Website hosting cost per month and per year

Website hosting costs roughly 2 to 8 euro a month in the first term and 8 to 28 euro afterwards for shared hosting, 20 to 40 euro a month for managed WordPress after the promotion, 20 dollars a month per member for a developer platform such as Vercel Pro, and nothing for a static site inside a CDN's free plan, all before VAT. The biggest gap is not between providers but between the promo price of year one and the renewal price you pay after. Domain and email come on top.

This guide compares four kinds of hosting with prices from European and international hosts on 24 October 2026, works them out over three years at renewal prices, lists the costs no pricing page shows, and explains how we host the sites we build. For the full yearly cost of a website beyond hosting, see website cost per year.

Four kinds of hosting

A dedicated server, a machine of your own for large sites or apps, costs many times more; at the Belgian host Combell it starts at 240.40 euro a month. A normal business site does not need one.

Website hosting cost per month at common providers

Monthly prices before VAT on 24 October 2026:

If you are comparing hosts in the Benelux specifically, the local options are in Combell alternatives.

Hosting cost over three years

Our own worked example for a small business site, before VAT, with the promo in year one and the renewal price after:

For Combell we use the list price, because promo terms vary. Hostinger is left out of the sum: you prepay 95.52 euro for four years, and only then does the renewal price apply.

What always comes on top

The cost nobody invoices you for is downtime. On shared hosting you share a server with other sites; if one of them draws heavy traffic or gets hacked, yours can slow down. Ask your host what happens in an outage: how fast they respond, whether you get alerted, and whether they guarantee uptime. A static site on a CDN has no server for you to maintain and no database that can fail.

How we host the sites we build

The sites we build, such as those for Business Centrum, SN Group and Villa Lidia, are static exports on Amazon S3 with CloudFront in front. Every page is a ready-made file served from a global network; there is no WordPress, no database and no plugin to update. Forms run through a small function on AWS.

What such a site costs to build is in website cost; with us a custom site starts from 1,500 euro. Page weight also decides how fast a page loads: when we rebuilt Villa Lidia, a holiday villa in Umbria, the homepage went from 8.4 MB to 1.4 MB. How to measure your own is in improve website speed.

Switching hosts without your site or email going down

Moving to another host because the renewal price is too high is often a good call, but the switch needs an order. Hosting, domain and email often come bundled, and moving all three at once risks a day without email.

1. Put the site on the new host first, on a temporary address, and check every page and form.
2. Set up the mailbox at the new provider, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, and copy your old mail across.
3. Lower the TTL of your DNS records a day ahead, so the change takes effect faster.
4. Change the records to the new host and mail server, or transfer the domain with an authorisation code; see how to transfer a domain name.
5. Cancel the old plan only once site and email have run for a week without issues.

If your URLs stay the same, little changes for Google. If you change URLs too, because you are rebuilding at the same time, every old URL gets a 301 redirect; the method is in website migration SEO. A site on a builder such as Wix cannot change host at all and has to be rebuilt; the order is in how to cancel Wix.

Which hosting to choose

• Choose shared hosting ifyou run a small WordPress site, handle maintenance yourself and want the lowest price. Watch the renewal price.
• Choose managed WordPress ifyou use WordPress and do not want to handle updates, backups and staging yourself.
• Choose a developer platform ifyour site or app is built in a modern framework by a developer who deploys from a repository.
• Choose a static site ifyou want a fast business site with no maintenance and no monthly hosting bill.
• Choose a commerce platform ifyou sell online; hosting is then part of the plan, see Shopify cost.

Moving hosts leaves your URLs unchanged, so little changes for Google as long as the site loads as fast or faster; see moving a website to a new host. If you are moving and also rebuilding, website maintenance covers what comes after launch. From Ghent, Belgium, we build and host sites for businesses across Europe; see website design.