We automate most processes — control panel provisioning happens within seconds of payment. We offer a single plan with realistic limits, which keeps our servers running optimally. Less overhead means lower prices for you.
We've been running web hosts since 1996 and every one of our businesses is still running profitably with many happy subscribers. We guarantee 99.99% uptime and perform daily backups. Our servers are never oversold.
Yes! Softaculous lets you install WordPress with one click. It requires about 23MB of disk space, leaving you plenty of room for themes, images, and content within your 197MB plan.
No catch — just realistic limits. We offer 197MB SSD storage and 9700MB bandwidth, which is plenty for most business and personal websites. Need unlimited? We're honestly the wrong host for you.
Yes! We accept PayPal plus popular cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Dash, Ethereum, Ripple, and more.
At 97 cents a month, we're confident you'll be happy. If you have any issues, open a ticket and we'll sort it out. Your satisfaction matters to us.
Yes. We accept Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Dash, Ripple (XRP), and several other cryptocurrencies. You can also pay with PayPal if you prefer traditional payment methods. No credit card required — perfect if you want to host anonymously or simply don't want to hand over card details.
By keeping things simple. We offer one plan with realistic limits — 197MB SSD storage and 9,700MB bandwidth — which means our servers run efficiently and we don't need to charge more. We automate provisioning, we don't oversell, and we don't have flashy marketing campaigns or expensive affiliate payouts to fund. The result is genuine web hosting for under $1 a month, with no renewal price hikes or hidden fees. You can also pay $9.70 annually and effectively get two months free.
Absolutely. Your plan includes one hosted domain — you bring the domain name and point it to our nameservers. You can register a domain through any registrar (Namecheap, Porkbun, Cloudflare, etc.) and use it with your 97cents.net hosting account. You also get 10 email addresses on your domain, so you can have you@yourdomain.com.
For the vast majority of websites, yes. A standard WordPress install takes about 23MB. A typical business website with a few pages and images might use 10–50MB. Even a blog with years of content and optimised images rarely exceeds 100MB. The sites that need more are typically those hosting large files, video, audio, or thousands of high-resolution images — and if that's you, our sister host Watt Hosting offers larger plans.
Your plan includes 9,700MB (about 9.7GB) of bandwidth per month. For a typical small business website or blog getting a few hundred visitors a day, this is more than enough — a site may only use 500MB to 2GB per month. If you suddenly get a traffic spike from social media or a viral post, Cloudflare's free CDN absorbs much of the load and reduces your bandwidth usage. For high-traffic sites consistently pulling 10GB+ per month, Watt Hosting has larger plans.
Yes — your plan includes 10 email addresses on your own domain (e.g., you@yourdomain.com, info@yourdomain.com). Each email account has webmail access, plus you can connect via IMAP/POP3 using your preferred email app (Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, or your phone's mail app). Spam filtering is included. This alone is worth more than 97 cents a month with most providers.
Yes, hosting a small business website is exactly what 97cents.net is built for. Whether your site is built with WordPress, a static HTML template, or a simple one-page portfolio, it'll run fast on our SSD servers. A typical small business site — home, about, services, contact, maybe a blog — uses 10–50MB of disk space, well within your 197MB plan. You get a professional email address, daily backups, and 99.99% uptime. For 97 cents a month, it's the most affordable way to keep your business online.
Our servers use SSD RAID storage, which means fast read/write speeds and data redundancy. Pages load quickly because we don't oversell our servers — we keep account densities low so every site gets the resources it needs. Your plan also works with Cloudflare's free CDN, which caches your site at 43+ locations worldwide for even faster loading. Most sites will see load times under 2 seconds with cached pages loading in under 1 second. For a $0.97/month host, the performance is genuinely impressive.
If your site grows beyond 197MB of storage or 9,700MB of bandwidth, we'll let you know — we monitor server usage and send a friendly notification if you're approaching your limits. You have two options: optimise your site (compress images, clean up old files, remove unused themes/plugins) or upgrade to our sister host, Watt Hosting, which offers larger plans with more storage, bandwidth, and features. We'd never just suspend your account without warning.
No technical experience needed. After payment, your control panel account is created automatically within seconds. From there, Softaculous lets you install WordPress or 450+ other apps with a single click — no manual database setup, no file uploading, no coding. If you can use a web browser, you can set up your hosting. And if you get stuck, open a ticket and we'll help.
Yes — you choose your data centre at signup. We have a US data centre in Las Vegas, Nevada (great for visitors in North and South America) and an EU data centre in Luxembourg (ideal for European visitors, with strong privacy and free speech protections). Both locations work with free Cloudflare CDN, so even if you pick the wrong one, your site will still load fast worldwide.
Cloudflare offers a free CDN that speeds up your site for visitors worldwide. Setting it up takes about 5 minutes:
If you need help with the setup, open a ticket and we'll walk you through it step by step.