Expert reviews of web hosting providers, built from verified plan terms, cited third-party measurements and our own checks, with every source and date published.https://hostidea.com/enhttps://hostidea.com/reviews/accuweb/https://hostidea.com/reviews/accuweb/AccuWeb's three Linux shared plans at every term the order form sells, the guaranteed resources, the 30-day refund and 99.9 percent SLA, its eight locations, and the one dated measurement.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingrefundsdata-centershttps://hostidea.com/reviews/cloudways/https://hostidea.com/reviews/cloudways/Cloudways' Flexible plans on five clouds with the monthly and hourly prices, the no-refund model and 3-day trial, the support SLA, and the HostingStep, Kripesh Adwani and Cybernews figures.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/dreamhost/https://hostidea.com/reviews/dreamhost/DreamHost's Launch, Growth and Scale plans with the monthly, one-year and two-year prices and renewals, the 30-day refund, the uptime credit, four data centers, and the published measurements.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/godaddy/https://hostidea.com/reviews/godaddy/GoDaddy's three cPanel web hosting plans with the three-year price and the regular rate, the 30-day and 48-hour refund rules, the 99.9 percent credit, and what Cybernews and HostingStep measured.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingrefundsbackupshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/greengeeks/https://hostidea.com/reviews/greengeeks/GreenGeeks' Lite, Pro and Premium plans with the 12-month price and the renewal, the 30-day refund and its exclusions, four data centers, the energy match, and what four publications measured.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingrefundsbackupshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/hostarmada/https://hostidea.com/reviews/hostarmada/HostArmada's three shared plans with stated cores and RAM, every billing cycle's sign-up and renewal price, the 45-day guarantee and its exceptions, and the published uptime and load-test figures.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/hostgator/https://hostidea.com/reviews/hostgator/HostGator's four shared plans with the monthly, yearly and three-year prices and renewals from its own price service, the 30-day refund rules, its server locations, and the published measurements.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingrefundsbackupshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/interserver/https://hostidea.com/reviews/interserver/InterServer's Standard plan at every term and the Boost tiers above it, the stated cores, memory and process limits, the 30-day refund, its Secaucus facilities, and the one dated measurement.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingrefundsbackupshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/ionos/https://hostidea.com/reviews/ionos/IONOS's four web hosting plans with the price during and after the 12-month term, the 30-day guarantee's narrow scope, the uptime credit, and what Cybernews measured in March 2026.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingrefundsbackupshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/kinsta/https://hostidea.com/reviews/kinsta/Kinsta's Business plans billed by bandwidth or visits, the $30 entry price and the ladder above it, the 30-day guarantee and SLA credits, 30 data centers, and three publications' measurements.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/knownhost/https://hostidea.com/reviews/knownhost/KnownHost's four shared plans with every billing term and its own renewal rate, the 30-day rules for new customers, three data centers, and what has and has not been measured.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/liquidweb/https://hostidea.com/reviews/liquidweb/Liquid Web's three WordPress tiers and managed VPS sizes with their prices, the non-refundable terms, the 100 percent network SLA, four own data centers, and three publications' figures.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/namecheap/https://hostidea.com/reviews/namecheap/Namecheap's three Stellar plans at every billing term, the 30-day trial and guarantee rules, four data centers, and the published uptime and load-test figures with their dates.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingrefundsbackupshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/namehero/https://hostidea.com/reviews/namehero/NameHero's four Cloud plans at every term the cart sells, the stated cores and RAM, the 30-day refund minus a setup fee, its Kansas, London and Canada locations, and two measured windows.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingperformancedata-centershttps://hostidea.com/reviews/pressable/https://hostidea.com/reviews/pressable/Pressable's Signature plans at monthly and annual billing, the dedicated PHP workers, the 100 percent SLA with credits, four origins with failover, the 30-day refund, and two measured windows.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewswordpressperformanceuptimehttps://hostidea.com/reviews/verpex/https://hostidea.com/reviews/verpex/Verpex's Bronze, Silver and Gold plans with the regular and new-customer prices for every billing cycle, the 30-day guarantee, nine data centers, and why its speed is still unmeasured.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/blog/backups-and-restore-points-explained/https://hostidea.com/blog/backups-and-restore-points-explained/What "daily backups" means on a plan page, why retention and off-server storage matter more than frequency, and which failures a host backup does not cover.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThosting-basicsbackupshttps://hostidea.com/blog/how-to-migrate-a-website-to-a-new-host/https://hostidea.com/blog/how-to-migrate-a-website-to-a-new-host/A step-by-step migration method for a WordPress or static site: copy, test on the new server, switch DNS with a short TTL, and keep the old host running until the last visitor has moved.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpressmigrationhttps://hostidea.com/blog/how-to-read-a-hosting-price-page/https://hostidea.com/blog/how-to-read-a-hosting-price-page/The five numbers a hosting price page hides in plain sight: the term behind the price, the renewal, the exclusions, the per-site cost and the refund window, with examples from ten hosts.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThosting-basicspricingrefundshttps://hostidea.com/blog/shared-hosting-limits-explained/https://hostidea.com/blog/shared-hosting-limits-explained/What the fine print on a shared plan actually limits, how to read inode counts, CPU seconds and relative resource tiers, and which published limits mean something.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThosting-basicspricinghttps://hostidea.com/blog/shared-vs-vps-vs-cloud-hosting/https://hostidea.com/blog/shared-vs-vps-vs-cloud-hosting/The practical differences between shared, VPS and cloud hosting: what is allocated to you, who manages it, what it costs, and the signs that say it is time to move up.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThosting-basicspricinghttps://hostidea.com/blog/ssl-certificates-explained/https://hostidea.com/blog/ssl-certificates-explained/What an SSL (TLS) certificate does, how Let's Encrypt issues one for free in minutes, why every host on our list includes it, and the narrow cases where a paid certificate still makes sense.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThosting-basicssupporthttps://hostidea.com/blog/uptime-guarantees-explained/https://hostidea.com/blog/uptime-guarantees-explained/What a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee allows in minutes, how service credits are calculated at ten hosts, and why the guarantee is a refund schedule, not a promise.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThosting-basicsuptimehttps://hostidea.com/blog/what-a-cdn-does/https://hostidea.com/blog/what-a-cdn-does/What a content delivery network caches, why it helps visitors far from your server, what it cannot speed up, and which hosts include one.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTperformancettfblocationshttps://hostidea.com/blog/what-is-dns-propagation/https://hostidea.com/blog/what-is-dns-propagation/Why a DNS change takes minutes for some visitors and hours for others, what TTL has to do with it, and how to move a site without anyone noticing.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThosting-basicsmigrationlocationshttps://hostidea.com/blog/what-ttfb-measures/https://hostidea.com/blog/what-ttfb-measures/Time to first byte explained: what is inside the number, why the same host scores 227 ms in one review and 447 ms in another, and what threshold matters.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTperformancettfbhttps://hostidea.com/reviews/siteground/https://hostidea.com/reviews/siteground/SiteGround's StartUp, GrowBig and GoGeek plans: regular USD rates, the first-year discount, the 30-day refund, the 99.9 percent guarantee, CPU-second and inode caps, and third-party data, all dated.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/bluehost/https://hostidea.com/reviews/bluehost/Bluehost's Starter, Business and eCommerce Essentials plans with 36-month prices and renewals, what Starter leaves out, the refund exclusions, the 99.99 percent SLA coupon, and dated third-party data.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsuptimehttps://hostidea.com/reviews/fastcomet/https://hostidea.com/reviews/fastcomet/FastComet's Starter, Essential, Plus and Extra plans on 1, 12, 24 and 36-month terms, 30 daily backups, the 99.9 percent guarantee with hourly credits, refund rules and third-party data, dated.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsuptimehttps://hostidea.com/reviews/flashcloud/https://hostidea.com/reviews/flashcloud/A close reading of Flashcloud's three shared plans, their monthly, annual and 3-year prices, the anytime refund, the 99.9 percent SLA and the data behind the speed claims, with every source dated.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/hosting-com/https://hostidea.com/reviews/hosting-com/Hosting.com's Starter, Pro and Max plans priced on monthly to 4-year terms with stated cores and RAM, the 30-day refund, the 99.9 percent credit scheme, the data center question and third-party data.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsuptimehttps://hostidea.com/reviews/hostinger/https://hostidea.com/reviews/hostinger/Hostinger's Premium, Unlimited and Cloud Startup plans priced on every billing term, the 48-month catch, the caps in the hosting agreement, and third-party uptime and speed data, sourced and dated.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/hostpapa/https://hostidea.com/reviews/hostpapa/HostPapa's Essentials, Growth, Premium and Elite plans with 3-year promo prices and regular rates on every term, the 30-day refund, the uptime wording, five data centers and third-party verdicts.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingbackupsrefundshttps://hostidea.com/reviews/inmotion/https://hostidea.com/reviews/inmotion/InMotion's Launch, Power and Pro plans with storage, visit guidance and stated resources, the 90-day guarantee and its prorated rules, the 99.99 percent claim, three data centers and third-party data.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingrefundsuptimehttps://hostidea.com/reviews/scalahosting/https://hostidea.com/reviews/scalahosting/ScalaHosting's Mini, Start, Advanced and Entry Cloud plans with 36-month and monthly prices, the prorated anytime refund, the 99.9 percent credit table, four own data centers and third-party data.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreviewspricingrefundsuptimehttps://hostidea.com/blog/shared-vs-managed-wordpress-hosting/https://hostidea.com/blog/shared-vs-managed-wordpress-hosting/What managed WordPress hosting adds to a shared plan, what it costs, and when a shared plan with server caching and daily backups is the better buy.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpresspricingbackupshttps://hostidea.com/blog/how-to-choose-wordpress-hosting/https://hostidea.com/blog/how-to-choose-wordpress-hosting/A step-by-step way to pick a web host from what your site needs, what the plan terms say, and which published measurements to trust, without paying for the wrong tier.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpresspricingttfbuptime