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Current VPS, cloud and shared hosting prices, checked against each provider’s own pricing page and dated. Real 12-month cost, renewals and hidden fees included.
Verisign raises the .com registry wholesale fee from $10.26 to $10.97 on 1 November 2026 at 04:00 UTC, which is about $0.73 on a Porkbun renewal. The larger number is the registrar spread: $11.08 against $18.48 for the same domain. What renewing early actually saves, with every figure read from Verisign, ICANN, Porkbun, Namecheap and Cloudflare.
Every dated 2026 price change for VPS and cloud, object storage, transactional email, DNS, .com and .net domains and LLM APIs in one table: the vendor’s old and new figure, the effective date, who is affected and the cheapest way around. Thirteen dated notices from eleven vendors, one undated change at Contabo, plus the six dates still ahead.
Google’s pricing page dates the Gemini 3.8, 3.7 and 3.6 Flash rates: $0.75 in and $3.75 out per million tokens through 31 December 2026, $1.50 and $7.50 from 1 January 2027, on every service tier. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol promo ($4 in, $20 out) is guaranteed at least to 21 November 2026. What that does to a 100, 1,000 and 10,000-call-a-day workflow, and the three moves the pages themselves allow.
From 1 October 2026 OVHcloud bills local NVMe (about EUR 0.11 per GB a month) and public IPv4 (EUR 1.97 a month) separately on B3, C3 and R3 instances. Same configuration costs 1.4% to 21.9% more; b3-8 goes from EUR 37 to EUR 45. Who is affected, the two levers that cut it, and the 2026 price ledger for Hetzner, netcup, Scaleway and OVHcloud.
Since 21 July 2026 a new Amazon SES account defaults to the Essentials plan at $0.16 per 1,000 emails, 60% above the $0.10 a la carte rate that still exists. The SES free tier is gone for new customers. What changed, who it applies to, what it costs by volume, and the console step that takes effect immediately.
KEY FINDING. Everything a WordPress site needs that is not the server costs somewhere between $13.48 and $474.08 a year for the same one site at the same traffic. That is a 35.2x spread, and it is not a quality gap. Five of the seven line items have a free tier that is genuinely sufficient … Read more
Managed WordPress hosting is sold three ways on three different price curves. Set the server size, the number of sites and the bandwidth, and this calculator prices each shape from published list prices.
DigitalOcean has no managed Droplet tier. Managed DigitalOcean means either a reseller like Cloudways or a control panel on a Droplet you own. Full prices, checked 5 September 2026.
On Cloudways, DigitalOcean is $3 to $11 a month cheaper than Vultr at every size, and Cloudways marks Vultr up harder. Vultr’s case is 32 locations against 10. Prices checked 5 September 2026.
Cloudways Premium costs $3 to $11 more per month than Standard on DigitalOcean. In DigitalOcean’s own words, that buys NVMe SSDs and a guaranteed newer CPU generation. Prices checked 5 September 2026.