The cost of hosting a WordPress site per year depends on various factors, such as traffic numbers, storage capacity, bandwidth, plan you purchase and the country the hosting company is located. The cost can be as low as $10 per month or as high as $5000 per month. New sites spend between $50 and $100 per year for hosting while high traffic sites spend $100 to $5000 for hosting per year.
Small sites are hosted by shared hosting plans while high traffic sites are hosted by Managed WordPress, PS and Dedicated Servers. Low traffic sites receive less than 300,000 page views per month and they are comfortably sustained by Shared Hosting plans. Sites with 500,000-1 million monthly page views are comfortably hosted by VPS servers. Those with over 1 million views per month are hosted by Dedicated Serveers.There is a point a website reaches especially in regard to traffic you can’t squeeze it in Shared Hosting environment, otherwise it will be on and off because of traffic spikes and limited resources.
We are going to list some of the top web hosting providers and how much they charge clients for web hosting services per year:
Hosting price per year for new and low traffic sites
HostGator=$40 to $200
A2 Hosting=$40 to $200
Bluehost=$80 to $300
DreamHost=$40 to $150
Hostinger=$50 to $200
Cloudways=$30 to $300
Kinsta=$250 to $1000
Hosting price per year for high traffic sites
HostGator=$500 to $3000
A2 Hosting=$500 to $6000
Bluehost=$400 to $3000
DreamHost=$800 to $3000
Hostinger=$500 to $3000
Cloudways=$400 to $5000
Kinsta=$400 to $10,000