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 | | 14 min read
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VPS Price Increases in 2026 and the 273 Plans That Never Moved
netcup +40% with half the disk, Hetzner CPX +144%, OVH tiers renamed. 273 VPS plans at five US clouds haven't moved sinc...
HostingSift | | 16 min read
AMD vs Intel Dedicated Servers in 2026: 109 Plans Priced per Core
We priced 109 dedicated servers per physical core across 12 hosts. Intel looks 26% cheaper, but only because its chips a...
HostingSift | | 17 min read
Dedicated vs Shared vCPU: What the Premium Actually Costs in 2026
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 | | 14 min read
Hosting Renewal Prices: Which of 50 Hosts Actually Publish One
Half the 50 hosts we track publish a renewal price. The other half publish one number. Of 645 plans with both, 418 renew...
HostingSift | | 13 min read
VPS Price Per GB of RAM: 795 Plans Across 42 Hosts
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 | | 14 min read
AI Crawlers Are Eating Your Hosting Plan: The 2026 Bot Traffic Problem
Bots are now 57.5% of web traffic. Which hosts bill you for AI crawler bandwidth, which quietly block GPTBot on your beh...
HostingSift | | 12 min read
Amazon Lightsail Review 2026: Pricing, Stacks & Alternatives
Amazon Lightsail review for 2026: flat $5-$164/mo pricing, one-click WordPress and Node.js stacks, 3CX hosting, plus how...
HostingSift | | 8 min read
European GDPR Hosting Alternatives to U.S. Giants in 2026
Schrems II, the CLOUD Act and GDPR fines are pushing businesses toward European hosting. We compare Hetzner, Netcup, Con...
HostingSift | | 10 min read
Self-Hosted Vercel Alternatives: Hosting Next.js Under $10 a Month
Vercel bill at $300+? Coolify, Dokploy and CapRover on a 6 EUR VPS deliver 90% of the Vercel experience. Real prices, st...
HostingSift | | 10 min read
Bandwidth Overage and CDN Pricing Traps: The Real Cost of Traffic in 2026
Overage fees turn $5 hosting into $200 invoices. Here is how AWS, Vercel, Netlify and predictable VPS providers actually...
HostingSift | | 8 min read
Free Hosting in 2026: What's the Catch?
Free hosting sounds great until you hit the limits. Storage caps, missing SSL, provider ads, and zero support make most ...
HostingSift | | 6 min read