibre, mobile and VoIP, with shared, cloud and dedicated hosting as one line among many.
- Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.
- Arsys
Spanish hosting provider offering shared hosting and VPS from ISO-certified datacenters in Logroño, part of the IONOS Group since 2013.
- Aruba.it
An Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.
- AWS Lambda
Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.
B
- Beget
Beget is a Russian hosting company selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and managed databases, priced in euros on its international storefront.
- Binary Lane
Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
- bplaced
A German web host offering a permanent free hosting tier alongside paid PHP shared hosting plans.
- Bunny.net
Slovenian edge platform selling CDN, storage, video and DNS, with Edge Scripting and Magic Containers running the customer's own code across its network.
- Byet
iFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.
C
- Cafe24
Cafe24 is a Seoul-based hosting and e-commerce platform company selling shared hosting, managed WordPress VPS and hourly cloud servers alongside its shopping-mall SaaS product.
D
- DigitalOceanOne we like
DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.
- DigitalOcean Functions
DigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.
- Diploi
Finnish platform that puts a cloud development environment and the hosting for the same application in one place, billed by the hour it runs.
- DonWeb
DonWeb is an Argentine hosting and cloud provider running its own data centers, selling shared hosting, VPS, bare metal and pre-configured application stacks.
- DotMoose
A Canadian provider launched in 2026 by one person, selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and domains billed in Canadian dollars.
E
- EvenNode
Managed hosting platform that deploys Node.js and Python applications by git push or FTP.
F
- Firebase
Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.
- Fly.io
Fly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.
- fortrabbitOne we like
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
- Framer
A visual website builder that hosts and publishes what it designs, with a built-in content model.
G
- Gandi
Gandi is a French registrar whose Simple Hosting product runs application code in per-customer Linux containers, deployed by git or SFTP.
- Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Run runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.
H
- HelioHost
A volunteer-run, donation-funded free web host with a paid tier alongside its free hosting.
- here.now
Static hosting that turns an agent's files into a live URL, with no account needed for a temporary one.
- HetznerOne we like
Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centers.
- HostimOne we like
Hostim is a Docker-first platform-as-a-service from Germany, deploying container images, Git repositories and Compose files onto bare metal in the EU.
- Hosting.com
Hosting.com is the American web host formerly known as A2 Hosting, renamed in 2025 when World Host Group consolidated its brands under one name.
K
L
- Lolipop!
Japanese rental server from GMO Pepabo, selling shared hosting for personal and small-business sites through its own control panel.
M
- MilesWeb
Indian host from Nashik selling shared hosting on its own mPanel control panel, with SSH and Git on every plan and a stated renewal-price guarantee.
- MyDevil.net
Polish shared hosting with SSH on every plan, unlimited sites, mailboxes and databases, and Node.js, Python and Ruby alongside PHP.
- Mythic Beasts
British host selling web and email hosting in a long ladder of graded sizes, with a choice of PHP release per site and MySQL as standard.
N
- netcup
Karlsruhe-based provider selling low-priced webhosting, VPS and root servers from European, North American and Asian locations, part of the Anexia group.
- Northflank
British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
O
S
- Scaleway
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
- Scaleway Functions
European function-as-a-service from Scaleway, running Node, Python, Go, Rust and PHP handlers billed by request and by memory consumed.
T
- Tencent Cloud
Tencent's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, VPS bundles, GPU instances and serverless functions.
- Tigris
Globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage reached through a single endpoint, with no egress fees.
- Tornado VPS
Self-managed Xen virtual private servers for Linux and the BSDs, trading as Tornado VPS since a 2022 rename from Prgmr.com.
U
- Umbler
Brazilian host selling per-application PHP hosting billed by the hour from account credit, with git deploys and one-click CMS installs.
V
- Vultr
Cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual private servers, bare metal, GPU instances, object storage and managed Kubernetes, billed by the hour.
W
- Webdock
Danish VPS provider selling virtual servers with a web control panel, prepared stacks and WordPress plans, from a single facility in Denmark.
- Webslice
New Zealand host that sells a container platform on virtual machines at a fixed monthly price and a metered serverless PHP platform built on AWS.
- WebSupport
Slovakia's largest domain registrar, selling shared hosting and a website builder across Slovakia, Czechia and Hungary from its own data center.
Is the entry price what I will pay?
Often not. The entry price is what one small production app costs, sorted into a band. Traffic, storage, backups, extra environments and support often cost extra, and some hosts raise the price at renewal. Read the provider's pricing page before signing up; pricing features records how each one bills.
Which of these providers is best?
No idea. We list hosts, we don't rate them. Open the records that look close and compare them side by side; the guide says where to start.