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Hosting is advertised by the month, paid by the year and judged at renewal. If you are pricing hosting in Nepal for the first time, the sticker price is the least interesting number on the page. Here is what sits behind it.
What the price actually buys
Every hosting plan is a bundle of the same five things: disk space for your files, bandwidth for your visitors, a control panel to manage it all, mailboxes on your own domain, and an SSL certificate so browsers trust the site. Two plans at the same price can differ enormously in how much of each you get, which is why comparing on price alone tells you very little.
A domain name is not part of hosting. The domain is your address; the hosting is the land it points at. They are bought separately, renewed separately and usually fall due on different dates, so budget for both. Domain pricing works quite differently and is worth reading separately.
Roughly what to expect
Think in tiers rather than in single numbers. The table below is the shape of the decision, with the Goji plan that matches each need.
| If you have | You need roughly | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| A brochure site, portfolio or small blog | 1 GB of space, one site, one mailbox | Starter — Rs 200/month or Rs 1,800/year |
| A growing site with images and traffic spikes | 10 GB, traffic off the meter, a few mailboxes | Growth — Rs 250/month or Rs 2,500/year |
| Two or three sites, or a small team | 50 GB, several databases and separate logins | Pro — Rs 500/month or Rs 4,000/year |
| An agency running many client sites | No quotas to keep track of | Ultimate — Rs 1,500/month or Rs 10,000/year |
Those figures are correct at the time of writing. The hosting page always shows today's prices, in the currency you are browsing in.
Monthly or yearly: do the arithmetic
Monthly billing looks cheaper and is not. Twelve months of Starter at Rs 200 comes to Rs 2,400, while the yearly price is Rs 1,800 — paying annually saves Rs 600, a quarter of the cost. The gap is similar on every plan. Monthly is the right choice only if you genuinely might stop within a few months; otherwise you are paying a premium for flexibility you will not use.
What "unlimited" really means
Unlimited bandwidth is a real and useful thing: a good month of traffic will not produce a surprise invoice. Unlimited disk space is a fair-use arrangement rather than an invitation to store a film archive — every host reserves the right to step in when one account starts affecting the server for everyone else. Read unlimited as "stop counting", not "no limit exists".
In practice the quota people hit first is rarely disk space. It is inodes: the number of individual files you may store. A WordPress site with a dozen plugins can hold tens of thousands of small files while using very little actual space.
Costs that catch people out
- Renewal. A discounted first year is not a price, it is an offer. The renewal figure is the one you will pay for years, so compare on that.
- SSL. Some hosts still charge yearly for a certificate. Let's Encrypt certificates are free and renew themselves, and any host can issue them — paying separately for basic SSL in 2026 is a red flag.
- Mailboxes. Cheap plans often include one. If five people need an address on your domain, check that before you buy, not after.
- Moving later. Changing host costs no money and quite a lot of an afternoon. Picking a plan you can grow into is cheaper than picking the smallest and moving twice.
How much do you actually need?
Most first websites in Nepal buy more than they use. A typical business site — a few pages, a contact form, some photographs — sits comfortably under a gigabyte for years. Start at the size that matches the site you have today, not the one you hope to have, and move up when something actually runs out. Upgrading is a quick change; the money saved meanwhile is real.
Frequently asked questions
Is cheap hosting worth it?
Cheap is fine; vague is not. What matters is whether the plan states its limits plainly, whether the renewal price is visible before you buy, and whether you can reach a human when something breaks. A clearly described Rs 200 plan is a better purchase than an "unlimited everything" plan that will not tell you the renewal figure.
Does hosting include a domain name?
Not at Goji, and not at most hosts that quote honestly. Where a domain is bundled free, it is usually free for the first year only and renews at the registrar's normal price. Treat them as two line items in your budget.
Why is renewal sometimes higher than the first year?
Because the first year was a promotion. This is common across the industry and is not, by itself, dishonest — it only becomes a problem when the renewal price is hard to find. Look for it before you buy; a host that publishes one price for both is telling you something useful.
How much hosting does a small business website need?
For a site of ten or twenty pages with photographs and a contact form, one gigabyte of space and a single database is plenty. The realistic reasons to go larger are a second website, a team that needs several mailboxes, or a shop with a growing catalogue of product images.