PHP hosting under $5 a month
Combine filters →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.
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- 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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- fortrabbitOne we like
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.
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- 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.