Start
US$3.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$30.00/yr billed yearly
1 site · 5 mailboxes · 10 GB storage
New Zealand companyTheir prices read 2026-09-29
SiteHost vs KapsuleHost
SiteHost is the biggest New Zealand owned host, and they aim at developers and agencies. We cover the same ground from a lower starting price, with mailboxes, DNS and backups in the same account.
SiteHost1 Core
- Entry price
- NZ$35.00/mo
3-year costNZ$1,260.00
Web Hosting Start- Entry price
- US$3.00/mo
- Renewal
- US$3.00/moPrice Lock Promise
3-year costUS$90.00
What you actually pay, year by year.
Ours is read live from our catalogue, in your own currency. Their years run their introductory term first, then their renewal.
SiteHost, from their published pricesNZ$1,260.00
Year 1NZ$420.00/yrYear 2NZ$420.00/yrYear 3NZ$420.00/yr
KapsuleHost, liveUS$90.00
Year 1US$30.00/yrYear 2US$30.00/yrYear 3US$30.00/yr
Cheaper over three years
Assumes you stay on the same plan. See Terms 7.5
Five things you get by moving from SiteHost.
01Start from US$3.00/mo, and stay there
Web Hosting Start is US$3.00/mo in your own currency and holds that price at every renewal for as long as you stay on the plan. SiteHost publish their entry Cloud Container at NZ$35.00/mo. Both companies are New Zealand based.
02Your price is locked while you stay on the plan
Our Price Lock Promise holds your renewal price at whatever you signed up for, for as long as you stay on the plan. It is written into the contract you can read before you spend anything.
03Mailboxes, DNS and backups on one bill
Five mailboxes on Start and twenty five on Pro, plus Premium DNS, off site backups and your SSL certificate, all in the same KPanel account and on the same invoice.
04A control panel that works on your phone
KPanel was built in 2026 for a phone first, with Kora on every page ready to do the job with you while you watch.
05Free tools move you here
The tools bring your site, your database, your mailboxes and your DNS across on every plan, at any size, and Kora runs them with you while you watch. For a bigger or more delicate move, one of our engineers does the whole thing for a published price.
What comes with your plan.
This is what the plan price buys, line by line.
SiteHostEntry priceUS$3.00/moNZ$35.00/mo
GST shown on the invoice
Kora answers straight away, at any hour
A managed WordPress planUS$12.00/mo
Mailboxes with the planFive on StartA separate plan
An assistant that does the job with youKora, included
Renewal price written into the contractPrice Lock PromiseStandard rate
Servers in New Zealand todayIn Europe
The tools that move you here from SiteHost are free.
Moving from SiteHost is free. The tools bring your files, your databases, your mailboxes and your DNS across, and a multi site account comes over as one coordinated switch. Kora will run them with you, and for a complicated or sensitive move a person can do the whole thing for a published price.
Start on Web Hosting Start.
US$3.00/mo, held at that price for as long as you stay on the plan. A free SSL certificate, nightly backups kept thirty nights and mailboxes on your own domain come with it, and the free migration tools bring you here from SiteHost.
Pro
US$9.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$84.00/yr billed yearly
10 sites · 25 mailboxes · 50 GB storage
Scale
US$21.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$204.00/yr billed yearly
25 sites · 100 mailboxes · 200 GB storage
What buyers ask us about SiteHost.
These are the questions buyers send us while they are deciding between SiteHost and us, answered the way one of our own engineers would answer them.
Ways To Reach UsKPanel does everything their panel does: deploys, databases, DNS and mailboxes. It adds Kora, a design that works on a phone, and one bill across every product.
Three tiers, Starter, Professional and Agency, each priced on our reseller programme page. You buy at wholesale, set every price yourself and keep the whole difference, and your clients sign up on your own hostname and work in a panel with your logo on it. You apply on that page, and we approve every reseller ourselves.
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