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.
61 providers take the money before the month it pays for, listed alphabetically. Mostly shared hosting, virtual private servers and vanity hosting, of 11 categories in all. 21 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.
- 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.
- Byet
iFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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- 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.
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- 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 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.
- 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.
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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.
- 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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- 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.