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23 providers run PHP and start at under $5 a month, listed alphabetically. That is 23 of the 109 that run PHP. MySQL on 14 of them, against 42 of the 109.

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  • 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.

B

  • bplaced

    A German web host offering a permanent free hosting tier alongside paid PHP shared hosting plans.

  • Byet

    iFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.

D

  • 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.

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  • fortrabbit

    Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.

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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.

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  • HelioHost

    A volunteer-run, donation-funded free web host with a paid tier alongside its free hosting.

  • 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.

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  • Keyweb

    A German host selling root servers, dedicated servers and shared webhosting from data centers it operates itself.

L

  • Lolipop!

    Japanese rental server from GMO Pepabo, selling shared hosting for personal and small-business sites through its own control panel.

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  • 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.

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  • netcup

    Karlsruhe-based provider selling low-priced webhosting, VPS and root servers from European, North American and Asian locations, part of the Anexia group.

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  • Scaleway Functions

    European function-as-a-service from Scaleway, running Node, Python, Go, Rust and PHP handlers billed by request and by memory consumed.

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  • Tencent Cloud

    Tencent's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, VPS bundles, GPU instances and serverless functions.

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  • Umbler

    Brazilian host selling per-application PHP hosting billed by the hour from account credit, with git deploys and one-click CMS installs.

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  • 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.

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Who is the best PHP hosting provider under $5 a month?

We can't tell from here. A host that suits a small agency site can be wrong for an API with users in Asia and Europe. The list is alphabetical and nobody paid for a place on it. The guide covers what to compare.