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US hosting: who needs it and what to look for
The US is the largest shared hosting market. This selection includes around 1,640 plans from almost 370 hosts with servers in America. Prices start under half a dollar a month, and the median is roughly $7. A US server makes the most sense when your site serves visitors from North and South America.
When to choose a server in the US
- An English-language site for an American audience — a store, a service, a blog, or an affiliate site targeting traffic from the US and Canada.
- An audience in Latin America. Servers in Miami and Dallas often deliver lower latency to Mexico and Brazil than European ones.
- A site tied to US-based services — payment providers, APIs and ad networks whose infrastructure is in the US.
If your visitors are mostly in Europe or further east, a US server is more likely to hurt than help: every request has to cross the Atlantic.
Latency from Europe and beyond
From Western Europe to the US East Coast — New York, Washington, Ashburn — latency is around 70–90 ms; to the West Coast — Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle — it's roughly 140–160 ms. From Eastern Europe, add another 30–40 ms. For a dynamic site that loads a page through several sequential requests, that adds a noticeable fraction of a second. If your audience is mixed, go with the East Coast: it's closer both to Europe and to most of the US population.
Using a CDN to bridge the distance
A CDN caches static assets — images, CSS, scripts — on servers around the world and serves them from the point closest to the visitor. With a CDN, a site on US hosting can load quickly in Europe too, but the HTML of dynamic pages, the cart and customer accounts will still hit the server in the US. So a CDN helps when most of your audience is in America and a smaller share is elsewhere, but it's no substitute for choosing the right country. If most of your visitors are European, compare with our hosting in Europe selection.
What sets the US market apart
- cPanel almost everywhere. About three quarters of plans in this selection run cPanel — noticeably more than in Europe or Russia. Plesk and DirectAdmin are less common, and ISPmanager shows up at only a handful of hosts. If you're used to cPanel, see also cPanel hosting across all countries.
- Promotional first-term pricing. Big US hosts are known for cheap entry prices: a plan costs a couple of dollars a month if you prepay for three years, then the price goes up two to four times on renewal. Always look for the "renews at" line on the plan page.
- "Unlimited" with strings attached. Unlimited sites, disk space and traffic in the ads are almost always limited by acceptable use policies: inode limits, CPU limits, and a ban on storing files unrelated to the website.
- Upsells at checkout. Domain privacy, backups and SEO tools are often added to the cart by default. Untick anything you don't need before paying.
In terms of specs, US plans are close to the catalog average: the median disk is 20 GB, 40% of plans list NVMe, and 41% offer unmetered traffic.
Payment
US hosts mainly accept Visa and Mastercard cards and PayPal. Some also take cryptocurrency — their plans are collected in our hosting you can pay for with crypto selection. Another option is an international reseller that sells US locations and bills in your currency. Also keep in mind that some hosts add state sales tax or VAT to the price.
What to check with a US host
- Data center city. "USA" in the description could mean New York or Los Angeles, and the latency difference to Europe between them is almost double. Confirm the city when ordering.
- Web server. Many US hosts run LiteSpeed instead of Apache: with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin, WordPress is noticeably faster on the same limits.
- Support. Mind the time difference: at smaller hosts, "24/7" support may respond more slowly during US night hours.
- Renewal price and minimum term. Work out the cost over two or three years including renewal — that makes plans from different hosts comparable.
- Refunds. Many US hosts offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, but it sometimes excludes the domain and add-on services.
Legal considerations
US hosts are subject to US law, including the DMCA: after a copyright holder's complaint, content can be removed or the account suspended quickly. If your site collects personal data covered by data localization laws — for example, data of Russian citizens, which must be stored in Russia — a US server won't do, and you'll need local hosting such as hosting in Russia.