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Should You Wait for Black Friday to Buy Web Hosting? What 8 Months of Nightly Prices Show

Nightly shared hosting prices since February: the number each Black Friday 2026 deal must beat, and which hosts already ...

HostingSift | Oct 8, 2026 | 14 min read

netcup +40% with half the disk, Hetzner CPX +144%, OVH tiers renamed. 273 VPS plans at five US clouds haven't moved sinc...

HostingSift | Oct 1, 2026 | 16 min read

We priced 109 dedicated servers per physical core across 12 hosts. Intel looks 26% cheaper, but only because its chips a...

HostingSift | Sep 21, 2026 | 17 min read

We matched 18 shared and dedicated vCPU plans with identical cores and RAM. The premium runs 1.13x to 2.80x. See when de...

HostingSift | Sep 13, 2026 | 14 min read

Half the 50 hosts we track publish a renewal price. The other half publish one number. Of 645 plans with both, 418 renew...

HostingSift | Sep 8, 2026 | 13 min read

We priced a gigabyte of RAM across 795 live VPS and cloud plans from 42 hosts. The spread is 123x. See who sells memory ...

HostingSift | Aug 31, 2026 | 14 min read

Bots are now 57.5% of web traffic. Which hosts bill you for AI crawler bandwidth, which quietly block GPTBot on your beh...

HostingSift | Aug 7, 2026 | 12 min read

ARM VPS hosting gives you more cores for less money than x86 in 2026. We compare Hetzner, Netcup and the American clouds...

HostingSift | Jun 29, 2026 | 9 min read

Mastra, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, PydanticAI and the OpenAI Agents SDK compared. Plus where to actually deploy each one wit...

HostingSift | May 20, 2026 | 10 min read

The EU AI Act high-risk obligations land in full force August 2, 2026. What it means for hosting: data residency, loggin...

HostingSift | May 20, 2026 | 10 min read

Where to host an MCP server: stdio vs HTTP vs streamable, VPS vs PaaS vs serverless, with real prices from netcup, Hetzn...

HostingSift | May 20, 2026 | 9 min read