The renewal is not a surprise
Bluehost's entry plan is $3.99/mo on a 36-month prepay of $143.64, then renews at $9.99/mo. Business goes from $6.99 to $13.99. Our $7/mo is the signup price and the renewal price.
Bluehost advertises a few dollars a month, on a three-year prepayment, on shared servers with a lot of neighbours, and then renews at more than double. WP Tango charges $7/mo, keeps it there, and puts far fewer sites on much faster hardware.
The features that matter, side by side. Based on each host's published plans and pricing as of 2026.
| Feature | WP Tango | Bluehost |
|---|---|---|
Starting price Bluehost's $3.99/mo Starter rate requires a 36-month prepayment. | $7/mo | $3.99/mo intro |
Renewal price Published Bluehost renewal rates, September 2026. | Same as signup, forever | $9.99/mo and up |
Monthly billing available | Term prepay for the advertised rate | |
Money-back guarantee | 30 days | 30 days |
Free site migrations | Engineer-led | Self-service plugin |
Backups every 4 hours | ||
Backup retention | 30 days | Add-on on most plans |
Hosting type | Managed, low-density servers | Shared, high-density servers |
LiteSpeed + Redis caching | ||
Staging on every plan | Higher tiers | |
SSH, WP-CLI and SFTP on every plan | Limited | |
Visitor limits | Unmetered | Fair-use CPU throttling |
Support | US engineers, 24/7 | 24/7 chat and phone |
Sourced from Bluehost's public pricing and documentation. Spot a mistake? Let us know.
Most of it comes down to honest pricing, real speed, and not having to pay extra for the basics.
Bluehost's entry plan is $3.99/mo on a 36-month prepay of $143.64, then renews at $9.99/mo. Business goes from $6.99 to $13.99. Our $7/mo is the signup price and the renewal price.
Shared hosting economics depend on packing many accounts per machine. We deliberately run far fewer sites per server on AMD Ryzen 9950X and Intel 14900K hardware, which is why admin stays responsive at 3pm.
LiteSpeed Enterprise and Redis object caching are configured for WordPress before you log in, with Cloudflare at the edge. No plugin stack to assemble and tune yourself.
On Bluehost, real backup coverage is typically an add-on. We snapshot every 4 hours, keep 30 days, and restore for you if something goes wrong.
Migrations are done by our US engineers, on staging, verified before DNS moves. You are not running a migration plugin at midnight and hoping.
Same fast platform, same US engineers, no server work. Pick the size that fits; the renewal price is the signup price.
What our migrations team gets asked most often.