Black Friday hosting deals 2026

What to expect this year

ScalaHosting already labels a price Black Friday. Its Build #1 (General Purpose, 2 CPU cores, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe, SPanel) was $269.52 for the first year, then $659.40 a year when we read its page on 26 Oct 2026. Its page gave no start or end date.

Hosting.com dates part of one discount. Its own price data dates one part of the Managed cPanel 4GB discount 16 Sep 2026 to 31 Dec 2026, with no time zone; it gives no end date for the rest. We read it on 26 Oct 2026.

The other 10 hosts in these tables stated no sale dates on the pages we read. In 2025, a Black Friday label alone did not tell you whether a price fell: one host we checked cut its price for the sale and another kept the price it had in October (the two checks). So keep this page's first and renewal bills beside any sale price you see.

Prices to beat from our own records

We have tracked these plans since before this season, so a Black Friday price can be set against the lowest we have recorded.

• Hostinger KVM 1 on a 2-year term: $6.49 a month when we read it on 26 Oct 2026. In our records, which start on 25 Jul 2026, it has never been lower, so a price under $6.49 a month for this plan and term would be a real cut.
• DigitalOcean 512 MiB Basic Droplet: $4.00 a month when we read it on 26 Oct 2026. In our records, which start on 25 Jul 2026, it has never been lower, so a price under $4.00 a month for this plan and term would be a real cut.

Were the 2025 deals real?

We checked two of the 2025 Black Friday hosting prices on the hosts' own pages, as archived before and during the sale. One was a real cut and one was the usual price.

• InMotion Hosting Launch, 1-year term: the first bill was $57.48 on 27 Oct 2025 and $57.48 on 28 Nov 2025, the same price; it renewed at $14.99 a month. In 2026: $57.48 for the first year, then $179.88 a year (read 26 Oct 2026).
• ScalaHosting Mini, 1-year term: the first bill was $35.40 on 11 Oct 2025 and $17.76 on 13 Nov 2025, a cut of $17.64; it renewed at $10.95 a month. In 2026: $35.40 for the first year, then $143.40 a year (read 26 Oct 2026).

Two plans are not a rule. They show why a sale price means little without the price from before the sale beside it, which is what the tables above give you for 2026.

Before you buy

1. Compare the renewal bill, not the first one. In these tables the renewal bill for the same plan and term runs from 1.8 times the first bill (Hostinger KVM 1) to 15 times (ChemiCloud's Tiny: $1.00 for the first month, then $15.00 a month).
2. Check the term behind a monthly price. Hosting.com's Starter Plan at $1.99 a month is one bill of $95.49 for 4 years, paid upfront. Read the refund policy before you pay for years at once.
3. A free domain is usually for the first year. At HostPapa, Hosting.com and ChemiCloud, the domain's renewal is billed on top of the hosting renewal.
4. Add tax. Every bill here is the listed price before any tax and optional extras; the checkout total depends on where you live.
5. Moving a site? 12 of these 19 plans list migration among what is included. Ask what it covers, such as email and databases, before you rely on it.
6. On a VPS, price the whole bill. A public IPv4 address and transfer past the allowance can be billed on top of the plan price; the VPS comparison adds them for you.

How we read these prices

• From the host's own page: each price comes from the host's own pricing page, read on 26 Oct 2026; the date is in each row. A host can change a price after we read it.
• First and renewal bills: the first bill is what the page asks for the plan and term shown. The renewal bill is the price it states for the same plan and term once the first term ends. Where a host states only a monthly rate, the bill is that rate times the months in the term.
• Over three years: the first bill plus renewals at today's listed renewal price, counting whole bills only. A plan sold in 2- or 4-year terms is shown over four years. Hosts can change renewal prices, so treat this as today's price list carried forward, not a quote.
• Currency: DigitalOcean, GreenGeeks, HostArmada, ScalaHosting and Verpex show a dollar sign without naming the currency on the pages we read; the other hosts state US dollars.
• Hosts not in the tables: we could not read a complete first and renewal price for Bluehost, Cloudways, Database Mart, FastComet, InterServer, IONOS, Liquid Web, SiteGround, WordPress.com and WP Engine, so they are left out rather than guessed. Ultahost showed us prices in another currency only, so it is not in the dollar tables.
• Black Friday 2025 offers: named as the deal lists of HostScore, DoinDigital and Website Planet reported them and credited to each, without the prices they quoted. The only 2025 prices on this page are the two checks above, from the hosts' own pages as archived by the Internet Archive.
• Money: none of these hosts pays us for a link or a sale, and none has given us a discount code, so none is listed. The links go straight to each host's price page. How we make money.