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Twelve India hosting plans with entry price and renewal price verified on each vendor's own page in July 2026. HostGator India, iPage and A2 Hosting are gone.
Almost every hosting list written for India is a list of first-year prices. That is the number the host wants you to compare, and it is the number that stops being true the moment your first term ends. I have written before about rented land. Never build your main asset on ground someone else controls. Hosting is the one lease you cannot avoid, so the least you can do is read the second invoice before you sign the first one.
I run Pixel Street, a web design studio in Salt Lake, Kolkata. We build for brands like Coca-Cola, ITC and Marico, and somebody pays the hosting bill on every site we ship, every month, forever. So this list carries two figures per host: what you pay to start, and what you pay when the discount expires. Both were read off each vendor's own pricing page on 30 July 2026. Anything I could not read there is not here, rather than estimated.
Hosting pricing changes constantly, and it changes most often in the direction of the renewal. Every figure below was on the vendor's live pricing page on 30 July 2026 and every one of them will drift. Treat the table as a starting point and confirm the number on the checkout screen, which is the only place the promotional term and the renewal rate are contractually yours.
| Host and entry plan | Entry price | Renews or reverts to | Term for that price | Sites and storage | Free domain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DomainRacer Basic | ₹58/mo | Not published | 3 years (₹82/mo on 1 year) | 1 site, 1 GB NVMe | No |
| Hostinger Single | ₹69/mo | ₹289/mo | 48 months | 1 site, 10 GB SSD | Yes |
| MilesWeb Starter | ₹69/mo | Same price, per their page | 36 months | 1 site, 10 GB NVMe | Yes, 1 year |
| BigRock Standard | ₹69/mo | ₹409/mo | Not stated on the plan page | 1 site, 20 GB NVMe | No |
| GoDaddy Web Hosting Starter | ₹89/mo | ₹299/mo list rate | First 3-year term | 1 site, 10 GB NVMe | No |
| HostPapa Essentials | ₹149.95/mo | ₹449.99/mo | 3 years | 1 site, 25 GB NVMe | Yes |
| Bluehost India Starter | ₹199/mo | ₹349/mo | 36 months | 10 sites, 10 GB NVMe | Yes, first year |
| HostingRaja Premium Standard | ₹299/mo | ₹997/mo list rate | 3 years (₹361/mo on 1 year) | Unlimited sites, unlimited NVMe | Yes |
| GreenGeeks Lite | $2.95/mo | $13.95/mo | 12 months prepaid | 1 site, 25 GB | Yes, first year |
| Hosting.com Starter (was A2 Hosting) | From $2.99/mo | Not published on the plan page | Not stated | 1 site, 15 GB NVMe | Yes, first year |
Read the third column again. On BigRock the gap between the joining price and the renewal is roughly six times. On HostPapa it is three times. On GreenGeeks it is nearly five. These are not tricks unique to any one company, they are how the entire shared hosting category prices itself, and the only defence is knowing the number before you commit.
[IMG: Four hosts on the same joining price go four different ways at renewal: Hostinger Single goes from 69 rupees a month to 289, MilesWeb Starter claims on its own page to stay at 69, BigRock Standard goes to 409 and HostPapa Essentials goes from 149.95 to 449.99.]
[IMG: Hostgrator hosting]
HostGator India now serves a notice saying that effective 15 July 2025 it and BigRock have joined forces and will operate under one brand. New customers are sent to BigRock.in, existing accounts were migrated, and the page redirects you to BigRock after a countdown. If you are comparing HostGator India's Linux, Windows and open-source plan tiers, they are not a separate option any more. You are comparing BigRock.
[IMG: ipage hosting]
The iPage homepage no longer sells anything. It redirects straight to a customer login, which is what a hosting brand looks like when it has been closed to new business and left running for the accounts still on it. HostingAdvice reported the same thing: iPage is no longer accepting new customers and is being folded into Network Solutions under the same parent, Newfold Digital. Any iPage price you find quoted elsewhere is unverifiable, because there is no page left that shows one.
[IMG: a2hosting cheapest price]
a2hosting.com now returns a permanent redirect to hosting.com, and the A2 Hosting name appears nowhere on the new homepage. The product is still there, with the Turbo-style stack rebadged: NVMe storage, LiteSpeed caching, daily off-server backups with 30-day restore, and a Starter tier at 15 GB for one site. What is not there is a rupee. The site lists India in its country selector and still quotes from $2.99/month, and it does not print a renewal figure on the plan page. The rupee prices still circulating for A2 Hosting are precise to two decimal places and are now fiction.
[IMG: hostinger low price hosting]
Hostinger's India pricing page prints the renewal rate under every plan, in the same size type as the offer. Single is ₹69/month, which is 48 months billed as ₹3,312 up front, and it renews at ₹289/month for one site on 10 GB SSD with a free domain and weekly backups. Premium is ₹139/month renewing at ₹449 for three sites. Unlimited is ₹199/month renewing at ₹649, and that is the one I would actually buy: unlimited sites, 50 GB NVMe and daily backups with restore, which the two cheaper tiers do not give you.
The catch is the up-front cash. A ₹69/month headline means handing over four years of money on day one, and if you leave in year two you have paid for hosting you did not use. Hostinger also runs near-permanent seasonal sales, so the exact discount you see will differ from mine.
MilesWeb lists Starter at ₹69/month on a 36-month term against a ₹399 list price, with one site, 10 GB NVMe, a free domain for the first year and daily backups. Premium is ₹99/month for 25 sites and 50 GB. Under the price it says, in plain words, that the same price applies at renewal, guaranteed.
I am reporting that as their claim rather than as a verified outcome, because a renewal promise can only be tested by renewing. But it is a promise printed on their own page, which makes it checkable, and it is the single most consequential differentiator on this page. At ₹69/month held flat, five years costs about ₹4,140. The same five years on BigRock's ₹69 plan, at their published ₹409 renewal after the first term, costs several times that. An Indian company headquartered in Nashik, billing in rupees, with the renewal risk removed, deserves to be higher on these lists than it usually is.
[IMG: bigrock hosting service]
Credit where it is due: BigRock prints "Renews at" on every card. Standard is ₹69/month renewing at ₹409, one site, 20 GB NVMe, 10 mailboxes, daily backups and free Let's Encrypt SSL, with no free domain. Business is ₹159 renewing at ₹649 for five sites, 25 GB and a domain for a year. Pro is ₹199 renewing at ₹759 for ten sites. Ultimate is ₹249 renewing at ₹989 for twenty sites and 100 GB.
What the plan page does not tell you is the term the discount runs for, which is the one thing you need to work out the true five-year cost. That omission is not accidental. BigRock also now absorbs HostGator India's customer base, which makes it the default Indian shared host by sheer volume, and it publishes a GTmetrix-based speed comparison from April 2026 claiming it beats Hostinger, MilesWeb, GoDaddy and HostingRaja on time to first byte. It is a vendor's own benchmark of its competitors. I would not plan around it.
[IMG: bluehost cheapest hosting]
Yes, Bluehost still sells in India, and yes, it still bills in rupees. What has changed is that bluehost.in issues a permanent redirect to bluehost.com/in. It is a regional storefront of the global Newfold Digital brand now, not a separate Indian site with its own catalogue. Anyone still linking to bluehost.in as a distinct company is describing a structure that no longer exists.
Starter is ₹199/month for a 36-month term renewing at ₹349, and it is unusually generous on sites: ten of them on 10 GB NVMe, with a free domain for the first year, weekly backups, free CDN and a 99.99% uptime SLA. Business is ₹279 renewing at ₹529 for fifty sites on 50 GB, which adds a web application firewall and DDoS protection. eCommerce Essentials is ₹649 renewing at ₹1,299, and if you are heading for a store I would compare that against a purpose-built platform before committing, which is the argument I make at length in Shopify versus WooCommerce.
Hosting listicles routinely credit Bluehost with the fastest website speed in India and poor customer support, in the same list of pros and cons. That is not a review, that is scraped copy, and I am not repeating either claim.
[IMG: hostpapa hosting service]
HostPapa India starts at ₹149.95/month for Essentials on a three-year discounted term: one site, 25 GB NVMe, free domain registration or transfer, CDN, staging and cPanel. Growth is ₹260.95 for five sites and 100 GB. Premium is ₹349.95 for unlimited sites and 200 GB.
HostPapa then does something almost nobody else does, which is publish a full renewal pricing page in rupees. Essentials renews at ₹449.99/month on a three-year renewal, ₹499.99 on two years, ₹549.99 on one year, and ₹649.99 month to month. Growth renews at ₹699.99 on three years. The page states plainly that promotional prices apply to new customers for the initial term only and do not apply to renewal periods, and that prices exclude taxes.
I want to be fair about what that means. HostPapa is roughly three times more expensive than its own joining price once you renew, which is worse than Hostinger's ratio. It is also the only host here that will let you calculate that before you buy, without a support chat. If you want cPanel specifically, and their pitch is explicitly aimed at people who do not want a proprietary dashboard, this is the transparent option.
[IMG: Hostingraja hosting service]
HostingRaja's purchasable Linux cards now start at Premium Business Standard, ₹299/month on three years, ₹328 on two and ₹361 on one, against a struck-through ₹997/month. That buys unlimited NVMe storage, unmetered bandwidth, cPanel, free migration and a vulnerability scanner. Their comparison table lists cheaper legacy tiers, Silver at ₹104/month for three sites and Gold at ₹202 for five, but the cards do not state a term for those, so I am not going to pretend I know what you would pay in year four.
The ₹997 is worth staring at. A 70% permanent discount is not a discount, it is a price with a marketing story attached, and it also tells you the ceiling the company thinks it can charge you later. HostingRaja does not publish a renewal figure. Everything else here is standard: Indian servers, Indian support hours, ISO 9001 certification on the banner, 30-day money back.
[IMG: Donainracer hosting services]
DomainRacer is the cheapest verified price in this comparison. Basic is ₹58/month on three years, ₹78 on two and ₹82 on one, for a single site with 1 GB NVMe, 5 GB bandwidth and ten mailboxes. Personal at ₹88.20/month on three years lifts storage, bandwidth and mailboxes to unlimited. Advanced at ₹238.20/month adds unlimited sites, a free .in or .com domain and JetBackup.
Note the 1 GB on Basic. That is a genuinely small allowance for a WordPress install plus a media library, and the jump to Personal is the real entry point for most sites. The word "renewal" does not appear anywhere on their hosting page, which means the only figures I can give you are first-term figures. Cheapest is not the same as cheapest to keep, and on this host you cannot tell which one you are buying.
GoDaddy India starts at ₹89/month for Web Hosting Starter for the first three-year term, against a ₹299 list rate: one site, 10 GB NVMe, cPanel, and notably no free SSL at that tier. Economy at ₹219 against ₹599 is where you get the free domain, free email and a one-year SSL. Deluxe is ₹329 against ₹849 for ten sites, Ultimate ₹399 against ₹1,099 for twenty-five.
The detail worth knowing is in their own feature list. GoDaddy's shared plans advertise "data centers in North America and Europe". If your audience is in India and you are choosing between two similar plans, that is a real difference, and it is stated on GoDaddy's page rather than inferred from a speed test somebody ran once.
[IMG: greengeeks hosting service]
GreenGeeks is the clearest illustration of why the renewal column exists. Lite is $2.95/month prepaid for twelve months and renews at $13.95/month, for one site, 25 GB, free SSL, free domain for the first year and daily backups. Pro is $4.95 renewing at $18.95. Premium is $8.95 renewing at $30.95. That is a 4.7x step up on Lite, and it arrives after one year rather than three.
All of that is quoted in US dollars on greengeeks.in. The 300% renewable energy match is real and it is the reason to choose them. Being billed in a foreign currency, with forex markup on your card and a renewal that quintuples in year two, is the price of that choice. The old claim in this post that GreenGeeks has "well above 40 years of experience" was arithmetically impossible for a company hosting websites, and it is deleted.
The standard advice is to weigh performance, reliability, security, scalability, support and pricing, which is every factor, ranked by nothing. Here is the order we use on our own client projects.
Uptime is missing from that list on purpose. Every single host here advertises 99.9%, a couple advertise 99.99%, and I have never seen one of these guarantees pay out in a way that mattered. It is a floor, not a differentiator.
On the joining price, DomainRacer Basic at ₹58/month on a three-year term. Over five years, most likely MilesWeb Starter at ₹69/month, because it is the only plan here that publishes a promise not to raise the price at renewal. Those are two different questions and hosting lists almost always answer only the first one.
Because the price you paid was a new-customer promotion valid for the initial term only. HostPapa states that in writing on its renewal pricing page. The gaps are large: ₹69 to ₹409 on BigRock, ₹149.95 to ₹449.99 on HostPapa, $2.95 to $13.95 on GreenGeeks. Nothing has gone wrong with your account. This is the pricing model working as designed.
No. bluehost.in permanently redirects to bluehost.com/in, which is a regional storefront of the global Bluehost brand under Newfold Digital. You still get rupee pricing and India-specific plans, but not a separate Indian entity with its own site.
If your customers are in India, it helps, and it costs you nothing to prefer it. GoDaddy's shared plans list data centres in North America and Europe only, and GreenGeeks bills from the US. Where a host publishes Indian server locations, as HostingRaja, MilesWeb and BigRock do, take it. Just do not let it override the five-year cost, because latency you can fix with caching and a CDN and a renewal invoice you cannot.
For most brochure sites and small stores, yes, and the money saved is better spent on the site itself. The point at which shared hosting stops being enough is usually not traffic, it is the moment your site becomes the thing your revenue depends on. At that point you want isolation, staging and a restore process you have tested. I break down where the money actually goes in our guide to what a website costs in Kolkata.
Open the checkout page, not the pricing page. The pricing page is marketing and the checkout is the contract. Find the term length, the total billed today, and the rate that applies when the term ends, and put those three numbers in a note with the date. In three years, when the invoice arrives and it is four times what you remember, that note is the difference between an unpleasant surprise and a decision you already made.
Every figure in this post was read on the vendor's own pricing page on 30 July 2026 and will go stale. That is not a hedge, it is the honest state of a market where the advertised price is a promotion and the real price is disclosed in small type or not at all.
Every figure in this article traces to one of the following. Publisher and publication date are recorded so a claim can be checked against its origin, and re-checked when the origin changes.