Shared hosting starts around $3–$10 CAD per month from providers like HostPapa, Canadian Web Hosting, or international options like SiteGround. This works for simple brochure sites with light traffic, but you'll hit performance limits quickly if you're running WordPress with plugins or getting more than a few thousand monthly visitors. Managed WordPress hosting from providers like WP Engine, Kinsta, or Flywheel runs $25–$80/month for starter plans and scales to $200–$500+ for higher-traffic sites. You're paying for automatic updates, daily backups, staging environments, and better server configurations optimized for WordPress. For clients in competitive local markets like Ottawa real estate or Toronto e-commerce, we typically spec $30–$50/month hosting because the performance difference directly affects rankings and conversions. VPS hosting gives you dedicated resources without managing a full server. DigitalOcean, Linode, or Vultr charge $12–$80/month depending on CPU and RAM allocation. You need technical skills or a developer to configure and maintain it, so factor in $50–$150/month for management unless you're comfortable with command-line server work. Dedicated servers start around $200/month and go past $2,000 for high-spec machines. Only necessary for large platforms, SaaS products, or sites handling serious traffic volumes. CDN costs like Cloudflare or BunnyCDN add $0–$20/month for most sites. Essential for Canadian businesses serving both coasts since it caches content closer to users in Vancouver and Halifax. At Ottawa SEO, we run most client sites on $40–$60/month managed WordPress hosting because uptime and page speed directly impact organic visibility. Cheaper hosting creates technical SEO problems that cost more to fix than the hosting savings. The exception is portfolio sites with minimal traffic, where $10/month shared hosting works fine. Your hosting budget should match your traffic expectations and revenue dependency, not arbitrary cost-cutting.