Mistral Hosting review: fast, and honest about renewals
Four weeks on a live site, measured rather than guessed. Where Mistral earns its price and where the renewal catches you.
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Mistral Hosting
The fastest shared host we have measured, and the only one that tells you the renewal price before you pay.
What it is not is cheap after the first year. £3.95 becomes £9.95, which is ordinary for the category — the difference is that Mistral says so up front.
Pros
- Fastest median response of the hosts we tested
- Renewal price shown at checkout, not buried
- Free migration, done by a person, within a day
- Daily backups kept for 30 days on every plan
Cons
- Renewal is two and a half times the first-year price
- No phone support at this tier
- One site only on the entry plan
70% off the first year, and a free migration
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Applies to the 12-month shared plan for new accounts. We earn a commission if you use it, which is what pays for the test rig.
How we tested
One WordPress install, one theme, the same eight plugins, and a script requesting the same twelve pages every fifteen minutes for four weeks. Response times are medians of roughly 2,700 requests per host.
We bought the plan at retail, at the price on the public checkout, with no press account and no advance notice to the host.