Hosting data quality
The missing figure in this category is not a detail — it is the price. A host that discounts the first term and will not publish the second is asking to be compared on a number it knows you stop paying.
· Prices read in USD
Who says what it renews at
Three states, and the middle one is easy to miss: publishing a renewal price, saying outright that there is no discount, and discounting while staying quiet. The last is the one worth knowing about.
Namecheap advertises a first-term discount and does not publish the price that follows it. The column is empty here because the host leaves it empty, not because it was not looked for.
Ultahost publishes what its plans renew at, so both figures are on the table above.
HostGator advertises a first-term discount and does not publish the price that follows it. The column is empty here because the host leaves it empty, not because it was not looked for.
Pressable publishes what its plans renew at, so both figures are on the table above.
What each host publishes
A tick means the host states it somewhere we can read. A dash means it does not. A host that states none of these is not worse than one that states all of them — it is less legible, and that is worth knowing before you compare them.
Missing on purpose
Crazy Domains is not on this page. Its plan cards render a placeholder and wait for prices that never arrive for us, and after a few attempts the site refuses the request outright. A price that cannot be read is not a price worth publishing, so it stays out until that changes rather than going in with a guess.
How the data is collected
Each host is read once a day from its own public pricing page. Structured figures are extracted; prose is carried across word for word. Prices are never converted between currencies — a figure read in the wrong one is thrown away rather than divided by a rate nobody can check later. When a host cannot be reached, its previous prices are kept and marked, never quietly withdrawn.