The signup price is the renewal price
Hosting.com's intro tier renews at more than 4x the sticker. Our price never changes. What you sign up at is what you keep paying.
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Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting / InMotion brands) leans on big intro discounts and a long menu of add-ons. WP Tango keeps it simple: one fast platform, everything included, the signup price is the renewal price.
In short
WP Tango is a managed WordPress hosting alternative to Hosting.com. Plans start at $8/month on 12-month billing, with the renewal price matching the signup price for that term, and every plan includes LiteSpeed Enterprise, Redis object caching, unlimited PHP workers, unmetered visitors, staging, SSH and WP-CLI, backups every 4 hours kept 30 days, and free engineer-led migration from Hosting.com, with US engineers in Phoenix, Arizona.
Last updated September 2026
Head to head
WP Tango vs Hosting.com
The features that matter, side by side. Based on each host's published plans and pricing as of 2026.
| Feature | WP Tango | Hosting.com |
|---|---|---|
Starting price Hosting.com Starter: $35.88 paid up front for the first year. | $4/month (12 months) | $2.99/month (12-month prepay) |
Renewal price What you actually pay after the intro term. | Same as signup, forever | $13.99/month |
Month-to-month price | $5/month | $13.99/month |
Money-back guarantee | 30 days | 30 days |
Free site migrations | Engineers do it for you | Included on most plans |
Backups every 4 hours Hosting.com runs daily backups. | ||
Backup retention | 30 days | Varies by plan |
Staging on every plan | Higher tiers only | |
LiteSpeed + Redis caching | Caching plugin based | |
Web Application Firewall (WAF) | Included on every plan | Add-on or higher tier |
Malware scan + auto clean-up | Included | Paid add-on |
Sites per server Lower density = more headroom for your site. | Hard cap, low density | Not published |
WP-CLI, SSH & SFTP on every plan | Higher tiers only | |
Support | US engineers, 24/7 | 24/7 chat & tickets |
Average TTFB (US) Hosting.com figure: hostingstep.com 2025 full-year benchmark (Pingdom, 19 US locations, 525,600 tests). | ~124 ms | 470 ms |
Sourced from Hosting.com's public pricing and documentation. Spot a mistake? Let us know.
The Hosting.com alternative
The reasons people leave Hosting.com for us.
Most of it comes down to honest pricing, real speed, and not having to pay extra for the basics.
Backups every 4 hours, no add-on
Hosting.com runs daily backups. We snapshot every 4 hours and keep them for 30 days, on every plan, restorable in one click.
No paid add-ons for the basics
WAF, malware scan, auto clean-up, staging, SSH and WP-CLI all come standard on every WP Tango plan. With Hosting.com, several of these are extra line items.
Faster server response
Top-tier AMD Ryzen 9950X / Intel 14900K CPUs with LiteSpeed and Redis pre-tuned, low-density servers. Hosting.com's 2025 full-year average TTFB was 470 ms across 19 US Pingdom locations (hostingstep.com). Our own TTFB on wptango.com sits around 124 ms.
Engineers do the migration for you
Both hosts migrate for free, but ours is a dedicated engineer who tests on staging and coordinates the DNS cut with you, not a self-serve plugin you babysit.
Honest, all-in pricing
No teaser rate, no menu of upsells at checkout. One price, everything in the box, same on day 1 and on day 1,000.
Managed WordPress hosting
Plans. Everything included.
Same fast platform, same US engineers, no server work. Pick the size that fits; the renewal price is the signup price.
A bigger pool keeps sites fast as traffic and plugins grow.
Included with Lite
No surprise limits
Unlimited visitors, no bandwidth overage
A busy week does not add a fee to the bill.
No caps on files or inodes
The disk figure is the only storage number to watch.
Free SSL
HTTPS is issued and renewed for every domain you add.
Emails from the site are delivered
Form and order mail goes out through SMTP2GO, free up to 2,000 a month.
Add teammates without sharing your password
Scoped logins for developers, designers and clients.
The price you start at is the price you renew at
Renewal uses the same rate, not a first-term teaser.
Automatic WordPress updates
Core updates are applied and checked for you.
Stays fast
LiteSpeed Enterprise and page cache
Built pages are cached and delivered quickly, tuned for WordPress.
Redis, so the store and logged-in pages stay quick
In-memory caching for carts, dashboards and dynamic queries.
Switch PHP versions with one click
Run a different PHP version per site, changed from the panel.
FlyingPress is included
The performance plugin is licensed and set up, at no extra cost.
Store ready
WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads run without special settings.
One click into wp-admin
Open the dashboard from the panel, without a second password.
A tuned database, so queries stay quick
The database is set up for WordPress workloads, not a generic default.
Safe to change
Try changes on a copy of the site first
Staging mirrors the live site, so you can test before pushing.
SSH, SFTP, and WP-CLI for your developer
Full command line access on every plan.
Your site is isolated from other sites
Your files and database sit in their own account space.
See errors as they happen
Site and PHP errors surface in the panel as they occur.
Locked down
Login attacks are blocked
Repeated bad sign-in attempts are stopped automatically.
Two-factor login on your account
Add a second step to your own sign-in.
DDoS protection is included
Volumetric traffic is filtered before it reaches your site.
Switching from Hosting.com, made simple.
What our migrations team gets asked most often.