Web hosting
Compare web hosting for your website or webshop: from cheap website hosting to WordPress hosting and managed hosting, from Dutch, Belgian and international providers.
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Web hosting at a glance
Price indications and features as stated by the suppliers. Ratings are the average of the reviews on SoftwareWatcher.
| Software | Rating | From per month | Budget per user per month | Free trial account | Demo | Cloud | Dutch-language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20i | – | From £10 per month (first month £1) | – | – | Yes | Yes | – |
| Antagonist | – | €10,99 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| Cloud86 | – | From € 3,95 per month (first year € 2,95 per month, paid in advance) | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| Cloudways | – | From $11 per server per month | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | – |
| Combell | – | €19,49 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| DigitalOcean | – | From $4 per Droplet per month | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| DreamHost | – | From € 4,99 per month for the first 3 months, then € 11,99 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| HostArmada | – | From $12,95 per month | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| Hostinger | – | From € 2,99 per month when prepaying 48 months | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| Hostnet | – | €9,99 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| Hypernode | – | €129 | – | Yes | – | Yes | – |
| InMotion Hosting | – | €16,49 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| InterServer | – | From $7 per month (first month $2,50) | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| Kinsta | – | From $35 per month | – | Yes | – | Yes | Yes |
| Mijndomein | – | €10,50 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| Savvii | – | €24,99 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| ScalaHosting | – | From $11,95 per month | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| SiteGround | – | From € 2,99 per month when prepaying 12 months | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| STRATO | – | €3,50 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| TransIP | – | €9,99 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| UltaHost | – | From $4,39 per month | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| Vimexx | – | €2,99 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
| WP Engine | – | €32 | – | – | – | Yes | – |
Compare web hosting
With web hosting you rent space on a server, so that your website is reachable around the clock via your domain name. Most packages also include email on your own domain, an SSL certificate and backups. A freelancer with a small site needs no more than a basic website hosting package. A webshop or an agency with many client sites looks for business web hosting with more websites per package, more storage and fast help if something goes wrong.
Shared hosting, WordPress hosting or managed hosting?
Most websites run on shared hosting: you share a server with other customers, which keeps the price low. Providers for the Dutch and Belgian market, such as TransIP, Antagonist, Vimexx, Hostnet, Cloud86 and Combell, sell this in a few fixed packages. Hostinger and STRATO are well-known foreign names.
WordPress hosting is tailored to that one CMS: WordPress is already set up or you install it with one click. With managed hosting, the hosting provider also takes over the management, such as updates, security and backups. WP Engine, for example, does that only for WordPress. Providers such as 20i and HostArmada also sell reseller hosting, with which an agency provides hosting to its own clients, and a VPS for more computing power.
What should you look out for?
- Price after the promotion: cheap web hosting is often a promotional price for the first months or years. Check what you pay afterwards, how long the contract runs and whether the price includes VAT.
- What is included: compare the number of websites, the storage, the number of mailboxes and how long backups are kept.
- Data centre: check which country your website is hosted in. A server in the Netherlands or the EU is close to your visitors and your data stays within Europe.
- Support and migration: check when the helpdesk is available, whether you can call or chat and whether the provider will migrate your existing website. What the best web hosting is differs from website to website.
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