DohoHub is an independent monitor for hosting and domain prices. We read the numbers straight off the providers’ own pages every 6 hours, measure uptime ourselves, keep a 12-month price history — and put it all in one place, in your currency. No sponsored “top 10”. No rankings for sale.
Not by accident, and not because it’s hard. A market where nobody can compare cleanly is a market where the cheapest option doesn’t automatically win — and three habits keep it that way.
A $2.99 promo quietly becomes $11.99 on renewal. The teaser rate is on the billboard; the real one is three clicks deep, in a table nobody reads. We track both — the first price and the renewal price — on every plan.
One host sells “2 vCPU / 4 GB”, another “2 cores / 4096 MB NVMe”, a third quotes bandwidth in TB and a fourth in Mbps. Comparing them by hand is an afternoon of tabs. We normalize the specs so the columns actually match.
Most hosting rankings are ad inventory: the highest bidder is number one, and the review was written to justify it. Position here is computed from live price, monitored uptime and community reviews — a slot is not for sale.
So DohoHub does the boring part for you: it collects the real numbers, refreshes them on a schedule, stores what they used to be, and shows every provider by the same yardstick. We’d rather be the site that tells you a cheaper host exists than the site that got paid not to. Right now that means 13 providers across 7 countries, monitored continuously.
“Where should I host this, and what will it really cost me?” — every part of the site exists to answer some version of that.
Hundreds of hosting companies, filterable by country, service type, price and rating — each with a full profile page.
“A vs B” pages built from live data: price, renewal, datacenters, NVMe, backups, CDN, support and uptime, side by side.
Search servers the way you actually think: CPU, RAM, storage, location and a budget — in your own currency.
Check a name across 424+ extensions at once, then register it with whoever is genuinely the cheapest.
ICANN accreditation, WHOIS privacy, DNS features, transfer fees — and a per-TLD price table for every registrar.
Real, checked promo codes and limited-time offers — with click-to-copy, not a wall of dead coupons.
Subscribe and get an email the moment a tracked price falls. The cheapest moment to buy finds you.
Outages, acquisitions, price changes and launches across the hosting and domain industry.
GPU servers, model hosting and agent platforms — the corner of the market that changes fastest.
Every provider, plan, price, uptime figure and deal as JSON — a paid plan for the tools and teams that build on our data.
No press releases, no submitted spreadsheets, no “data partner”. Four stages, all automated, all repeated on a schedule.
Every 6 hours we go to the provider’s own pricing page and read the current number — static HTML via XPath/CSS selectors, a JSON API when there is one, and a headless browser when the price is rendered in JavaScript. Prices split across several elements are reassembled. No manual entry, so nothing goes stale.
Specs are mapped onto one schema (CPU, RAM, disk, bandwidth, location) and every price is converted to a USD base with FX rates refreshed daily — then shown back in 10 currencies, in the money you actually pay with.
Provider endpoints are pinged continuously — that’s where the public 30-day uptime and response-time figures come from, ours rather than theirs. Every price change is written to a 12-month history, so a “discount” can be checked against what the plan cost last month.
The result feeds the catalog, the comparison tables, the Smart Filter, the deals feed, the price-drop digest and our data API — the same numbers everywhere, all timestamped.
The short version: the cheapest plan wins the price column, the best uptime wins the reliability column, and no cheque changes either one.
Someone always pays for a “free” comparison site. Here is exactly who pays us, for what — and what that money explicitly cannot buy.
When you click “Visit site” and later buy, some providers pay us a commission. It costs you nothing, and it is the main way the project pays for its servers.
A provider can pay a one-off review fee for a verified badge — we check that the company is who it claims to be, that the entity exists and that the contacts are real.
Providers can pay for visibility: a homepage showcase card or a boosted slot. Every one of those placements is clearly labelled as promoted.
Reading the website is free. But teams that want the data programmatically — every provider, plan, price, uptime figure and deal as JSON — subscribe to a paid API plan: a key, 10,000 requests a day and CSV/JSON export, at $29/mo. Price-comparison tools, researchers and developers are the customers.
They’re not a mission statement to hang on a wall. They’re the reason you can act on what you read here.
Rankings, ratings and comparison results are computed from live numbers. There is no price list for a better position, and there never will be.
How we collect prices, how we rank, how we earn — all of it is on this page, in plain words. If we ever start doing something differently, this page changes first.
A stale price hurts a buyer and a provider equally. Report one and we fix the selector, usually the same day — no arguing about whose fault it was.
Promoted, sponsored and affiliate: if money touched it, it says so on the surface — not in a footnote at the bottom of a legal page.
DohoHub is not owned by, funded by, or operated on behalf of any hosting company or registrar. That is the entire reason the numbers are worth reading.
Every price on the site links back to the provider’s own page, so any number can be checked at its source — and the full dataset is available through our API. The arithmetic isn’t a black box.
Buyers, the companies they’re buying from, and everyone who wants the raw data behind it.
No investors to please, no parent company to protect, no sales team deciding what gets written.
DohoHub is built and run by a small, self-funded team of engineers and sysadmins — people who have spent enough years migrating servers at 2 a.m. to be genuinely annoyed by a market where the advertised price and the real price are different numbers.
We are not owned, funded or operated by any hosting company or registrar, and we don’t resell hosting ourselves. There is no “house provider” quietly getting the benefit of the doubt — if one shows up in first place, it’s because the data put it there.
The platform is a custom PHP application with a price scraper, an uptime pinger and a REST API behind it. It’s deliberately boring technology, run by the same people who read the error logs.
A stale price is a bug, and we treat it like one: tell us which plan and where you saw it, and we fix the source — usually the same day. Providers can point us at the exact element on their pricing page, and we’ll read the price from there.
Same goes for a listing that shouldn’t be here at all: ask, and we delist you. No retention flow.
Report a problem arrow_forwardNew providers and registrars are added continuously — including the regional hosts the big directories ignore.
Longer price trends and clearer “is this discount real?” answers on every plan.
More endpoints, richer filters and clearer plans for the teams building on our data.
Buyers, providers, journalists, developers — same inbox, same people. We answer everything that isn’t an SEO backlink pitch.
Or email us directly — contact@dohohub.com