You can pay for hosting monthly, annually, or for several years at once. Annual and longer cycles get discounts; monthly is more flexible. Pick what fits your situation.
Available cycles
Most hosting plans offer:
- Monthly — full price each month, easy to cancel.
- Quarterly (every 3 months) — small discount.
- Semi-annually (every 6 months) — moderate discount.
- Annually — largest discount, typical 15-25% off vs monthly.
- Biennially (2 years) and Triennially (3 years) — additional discount.
The exact discount per cycle is shown on the order form when you pick a plan.
Domain renewals follow registry-set durations (typically 1-10 years).
Pros of monthly
- Flexibility — cancel any time without forfeiting much.
- Try before committing — useful if you're not sure the plan fits.
- Smaller upfront cost — pay $10/month rather than $100/year.
Pros of annual+
- Lower per-month cost — typical savings 15-25% vs monthly.
- Less invoice handling — one bill per year, not 12.
- Lock in price — if our pricing changes, you pay your locked rate until renewal.
- Free domain bundles often require annual.
For most users who plan to keep their hosting more than a few months, annual is the better deal.
Switching cycles
You can switch a service's billing cycle at the next renewal:
- Open a ticket with billing.
- Tell us which service and the cycle you want.
- We update the renewal terms.
Or as part of an upgrade — when you upgrade a plan, the order form lets you pick a new cycle for the new plan.
Mid-cycle changes
If you're on monthly and want to switch to annual mid-cycle, we can prorate. Open a ticket; the math is roughly:
- We credit the unused portion of your current monthly cycle.
- We charge for the annual at the discounted rate.
- The difference is what hits your card today.
Annual + auto-renew
If you have annual billing with auto-renew, we charge the annual amount once a year. No surprises:
- You'll get a renewal-reminder email 30 days before.
- Auto-charge happens on the renewal date.
- Your service runs another year.
You can change the cycle at the renewal point (open a ticket before the renewal).
Cancelling on annual
If you cancel partway through an annual cycle, our anytime money-back guarantee refunds the unused whole months left on your term. We count the complete months remaining after the one currently in progress; that partial month isn't refunded.
On shared and WordPress plans there's also a full-refund window: cancel within 30 days of the initial annual purchase and the entire amount refunds. After that, the unused-whole-months refund is what applies.
If you'd rather use the time you've paid for, set the cancellation to "End of billing period" — the service runs out the rest of your prepaid year and doesn't renew.
Can I pay more than 3 years upfront?
For some plans, yes — biennial (2 years) and triennial (3 years) cycles are available on the order form.
For longer (5 years, 10 years), open a ticket with billing. Custom multi-year contracts are available for enterprise customers; we'll quote pricing.
Power-user note
For frequently-changing plans (you're growing fast and might upgrade soon), monthly is sometimes better despite the higher per-month cost — it's easier to upgrade without prorating math, and you don't have prepaid time on a plan you've outgrown.
For stable plans where you know what you need, annual or longer is the clear winner economically.