Paid before the period
Combine filters →Paying in advance fixes the maximum: whatever happens, the bill is the plan. The cost is elasticity, since capacity bought is capacity paid for whether or not it is used, and a traffic spike is a problem to solve rather than an invoice to swallow. For anyone working to a budget it is the safer arrangement, and it is the older one — most of the hosting industry was built this way.
77 providers take the money before the month it pays for, listed alphabetically. Across 26 countries, commonest entry price $5 to $15 a month. 16 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- 1984 Hosting
Icelandic host founded on a free-speech and privacy position, running on geothermal and hydroelectric power, selling web hosting, VPS and free anycast DNS.
- 20i
British shared host that runs sites across an autoscaling server pool rather than a single machine, administered through its own My20i control panel.
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- ALL-INKL.COM
Owner-run German shared hosting and managed server provider operating from Friedersdorf in Saxony, with data centres in Dresden.
- alwaysdata
French managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.
- ApisCP
Self-hosted hosting platform and control panel from Apis Networks, licensed per server and aimed at providers running their own fleet.
- Arsys
Spanish hosting provider offering shared hosting and VPS from ISO-certified datacenters in Logroño, part of the IONOS Group since 2013.
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- Back4App
Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.
- Beget
Beget is a Russian hosting company selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and managed databases, priced in euros on its international storefront.
- Bluehost
Bluehost is a US shared hosting brand owned by Newfold Digital, listed by WordPress.org as a recommended host since 2005.
- Bubble
Bubble is a no-code app builder that combines UI design with database and workflow tools.
- 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.
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- 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.
- Cleavr
Server provisioning and deployment service for PHP and Node applications, driving servers rented from major clouds or any VPS the customer brings.
- Cloud 66
DevOps platform deploying containerised and native applications and static sites onto servers the customer owns on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
- Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare's edge compute platform, running JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust in V8 isolates on the network that already serves the request.
- Combell
Belgian hosting provider offering shared PHP and Node.js hosting, VPS and OpenStack from data centres in Belgium and the Netherlands.
- Contabo
German provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
- CoolifyOne we like
Open-source self-hostable PaaS installed as a control panel on servers the operator rents, with a paid cloud-hosted panel as the alternative.
- cPanel
Hosting control panel installed on a server the operator supplies, licensed per server and priced by the number of accounts it manages.
- Craft Cloud
Serverless hosting for Craft CMS built by Pixel & Tonic, the company that makes the CMS, and sold per project rather than per account.
- cyber_Folks
Polish shared host from Poznań with a per-domain choice of PHP version alongside Node and Python, running on LiteSpeed with DirectAdmin as the panel.
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- Dinahosting
Dinahosting is an independent Galician host selling shared hosting, domains and email from its own servers in Spain.
- DirectAdmin
Web hosting control panel installed on a server you supply, licensed per server with per-account pricing options.
- DokployOne we like
Open-source deployment platform billed per managed server, run either as a hosted service or installed on the customer's own machines.
- DonWeb
DonWeb is an Argentine hosting and cloud provider running its own data centres, selling shared hosting, VPS, bare metal and pre-configured application stacks.
- DreamHostOne we like
DreamHost is an independently owned Los Angeles hosting company selling shared plans, managed WordPress and VPS tiers.
- Duda
Duda is a website builder focused on agencies that manage multiple client sites.
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- Easypanel
Easypanel is a server panel that turns a rented Linux box into a container platform, licensed per server rather than per application.
- Elestio
Elestio is managed hosting for open-source software on dedicated virtual machines, provisioned into a third-party cloud or into the customer's own account.
- Exabytes
Exabytes is a Malaysian host selling shared plans on a choice of cPanel or Plesk from its own data centre in Malaysia.
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- Gandi
Gandi is a French registrar whose Simple Hosting product runs application code in per-customer Linux containers, deployed by git or SFTP.
- GitHub PagesOne we like
Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.
- GleSYS
GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centres.
- GridPane
GridPane is a WordPress server-management platform for agencies, provisioning and hardening servers on the customer's own cloud account.
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- Hatchbox
Hatchbox is a deployment platform for Rails, Ruby and Node applications on servers the customer rents, billed per managed server rather than per application.
- HostGator
HostGator is a low-cost American provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server and dedicated web hosting, and one of the Newfold Digital hosting brands.
- Hostinger
Hostinger is a Lithuanian budget host selling shared, cloud and VPS hosting plus a website builder, all administered through its own hPanel control panel.
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- InterServer
American host selling one shared plan at a price it undertakes not to raise, on DirectAdmin and CloudLinux, alongside VPS, dedicated servers and colocation.
- IONOS
Large European hosting group selling shared webhosting, VPS, dedicated and bare-metal servers and an IaaS cloud, listed on the Frankfurt exchange.
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- KnownHost
KnownHost is a US provider of shared, reseller, managed VPS, cloud and dedicated hosting, sold with a choice of cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk.
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- Laravel Forge
Laravel Forge is server-management software — it provisions and configures servers, either on a VPS you bring yourself or on its own Laravel VPS product.
- Laravel Vapor
Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications on AWS Lambda, sold as a flat subscription on top of the customer's own AWS bill.
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- Mittwald
German managed hosting platform with per-project containers, a control plane called mStudio, an official CLI and a public REST API.
- 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.
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- o2switch
French shared host selling a single all-inclusive cPanel offer in three sizes, running in its own data centres in Auvergne.
- Opalstack
Developer-owned US host running PHP-FPM, Node, Python and Ruby stacks with full SSH on every plan, plus VPS and bare-metal tiers.
- OVHcloud
French hosting company selling dedicated servers, VPS, an OpenStack-based public cloud and web hosting from data centres it builds and operates itself.
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- Papaki
Greek domain registrar and shared-hosting provider, part of the European team.blue group.
- Plesk
Hosting control panel licensed per server, managing sites, domains, mail, databases and WordPress on Linux and Windows machines the customer supplies.
- Ploi
Dutch server-management panel that provisions and maintains PHP application servers on VPS accounts the customer rents elsewhere.
- Pressable
Managed WordPress hosting owned by Automattic, sold in fixed tiers metered by number of installs, monthly visits and storage.
- PythonAnywhere
Browser-based Python hosting with in-browser consoles, scheduled tasks and managed web apps, sold by CPU-seconds, web workers and disk.
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- Raiola Networks
Spanish shared host from Lugo, running cPanel on servers it assembles itself and operates in Tier III facilities in Madrid.
- Rocket.net
Managed WordPress host built on an enterprise content delivery network, with a choice of origin locations across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
- RunCloud
RunCloud is a server management control panel for PHP and WordPress stacks, installed as an agent on a VPS the customer brings.
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- Seravo
Finnish WordPress-only hosting company whose customers develop against a public, open-source project layout with Vagrant and Docker parity.
- ServdOne we like
Managed hosting platform built specifically for Craft CMS, sold as fixed plans that each host a single Craft installation.
- Shopify
Shopify is a hosted ecommerce platform with a storefront builder and integrated checkout, sold as fixed monthly tiers plus a per-transaction card rate.
- Simply.com
Danish shared hosting provider selling bundles of web space, mail and a website builder, with a documented public API alongside.
- SiteGround
Independently owned managed hosting running on Google Cloud, aimed at WordPress and WooCommerce, with its own control panel.
- SiteHost
New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data centre and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
- SpinupWP
SpinupWP is a control panel that configures and manages a WordPress-tuned server stack on an Ubuntu machine the customer brings.
- Squarespace
Squarespace is a design-focused website builder that combines templates, hosting, and content tools.
- STRATO
Berlin-based mass-market webhosting brand owned by IONOS, selling shared hosting, WordPress hosting, virtual and dedicated servers.
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- TransIP
Dutch registrar and hosting provider selling shared webhosting, VPS, OpenStack cloud and managed Kubernetes from its own Netherlands data centres.
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- Webempresa
Spanish-language WordPress host trading since 1999, now part of team.blue, with SSH access and a choice of EU or US data centres.
- Weebly
Weebly is a simple website builder that bundles templates, hosting, and basic ecommerce features.
- World4You
Austrian hosting provider from Linz, a subsidiary of United Internet, selling shared webhosting, WordPress hosting, email and servers.
- WP Engine
Managed WordPress host founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, running customer sites on public cloud infrastructure behind a CDN.
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- xCloud
xCloud is a server-management panel launched in 2023 by WPDeveloper. It manages servers a customer brings, and also sells managed servers of its own.
- xneelo
South African host, formerly Hetzner South Africa, selling shared hosting, managed and self-managed servers and colocation with a choice of ZA or DE servers.
- Xserver
Japanese rental server company selling managed shared hosting, with WordPress tooling, automatic backups and free SSL included across the range.
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- ZeropsOne we like
Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.