Hosting price trends
Most comparison sites show you today's price. We've been recording the advertised price of every plan we track since February 2026 — so you can see which providers actually move their prices and which ones hold steady.
Shared hosting — entry price
Each line is one provider's cheapest shared plan, in USD, checked nightly since 9 Mar 2026. Read it as how each provider moves its own price — the plans differ in what you get for the money.
- Median today
- $2.90/mo
- Middle 50%
- $1.99–$3.81
- Market index
- -7% across 13 plans
- Changed price
- 7of 28
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Providers that changed price (7)
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| Provider | Entry price | Range | Change | History | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVHcloud | $— last read $1.83 as of 26 Aug | $1.83 – $2.86 | -36% 38d since 19 Jul | ||
| Namecheap | $1.91 | $1.91 – $2.28 | -16% 90d | ||
| ChemiCloud | $1.95 | $1.49 – $2.49 | -22% 76d | ||
| A2 Hosting | $1.99 | $1.99 – $2.99 | -33% 123d since 30 Jul | ||
| FastComet | $— last read $1.99 as of 26 Aug | $1.79 – $1.99 | +11% 170d | ||
| HostPapa | $— last read $2.95 as of 26 Aug | $2.01 – $2.95 | +47% 67d | ||
| Private Hosting | $— last read $4.59 as of 26 Aug | $3.90 – $4.59 | +18% 39d |
21 more shared providers haven't moved their entry price at all in this window.
What actually happened
Each line is one classified event. A catalogue change is not a price change, so it is labelled rather than merged into one percentage — and promotions are not here at all, they have their own section below.
- Price change (uneven) ChemiCloud moved Shared by +13% to +31% on 3 Sep 2026 — not the same for every plan
- Price change (uneven) A2 Hosting moved Shared by -39% to -13% on 2 Sep 2026 — not the same for every plan
- Price change Namecheap moved Shared by -16% to -3% on 2 Sep 2026
- Removed plans Bluehost stopped listing part of its Dedicated, Shared, WooCommerce, WordPress catalogue on 20 Aug 2026 Catalogue change — we do not quote a price move for this
- Price change Private Hosting moved Shared by +18% on 13 Aug 2026
- Some plans only PebbleHost changed 1 of 2 Shared plans on 13 Aug 2026: Onyx (-5%)
- Restructured IONOS restructured its Shared line-up on 13 Aug 2026 Catalogue change — we do not quote a price move for this
- Restructured ServaRica restructured its Cloud, Dedicated, Shared line-up on 12 Aug 2026 Catalogue change — we do not quote a price move for this
- Price change (uneven) ChemiCloud moved Shared by -40% to -22% on 11 Aug 2026 — not the same for every plan
- Restructured InterServer restructured its Shared line-up on 2 Aug 2026 Catalogue change — we do not quote a price move for this
- Restructured InterServer restructured its Shared line-up on 30 Jul 2026 Catalogue change — we do not quote a price move for this
- Removed plans A2 Hosting stopped listing part of its Shared, VPS, WordPress catalogue on 29 Jul 2026 Catalogue change — we do not quote a price move for this
Promotions, not price changes
These providers drop their advertised price for a while and then put it back. The lines above follow the regular price, because a promotion ending is not a price increase — and drawing it as one is how a recurring discount turns into a history of rises and falls.
- Recurring Hostinger discounts Shared, WordPress by about 5%. Seen between 17 Aug 2026 and 18 Aug 2026.
- One-off InMotion Hosting discounts Shared by about 3–17%. Recorded once, lasting 25 nights, between 19 Jul 2026 and 13 Aug 2026.
- Recurring GoDaddy discounts Shared by about 17%, typically 2 nights. Recorded 4 times between 23 Jul 2026 and 4 Aug 2026.
- One-off Scala Hosting discounts Shared by about 40%. Seen between 3 Jun 2026 and 4 Jun 2026.
- Recurring Bluehost discounts Shared, WordPress by about 53%. Seen between 27 Mar 2026 and 28 Mar 2026.
Each provider is tracked through one plan — the cheapest one it currently sells of this type — so a line shows that plan's price, not a moving minimum across a changing catalogue. Where a line breaks, we had no reliable reading for those nights — we stop the line rather than carry the last price across the gap. Promotional stretches are kept out of the lines and listed separately: a discount that ends is not a price rise, and a discount that repeats is one promotion, not a history of ups and downs. Prices are converted to USD at a fixed rate. Every night is classified before it is drawn: nights we can't trust — a scrape that read only part of the catalogue, a run that copied one price across every plan, a provider whose listings change hourly — become gaps rather than price moves.In this category that is 620 provider-nights across 28 providers. Because we only track what our scrapers reach, a provider's cheapest plan here may not be the cheapest it sells.