The advertised price of ecommerce hosting is rarely the price you pay. SiteGround's entry plan moves from $2.99 to $17.99 per month on renewal, Kinsta bills $0.50 for every 1,000 visits above your allowance, and three of the eight providers here do not include email at all. Those details matter far more than the headline rate, because they decide what your store actually costs once it is trading.
Below, I compare eight ecommerce hosting providers on the things that determine whether your checkout holds up: renewal pricing rather than the introductory offer, PHP workers and concurrency, backup frequency and retention, PCI scope, and how each one behaves when traffic spikes.
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