Hosting
Hosting tiers, demystified
What you actually need at $5/mo, $25/mo, and $80/mo — and where we see most clients overspend.
Filenod Operations · Mar 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Hosting is sold as a list of features. It's actually three things: how much traffic you can take, how fast you recover from failure, and how much human help you get when something breaks.
Starter ($5/mo)
A single small site. Daily backups. Free SSL. You're on shared resources, which is fine for sites under ~10k page-views a month.
Pro ($25/mo)
Up to five sites. Faster restores. Resource isolation, so a noisy neighbor doesn't take you down. Most established marketing sites should sit here.
Business ($80/mo)
Dedicated resource pool. Priority on-call. Annual DR drill. This is where SaaS apps and high-traffic stores belong.
Where most overspend
We see clients on Business plans serving 12k pageviews/month because someone scared them once. Don't be that. Pro is fine until it isn't, and we'll tell you when it isn't.