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The honest catch is the one every budget host shares: the headline price is an introductory rate, and renewals land roughly three times higher, so judge it on the renewal cost, not the sign-up teaser.
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✓ Pricing re-verified 2 Sep 2026
Shared hosting starts at $1.95/mo on the September campaign: ChemiCloud's Back to Build sale runs from 2 September 4:00 AM EST to 30 September 11:59 PM EST and prices Starter, Pro and Turbo at $1.95, $2.95 and $3.49 a month on the 36-month term, or $3.49, $4.49 and $4.95 on 12 months. We read it on changeover day, with the outgoing 10th-birthday sale still on the hosting page behind a countdown of under twelve hours at $1.49, $2.49 and $3.49, so the entry price rises by 46 cents as that clock runs out. What did not move in either sale is the renewal, and that is the number that matters: $11.95, $17.95 and $21.95 a month for Starter, Pro and Turbo.
$11.95, $17.95 or $21.95 a month for Starter, Pro and Turbo. We have read those same three renewal figures in July 2026, in August 2026, on 17 August 2026 and again on 2 September 2026, while the intro price moved three times. Against the September intro of $1.95 that is roughly a sixfold step, so price the second year, not the first.
It is real and it is dated, but it discounts the introductory term only. Our monthly captures had Starter at $2.49 in both July and August; the tenth-birthday sale cut that to $1.49 and ran into the small hours of 2 September, and the Back to Build campaign that replaced it runs to 30 September at $1.95 on the 36-month term. Nothing about the renewal price changed across any of those readings, and the renewal is where the money is.
From $17.95 a month for Kickstart, read on ChemiCloud's reseller page on 2 September 2026 against a $34.95 regular rate; Grow is $19.95 (regular $45.95) and Expand $34.95 (regular $61.95). All three include cPanel and WHM with a free Blesta licence, and Grow upward adds the WHMCS option. Managed cloud VPS starts at $32.95 a month with 2 CPUs, 4 GB RAM and 80 GB NVMe on the Cloud 1 plan.
Judge it on evidence rather than adjectives. Look for a published security page, single sign-on and role controls on the plan you would actually buy (they are often gated to higher tiers), a status page with real incident history, and a clear answer on where your data is stored. If the tool will hold anything sensitive, those four answers matter more than any feature comparison.
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