Independent hosting tests · run from India
The price you were quoted is not the price you'll pay.
Hosting ads show the first year. Your business pays for the third. We publish the renewal prices in rupees, check which hosts issue a GST invoice you can actually claim, and record which ones fail on Indian cards at renewal — the reason websites here go dark without warning.
Four times the advertised figure, on a spread hosts publish openly and buyers rarely add up. Run your own numbers →
What we check that global review sites don't
Renewal price index
15 providers checked. Median increase at renewal: 227%. Five publish no renewal price at all. All figures in rupees.
QuarterlyPayment & GST compliance
Who bills in INR, who issues a tax invoice carrying your GSTIN, who takes UPI, and whose auto-renewals survive India's recurring-payment rules.
MonthlySupport benchmark
One identical question, every host, same time of day. Time to first reply, time to a real answer, and whether they told the truth about renewal pricing.
What's published, and what's coming
Publishing status
updated 29 August 2026| Page | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| How we test | The full protocol, so you can check our work | Live |
| Cost calculator | Renewal, GST, input tax credit and forex in one number | Live |
| Renewal payment failed | Why Indian cards decline hosting renewals, and the fix | Live |
| Migrate with no downtime | Moving hosts without the site dropping offline | Live |
| Stop your site expiring | The thirty-minute setup that prevents silent lapses | Live |
| Support benchmark | First round across 15 hosts | In progress |
| Renewal price index | 15 providers, intro vs renewal in rupees | Live |
| Payment & GST compliance | Checkout and billing panel audit | In progress |
| Host reviews | Only once we run a live site on that host | Planned |
| Latency from Indian cities | TTFB from Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai | Planned |
We would rather show you an empty table than a filled one we can't stand behind. Nothing goes up here until it has been measured.
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Two plans, three years, one honest number — renewal jump, GST, input tax credit and the forex markup your bank adds to dollar invoices.
How this works. Every account tested here is paid for and logged, and the figures get published whether or not the host pays us a commission. Where a table is empty, that round is still running.