Managed WordPress hosting for a small business site

This guide is for a small company choosing hosting for a business website, a WordPress site or a light WooCommerce shop, without wanting to run servers itself. We read each provider's own pricing, plan and policy pages on 29 October 2026 and recorded what they state. We did not test speed, uptime, support or migrations, and we have no customer reviews to report.

• WordPress-specific managed platforms. Kinsta and WP Engine sell plans built around WordPress and sized by visits, bandwidth or storage. Backups and caching are part of the service. Their entry prices are the higher ones of the six.
• Shared-hosting-style WordPress plans. SiteGround, Hostinger and Bluehost sell WordPress plans whose lowest price is tied to a prepaid term (12 months at SiteGround, 48 months at Hostinger, 36 months at Bluehost) and renews at a higher rate.
• A managed cloud server. Cloudways runs your sites on a cloud server at DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud that you choose and size yourself. It manages the server; it is not a plan with a visit allowance.

A self-administered VPS is a different purchase: you maintain the operating system, updates and security yourself. It is not covered on this page.

• The renewal price, not the first-term price. Find what the same plan costs when the promotional term ends.
• The term you must prepay. The lowest monthly price usually requires paying many months upfront.
• How the plan is sized. Visits, bandwidth, storage or server RAM: each provider uses a different unit, so compare against your own numbers.
• What happens at the limit. Some providers keep the site online and bill overages; others do not state the rate.
• Backups and staging. Check how often backups run and whether a staging copy is included on the plan you would buy.
• Refund conditions. A money-back guarantee can exclude monthly terms, renewals or add-ons.
• Your own numbers. Monthly visits, number of sites, storage, and whether you run WooCommerce.

A brochure site with modest traffic and a tight budget. The shared-style plans (SiteGround, Hostinger, Bluehost) cost the least, provided you compare the renewal rate and can commit to a long prepaid term.

A site where WordPress is the business: a shop, memberships or traffic spikes. The WordPress-specific platforms (Kinsta, WP Engine) include more of the operational work in the plan and are priced accordingly.

A team that wants to size the server itself. Cloudways fits if you are willing to learn its console and to size for your own peaks.

This is our reading of what the providers state, not a test result.