WordPress web hosting costs may seem confusing sometimes. Because the final goal is ultimately the same
building a website Their cost depends on various things including marketing policy. **In this post I will compare the price & go through reputable hosting companies, from the **lowest** price to the **highest But before I get into that see my top 3 picks:
 Best for WordPress 
 Bluehost 
Build unlimited websites, free SSL certificates, beginner-friendly dashboard & stunning customer support

71 per year**
 99.9% Uptime 
 HostGator 
Easy and affordable web hosting that guarantees 99.9% uptime. Unmetered bandwidth, free website transfer and much more

51 per year**
 Speed up WordPress 
 WP Engine 
Speed up website performance. Best suits for those who have more than 10,000 monthly visitors

300 per year**
== Table of contents (price comparison per year) ==
Namecheap $19
Hostinger $36
iPage $36
DreamHost $47
IONOS $48
Hostgator $51
Name.Com $60
Bluehost $71
HostPapa $71
GoDaddy $82
SiteGround $84
A2 Hosting $84
WP Engine $300 **one-year**subscription. You may see slightly different prices **on the hosting websites**because they may display the price according to the 3 years of subscription. I am aware of the changes, marketing strategies & deals. And committed to providing the most **up-to-date & fresh data**

== 1. Namecheap Shared Hosting ($19/Year) ==
This is by far the cheapest hosting among all renowned companies. Their
**Stellar** package will cost you **19 USD** per year. Namecheap offers a free SSL certificate for one year

For
**two years** it will cost **34 USD**

They also offer a
**monthly** subscription and it will cost 2.88/month You’re allowed to cancel anytime and upgrade your hosting subscription

== 2. Hostinger ($36/Year) ==
Hostinger has a custom-built “
**hPanel that is an alternative to “ **cPanel *The Hostinger hPanel is very easy to understand & use. Therefore if you have any questions, their support team is ready to help. To clarify, they are excellent & will not keep you on hold for more than 5/7 minutes.*
They provide
**one** free SSL Certificate for each Shared web hosting plan. **From my personal observation, I saw that Hostinger advertises less than its competitors. And that’s why you may not hear about them
If you’re looking for

**better web hosting at an affordable price Hostinger is the right company for you. **Hostinger shared web hosting** costs **36 USD** for one year ( 3/Month But if you buy for 4 years then it will cost **48 USD** ( 1/Month **Hostinger also bills monthly. And it will cost you $10 per month (if you want to make the payment each month
== 3. iPage Web Hosting Cost ($36/Year) ==
You can build an
**unlimited number of websites** in any of their hosting package. It will cost you **36 USD** yearly

iPage has three different billing periods as follows:
|1 Year||2 Years||3 Years|
$36 $60 $72
They offer a free domain for one year and free SSL certificates

== 4. DreamHost Shared Website Hosting ($47/Year) ==
It comes with
**pre-installed WordPress CMS** and you don’t have to install it manually. Their “ **Shared Starter package will cost you **47 USD** yearly

DreamHost offers three different packages for their “
**Shared Website Hosting The prices are as follows: 1 Month 1 Year 3 Years 7** 47** 93**
They offer a free domain for one year with their 1 & 3 years packages. Their 1-year free domain is only applicable for the following TLDs:
*.blog, .club, .com, .info, .net, .online, .org , .shop, .tech, .xyz, .store, .site, .design, .me*
== 5. IONOS -Previously 1&1 ($48/Year) ==
The “
**Essential package will cost you **48 USD** for the **first year And it will cost **72 USD** from the **2nd year**

Check their
**renewal** price & be sure you’re comfortable with it. Otherwise, they will charge you a **higher rate** from the **next year**

IONOS also offers a
6** monthly subscription. But the monthly subscription doesn’t include the free domain

They offer free SSL and 2 GB SSD storage for the database

The above prices and other information is applicable for their “
**Essential package under the “Web Hosting” plan

== 6. Hostgator Shared Hosting ($51/Year) ==
Their
**Hatchling** Plan includes a free SSL and offers one free domain. It’s mandatory to signup for at least one year to be able to claim the free domain. The free domain is free for one year

It will cost you
**51 USD** per year. Hostgator allows hosting subscriptions for 6 different duration as follows: 1 Month 3 Months 6 Months 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years 12** 35** 70** 51** 88** 105**
And their
**trial **period ends after **45 days And the trial is applicable only for 1 year & upper-level subscriptions

== 7. Name.Com Web Hosting ($60/Year) ==
They offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. Name.Com also offers 10 GB disk space, 100 email accounts, 100 GB bandwidth, and SSL. It will cost you
**60 USD** per year


They have four different subscription durations as follows:
1 Month 3 Months 1 Year 2 Years 7** 21** 60** 120**
Name.Com has three different plans for “
**Web Hosting And above prices is applicable for their “ **Get Me Started plan

== 8. Bluehost Shared Hosting ($71/Year) ==
It’s one of the most popular hosting companies and is
**recommended by WordPress They offer free SSL, and SSD storage, and their support team are just awesome. **They offer a free domain including any of their hosting packages. You can choose any available TLD for your free domain, there are no boundaries
Bluehost offers three different
**subscription periods** for their shared hosting. And the prices are as follows: 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 71** 119** 142**
Bluehost
**doesn’t **offer a **monthly **hosting package. *Their dashboard & its user interface is beginner-friendly. You can install WordPress with a few clicks and start building your website right away. Their SSL is auto-enabled and you don’t have to manually install it. Bluehost already has done many heavy lifting for you.*
They have four different types of packages for their shared hosting (see screenshot below)

I recommend “
**Choice Plus among the four. Because you can build an unlimited number of websites on the same hosting and you’ll get better performance (speed) than basic & plus

I personally used the Bluehost for 2 years before I made this recommendation. From my practical observation, I found it way too much better than I paid

The above screenshot shows my personal billing documents for 2 years (2020 & 2021). So if you’re still hesitating, I would recommend you Bluehost. Also, you have 1 month trial period. That means you can ask for a refund if you don’t like their hosting

== 9. HostPapa Web Hosting Cost ($71/Year) ==
Their “
**Starter package includes a free SSL certificate, Cloudflare CDN, 100 GB SSD storage, a free domain for the first year

It will cost you
**71 USD** yearly

HostPapa offers three different billing periods and their prices are as follows:
|1 Year||2 Years||3 Years|
$71 $119 $142
== 10. GoDaddy ($82/Year) ==
It’s perfect for small businesses & entrepreneurs. They have all the tools you need to create a website quickly

But I would like to suggest you not use their

**website builder It doesn’t work very well on ** Safari This is an affordable company for building your website

The customer support is knowledgeable & cooperative

GoDaddy starter hosting plan will cost you
**82 USD per year **with an SSL certificate. If you subscribe for **two years then the cost will be **157 USD** and 212 USD for three years

They also sell a
**monthly hosting package** and it will cost you **57 USD** per month **with 12 months of SSL And **without an SSL** certificate, it will cost you **2.73 USD for one month
== 11. SiteGround Web Hosting ($84/Year) ==
It’s recommended by WordPress.Org. SiteGround offers free SSL certificates & CDN. But they don’t offer free domains

It will cost you
**84 USD** per year. You can choose any **subscription period** from four separate durations. The costs for separate periods are as follows: 1 Month 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years 20** 84** 240** 378**
SiteGround has three different packages for the “Web Hosting” plan. And above prices are applicable for their “
**StartUp package

Though SiteGround offers “Unlimited Websites” with most of their packages. However, there is a catch. From my personal & practical experience,
**it’s actually not the “Unlimited Websites” by means See the screenshot below as a reference

On the above screenshot, you see that the “Site limit” has been exceeded. There are disk quotas and other factors that we generally don’t care about when buying a hosting. I had SiteGround “GoGeek” plan that offers “Unlimited Websites.”
But SiteGround started to Shutdown most of my websites after they started getting traffic

So if you have multiple websites with lots of traffic, you have to take the disk quota and other hidden factors into consideration

But if you only have one website, you can go with SiteGround especially if you like the faster server speed

== 12. A2 Hosting ($84/Year) ==
Their startup package costs
**84 USD** per year. You will get a free Cloudflare CDN, SSL & website builder with your hosting subscription

A2 Hosting offers four different billing cycles as follows:
|1 Month||1 Year||2 Years||3 Years|
$11 $84 $105 $108
They have SSD storage. If you don’t know about SSD storage, you can read an article on the Intel website

== 13. WP Engine Hosting Cost ($300/Year) ==
Their prices are a bit higher than others. The “
**Startup package will cost you **300 USD** per year

WP Engine also allows you a monthly subscription and it will cost
**30 USD**

It
**doesn’t** have other billing periods except the yearly & monthly

== Conclusion ==
**I covered a lot of hosting companies. Now you can compare the prices & make your decision based on your budget
The package & plan names are very confusing to beginners. You may think that you need specific “WordPress Hosting” in order to build a WordPress website. But in reality, it’s not the case

*You might hear a lot about the following terms: WordPress hosting, Shared Hosting, Web Hosting, VPS, Dedicated, etc. In this article, I discussed “ Shared Hosting“. Sometimes it is also known as “Web Hosting“. These two names are indicating the same thing.* *And you can build your website or blog on the “Shared Hosting” platform without any trouble. Generally, this type of hosting can handle 5,000 (five thousand) monthly hits. And it’s way more than enough for a startup website or blog. Also, there are other hosting plans such as VPS and Dedicated that can handle a lot more traffic than that. But at the starting, the shared hosting is good. You can always change your hosting without affecting the website negatively.*
Once you have more than
**5,000 five thousand) visitors per **month then you can upgrade your hosting to a VPS or dedicated plan. Or migrate your website to a dedicated server. Till to then, don’t waste your money with dedicated server/hosting at the beginning. Because it will take time to build those amounts of traffic to your website.