Buyer's Guide
Weighing up hosting for side projects
Written for builders with three ideas already live and two more sitting in a notes app — the tests that matter, the trap to sidestep, and where we would honestly send you.
Straight answer first
Our verdict, stated first: one Pro plan holding the whole shelf of experiments — a flat cost, a new project set up in minutes, and the breakout one moved off on its own the month it earns the move.
The reasoning, the tests and the trap to avoid all sit below — written for builders with three ideas already live and two more sitting in a notes app, with none of the affiliate-table theatre this subject usually attracts.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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This guide is written for builders with three ideas already live and two more sitting in a notes app. If that describes you, the decision has a right answer — it just is not the one the comparison-table trade is paid to hand out.
One market fact frames the whole thing: side projects obey a power law: nearly all of them sit idle while one runs away with the traffic. The sensible response is a flat-rate shelf for the many and dedicated resources bought only for the one that pays for them.
The tests that actually decide it
Strip out the feature-table padding and a handful of tests decide this purchase:
Room for several sites, so every experiment gets its own address cheaply.
A low idle cost, because a project that sleeps should not bill like one that works.
Setup quick enough to survive the enthusiasm, which is the scarce resource here.
Somewhere sensible to go when one of them unexpectedly works.
The trap most buyers walk straight into
Per-project platform fees that turn five experiments into something that reads like a phone bill.
The pattern lasts because its cost lands later: at renewal, at migration, or at the worst possible point in your growth. The antidote is dull arithmetic — total cost across two or three years, with every 'extra' you would actually need added in.
The verdict, plainly
One Pro plan holding the whole shelf of experiments — a flat cost, a new project set up in minutes, and the breakout one moved off on its own the month it earns the move.
On our shelves that means the Pro plan — SSL, migration and mail included, a renewal price matching the order price, and an upgrade path so the choice never has to be made again from scratch.
Backups run every day on every plan, and putting a file or a database back takes one click from the panel.
Try it before you trust it
Run the same checks on us as on anybody else: message support before you pay and see who answers, hold the renewal price against the order price, read the refund terms end to end, and look the company up — ours is Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales, and the record is public.
Then let the work decide. A fortnight of real use inside the money-back window tells you more than every review site put together, and switching costs nothing but the minute it takes to open a migration ticket.
What's in it for us, stated plainly
Most 'best hosting' writing is paid ranking. Ours has a simpler motive: we recommend the setup we would sell you anyway, and we say so — which leaves the rest of the page free to be genuinely useful.
Real people answer the counter at any hour, including the awkward questions other hosts wave off as out of scope.
- Tests you can run for yourself
- Renewal prices on the tag, not in a footnote
- The free move in makes trying us painless
- A refund policy with no small print
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
Support you can try first
Ask us something hard before you pay — how a host behaves pre-sale is the ceiling of what follows.
The essentials on the tag
SSL, migration, backups and mail come with every plan instead of appearing at checkout as extras.
One price, plainly printed
The order price is the renewal price — the comparison that matters is the one we win without trying.
Matched to this verdict
The Pro plan is this page's recommendation made concrete — one flat price, essentials included, upgradeable in place.
Written for the real buyer
The tests here come out of actual conversations with builders with three ideas already live and two more sitting in a notes app, not off a feature spreadsheet.
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The performance kit other hosts reserve for premium tiers is simply how our plans are built.
Price Tags Compared
Our figures beside the big names
Sign-up and renewal prices for GoDaddy, Hostinger and Namecheap, set next to ours — the second number most comparison charts leave off.
| Line item | Hosting SellerBest seller | GoDaddy | Hostinger | Namecheap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price / mo* | $2.09/mo | $5.99 | $2.99 | $1.88 |
| Price at renewal / mo | $2.09/mo | $11.99 | $10.99 | $4.29 |
| Entry plan renews at the same price | ||||
| SSL on every plan | ||||
| Site migration included | ||||
| NVMe storage on the entry plan | ||||
| Daily backups on the entry plan | ||||
| Live human support, 24/7 |
*Our figure is the cheapest plan we sell, on an annual term. The competitor figures are the lowest shared-hosting price each of them published in July 2026 — those introductory rates normally require signing up for 1–4 years and rise once that term ends. Check their own sites for what they charge today.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Write the requirement in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon of feature-table comparison, so write it before you go shopping.
- 2
Price the second year, not the first
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick, so compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself on the spot.
- 3
Try it inside the refund window
Order, move a real site across free, and use it properly for a fortnight — the daily experience is the product, and the window makes trying it cost nothing.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for your own client
- A backup taken daily, with restores you run yourself
- DDoS filtering handled out at the network edge
- A 30-day money-back guarantee on every hosting plan
- Spam and virus filtering fitted to every mailbox
- One-click installs for WordPress and 400+ other applications
- LiteSpeed caching running at the server, not bolted on by plugin
- A domain free for year one when you order annually
- Nothing added at setup — no joining fee, ever
- Site migration done for you by our staff, at no charge
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
What is the cheapest way to run five small projects?
One multi-site plan, with a subdomain or a parked domain per project and the resources shared across the quiet majority. Five separate platform subscriptions would cost several times as much and hand you rather less control.
What do I do when one project takes off?
Move that one and leave the rest where they are — onto a bigger plan or a VPS. Between our plans that is an internal move rather than a rebuild, so the good week is not spent replatforming instead of shipping.
Does hosting come with mailboxes?
It does — mailboxes on your own domain ship with every hosting plan, with webmail, IMAP, POP and SMTP access and spam filtering fitted as standard. There is also standalone email hosting for domains whose website lives somewhere else entirely.
Can I set the PHP version myself?
Yes — PHP versions are chosen per site from the control panel, so an old application and a current one can sit side by side on the same account. Extensions and per-site settings live in the same screen, and none of it needs a support ticket.
Is there a refund if it does not suit?
Yes — thirty days. Put the hosting through real work, and if it is not right, ask for the money back and you get it; there is no retention script to survive first. Domain registrations are the one carve-out, because registries take that fee the moment the name is placed.
Does the price climb when the term is up?
No. What you pay to order is what you pay to renew, year after year. We do not run teaser rates, so there is no year-two ambush waiting in the calendar, and your bookkeeping can treat the hosting line as a fixed number.
Can I test changes somewhere safe first?
Yes — plans with staging let you clone the live site, work on the copy, then push it across when you are satisfied. It is the difference between hoping an update behaves and knowing that it does before any customer meets it.
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