How much does web hosting cost?Plans, total cost over 24 months and extra costs

Published on November 14, 2026

How much does web hosting cost at MainHoster.de?

There are four plans that differ in storage, assignable domains and databases. The feature set is the same in all of them: Plesk as the control panel, a free SSL certificate, WordPress Toolkit, the website builder at no extra cost, NVMe SSD storage and servers in Germany. The price is per month and stays the same from the first month on.

Mail storage and mailboxes are counted separately from web storage - a full mailbox never takes space away from your website. All specifications in detail are on the web hosting page.

Which plan suits which project?

Plan S is enough for a classic club or business site with a few dozen pages. Even with WordPress and plenty of images, a site like that rarely takes up more than one or two gigabytes. With two assignable domains you can, for example, run the .de and the .com address side by side.

Plan M is our recommendation for most projects: a WordPress blog with a growing media library, a small shop or two or three sites side by side have enough room here. Ten databases mean ten possible CMS installations, because every WordPress instance uses exactly one.

Plan L pays off as soon as the number of projects becomes the bottleneck rather than storage: domains and subdomains are unlimited here. Plan XL is aimed at everyone who looks after sites for others - with 40 databases and 80 mailboxes.

How much storage a site actually uses is usually less than expected. Concrete figures are in How much web space do I need?. And because you can upgrade at any time in the customer interface, it makes sense to start small.

What does web hosting really cost over 24 months?

Many web hosts advertise a heavily reduced price for the first months and tie it to a minimum term of twelve or twenty-four months. After that the regular price applies, which is often several times higher. For a fair comparison, always calculate the total over 24 months at the regular price - not the figure on the banner.

With us that calculation is simple, because there is no promotional price that changes later:

The column with domain adds two annual fees for a .de domain (currently €6.49 per year). Which criteria matter besides price, from backups to the control panel, is covered in Compare web hosting providers.

Which extra costs come on top?

• Domain: Without a domain your web space is not publicly reachable. It is billed separately per year and the price depends on the extension - details in How much does a domain cost?. A domain registered with another provider can simply be pointed to your web space.
• Setup: There is no setup fee. Your web space is provisioned automatically after ordering.
• SSL certificate: Free via Let's Encrypt, enabled in Plesk with a few clicks - see setting up SSL.
• Email: Mailboxes are included in the plan, you do not need a separate mail package.
• Payment method: Almost every way to top up is free of charge. The one exception is listed transparently under payment methods.
• Backups: They cost no money, but a little attention - we do not create automatic backups. With the Plesk backup manager you back up files, databases and mailboxes yourself, see creating a backup.

You will not find a tax note on our prices, by the way: the amount shown is the amount you pay.

How is prepaid web hosting billed?

You top up credit in your customer account and pay for the web hosting from it for the chosen period - 30, 90 or 360 days. There is no minimum term and no notice period. If you want to continue, you extend in time from your credit - or switch on the optional automatic renewal described under payment methods. If you want to stop, you simply let the web hosting expire.

An expired web hosting plan is not deleted immediately, only after a grace period. Still, back up your data beforehand if you do not want to extend.

If your project grows, you switch to a larger plan yourself in the customer interface - no ticket needed.

When is a VPS the better choice?

Web hosting is made for websites: we run the server, you take care of the content. As soon as you need your own software that does not fit a classic PHP environment - a Node.js service, Docker containers or a game server, for example - a VPS is the right route. You get root access there, but you also handle updates and security yourself.

Price-wise the two are close, the effort is not. The trade-off in detail is in Web hosting or VPS?; the VPS plans are on the VPS page.

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