Web Hosting
Web Hosting · $4/mo billed yearly ($48 first year, renews at $5/mo = $60/yr); $2.75/mo on a 3-year term ($99)
WordPress.com runs real WordPress for you, with a free plan and plugins on every paid plan since April 2026; Personal is $48 in year one and renews at $60 a year, yearly plans renew a month early with a 14-day refund window, and server tools start at Business ($300, then $336).
$4/mo billed yearly ($48 first year, renews at $5/mo = $60/yr); $2.75/mo on a 3-year term ($99)vs. $60/year (Essential Pro, billed annually, shown as $5/mo); core plugin free
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Web Hosting · $4/mo billed yearly ($48 first year, renews at $5/mo = $60/yr); $2.75/mo on a 3-year term ($99)
JAVIS Score 74 vs 68. WordPress.com runs real WordPress for you, with a free plan and plugins on every paid plan since April 2026; Personal is $48 in year one and renews at $60 a year, yearly plans renew a month early with a 14-day refund window, and server tools start at Business ($300, then $336).
$4/mo billed yearly ($48 first year, renews at $5/mo = $60/yr); $2.75/mo on a 3-year term ($99)vs. $60/year (Essential Pro, billed annually, shown as $5/mo); core plugin free
Web Hosting
Web Hosting · $4/mo billed yearly ($48 first year, renews at $5/mo = $60/yr); $2.75/mo on a 3-year term ($99)
WordPress.com runs real WordPress for you, with a free plan and plugins on every paid plan since April 2026; Personal is $48 in year one and renews at $60 a year, yearly plans renew a month early with a 14-day refund window, and server tools start at Business ($300, then $336).
$4/mo billed yearly ($48 first year, renews at $5/mo = $60/yr); $2.75/mo on a 3-year term ($99)vs. $60/year (Essential Pro, billed annually, shown as $5/mo); core plugin free
Kinsta is solid managed WordPress hosting for sites that earn money: $35 a month ($350 a year) buys one site with Cloudflare, CDN, staging, daily backups and free migrations, but usage above the plan is billed per visit or GB, email is not included, cancelling deletes everything, and the platform is moving to Oracle Cloud.
One of the cheapest big-name hosts to start with: Premium costs $2.49 a month on a 48-month prepay ($119.52) with a free domain for year one, but it renews at $10.99 a month, the free domain renews at the regular price and is deducted from refunds, and a refund within the 30-day window deletes the site and email immediately.
Web Hosting
Web Hosting · $35/mo (1 site, monthly billing; $336 first year on annual billing, then $420/yr regular)
WP Engine's Essential plan costs $35 a month for one site, or $336 for the first year on annual billing; it is a well-equipped managed WordPress host with offsite daily backups kept 30 to 60 days, staging and development copies, 24/7 chat support and strong developer tools, but the $336 includes a first-year coupon (regular $420 a year), the 60-day money-back guarantee left the plans page in February 2026, the Terms make all remaining fees due on early exit, the firewall and plugin auto-updates are add-ons, and its lawsuit with Automattic heads to a jury in October 2027.
$35/mo (1 site, monthly billing; $336 first year on annual billing, then $420/yr regular)vs. $60/year (Essential Pro, billed annually, shown as $5/mo); core plugin free
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Web Hosting · $2.99/mo first year (renews at $17.99/mo)
SiteGround's StartUp costs $2.99 a month in year one and $17.99 a month at renewal; it is a well-equipped managed WordPress host on Google Cloud with daily backups kept up to 30 days, staging from GrowBig and well-rated plugins, but all three plans renew at about six times the first-year price ($17.99, $29.99 and $44.99 a month), StartUp hosts one site under CPU and file limits, backup downloads cost extra, and, reportedly, in May 2026 it enabled an AI plugin on customer sites by default.
$2.99/mo first year (renews at $17.99/mo)vs. $60/year (Essential Pro, billed annually, shown as $5/mo); core plugin free
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Web Hosting
Web Hosting · $4/mo billed yearly ($48 first year, renews at $5/mo = $60/yr); $2.75/mo on a 3-year term ($99)
WordPress.com runs real WordPress for you, with a free plan and plugins on every paid plan since April 2026; Personal is $48 in year one and renews at $60 a year, yearly plans renew a month early with a 14-day refund window, and server tools start at Business ($300, then $336).
$4/mo billed yearly ($48 first year, renews at $5/mo = $60/yr); $2.75/mo on a 3-year term ($99)vs. $60/year (Essential Pro, billed annually, shown as $5/mo); core plugin free
Kinsta is solid managed WordPress hosting for sites that earn money: $35 a month ($350 a year) buys one site with Cloudflare, CDN, staging, daily backups and free migrations, but usage above the plan is billed per visit or GB, email is not included, cancelling deletes everything, and the platform is moving to Oracle Cloud.
Web Hosting
Web Hosting · $35/mo (1 site, monthly billing; $336 first year on annual billing, then $420/yr regular)
WP Engine's Essential plan costs $35 a month for one site, or $336 for the first year on annual billing; it is a well-equipped managed WordPress host with offsite daily backups kept 30 to 60 days, staging and development copies, 24/7 chat support and strong developer tools, but the $336 includes a first-year coupon (regular $420 a year), the 60-day money-back guarantee left the plans page in February 2026, the Terms make all remaining fees due on early exit, the firewall and plugin auto-updates are add-ons, and its lawsuit with Automattic heads to a jury in October 2027.
$35/mo (1 site, monthly billing; $336 first year on annual billing, then $420/yr regular)vs. $60/year (Essential Pro, billed annually, shown as $5/mo); core plugin free
Web Hosting
Web Hosting · $2.99/mo first year (renews at $17.99/mo)
SiteGround's StartUp costs $2.99 a month in year one and $17.99 a month at renewal; it is a well-equipped managed WordPress host on Google Cloud with daily backups kept up to 30 days, staging from GrowBig and well-rated plugins, but all three plans renew at about six times the first-year price ($17.99, $29.99 and $44.99 a month), StartUp hosts one site under CPU and file limits, backup downloads cost extra, and, reportedly, in May 2026 it enabled an AI plugin on customer sites by default.
$2.99/mo first year (renews at $17.99/mo)vs. $60/year (Essential Pro, billed annually, shown as $5/mo); core plugin free
