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Black Friday is almost here, and brands are slowly showing their cards. I’ve been collecting the best Black Friday web hosting deals for several years. Every year during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday season, brands offer incredible deals that you can take advantage of to save money for the whole year. But not every deal is a good one. Often, an 80% discount isn’t really an 80% discount, because it may apply only to one or three months of the annual price. Also, 99% of the deals don’t apply to renewal invoices.
For example, if you buy Hostinger’s cheapest plan, you will get it at $1.99 per month advertised on Black Friday. But that’s it. It renews at $10.99 a month. Similarly SiteGround renews at $17.99, and the $1.99 you paid in the first year has nothing to do with either number. The discount is real but it is a one-time event, and the host’s whole pricing model is built on you forgetting that.
So the way to buy hosting on Black Friday is to buy the longest term you will use at the discounted rate, on a plan whose renewal you can live with. Everything on this page serves that one decision: what each of the 14 hosts offered last Black Friday, what the same plan costs on an ordinary day, what it renews at and what 3 years really cost. Black Friday falls on November 27 and Cyber Monday on November 30, and most hosts open their sales 3 to 4 weeks early. I update the deal lines here as each one goes live.
One thing to know before the list. This site has run on WordPress.com, GoDaddy, WPX, then on ScalaHosting’s managed cloud, Hetzner VPS, and today it sits on a Hostinger KVM 4 VPS managed through xCloud, with a cheap RackNerd box for secondary work.
And for my clients, I have used almost every host out there and all in the list below.
That history is in the WordPress hosting I use and recommend, and it shapes the opinions below.
Black Friday Hosting Deals at a Glance
Find the host you were about to buy in the table, read its renewal column, then jump to its card. The “last Black Friday” column is what each host advertised in November 2025; the “everyday promo” column is what the same plan costs today, before any sale.
| Host | Last Black Friday (2025) | Everyday promo now | Renews at | Fits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger | Premium from about $1.95/mo on 48 months, 3 months extra | Premium $2.99/mo on 48 months | $10.99/mo | Beginners, blogs, small business |
| SiteGround | 85% off, StartUp $1.99/mo | StartUp $3.99/mo, GrowBig $6.69/mo | $17.99 / $29.99/mo | WordPress sites that use staging and email |
| Cloudways | 50% off for 3 months (BFCM5050), Advance Support $25/mo for life | DigitalOcean Micro $14/mo | No change ($14/mo) | Developers, agencies, WooCommerce |
| Bluehost | From $1.99/mo on 36 months | Starter $3.99/mo on 36 months | $9.99/mo | First website, WordPress beginners |
| Kinsta | 50% off first year on annual, 6 months on monthly | Single 20GB and Launch $35/mo, $30 on annual | $35/mo ($30 annual) | Sites that earn money |
| Hosting.com | Managed WordPress 50% off annual from $7.50/mo, $1 first month | Shared from about $2/mo first term | About $12 to $14/mo | Speed on a shared budget |
| WPX | 4 free months on 1-year plans, up to 24 free months on 5-year | Starter $14.99/mo yearly, Business $24.99/mo yearly | Same price | Support-heavy sites, agencies |
| WP Engine | 4 months free on annual | Essential from $28/mo | Same price | Agencies, developer workflow |
| GreenGeeks | 85% off, Lite $1.95/mo | Lite $2.95/mo on 12 months | $13.95/mo | Eco-conscious small sites |
| DreamHost | 83% off, Launch $1.99/mo | Launch $2.89/mo on 12 months | $10.99/mo | Small sites, long refund window |
| ScalaHosting | Shared from $1.48/mo, managed cloud from $14.98/mo | Mini $2.95/mo, Build #1 $29.95/mo | $11.95 / $54.95/mo | Managed VPS without cPanel fees |
| InMotion Hosting | Shared up to 75% off, WordPress up to 70% off | Launch $4.79/mo on 12 months | $14.99/mo | US business sites, phone support |
| Namecheap | Shared up to 80% off from $0.98/mo, EasyWP 95% off | Stellar $2.28/mo first year after a 30-day trial | $55.88/yr | Domain-and-hosting bundles |
| FastComet | 85% off, Starter about $1.34/mo | Starter $1.99/mo | $9.95/mo | cPanel fans on a budget |
Three of these are not percentage deals at all. WPX, WP Engine and Hostinger give you months instead, and months on a plan you will keep are worth more than a percentage on a plan that renews at 4x.
What a Black Friday Hosting Deal Costs Over 3 Years
Black Friday prices are introductory. The table below takes each host’s 2025 Black Friday price for the first term and today’s renewal price for the rest of a 3-year run. Terms are 12 months unless the row says otherwise, because that is the term most of these hosts discount.
| Plan | Black Friday price | Term | Renews at | 3-year total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger Premium | $1.95/mo | 48 months | $10.99/mo | $93.60 buys all 48 months |
| Bluehost Starter | $1.99/mo | 36 months | $9.99/mo | $71.64 |
| Namecheap Stellar | $0.98/mo | 12 months | $55.88/yr | $123.52 |
| FastComet Starter | $1.34/mo | 12 months | $9.95/mo | $254.88 |
| DreamHost Launch | $1.99/mo | 12 months | $10.99/mo | $287.64 |
| ScalaHosting Mini (shared) | $1.48/mo | 12 months | $11.95/mo | $304.56 |
| GreenGeeks Lite | $1.95/mo | 12 months | $13.95/mo | $358.20 |
| Cloudways DigitalOcean Micro | $7/mo for 3 months | Monthly | $14/mo | $483 |
| SiteGround StartUp | $1.99/mo | 12 months | $17.99/mo | $455.64 |
| WPX Business | $299.90 for 16 months | Annual + 4 free | $24.99/mo | $799.70 |
| WP Engine Essential | $336 for 16 months | Annual + 4 free | $28/mo | $896 |
| Kinsta Single 20GB | $15/mo | Annual | $30/mo on annual | $900 |
The two cheapest rows are the two long terms. Hostinger’s 48-month Premium at under $2 is the single best number on this page, but only if your site exists today and will still exist in 2030, because the clock starts at checkout. SiteGround is the sharpest cliff: the $1.99 year is followed by two years at $17.99, so the “85% off” plan ends up costing about 5 times what Hostinger does. Buy the longest term you will use; the percentage on its own tells you nothing about the bill.
Among the managed hosts, free months beat discounts. WPX and WP Engine hand you 4 months, which is a flat 25% cut on a price that never changes afterward. Kinsta’s 50% off the first year is the deeper one-time cut, but the second year lands at full price, so budget for $30 a month from month 13.
What Changed in Hosting Since Last Black Friday
Hosting brands change hands, rename plans and quietly reprice renewals between one November and the next, and most Black Friday pages never update the fine print. This is the running history I keep for the 14 hosts here. I add to it every season, so a returning reader can see what moved.
2024
- Liquid Web absorbed Nexcess. The two announced in February 2024 that they would run as one brand, and Nexcess folded into Liquid Web over the following year and a half.
- Cloudways became a DigitalOcean product in practice. DigitalOcean bought it in 2022; by 2024 the dashboard had native object storage, managed databases and Cloudflare Enterprise edge caching.
- LiteSpeed became the default shared stack. Hostinger, GreenGeeks, Namecheap and Hosting.com all serve from LiteSpeed with LSCache, which is the main reason $3 shared hosting is faster than it was in 2020.
- NVMe storage replaced SATA on anything above the bottom tier. Hostinger Unlimited, Bluehost Starter, DreamHost Launch and InMotion Launch all ship NVMe now.
2025
- World Host Group bought A2 Hosting in January and rebranded it Hosting.com in late April. Same servers, new name, and the old Turbo plan names are gone.
- World Host Group also bought FastComet in April. FastComet’s servers moved onto Hosting.com infrastructure, and the old promise of renewing at your Black Friday price is gone with them. FastComet’s pricing page now says the promotional price is for the first term only.
- Rocket.net joined Hosting.com in August. Rocket’s founder became Hosting.com’s product chief, and Hosting.com’s managed WordPress plans now run on Rocket’s platform with its Cloudflare Enterprise edge.
- Bluehost started moving every customer to Oracle Cloud. Bluehost said in November 2025 that nearly a million accounts had moved with 4 to 5x better median response times, and that the rest would finish in 2026. Its shared plans were renamed Starter, Business and eCommerce Essentials along the way.
- Hostinger trimmed Premium. Premium used to carry 100 GB and 100 sites; it is 20 GB SSD and 3 sites now, and VPS hosting is only the KVM 1, 2, 4 and 8 line.
- cPanel raised prices again for 2026, effective December 16, 2025 for new licenses and January 1, 2026 for renewals. Solo went to $29.99, Pro to $53.99, and accounts above 100 cost $0.49 each. InMotion, FastComet and Namecheap still sell cPanel; SiteGround, Hostinger, ScalaHosting, DreamHost and Cloudways built their own panels years ago and are not paying this.
- WP Engine and Automattic stayed in court. WP Engine won a preliminary injunction in December 2024 and the case kept moving through 2025 and 2026. It changes nothing about WP Engine’s hosting, but it is why you keep seeing the name in the news.
2026
- Liquid Web became part of Nexcess Corp. The group now trades as Nexcess Corp., with nexcess.com back for regulated managed cloud, Servers.com for bare metal and Liquid Web as the business and agency hosting brand.
- SiteGround launched an AI Agent for WordPress in February, bundled into its AI Studio, and now runs everything on Google Cloud across 11 data centers.
- DreamHost relaunched Remixer in March as a conversational AI site builder, and renamed the entry shared plan Web Hosting Launch.
- Namecheap raised shared hosting renewals on May 19. Stellar renews at $55.88 a year, Stellar Plus at $85.44 and Stellar Business at $128.88. The first-year price did not move, so the gap between the two got wider.
- GreenGeeks rebranded in June with a new identity and a push into WooCommerce, VPS and AI-assisted site building. The 300% renewable-energy match is unchanged.
- Bluehost shipped AI agents in July (AI Site, AI Store, AI Front Desk) on top of the Oracle move. Newfold, its parent, named Sachin Puri chief executive from October 1.
- Kinsta renamed Starter to Single 20GB and added Launch, both $35 a month or $30 on annual billing, with the first month free as its everyday promotion. Launch carries 75,000 visits and 15 GB.
- WP Engine’s entry plan is now Essential at $28 a month. Startup, Professional and Growth are gone from the price list.
- WPX added a Starter plan at $17.99 monthly or $14.99 on the year for 1 site, under the old Business entry point.
- Cloudways split into Flexible and Autonomous. Flexible DigitalOcean servers still start at $14 a month for 1 GB RAM; Autonomous is the autoscaling WordPress tier from $99.
- Hostinger renamed Business to Unlimited and now lists 13 shared and cloud locations, including Düsseldorf, across Europe, Asia, North and South America. In October it also throttled my own KVM 4 with a “VPS limitation” switched on in hPanel, which pushed CPU steal to about 80% until I turned it off. The box has been fine since, but it is worth knowing the switch exists.
Which Type of Hosting Should You Buy on Black Friday?
The sales treat the 4 kinds of hosting differently, and the “best deal” depends entirely on which one you need. Shared hosting gets the big percentages, managed WordPress gets free months, cloud gets a short coupon and VPS gets whatever the host feels like that week.
Shared Hosting
Your site shares a server with hundreds of others and you share the CPU, RAM and bandwidth. On Black Friday this is the $1 to $4 a month tier, and it is fine for blogs, portfolios and small business sites up to a few tens of thousands of visits a month. Modern shared hosting on LiteSpeed with NVMe storage is a different product from the shared hosting of 2015, and the plans I would consider here are Hostinger, SiteGround, Bluehost, GreenGeeks, DreamHost, Namecheap and FastComet. The differences between them live in the renewal price and in what is bundled: email, backups, staging. A longer comparison of the tiers is in shared vs VPS vs dedicated hosting.
Managed WordPress Hosting
The host runs updates, backups, malware scanning and caching, and you work on the site. Kinsta, WP Engine, WPX and the Rocket.net-based plans at Hosting.com sit here. Black Friday deals in this tier are free months or 50% off the first year, and the renewal is the everyday price, which is the honest way to do it. The premium pays for itself once the site makes money or once you have more than a couple of sites to look after. The benefits of managed WordPress hosting covers when to skip it.
Cloud Hosting
Your site runs on a virtual machine at DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS or Google Cloud, with Cloudways managing the server. Pricing is monthly and there is no renewal jump, so the Black Friday “deal” is a 3-month coupon. It is the right pick for WooCommerce stores, membership sites and anything with spiky traffic, and the Cloudways alternatives piece covers the cheaper way to do the same thing if you can run a server yourself.
VPS Hosting
A VPS gives you a guaranteed slice of a server: your own CPU cores, RAM and disk. Black Friday VPS deals are rare and uneven. ScalaHosting discounts its managed cloud (from $14.98 a month last year, $29.95 normally), Hostinger discounts KVM plans on its VPS page, and the unmanaged providers mostly do nothing because they are cheap all year. I moved this site’s primary hosting to a VPS for cost and control, and the Hetzner vs Vultr vs RackNerd comparison shows the math that pushed me there. If you have never run a server, a managed VPS is the bridge; an unmanaged one is a second job.
How I Pick a Black Friday Hosting Deal
Most of these hosts I have set up for client sites at some point, and what decided whether a deal was worth taking was never the percentage, because the percentage is marketing arithmetic against a list price nobody pays. These are the things that decide it:
- Renewal price and term length. A $1.99 plan that renews at $17.99 after 12 months is a $455 three-year plan. A $2.99 plan on 48 months is a $143 four-year plan. The term is the deal.
- What the plan bundles. SiteGround includes email and daily backups on every tier. Hostinger’s cheapest plan gives you 2 mailboxes for a year. Kinsta and WP Engine include no email at all. Each missing piece is $3 to $7 a month somewhere else.
- Data center near your readers. Hostinger, SiteGround and Cloudways have Asian locations. WPX and GreenGeeks do not. A round trip across 1,000 miles of fiber costs 15 to 20 milliseconds on every request before the server does any work.
- Control panel. cPanel hosts pay cPanel’s yearly increase and pass it on. Hosts with their own panel (Site Tools, hPanel, SPanel, MyKinsta) do not have that cost to pass.
- The refund window. DreamHost gives 97 days on card payments, InMotion 90, everyone else 30. The window is your real test period.
- Who owns the host. A2, FastComet and Rocket.net are one company now. Bluehost and HostGator are Newfold. That tells you where support, pricing and infrastructure are heading.
All 14 Black Friday Hosting Deals
Each card carries what the host offered last Black Friday, what the plan costs today, what it renews at, and my take. The deal line gets replaced the day the 2026 sale opens.
Hostinger
Hostinger is my pick for a first site and for anyone who wants the longest discounted term on the list. Last Black Friday its own deal page ran from October 13 to December 8 and listed Premium at $2.99 a month for 48 months, which is the same price it charges on an ordinary Tuesday. The deeper cut, Premium near $1.95 with 3 extra months, appeared only in the final week. The Black Friday value at Hostinger, then, sits in the extra months and the last-week dip.
- Premium: $2.99/mo on 48 months ($143.52), renews $10.99/mo, 3 websites, 20 GB SSD, 2 mailboxes for a year
- Unlimited: $3.99/mo on 48 months ($191.52), renews $16.99/mo, unlimited sites, 50 GB NVMe, daily backups
- Cloud Startup: $7.99/mo on 48 months ($383.52), renews $25.99/mo, 100 GB NVMe, priority support
- Last Black Friday: 75% to 85% off, Premium from about $1.95/mo, 3 months extra, discount applied at checkout
- Includes: free domain for a year, free SSL, LiteSpeed, weekly backups on Premium, daily on Unlimited and above
Hostinger is also where I put most small client sites today, because the hPanel onboarding needs no hand-holding from me afterwards. Premium is the plan everybody buys and the one I would skip. At 20 GB and 3 sites it is for a single small blog; the Unlimited plan at a dollar more gives you NVMe, daily backups and room to grow, and it is the plan I point beginners to in Hostinger vs Namecheap. Hostinger has 13 locations now, including India and Singapore, and sells the same plans in rupees on its India store with a 48-month Premium around ₹141 a month.
The catch is the 48-month clock. The term starts the day you pay, so a plan bought in November for a site you launch in April has burned 5 months. Buy it on the day the site is ready to go live. The Hostinger Black Friday page tracks the live offer through the season.
SiteGround
SiteGround is the host I would choose for a WordPress business site that needs staging, email and daily backups without thinking about any of it, and it is also the host with the steepest renewal on this page. Last Black Friday ran 85% off through December 2, with StartUp at $1.99, on 12-month terms only.
- StartUp: $3.99/mo on 12 months, renews $17.99/mo, 1 site, 10 GB, about 10,000 visits a month
- GrowBig: $6.69/mo on 12 months, renews $29.99/mo, unlimited sites, 50 GB, staging, on-demand backups
- GoGeek: $10.69/mo on 12 months, renews $44.99/mo, 100 GB, Git, priority support
- Last Black Friday: up to 85% off, StartUp $1.99/mo, auto-applied on the sale page
- Includes on every plan: free email, daily backups, free SSL, Cloudflare CDN, Site Tools instead of cPanel
What you get for the money is a well-run stack on Google Cloud across 11 data centers, a staging button on GrowBig that I trust a non-technical owner with, and support that knows WordPress; on client sites it is the one shared host where I never had to explain the panel twice. The storage complaint from older reviews is dead: GrowBig moved from 20 GB to 50 GB. The complaint that is still alive is the bill in month 13. StartUp goes from $1.99 to $17.99, a 9x jump, and there is no 36-month option to delay it.
My advice: buy GrowBig, launch immediately, and treat the discounted year as the cheapest year the site will ever have. If you expect to stay 3 years on a small site, Hostinger Unlimited on 48 months costs less than one year of GrowBig at renewal.
Cloudways
Cloudways is the managed layer I would put between a developer and a DigitalOcean, Vultr or AWS server. Its Black Friday deal has been the same coupon for years: 50% off the first 3 months with code BFCM5050, plus free migrations, and last year a 75% lifetime discount on Advance Support that took it from $100 to $25 a month. That support deal was the better half of the offer.
- Flexible, DigitalOcean Micro: $14/mo, 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB NVMe, 1 TB transfer, billed hourly; Small is $28/mo for 2 GB
- Flexible, bigger servers: priced per provider; AWS and Google Cloud cost more for the same RAM
- Autonomous: autoscaling WordPress from $99/mo (Growth) with 20 GB disk and 150 GB bandwidth
- Last Black Friday: 50% off 3 months (BFCM5050), free migrations, Advance Support $25/mo for life
- Everyday promo now: 30% off 3 months, 3-day trial without a card
Because Cloudways bills monthly with no renewal jump, the 3-month coupon saves you about $21 on the smallest server. Nobody should pick a host over $21, so pick it for what it does: staging, cloning, team access and server-level caching without running Ubuntu yourself, plus the fact that a $14 DigitalOcean box through Cloudways will outrun any shared plan in this list. The client sites I have put on Cloudways went there for staging and the server-level cache, and stayed because the monthly bill never jumps. There is no email hosting, so budget for Zoho or Google Workspace. If you can manage a server, the Cloudways alternatives piece shows what the same hardware costs direct.
Bluehost
Bluehost is the host beginners have heard of, and last Black Friday it ran its sale from November 20 to 30 with plans from $1.99 a month and savings up to 81%. The $1.99 needs the 36-month term; on 12 months the same plan is $3.99.
- Starter: $3.99/mo on 36 months, renews $9.99/mo, 10 sites, 10 GB NVMe, free domain for a year
- Business: $6.99/mo on 36 months, renews $13.99/mo, 50 sites, 50 GB NVMe, staging, AI malware removal
- eCommerce Essentials: $14.99/mo on 36 months, renews $21.99/mo, 100 sites, 100 GB NVMe
- Last Black Friday: from $1.99/mo on 36 months, up to 81% off, November 20 to 30
- Includes: free domain, free SSL, WordPress setup wizard, AI site builder
Two things changed under the hood that matter more than the price. Bluehost is moving every customer to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with nearly a million already moved by November 2025 and the rest due this year, and the plans were renamed from Basic and Choice Plus to Starter and Business. The old complaint about Bluehost being slow is being fixed by that migration; the old complaint about the checkout is not. Every Bluehost checkout I have done for a client had SiteLock, CodeGuard and the SEO add-on pre-ticked. Untick all 3.
Starter at $1.99 on 36 months is a good deal for a first site, and Business, a few dollars more, gives you 50 GB and 50 sites, which for any blog or small business is unlimited in practice. I would still send a performance-minded buyer to Hostinger Unlimited, which costs about the same and runs on LiteSpeed today rather than after a migration.
Kinsta
Kinsta is for sites that earn money, and Black Friday is the only time of year it discounts. Last season, from November 17 to December 2, annual plans got 50% off the first year and monthly plans got 50% off the first 6 months, applied automatically.
- Single 20GB: $35/mo, $30/mo on annual, 1 WordPress install, 10 GB
- Launch: $35/mo, $30/mo on annual, 1 install, 75,000 visits, 15 GB
- Everyday promo now: first month free
- Last Black Friday: 50% off the first year on annual, 50% off 6 months on monthly
- Includes: Google Cloud compute-optimized VMs, Cloudflare edge caching, staging, APM tool, 30-day guarantee
The plan names changed this year: Starter is gone, Single 20GB and Launch took its place at the same price. What you are buying is the MyKinsta dashboard, which is the best in the business, and a built-in performance monitor that tells you which plugin is eating the page load. On client stores I have run at Kinsta it is the first thing I open when the owner says the site feels slow, and it usually points at a plugin before I have to. Most hosts charge for that or do not offer it.
The limits are the usual managed-WordPress ones. No email, no cPanel, no caching plugins, visit-based pricing that bills overages when a post goes viral. At $15 a month for the discounted year it is a bargain; at $30 from month 13 it is a fair price for a site that pays for itself and a silly one for a hobby blog. The WP Engine alternatives roundup compares it with the rest of the tier.
Hosting.com
Hosting.com is 3 brands in one: A2 Hosting, bought by World Host Group in January 2025 and renamed in April; FastComet, bought in April and moved onto the same servers; and Rocket.net, which joined in August and now powers Hosting.com’s managed WordPress plans. If you are searching for an A2 Hosting Black Friday deal, this is where it lives. My Hosting.com review and Rocket.net review cover the two halves.
- Shared Starter: about $2/mo in the first term, 5 sites, 15 GB NVMe, free migration, daily backups
- Shared Pro: 10 sites, 50 GB NVMe, staging, more CPU and RAM
- Top shared tier: 50 sites, 100 GB NVMe, 40 mailboxes, priority support
- Renewal: shared plans renew around $12 to $14/mo
- Last Black Friday: November 3 to December 1, managed WordPress 50% off annual from $7.50/mo, $1 first month on monthly plans
The Turbo plans and the “20x faster” marketing are gone. What replaced them is better: the shared stack still runs LiteSpeed with NVMe, and the managed WordPress tier is Rocket.net’s platform with Cloudflare Enterprise in front of every site, which was the fastest managed host I had tested before the merger. The managed plans at $7.50 a month on the Black Friday annual deal are the value here; the shared plans are ordinary.
The catch is ownership churn. 3 acquisitions in a year means support teams merging and policies changing, and FastComet customers have already seen their renewal promise disappear. Buy the 12-month managed plan, not a 3-year shared plan, until the dust settles.
WPX
WPX is the managed host I ran this site on before ScalaHosting, and I left because of the cost; the hosting itself was fine. Last Black Friday it gave free months instead of a percentage: 4 months free on 1-year plans, up to 24 months free on 5-year plans, and up to 85% off the first month on monthly billing, from November 24 to December 8. The WPX review has the full picture.
- Starter: $17.99/mo or $14.99/mo on the year, 1 site, 10 GB, 100 GB bandwidth
- Business: $29.99/mo or $24.99/mo on the year, 5 sites, 20 GB, 200 GB bandwidth
- Professional: $59.99/mo or $49.99/mo on the year, 15 sites, 40 GB
- Last Black Friday: 4 free months on annual, up to 24 free months on 5-year terms
- Includes: XDN CDN with 43+ edge locations, unlimited free migrations, malware removal, daily backups, 30-day guarantee
The free months are a better deal than almost any percentage on this page because WPX’s price never changes afterward and every plan already includes everything; there are no tiered feature gates. Support is the reason people stay, and the 30-second average response WPX advertises is the promise they are paying for.
The limits are 3 data centers (Chicago, London, Sydney) and nothing in Asia, so an India-first audience is better served by Hostinger’s Mumbai location or a Cloudways server in Bangalore or Singapore. And the storage is tight for the price: 20 GB on Business is less than Hostinger gives you for $4.
WP Engine
WP Engine is the agency standard for managed WordPress, and its Black Friday deal is the same as its year-round promotion: 4 months free when you pay annually. The entry plan is Essential now, from $28 a month; the Startup, Professional and Growth names in older guides are gone. My WP Engine alternatives roundup compares it against Kinsta, WPX and the rest.
- Essential: from $28/mo, 1 site, 25,000 visits, 10 GB, 75 GB bandwidth
- Core and Enterprise: 30 to 50+ sites, custom pricing
- Last Black Friday: 4 months free on annual Essential plans, no code needed
- Includes: EverCache, global CDN, daily backups, staging, Local (free local dev app), Git push, SSH gateway
WP Engine is the most developer-friendly host in this list: Local for development, Git deployment, SSH access, multisite and transferable billing that lets an agency build on its own plan and hand the invoice to the client. If you build sites for other people, that workflow is the deal, and it is the reason I have kept client sites there at $28 a month when cheaper managed hosts existed.
The limits are the ones every managed host has, plus a stricter plugin ban list (no caching plugins, several backup and security plugins) and visit-based overages. The lawsuit with Automattic is still running and makes headlines, but it has changed nothing about how a WP Engine site runs.
GreenGeeks
GreenGeeks is the shared host for people who want the carbon question answered and a LiteSpeed stack at a fair price. It buys renewable energy credits for 3 times what it consumes, which is a real purchase rather than a slogan, and it rebranded in June 2026 with a push into WooCommerce and VPS. Last Black Friday it ran up to 85% off through December 3, with Lite at $1.95 a month on a 12-month term.
- Lite: $2.95/mo on 12 months, renews $13.95/mo, 1 site, 25 GB
- Pro: $4.95/mo on 12 months, renews $18.95/mo, unlimited sites, 50 GB, on-demand backups
- Premium: $8.95/mo on 12 months, renews $30.95/mo, 100 GB, dedicated IP
- Last Black Friday: up to 85% off, Lite $1.95/mo
- Includes: LiteSpeed with LSCache, free domain for a year, free SSL, nightly backups, free migration, 30-day guarantee
The performance is honest shared hosting: LiteSpeed, NVMe, Cloudflare in front. The client sites I have hosted at GreenGeeks were North American small-business sites, and that is where it fits; data centers are in Chicago, Montreal and Amsterdam, so Asia-Pacific readers will feel the distance. The renewal is the thing to look at: Lite goes from $1.95 to $13.95, a 7x jump, and there is no 36-month term to soften it. Pro is the plan to buy if you take GreenGeeks at all, because unlimited sites on 50 GB covers most people for years.
DreamHost
DreamHost has been hosting since 1996 and still gives the longest refund window in the industry: 97 days on shared plans paid by card. Last Black Friday ran up to 83% off with the entry shared plan at $1.99 a month for the first year.
- Web Hosting Launch: $2.89/mo on 12 months, renews $10.99/mo, 25 sites, 25 GB NVMe, 20 mailboxes free for 3 months
- DreamPress: managed WordPress, discounted about a third last season
- Last Black Friday: up to 83% off, Launch $1.99/mo
- Includes: free domain, free SSL, unmetered traffic, automated migration, custom panel instead of cPanel, month-to-month billing option
The plan names changed; Shared Starter and Shared Unlimited are now Web Hosting Launch and the DreamPress tiers. What has not changed is the quietest checkout in the business (no pre-ticked add-ons) and a panel that is simpler than cPanel, which is why DreamHost is the host I recommend to client owners who want to log in and understand things without a call to me. The 97-day guarantee is the real Black Friday feature: you can buy in November, build through February, and still get the money back if it is not working out. It applies to card payments on shared hosting only, and domains and SSL are never refunded.
The catch is the usual 12-month renewal (to $10.99), and the email inclusion is 3 months rather than a year. For a single small site I would still take Hostinger’s 48-month Unlimited over this; for someone who wants a long test period and a sane control panel, DreamHost is the pick.
ScalaHosting
ScalaHosting is where I would send someone who has outgrown shared hosting and does not want to pay cPanel fees on top of a VPS. I ran this site on its managed cloud earlier this year, and the ScalaHosting review records the uptime and the $180 a year I saved against WPX. One correction to older deal lists, including the previous version of this one: the $2 to $3 “Mini” plan is shared hosting, not a VPS. The managed cloud VPS starts at $29.95 and dropped to $14.98 last Black Friday.
- Mini (shared): $2.95/mo, renews $11.95/mo, 1 site, 10 GB NVMe
- Start (shared): $5.95/mo, renews $14.95/mo, unlimited sites, 50 GB NVMe
- Build #1 (managed cloud VPS): $29.95/mo, renews $54.95/mo, dedicated CPU and RAM, SPanel included
- Last Black Friday: October 30 to December 1, shared from $1.48/mo (up to 88% off), managed cloud from $14.98/mo
- Includes: SPanel (its cPanel replacement), SShield security, free SSL, daily backups, free migration
SPanel is the reason this host exists. It does what cPanel does, email and DNS and databases included, without the $15 to $30 a month licence that managed VPS hosts normally pass on to you. The managed cloud at the Black Friday price is the best “real VPS” deal on this page; the shared plans are ordinary and the Mini renews at 4x, which the pricing page prints in very small type.
The limits are no phone support and thin Asia-Pacific coverage, which was part of why I later moved to a Hostinger KVM with an Indian location. If your readers are in the US or Europe, the managed cloud is a strong buy.
InMotion Hosting
InMotion is the US-business host: phone, chat and email support from its own team around the clock, cPanel and a 90-day money-back guarantee that only DreamHost beats. Last Black Friday it discounted shared hosting up to 75% off and WordPress hosting up to 70%, and ran headline cuts up to 97% on the first month of a few products.
- Launch: $4.79/mo on 12 months, renews $14.99/mo, 2 sites, 100 GB NVMe, about 50,000 visits a month
- Power: $5.79/mo on 12 months, renews $18.99/mo, 10 sites, 200 GB NVMe
- Pro: $10.59/mo on 12 months, renews $25.99/mo, 40 sites, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 300 GB NVMe
- Last Black Friday: shared up to 75% off, WordPress up to 70% off
- Includes: free domain, free SSL, BoldGrid builder, UltraStack caching, 90-day guarantee
InMotion’s prices move with the term more than most, so the number you see depends on whether you pick 12, 24 or 36 months, and its renewal multiples (2.3x to 3.4x) are in the normal range. It is also a cPanel shop, which means cPanel’s 2026 licence increase lands in its costs. InMotion is the host I have used for US clients who insisted on phone support, and that is most of the case for it. I would buy it for the support and the 90-day window, and the free domain only comes with a 12, 24 or 36-month term; the price alone is no reason to choose it.
Namecheap
Namecheap is a domain registrar that sells cheap shared hosting on the side, and on Black Friday the two together make the lowest 3-year total on this page. Last year its “Matrix of Deals” ran from November 21 to December 5 with shared hosting up to 80% off (as low as $0.98 a month), EasyWP managed WordPress up to 95% off and domains up to 99% off. The Namecheap hosting review covers the day-to-day experience.
- Stellar: 30-day free trial, then $2.28/mo for the first year, renews $55.88/yr, 3 sites, 20 GB SSD, 30 mailboxes
- Stellar Plus: $2.98/mo first year, renews $85.44/yr, unlimited sites, unmetered SSD, AutoBackup
- Stellar Business: $4.98/mo first year, renews $128.88/yr, 50 GB cloud storage
- Last Black Friday: shared from $0.98/mo, EasyWP up to 95% off, .com domains for a few dollars
- Includes: free domain with yearly plans, free SSL, cPanel, LiteSpeed, 30-day guarantee
Namecheap raised its shared renewal prices on May 19, 2026, so the Stellar renewal is $55.88 a year now against the $48.88 the sibling comparison recorded in August. Even so, $123 for 3 years of Stellar is the cheapest row in the cost table that is not a 4-year lock-in, and for a client who arrives with 3 domains and no site it is the cheapest way I know to put all of it under one login. It is not fast, the support is slower than SiteGround’s, and EasyWP is a separate product with its own renewal. Buy it for the domain bundle and a small site; buy something else for a store.
FastComet
FastComet used to be the host I recommended for renewal-shy buyers, because it did not raise prices at renewal. That promise ended when World Host Group bought FastComet in April 2025 and moved it onto Hosting.com’s servers, and the pricing page now says plainly that the promotional price is for the first term and renews at the regular rate. Last Black Friday ran November 28 to December 1 at up to 85% off, with Starter around $1.34 a month.
- Starter: $1.99/mo, renews $9.95/mo, 1 site, 10 GB NVMe
- Essential: $2.99/mo, renews $12.95/mo, 1 site, 20 GB NVMe
- Plus: $3.99/mo, renews $17.95/mo, unlimited sites, 30 GB NVMe
- Extra: $5.49/mo, renews $24.95/mo, more CPU and RAM
- Last Black Friday: up to 85% off, Starter about $1.34/mo, new customers only
- Includes: cPanel, free migration, daily backups, Cloudflare CDN, malware scanner, 30-day guarantee
What is still good: a tidy cPanel setup with free migrations and daily backups, and prices that undercut Bluehost on every tier. What is not: the refund window shrank from 45 days to 30, the renewal advantage over Hostinger and Namecheap is gone, and the brand is now one of 3 inside the same group with the same support desk. I used FastComet for client sites because of that renewal promise, and I would not sign a client to a 3-year term there today. Buy it on a 12-month term and nothing longer, until its post-acquisition pricing has held still for a year.
How to Choose a Black Friday Hosting Deal
Cheap hosting is easy to find in November. The right cheap hosting depends on what you are building and how long you will keep it. This is how I would route the common cases:
- First website, nothing built yet: Hostinger Unlimited on 48 months is my pick, and Bluehost Business if you want the familiar onboarding. Both are under $4 a month and renew under $17.
- WordPress business site that needs staging and email today: SiteGround GrowBig for the discounted year, with the renewal written in your calendar.
- Store, membership site or spiky traffic: Cloudways on a DigitalOcean server, or Hostinger Cloud Startup if you want one bill and a panel.
- Several client sites: WP Engine for the developer workflow, WPX for the support, Cloudways for the price.
- A site that already earns: Kinsta at 50% off the first year, then decide at month 12 whether $30 a month is still cheaper than the time it saves.
- Outgrown shared hosting: ScalaHosting managed cloud at the Black Friday price, or a Hostinger KVM if you are happy to manage WordPress yourself.
- Lowest total cost for small sites: Namecheap Stellar, and buy the domains in the same cart.
- Readers in India or Southeast Asia: Hostinger (India, Singapore), SiteGround (Singapore), or Cloudways (Bangalore and Singapore on DigitalOcean). Not WPX, not GreenGeeks.
Black Friday vs Cyber Monday Web Hosting Deals
Cyber Monday hosting deals are the same deals. Every host here ran one offer across both days last year and most kept it running into December: SiteGround to December 2, ScalaHosting and Hosting.com to December 1, GreenGeeks to December 3, Namecheap to December 5, WPX and Hostinger to December 8, with Hostinger adding a Cyber Monday week through December 15.
So there is nothing to wait for. If you have decided, buy on the day you decide. The only reason to hold is a host that has not opened its sale yet, and the “at a glance” table above tells you what it offered last time.
Common Mistakes When Buying Hosting on Black Friday
The same few mistakes repeat every November, and all of them cost more than the discount saves.
Buying the Percentage Instead of the Term
A $1.49 plan that renews at $12.99 after a year is more expensive over 3 years than a $2.99 plan on a 36-month term. Hosts know you will compare the first number, so the first number is where the marketing goes. Compare the 3-year total, which is why that table sits near the top of this page.
Buying Before the Site Exists
The term starts at checkout. A 48-month plan bought in November for a site that launches in May has spent 6 of its cheapest months on nothing. Have the domain, the plan for the site and at least a rough content list ready before you pay, or buy a 12-month plan and take the renewal hit later.
Ignoring Where the Server Is
A reader in Delhi hitting a server in Chicago pays about 250 milliseconds of round trip before the server does any work, on every request. Hostinger, SiteGround and Cloudways have Asian locations; WPX and GreenGeeks do not. Pick the data center first and the discount second.
Skipping the Refund Window
Every host here refunds within 30 days, DreamHost within 97 and InMotion within 90. Use the window: install WordPress, load your plugins, run PageSpeed Insights, open a support ticket with a real question. If it feels wrong, move before the window closes.
Over-Buying
A new blog does not need a $35 Kinsta plan and a brochure site does not need Cloudways. Start on Hostinger or SiteGround shared hosting; every host on this list migrates you for free when you outgrow it. Do not spend $420 a year to host 500 visits a month.
Worrying About “Unlimited”
Unlimited bandwidth and unlimited sites always carry a fair-use clause, and it does not matter for most readers. 50 GB of NVMe is roughly 100,000 compressed images; 100 GB of transfer at 2 MB a page is about 50,000 page views a month before caching and a CDN. The limits that bite are CPU, RAM, PHP workers and inodes, and they bite a 100 GB plan and an unlimited plan at the same traffic. Unlimited web hosting in India works through the arithmetic.
What to Do After Buying Hosting on Black Friday
The plan is paid for. These are the steps that get a site live and monitored in an afternoon, in the order I would do them:
- Install WordPress today. Every day the plan sits idle is a day of the discounted term gone.
- Turn on SSL. Every host here includes it; activate it in the panel and set the site URL to https.
- Install 4 plugins, not 20. Rank Math for SEO, LiteSpeed Cache or WP Rocket for caching (pick by hosting stack), UpdraftPlus for off-site backups, and one security plugin.
- Pick a light theme. GeneratePress, Kadence or Astra. Skip the multipurpose themes with 400 demo imports.
- Back up off the server. Host backups are great until the host has the problem. UpdraftPlus to Google Drive or Dropbox costs nothing.
- Point the domain. If the domain lives elsewhere, change its nameservers to the new host; you do not need to transfer the registration. Cloudflare for WordPress shows the DNS setup I use.
- Take a baseline. A free UptimeRobot monitor and a saved PageSpeed Insights result from day one, so you can tell later whether the host got slower or your plugins did.
If you are leaving another host, the migration guide covers the move, and most hosts on this list will do it for you free.
FAQs on Black Friday Hosting Deals
When do Black Friday hosting deals start?
Most hosts open 3 to 4 weeks early and run into December. In 2025 Hostinger started on October 13, ScalaHosting on October 30, Hosting.com on November 3, Kinsta on November 17, Bluehost on November 20, Namecheap on November 21, WPX on November 24 and FastComet on November 28. Black Friday itself falls in the last week of November.
Which is the best Black Friday web hosting deal?
For most people, Hostinger Unlimited on a 48-month term, because the discount applies to the whole term and the renewal ($16.99 a month) is survivable. For a WordPress business site, SiteGround GrowBig for the discounted year. For a site that earns money, Kinsta at 50% off the first year. For a managed VPS, ScalaHosting’s managed cloud at its Black Friday price.
Are Black Friday hosting deals worth it?
Yes, if you buy a multi-year term on a plan you would have bought anyway. A 48-month Hostinger Premium plan at the 2025 Black Friday price was under $95 for 4 years against $527 at renewal rates. A 12-month plan at 85% off is worth far less, because month 13 is full price.
Do hosting prices go up after the first term?
Almost always. Hostinger Premium renews at $10.99 a month, SiteGround StartUp at $17.99, GreenGeeks Lite at $13.95, Namecheap Stellar at $55.88 a year. The exceptions are the monthly-priced hosts (Cloudways, Kinsta, WPX, WP Engine), where the Black Friday deal is a one-time discount or free months and the price afterward is the everyday price. FastComet used to renew at the promotional price; it no longer does.
Does FastComet still renew at the Black Friday price?
No. Since World Host Group bought FastComet in April 2025, its pricing page says the promotional price is for the first term only and renews at the regular rate: Starter at $9.95 a month, Plus at $17.95, Extra at $24.95.
What happened to A2 Hosting?
World Host Group bought A2 Hosting in January 2025 and renamed it Hosting.com in late April 2025. The same group bought FastComet in April 2025 and merged Rocket.net into Hosting.com in August 2025, so Hosting.com’s managed WordPress plans now run on Rocket.net’s platform. A2 Hosting Black Friday deals are listed under the Hosting.com name.
Do I need a coupon code for Black Friday hosting deals?
Usually not. Hostinger, SiteGround, Bluehost, Kinsta, GreenGeeks, DreamHost and Namecheap apply the discount on their sale pages. Cloudways needs the code BFCM5050, and WPX has used a code for its first-month monthly discount. The sale page always shows the code when one is needed.
Is cheap hosting bad for SEO?
Not by itself. Google rewards fast pages, and a $3 LiteSpeed shared plan at Hostinger or SiteGround with a caching plugin and a CDN produces pages that pass Core Web Vitals. What hurts is a server far from your readers, no caching and an overloaded plan. Fix those before paying for a premium host.
Should I buy shared hosting or managed WordPress hosting?
Shared hosting from Hostinger or SiteGround is enough for most sites under about 50,000 visits a month. Move to managed WordPress (Kinsta, WP Engine, WPX) when the site makes money, when you run several sites or when you want someone else to handle updates and incidents. Move to a managed VPS when you need guaranteed CPU and RAM.
Can I move my existing site to a new host during Black Friday?
Yes. WPX, GreenGeeks, InMotion, Hosting.com, FastComet, ScalaHosting and Cloudways migrate sites for free, and the others have one-click migration tools. Buy the new plan during the sale, migrate inside the refund window, and only cancel the old host once the new one has run clean for a couple of weeks.
Can I host several websites on one Black Friday plan?
It depends on the tier. Hostinger Premium allows 3 sites, SiteGround StartUp 1, Bluehost Starter 10, Namecheap Stellar 3. The next tier up (Hostinger Unlimited, SiteGround GrowBig, Bluehost Business, Stellar Plus) allows unlimited or 50 sites for a dollar or two more a month, which is almost always the better buy if you have a second site in mind.
Is it safe to buy from a hosting brand I have not heard of?
Stick with hosts that have run for at least 5 years and publish a refund policy, which every host on this page does. Be careful with resellers that appear in November with 95% off; many are renting Hetzner or OVH servers with no support behind them. Check the company’s founding date, read its terms, and confirm there is a human support channel before paying.
Final Remarks
Black Friday is the best time of year to buy hosting, and the reason is the term you can lock in. Lock a 36 or 48-month plan at Hostinger or Bluehost if the site exists today, take SiteGround’s discounted year with the renewal written down, use Kinsta’s or WPX’s one-time offer if the site already pays for itself, and buy the managed VPS at ScalaHosting if shared hosting has started to show its limits. Then stop reading hosting reviews and build the site, because the difference between a good host and a great one is small and the difference between a launched site and an unlaunched one is everything.
The other seasonal lists live in WordPress Black Friday deals, SEO tools Black Friday deals and WordPress theme deals. I will keep updating the deal lines on this page as the 2026 sales go live. Best of luck.
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