A platform
If your team lives in its dashboard and pays in dollars anyway.
Compare WordPress hosting
Managed WordPress hosting: platform, shared, or ZenoCloud?
Dollar platforms tiered by visits, cheap shared plans, or a site looked after by our desk from ₹2,499 a month.
Market figures checked 12 Oct 2026, excluding tax.
Businesses we’ve hosted and supported since 2009
What you are comparing.
Platforms tier plans by sites, visits and storage. Shared hosting is cheap on prepay and 2.6 to 4.5 times more at renewal. ZenoCloud: ₹2,499 ($29) a site, cPanel, a 24/7 desk.
Side by side
What each one gives you.
| Compare on | Managed WordPress platforms Plans tiered by sites, visits and storage, on their own dashboard | Shared hosting Many sites on one server, sold on prepay | ZenoCloud Managed WordPress cPanel sites on servers we run |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price for one site | $25–35 a month, or $21–30 a month billed yearly, plus tax (four platforms, 12 Oct 2026) | ₹69–599 a month on a 3- to 4-year prepay (two India hosts, 12 Oct 2026) | ₹2,499 ($29) a month, taxes extra |
| At renewal | Not stated on the pages we read | ₹289–1,599 a month listed: 2.6 to 4.5 times the promo | The same price |
| What sizes the plan | Sites, monthly visits (25,000–75,000 at entry) and 10–20 GB storage; overage $1–1.20 per 1,000 visits where stated | A shared slice of CPU, memory and disk | Per site: up to 2 cores, 4 GB and 20 GB NVMe. Priced per site, not per visit |
| Control panel | Their own dashboard | The host’s panel | cPanel and WP Toolkit |
| Extra sites | $20–30 a site a month | Depends on the plan | ₹2,499 a site; partner pricing for agencies |
| Who answers | The platform’s desk, 24/7 on all four checked | The host’s desk | Our 24/7 desk, the engineers who run the server; P1 response under 15 minutes for platform incidents |
| Plugin and theme updates | Automation was a paid add-on on one entry plan checked | You | You, with Smart Update tested on a copy; or weekly by us with WordPress Care (₹999) |
| Backups | Daily or nightly where stated (two of four) | Not stated on the pages we read | Nightly, restore tested monthly |
| Malware | Not stated on the pages we read | Not stated on the pages we read | Known malware cleaned automatically; a person for ₹4,999 an incident, free with Care |
| Moving in | Free, by team or plugin, on three of four checked | Not stated on the pages we read | We copy, test and switch DNS in your window. Old host untouched for 7 days. Standard move free |
| Invoice | USD, tax extra | INR on India sites | INR with GST, or USD on US invoices |
| Where the server is | Not stated on the plan pages; check for an Indian region | Of three checked: Singapore; North America and Europe; one not stated | India, on servers we run |
Market figures: public price pages read on 12 Oct 2026, excluding tax, shown as ranges. Our prices are list prices, taxes extra.
Honest fit
Who should pick what.
Shared hosting
For a site that needs a panel and a low price, not a server or an engineer.
ZenoCloud
For a business site or store: cPanel, an INR invoice, a 24/7 desk.
Not us: visit tiers. A CDN with bot rules and rate limits comes with Managed Cloudflare, as an add-on.
Our prices
One price per site.
Managed WordPress
Business sites, lead generation, content
₹2,499 $29 per site a month, taxes extra
Start with WordPressBusiness
Busy sites, memberships, small WooCommerce stores
₹4,999 $59 per site a month, taxes extra
Start with WordPressWordPress Care
We run plugin and theme updates, tested on a copy
+₹999 +$12 per site a month, add-on
Start with WordPress Questions
Common questions.
Is ZenoCloud cheaper than a managed WordPress platform?
At list price it is close. Four platforms checked on 12 Oct 2026 start at $25–35 a month, or $21–30 billed yearly, plus tax. ZenoCloud Managed WordPress is ₹2,499 ($29) a site, taxes extra, priced per site. The difference is cPanel, an INR invoice and a desk you can call.
Why not stay on shared hosting?
Stay while a shared slice of CPU and the host’s desk are enough. Move when traffic spikes slow it, a hack becomes your problem, or the renewal arrives at 2.6 to 4.5 times the promo price, as the two India shared hosts we checked listed on 12 Oct 2026.
Can you move my site from a platform or a shared host?
Yes. We copy the site, test it on our platform, then switch DNS in a window you pick. Your old host stays untouched for 7 days. A standard move is free.
Do you update plugins and themes?
You run them with WP Toolkit Smart Update, tested on a copy first. Or add WordPress Care at ₹999 a site a month and we run them weekly, tested first and rolled back if needed.
Do you work with agencies?
Yes. Agencies get partner pricing on Managed WordPress sites and can sell them under their own name. We run the platform; you keep the client.
One site, one price, one team.
₹2,499 ($29) a site a month, the same at renewal. Clean-up by a person is ₹4,999, free with Care.