Bluehost Alternatives: 6 Better WordPress Hosts (2026)
Hostinger is our first alternative to Bluehost for a small WordPress site. DreamHost suits buyers who want a shorter commitment, and SiteGround suits those who value phone support. Compare renewal costs as well as the introductory deal: switching is not automatically cheaper.
Why people look for a Bluehost alternative
Bluehost is not a bad host. It is on WordPress.org’s list of recommended hosts, Starter allows 10 websites, and every WordPress plan includes staging and a Cloudflare CDN. People leave for more specific reasons:
- The price jump after the first term. Starter goes from $3.99 to $9.99 a month (3-year renewal) or $11.99 (1-year). Business goes from $6.99 to $13.99 or $15.99.
- Weekly backups only. Every Bluehost WordPress plan backs up once a week and keeps one restore point. Daily backups are a paid add-on, and restores done by Bluehost’s support team carry a one-time fee. DreamHost, SiteGround, FastComet, Cloudways and Kinsta all include daily backups on their entry plans.
- Strict auto-renewal rules. Bluehost charges your card 15 days before the term ends. To stop a renewal you must switch off auto-renew at least 16 days before the end date.
- A narrow refund window. Bluehost’s 30-day money-back guarantee covers the first term only and card payments only. AI products are excluded.
- More paid extras. Bluehost added AI Credits to its User Agreement in August 2026 and sells an “AI All Access” bundle for $20 a month. Starter includes malware scanning but not removal.
Some reasons you will read elsewhere are out of date. Bluehost is not US-only. It has data centers in the US (Arizona and Virginia), Canada, Brazil, the UK, Spain, France, Germany, India and Australia. And Bluehost said in a November 2025 press release that it was moving all customers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with completion planned in 2026. Bluehost says the nearly one million customers moved by then saw 4 to 5 times faster median response times. We could not verify whether that move is finished or what it means for a given site.
Skip these: Bluehost’s sister brands
If you want to get away from Bluehost’s company, check who owns the new host. Bluehost belongs to Newfold Digital, which was formed in 2021 by combining Endurance Web Presence and Web.com Group. Newfold’s September 2026 press releases list its brands as including Bluehost, HostGator, Network Solutions, Crazy Domains, Yoast and YITH. Earlier 2026 releases also named Register.com and Web.com.
So HostGator, which shows up on many “Bluehost alternatives” lists, is a sister brand, not an escape from the same owner. Newfold is backed by the private equity firms Clearlake Capital and Siris Capital, and on September 24, 2026 it named Sachin Puri, who already ran Bluehost Group, as CEO from October 1, 2026.
None of the six hosts below belong to Newfold. Hostinger is a separate company based in Lithuania, DreamHost’s plan page says it is independently owned, and FastComet is owned by World Host Group.
What the next three years cost
If you are already paying Bluehost’s renewal price, staying on Starter costs $359.64 for the next 36 months at $9.99 a month. Renewing one year at a time at $11.99 a month raises that three-year total to $431.64.
Switching to Hostinger Premium costs $143.52 upfront for 48 months, so that single payment covers all three years and a fourth year too. DreamHost Launch costs $298.44 over three years: $2.89 a month for the first year, then $10.99 a month for the next two.
SiteGround StartUp costs $467.64 over the same period, with the first 12 months at $2.99 a month and the next two years at $17.99. FastComet Starter starts at $1.99 a month and renews at $9.95, but we cannot give a reliable three-year total without knowing how long its introductory term lasts.
Cloudways’ DigitalOcean Premium 1 GB plan costs $504 over three years at $14 a month, with no contract. Its temporary 30% introductory discount lowers that slightly. Kinsta Single 20GB costs $1,050 for three years at the regular annual price of $350; a first-month-free offer is also available to new customers.
In short, Hostinger and DreamHost save real money. SiteGround costs more than staying once its first year ends; you pay for daily backups and phone support, not a lower bill. Cloudways and Kinsta are a step up for sites that have outgrown shared hosting, not a cheaper swap. If you are still on Bluehost’s first-term price, note your renewal date and move a few weeks before it.
1. Hostinger: best Bluehost alternative for most small sites
Hostinger costs the least over three to four years if you pay upfront. Our full Hostinger review covers it in depth, and Hostinger vs Bluehost compares the two plan by plan.
As of October 2026, Premium costs $2.99 a month on a 48-month term ($143.52 upfront) and renews at $10.99 a month. Unlimited costs $3.99 a month on the same term ($191.52) and renews at $16.99.
What you get on Premium:
- 3 websites and 20 GB of SSD storage
- A free domain for the first year
- Free weekly backups
- Free migration from any host, which Hostinger says takes about 24 hours
What you do not get on Premium: a CDN, daily backups, AI tools and priority support. Those start on Unlimited, which also adds unlimited websites and 50 GB of NVMe storage. If you are moving from Bluehost, where staging and a CDN came with every plan, Unlimited is the fair comparison.
Watch out for. Premium allows 3 sites, against 10 on Bluehost Starter. Support starts with Hostinger’s AI agent, and there is no phone line.
2. DreamHost: best for daily backups on a one-year term
DreamHost’s shared hosting page on the yearly term, with the auto-renew price under each button.
DreamHost fixes two common Bluehost complaints: weekly-only backups and long prepays. You get the sale price on a one-year term, and backups run daily on the cheapest plan.
As of October 2026, Web Hosting Launch costs $2.89 a month for the first year and renews at $10.99 a month. DreamHost says every web hosting plan can also be billed monthly.
What you get on Launch:
- 25 websites and 25 GB of NVMe storage
- Daily automated backups
- Unlimited free SSL certificates
- A free domain for one year on annual or longer plans, with free domain privacy
- 20 mailboxes free for three months, then billed separately
- A free WordPress migration plugin, and a 30-day money-back guarantee
If you want a managed WordPress plan instead, DreamPress 1 costs $14.99 a month for the first year, renews at $19.99, and includes one professional site migration. DreamHost lists 24/7 expert support on its plans. Our DreamHost vs GoDaddy comparison looks at it in more detail.
3. SiteGround: best for phone support
SiteGround’s WordPress hosting plans with the renewal price under each button.
Bluehost only includes phone support from its Business plan up. SiteGround offers 24/7 chat, tickets and phone on every plan, and its support page says its staff resolve over 90% of questions at first contact.
As of October 2026, StartUp costs $2.99 a month prepaid for 12 months and renews at $17.99. GrowBig is $4.99 and renews at $29.99. GoGeek is $7.99 and renews at $44.99.
StartUp hosts one website with 10 GB of storage and includes free SSL, a CDN, daily backups kept up to 30 days, and free email. The pricing page currently advertises a free domain and a free site transfer on all plans, and the free SiteGround Migrator plugin lets you move a WordPress site yourself. SiteGround also claims that WordPress sites moved to it from Bluehost, GoDaddy, Hostinger and WP Engine in the first half of 2025 loaded 78% faster on average. That is the vendor’s own figure.
The catch is the renewal. $17.99 a month for one site is close to double Bluehost Starter’s 3-year renewal rate. Staging also needs GrowBig. Our Hostinger vs SiteGround comparison shows how the renewal gap adds up over four years.
4. FastComet: best for a done-for-you transfer
FastComet’s shared hosting plans with the regular price under each intro price.
FastComet has the lowest renewal price in this guide and keeps cPanel, which Bluehost users already know. Our FastComet review covers the plans in detail.
As of October 2026, Starter costs $1.99 a month with a regular price of $9.95. Essential is $2.99 ($12.95 regular), Plus is $3.99 ($17.95) and Extra is $5.49 ($24.95). FastComet says the promotional price applies to the first term only. The pricing page does not say how long that term must be, so check the cart before you pay.
Why it suits people leaving Bluehost:
- Staff do the move. FastComet’s Express Transfer is included on all plans: one free site transfer on Starter and Essential, two on Plus, three on Extra.
- Credit for unused time. FastComet offers up to six months of free hosting for prepaid time you leave behind, useful if you just renewed Bluehost.
- Daily backups on every plan, with 7 kept on the first three plans and 30 on Extra.
Starter is limited to one website and 10 GB of NVMe storage, and the Restore Manager starts on Essential. Plus is the first plan with unlimited websites. FastComet was bought by World Host Group in April 2025, so watch for policy changes.
5. Cloudways: best for a growing site that wants monthly billing
Cloudways is a different kind of host. You rent your own cloud server from DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud, and Cloudways sets it up and keeps it patched. Our Cloudways review explains how that works.
Cloudways’ site blocked our automated checks in October 2026, so these prices come from our Cloudways review, which was checked earlier in October 2026. Plans start at $11 a month on a DigitalOcean Standard 1 GB server, or $14 a month on a DigitalOcean Premium 1 GB server with 1 vCPU, 25 GB of NVMe storage and 1 TB of bandwidth. You are billed by the hour, with no contract and no renewal jump. There is a three-day free trial with no credit card, and at the time of our review new accounts got 30% off for the first three months.
You can run as many WordPress sites as the server can handle. Free WordPress migration, staging, SSL and daily offsite backups are included; email and domains are not. For one small site, the shared hosts above cost less. Torn between the two styles of hosting? See Cloudways vs SiteGround.
6. Kinsta: best for business sites and WooCommerce
Kinsta’s pricing page with Monthly selected. Annual billing brings the entry plan to $350 a year.
Kinsta is premium managed WordPress hosting. It handles caching, security, backups and migrations for you, and its pricing page lists 24/7 human support in 8 languages. Read the full Kinsta review for the details.
As of October 2026, the entry Single 20GB plan costs $35 a month, or $350 a year on annual billing, and new customers pay $0 for the first month. There is no intro discount, so the price stays the same at renewal. The plan covers one WordPress install with 10 GB of storage, 20 GB of bandwidth a month, 14 days of backups and unlimited free migrations. Extra sites cost $30 a month each.
Kinsta does not include email hosting or phone support. It costs about three times what a good shared host does, so it makes sense only when a slow or broken site costs you real money. Weighing managed hosts? Read Kinsta vs WP Engine and our list of the best managed WordPress hosting.
Other hosts worth a look
- Liquid Web sells managed VPS and dedicated servers with around-the-clock support. Our Liquid Web review explains who it suits.
- Leaving GoDaddy too? Many of the same hosts make our list of GoDaddy alternatives, with GoDaddy’s own prices for comparison.
For every host we have reviewed, browse our WordPress hosting reviews.
Moving away from Bluehost
Take an independent backup and ask the new host whether it includes migration. Test the new site and copy any email settings before switching DNS. Keep Bluehost active until the site and mail work, but check the renewal deadline: its terms require turning off auto-renew at least 16 days before expiry, and refunds cover the first term.
The domain can stay registered at Bluehost while hosting moves elsewhere. A recent registration or transfer can restrict moving the domain itself. Our WordPress migration guide explains the copying, testing and DNS steps.