Web hosting for small businesses, without the guesswork

Domain, hosting, email: what each one does

Pick your hosting plan

Need 25 websites or a WordPress store with WooCommerce? See the full cPanel range and all WordPress plans.

Which plan fits your business?

• Salon, clinic or shop with a simple 5 to 10 page site: Starter, or Deluxe if you want SSL included and room for a second site.
• Your site is on WordPress and you’d rather never think about updates: WordPress Basic.
• You get steady traffic, run ads, or have been hacked before: WordPress Deluxe, for daily backups, a CDN and malware removal.
• You manage sites for several locations or brands: Deluxe or Ultimate cPanel.

What makes a small business website load fast

Hosting is only part of speed. In our experience the bigger wins are compressed images, fewer heavy plugins, caching, and a theme built for mobile. Google measures how quickly real visitors see and use your page, so a slow site costs you both rankings and calls.

Web hosting questions owners ask

What is web hosting?

Web hosting is the rented space on a server where your website’s files live, so anyone can open your site at any hour. Your domain name points visitors to that space. Without hosting, a domain has nothing to show.

How much does web hosting cost for a small business?

Basic shared hosting runs about US$3 to US$15 a month; ours starts at US$3.99. Managed WordPress hosting, where updates and backups are handled for you, usually runs US$12 to US$30 a month. Watch renewal prices and what’s included: SSL, backups and malware scanning can add up if they’re extras.

Do I need WordPress hosting or regular hosting?

If your site runs on WordPress and nobody on your team wants to handle updates, choose managed WordPress hosting. If you have a simple site, several small sites, or a developer who prefers cPanel, regular hosting costs less.

What's the difference between a domain and hosting?

The domain is the address (yourbusiness.com). Hosting is where the website lives. You can buy them from different companies and connect them with DNS, but keeping them together makes renewals and support simpler.

Is cheap hosting bad for SEO?

Price alone doesn’t hurt rankings, but a slow or often-down site does. Google measures how fast pages load and respond for real visitors. A small storefront site on decent shared hosting is usually fine; problems come from overloaded servers, no caching and huge images.

Can you move my existing website?

Yes. We can move a site to new hosting, or tell you honestly whether it’s worth moving at all. Ask in the Brutally Honest Review form and mention your current host.

Who runs the servers?

Our hosting, domains and email run on GoDaddy’s infrastructure, with 24/7 technical support from their team. Zolo handles the marketing side: making sure the site is set up to be found, load fast and turn visitors into calls.

Sources: Google Search Central, Core Web Vitals. Zolo prices checked November 2026; they exclude taxes and ICANN fees, and the term you choose at checkout can change the monthly rate.