Pricing guide
How much does website hosting cost?
The right hosting is the one sized to your traffic, not the cheapest or the most expensive one.
If you pay €80 a month to host a brochure website with a few hundred visitors, you are paying too much. If you run an online store on shared hosting costing 200 lei a year, you are paying too little — and you will feel it during the first campaign that brings traffic. The indicative benchmarks for 2026: shared hosting at 100–400 lei a year for small sites, a VPS at €20–80 a month for stores and medium traffic, managed cloud at €50–300 a month for serious applications, to which a CDN and external backups may be added. One cost has disappeared from the list entirely: the SSL certificate, free today through Let's Encrypt — if somebody invoices it separately at €50–100 a year, that tells you something about the rest of the offer. Suitable hosting is not chosen by price but by the traffic and the stakes of your site, and below you will see how to match the two.
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Key takeaways
Shared hosting: 100–400 lei a year
Resources shared with other sites on the same server. Sufficient for brochure sites and blogs with low traffic.
VPS: €20–80 a month
Guaranteed resources and full control. The reasonable tier for online stores and medium-traffic sites; it does, however, require technical administration.
Managed cloud: €50–300 a month
Automatic scaling at traffic peaks, managed backups, monitoring. For applications and platforms where an hour of downtime costs real money.
Extras: CDN and external backup
A CDN from €0 (Cloudflare has a free plan), external backup from a few euros a month. Cheap compared with what losing data or running a slow site costs you.
Signals that you are paying too much — or too little
You are paying too much when: your brochure site sits on a package of tens of euros a month sized for traffic you do not have; you are billed separately for SSL (free through Let's Encrypt for years now), for undefined server optimisation, or for huge storage you never use. The simple check: ask the provider for the monthly traffic and load statistics — if the server sits below 10% utilisation consistently, there is room to step down a tier.
You are paying too little when the symptoms show up on the customer's side: a slow site at peak hours, checkout errors during campaigns, emails landing in spam because the shared IP address is on blocklists. For a store selling €10,000 a month, the gap between shared hosting at 300 lei a year and a VPS at €40 a month is insignificant next to the orders lost in a single peak-season day with the site down. The practical rule: hosting cost should be invisible relative to what the site produces.
Frequently asked questions
Should the agency hold the hosting account, or should my company?
The hosting account is best held by your company, with access granted to the agency — not the other way round. If the relationship with the agency ends badly, an account owned by them means your site and your email are under somebody else's control. The agency can happily administer it; owning the account is a different matter.
What happens if I exceed the resources in my hosting package?
It depends on the provider and it is written in the terms: some throttle the site, some suspend it temporarily, and cloud-model providers bill the extra consumption automatically. Before big marketing campaigns, notify the provider or upgrade temporarily — a planned upgrade costs a few euros, an outage at peak campaign costs the orders.
Is local hosting worth it, or should I pick an international provider?
For a Romanian audience, servers in Romania or Central Europe give very good response times, and support in your own language and time zone is a real practical advantage. International providers win on ecosystem and scaling for complex applications. For an ordinary company website the performance difference is small — the provider's support and seriousness matter more.
Is the backup included with hosting enough?
Do not rely on it alone. The provider's backup usually sits on the same infrastructure as the site — one major incident can take out both — and retention is often only 7–14 days. An automated external backup, with another provider or in a separate cloud, costs a few euros a month and is the insurance policy you appreciate exactly once: when you actually need it.
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