A2 Hosting Review (2026): The Company That Changed Its Name
A2 Hosting was acquired and renamed hosting.com in 2025. A review published three weeks before ours still praises its independent ownership.
Reviews
Independent reviews of individual web hosts, built on published data rather than our own lab tests. Each one sets the promotional price against the renewal price, works out what three years actually costs, and names the company that owns the brand.
DreamHost Review (2026): Two Facts Everyone Repeats
Reviews still call DreamHost a WordPress.org recommended host. We read that page on 31 August 2026 and it named three other companies.
WP Engine Review (2026): Fastest in the Benchmark, Loudest in Court
WP Engine ranked first for response time among 34 hosts in the benchmark we cite throughout this site. It also prices by visitor count and has spent two years in court with the company behind WordPress.org.
HostGator Review (2026): Cheaper to Start, Dearer to Keep
HostGator and Bluehost share an owner, a support model and a checkout flow. One of them got an infrastructure investment last year, and the numbers have started to separate.
GoDaddy Review (2026): The Renewal Costs More Than the “Regular” Price
GoDaddy advertises fifty percent off $11.99 and renews at $15.32. It is also two different hosts sharing one name, which explains most of the contradictory reviews online.
Kinsta Review (2026): Fast at the Edge, Expensive at the Till
Kinsta is fast where its CDN reaches and slow where it does not. It is also the most expensive plan we have priced, and one independent project argues the premium outruns the performance.
Cloudways Review (2026): No Renewal Trap, One Awkward Owner
Cloudways has no promotional pricing, no renewal increase and the strongest uptime figures in our set. It also lets you pick between five cloud providers while being owned by one of them.
Bluehost Review (2026): Cheap to Renew, Expensive to Extend
Bluehost has the best hardware score and the gentlest renewal of the three shared hosts we have reviewed. It also has the most add-ons, the most confusing documentation and an owner that shows up twice on most shortlists.
SiteGround Review (2026): The Best Support, the Steepest Renewal
SiteGround publishes every resource limit it enforces, answers support faster than anyone, and charges six times the advertised price at renewal. All three facts are on its own website.
Hostinger Review (2026): Tested Data, Real Renewal Costs
Hostinger performs well for the money, and the published test data says something the reviews do not: the uptime figure you see depends mostly on how long the tester watched.