Every hosting account we test is bought with our own funds at the same retail price as every website owner pays. No provider has given us a free account, an upgraded plan, a review unit, or a login. This page publishes the receipts.
There are 27 billing accounts below, covering the 30 separately monitored hosting plans in our benchmark set. Several accounts carry more than one plan on a single invoice, and one Cloudways account carries several servers.
Why some details aren’t shown
These are the billing history images from each provider’s own customer dashboard. We do not publish the invoice PDFs. Those documents carry our registered company address and payment details, and an invoice number is often enough on its own to pass identity verification with a hosting support desk.
What matters for verification is on screen and unedited: the provider’s own branding and interface, the amounts charged, the dates, and the paid status. If something here looks wrong, tell us. Corrections get made and logged in the changelog.
Accounts at a glance
| Provider | Monitoring since | Plans monitored |
|---|---|---|
| Bluehost | 2022 | 1 |
| ChemiCloud | 2020 | 1 |
| Cloudways | 2020 | 1 |
| DreamHost | 2021 | 2 |
| EasyWP | 2025 | 1 |
| FastComet | 2020 | 1 |
| GoDaddy | 2025 | 2 |
| GreenGeeks | 2020 | 1 |
| HostArmada | 2025 | 1 |
| HostGator | 2022 | 1 |
| Hosting.com | 2020 | 1 |
| Hostinger | 2020 | 2 |
| InMotion Hosting | 2025 | 1 |
| InterServer | 2025 | 1 |
| IONOS | 2025 | 1 |
| Kinsta | 2020 | 1 |
| Liquid Web | 2020 | 1 |
| NameCheap | 2025 | 1 |
| NameHero | 2023 | 1 |
| Pressable | 2025 | 1 |
| Rocket.net | 2020 | 1 |
| ScalaHosting | 2025 | 1 |
| SiteGround | 2020 | 1 |
| Templ | 2021 | 1 |
| WordPress.com | 2025 | 1 |
| WP Engine | 2020 | 1 |
| WPX Hosting | 2021 | 1 |
Invoices by provider
Bluehost
Bought at the advertised intro rate in November 2022 and renewed at full price every term since. Bluehost and HostGator are both Newfold Digital brands, and we pay for them separately and monitor them as separate endpoints.
ChemiCloud
Paid continuously since August 2020, one of 11 hosting accounts dating back to our first year of monitoring. Six years of billing on one account is why the ChemiCloud trend data starts before most current hosting reviews were written.
Cloudways
Our Cloudways account carries several servers, each billed as its own line item: DigitalOcean Standard, DigitalOcean Premium, Vultr, Vultr High Frequency, Linode, and Autonomous. DigitalOcean Standard is the instance in the published benchmark set, monitored since August 2020.
DreamHost
Two products on one account. DreamPress managed WordPress has been monitored since 2021, and DreamHost shared hosting joined the bench in 2025. Both are billed here.
EasyWP
Namecheap’s managed WordPress product, billed on its own invoice and separate from the NameCheap shared hosting account further down this page. The two run on different infrastructure and return different numbers, so we pay for both.
FastComet
Monitored since August 2020. FastComet is one of 11 hosting companies on this page dating to that first year.
GoDaddy
Two GoDaddy products are monitored under this account: standard web hosting and Managed WordPress, both bought at retail in 2025. GoDaddy Managed WordPress is one of the largest affiliate programs in hosting and one of the weakest load test results we have published.
GreenGeeks
On the bench since 2020 and renewed every term since. We pay the renewal rate on this account, not the intro rate, which is why our pricing tables always list both.
HostArmada
Added to the bench on 1 October 2025 on the Start Dock plan at $2.49. One of the newer accounts here, so its data window is shorter than the 2020 cohort and its ranking eligibility is flagged accordingly.
HostGator
Monitored since November 2022. Same parent company as Bluehost, but a separate account on a separate plan, with its own invoice and monitoring endpoint.
Hosting.com
The only account here whose invoices carry two different company names. The early years are billed as A2 Hosting. The company rebranded to Hosting.com in 2025 and the account carried across without a break in service. We publish both sets rather than the current name alone, because showing only the 2025 invoices would hide five years of continuity that the trend data depends on.
Hostinger
Two plans run under this account: Hostinger Premium, monitored since November 2020, and Hostinger Business, added in October 2025. The billing history reaches back to 2020, which makes this one of the oldest accounts on the bench.
InMotion Hosting
Added to the bench on 1 October 2025 on the Core plan at $2.99, and monitored continuously since.
InterServer
InterServer advertises a price lock, meaning the renewal rate should match the signup rate. A running billing history is the only way to test that claim, so this is an account we expect to be citing for several years.
IONOS
Bought at retail in 2025. IONOS returned one of the poorest load test results in our set, and the account stays open and paid for regardless.
Kinsta
Monitored since September 2020 and among the most expensive hosting tests we run. Both the earliest invoices and the current ones are published, covering six years on the same account.
Liquid Web
Liquid Web Managed WordPress, monitored since September 2020 on the platform formerly sold as Nexcess, now folded into Liquid Web. The 2021 invoices and the current ones are both shown.
NameCheap
NameCheap shared hosting, bought and billed separately from the EasyWP managed WordPress account above. Both are monitored as independent endpoints.
NameHero
Bought at retail in 2023 and monitored continuously since.
Pressable
Pressable is Automattic’s managed WordPress platform and one of two Automattic products we pay for. WordPress.com is the other. Both are ordinary retail accounts on published pricing.
Rocket.net
Monitored since October 2020 on the Starter plan at $30 a month, one of the higher recurring costs on the bench. Rocket.net load test returned a 100% error rate and we published that result without qualification because the account is ours.
ScalaHosting
Added to the bench in late 2025 and monitored continuously since purchase.
SiteGround
SiteGround does not appear in our current recommendations, and we still pay for the account every term. A host has to stay on the bench to keep producing data, whether or not it ends up recommended. Six years of billing, published in two parts.
Templ
Held since 2021. Templ is a small managed host that most review sites do not test at all. Keeping a paid account open is the only way to have five years of data on it.
WordPress.com
The plan currently ranked first in our WordPress hosting results, and one of the lower-paying affiliate programs we work with. We pay the same $2.75 a month any other customer pays, at signup and at renewal.
WP Engine
Monitored since September 2020, one of five managed WordPress accounts on the bench dating to 2020, alongside Cloudways, Kinsta, Liquid Web, and Rocket.net. Both the 2020 to 2021 invoices and the 2024 to 2026 invoices are published so the billing history reads end to end rather than as a snapshot.
WPX Hosting
Monitored since March 2021 on the Business plan at $24.99 a month. Paying for the account is what makes that possible, since there is no provider relationship to lose.
What we don’t accept
We do not take free hosting. Every account on this page was opened as an ordinary customer and pays ordinary renewal pricing. We do use affiliate links and earn commission when readers buy through them. The accounts themselves are a cost we carry, and the rankings regularly place lower-commission hosts above higher-commission ones because that is what the data shows.
How these accounts are tested is documented on our methodology page. Individual hosting reviews for these accounts are published separately, each built on its own test data.
