Short answer (TL;DR)
Zero to twenty dollars per month, depending on traffic. We deploy on Vercel or Netlify, both offering generous free tiers that cover 95 percent of small business websites. Your only ongoing cost is the domain name ($15/year). Compare that to GoDaddy or Bluehost shared hosting at $10-30/month plus hidden fees, slower speeds, and worse security. Modern hosting is literally free, faster, and more secure.
Extended answer
Website hosting pricing in 2026 is one of the areas where the market has shifted dramatically but most businesses haven't updated their mental model yet. Here's the current reality.
What TopWebLA sites cost to host:
Vercel or Netlify Free tier: $0/month. Covers 100 GB bandwidth/month, which is roughly 100,000 pageviews. 95 percent of small business sites never exceed this.
Vercel Pro: $20/month. Only needed if your site exceeds 100 GB bandwidth OR you need multiple team members with edit access. Most clients never need this.
Domain name: ~$15/year ($1.25/month). Registered at Porkbun or Cloudflare Registrar.
SSL certificate: $0. Free via Let's Encrypt, renews automatically every 90 days.
Email on your domain: $0 or $6/user/month. Free options: forward hello@yourbusiness.com to your Gmail. Paid: Google Workspace at $6/user/month for full inbox.
Total monthly for a typical small business: $1.25 to $20.
What traditional hosts charge (GoDaddy, Bluehost, HostGator, etc.):
- Shared hosting: $10-30/month
- WordPress "managed" hosting (WP Engine, Kinsta): $30-150/month
- "Backup" add-on: $5-15/month
- SSL certificate: $50-200/year (even though it should be free)
- Site builder access: $5-20/month
- Email: $6-12/user/month
Typical total: $40-100/month = $500-1,200/year. For a WordPress site, triple it to cover plugin licenses.
Why modern hosting is cheaper AND faster:
Vercel and Netlify run on edge networks (Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront). Your HTML files are served from the data center closest to the user. A client in LA requesting your site gets it from a Los Angeles data center in 50 milliseconds. GoDaddy shared hosting serves the same file from one data center (usually Arizona), hop through 10 network nodes, 400+ ms response time.
Why modern hosting is more secure:
Static sites have essentially zero attack surface. No admin login to brute force, no database to SQL inject, no WordPress plugins with known vulnerabilities. Our clients have never had a hacked site. GoDaddy's own statistics show 30% of WordPress sites on their shared hosting get hacked within 12 months.
If your site grows past the free tier:
Vercel scales automatically. You'll get a notification at 80% of your free tier. Upgrade to $20/month, no site downtime, no migration. If you hit $20/month limits (very rare), the next tier is $150/month for 1 TB bandwidth = roughly 1 million pageviews.
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