Cloud Hosting

Whether youre building a small site to promote your personal brand or a s, youre going to need a web server. Sure, you could buy a server, pay your ISP for a dedicated IP address with plenty of bandwidth and run it all from your living room or office while sending an identical server to your friends house for redundancy. But the cost and hassle of that is worth absolutely nobodys time so thats where web hosting plans come in.

Depending on your needs, you can spend as little as $1.99 a month for a low-bandwidth, shared plan or more than $200 for a dedicated server with a lot of storage and processing power. Below, well show the best cheap web hosting deals right now for the main types of plan: shared, VPS, dedicated, cloud and WordPress.

Note that our best web hosting deal recommendations are based on price and features alone. We have not benchmarked these services so cannot vouch for their uptime or download speeds. However, you can expect any of these services to have about a 99.9 percent uptime and likely comparable speeds. Performance differences are likely to be slight so shopping based on price and features makes sense.

If you are building a new website, the first thing you need is a domain name. You cant publish a website or even register for a hosting service without choosing one. Some of the best web hosting deals include one year of free domain registration, but we recommend using a separate company such as to manage your domain names so that its easier to change services, without incurring extra fees. Register with a company that specializes in domains such as Namecheap or GoDaddy, but dont use those companies for site hosting.

Before looking for the best web hosting deals, you need to decide which type of plan will best meet your needs.

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Best Cheap Web Hosting Deals 2022: WordPress, VPS and More - Tom's Hardware