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Web Hosting in India —
Fast Mumbai Servers

Cheap web hosting in India from $2.65/mo — fast, secure servers in our Mumbai datacenter with the lowest latency for your Indian visitors, local data residency, and no hidden costs. The price you buy at is the price you renew at.

  • Up to 32x faster performance
  • Free SSL, daily backups & built-in security
  • 24/7 real human support
  • A free domain for your first year
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All Systems Operational
Mumbai, India
Storage High-Speed SSD RAID
Processor High-Performance CPU
Control Panel MaxPanel
Security & Backups Built In
TTFB <100ms
Performance Score 98%
Uptime 99.9%
$0 Add-on Fees
1 Year Free Domain
Pricing

Honest pricing.
No surprises.

All plans include fast SSD storage, MaxPanel, free SSL, daily backups, a free domain for the first year, and 24/7 support.

Choose your datacenter location
🇺🇸 USA 🇪🇺 Europe 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇮🇳 India 🇦🇺 Australia
Save up to 70% off regular rates
Starter

For personal sites & blogs

$ 2.65 /mo
$8.99/mo Save 70% Today! $95.40 charged today for 36 months Renews at the same price you buy
  • 10 GB SSD Storage
  • 2 Websites
  • 5 Email Accounts
  • 1 Free Domain*
  • MaxPanel Control Panel
  • Free SSL (Let's Encrypt)
  • Up to 32x Faster Performance
  • DDoS Protection
  • WordPress Staging
  • 1-Click WordPress Installer
  • SSH Access + WP-CLI
Get Started
30-Day Money Back GuaranteeTry it completely risk-free — we’re confident you’ll stay.
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Pro

For growing businesses

$ 9.65 /mo
$24.95/mo Save 61% Today! $347.40 charged today for 36 months Renews at the same price you buy
  • 25 GB SSD Storage
  • 5 Websites
  • 20 Email Accounts
  • 1 Free Domain*
  • MaxPanel Control Panel
  • Free SSL (Let's Encrypt)
  • Up to 32x Faster Performance
  • DDoS Protection
  • WordPress Staging
  • 1-Click WordPress Installer
  • SSH Access + WP-CLI
Get Started
30-Day Money Back GuaranteeTry it completely risk-free — we’re confident you’ll stay.
Business

For high-traffic & eCommerce

$ 22.99 /mo
$69.99/mo Save 67% Today! $827.64 charged today for 36 months Renews at the same price you buy
  • 100 GB SSD Storage
  • 100 Websites
  • 50 Email Accounts
  • 1 Free Domain*
  • MaxPanel Control Panel
  • Free SSL (Let's Encrypt)
  • Up to 32x Faster Performance
  • DDoS Protection
  • WordPress Staging
  • 1-Click WordPress Installer
  • SSH Access + WP-CLI
Get Started
30-Day Money Back GuaranteeTry it completely risk-free — we’re confident you’ll stay.

*Free domain is included for the first year only. Standard renewal rates apply from the second year onward.

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Real numbers

What web hosting
costs in India

The advertised web hosting price in India rarely matches what you actually pay — almost every web hosting company in India raises the rate once your first term ends. So here are our real numbers: what web hosting charges per year in India look like with us, term by term, renewal included.

Plan 1-year term 3-year term Renewal price What's included
Starter $3.99/mo — $47.88 per year $2.65/mo — $95.40 for 36 months Same price you paid 10 GB SSD, 2 websites, 5 mailboxes, free domain*, free SSL, daily backups
Pro $12.45/mo — $149.40 per year $9.65/mo — $347.40 for 36 months Same price you paid 25 GB SSD, 5 websites, 20 mailboxes, free domain*, free SSL, daily backups
Business $33.99/mo — $407.88 per year $22.99/mo — $827.64 for 36 months Same price you paid 100 GB SSD, 100 websites, 50 mailboxes, free domain*, free SSL, daily backups

Every plan also includes MaxPanel, DDoS protection, WordPress staging and 24/7 support. There's no separate renewal rate to look up: the price you buy at is the price you renew at. *Free domain applies to the first year only.

India Datacenter

Hosted in Mumbai, India’s digital gateway

Our India datacenter sits in Mumbai — the country’s financial capital and primary internet landing point. Web hosting in Mumbai gives your Indian audience the lowest possible latency and keeps your data on home soil.

  • Lowest latency across IndiaMumbai’s central connectivity delivers fast load times to users nationwide.
  • Primary cable landing hubMumbai lands most of India’s subsea cables — your site sits one hop from the backbone.
  • Tier III+ facilityRedundant power, cooling and connectivity engineered for 99.9% uptime.
  • Local data residencyKeep your data in India to meet local compliance and serve Indian users best.
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Typical latency to major cities
  • Pune~6 ms
  • Bangalore~20 ms
  • Delhi~28 ms
  • Chennai~30 ms
  • Singapore~55 ms
What's Included

Everything's included.
No upsells.

Our web hosting services in India come fully loaded on every plan — the same powerful features for everyone, from your first blog to a high-traffic store.

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37Features
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30‑dayMoney-back

32x Faster Performance

Enterprise SSD-RAID 10 storage delivers dramatically faster reads and writes for every request.

FastWebServer with Cache

A pre-engineered web server with built-in caching serves your pages almost instantly.

Free CDN

A global content delivery network keeps your site fast for visitors everywhere.

Latest PHP

Run the newest PHP versions and switch between them with one click.

WordPress & WooCommerce Optimized

Our stack is tuned specifically for WordPress and WooCommerce to run smoothly.

Free SSL

Auto-provisioned SSL secures every domain you host, renewed automatically and free forever.

AI-Powered WAF

An AI web application firewall blocks attacks before they ever reach your site.

Brute-Force Protection

Machine-learning detection identifies and shuts down automated login attacks before they succeed.

Malware Scanner

Your files are scanned continuously for malicious code, with threats flagged so you can take action.

Real-Time Process Monitor

Running processes are watched in real time to catch malware activity as it happens.

Network-Intelligence Patches

Real-time patches applied from intelligence gathered across millions of sites on our network.

DDoS Protection

Network-level mitigation absorbs and filters attack traffic to keep your site online.

Lifetime Free Email

Professional branded mailboxes are included for life on every plan, at no cost.

Anti-Spam & Antivirus

Inbound filtering scans every message to keep spam and viruses out of your inbox.

SMTP / IMAP / POP3

Connect any mail client you prefer, on any device, using standard protocols.

Webmail Access

Read and send mail from any browser, anywhere, with nothing to install.

Web SSH Terminal

Get full shell access right from your browser, with no local setup required.

WP-CLI Support

Manage WordPress from the command line for installs, updates, and bulk operations.

1-Click WordPress Installer

Spin up a fresh, ready-to-use WordPress site in seconds with a single click.

Staging Environments

Clone your site to a safe staging area to test changes before going live.

Cron Jobs

Schedule scripts and automated tasks to run exactly when you need them.

Unlimited Databases

Create as many MySQL and MariaDB databases as your projects require, with no limits.

Tier III & IV Datacenters

Your sites live in certified, redundant datacenters across our global footprint.

45 Tbps Network Backbone

A 45 Tbps global backbone delivers your content with high capacity and low latency.

99.99% Uptime SLA

We back availability with a real uptime guarantee, credited automatically if we miss it.

Free DNS & Sub-domains

Manage your DNS records freely and create unlimited sub-domains as your project grows.

Green Hosting

We give 1% of revenue to the planet and plant a tree for every purchase.

1 Free Domain

Register a brand-new domain name free for your entire first year with any plan.

Free Website Migration

Our team moves your existing website over for you, carefully and completely free.

Free Daily Backups

Your files, databases, and email are backed up daily, with one-click restore anytime.

Resource Isolation

Every account runs within enforced CPU, RAM, and I/O limits so neighbors can’t slow you.

MaxPanel Control Panel

Manage sites, email, databases, and DNS from one fast, clean control panel.

30-Day Money-Back

Try any plan completely risk-free, with a full refund within your first 30 days.

24×7 Live Chat

Real support agents are available around the clock, every day of the year.

120-Second Response

Our live chat answers in about two minutes on average, so you’re never waiting.

8-Minute Resolution

Most issues are fully resolved in around eight minutes, not hours or days.

Best After-Sales Support

We’re genuinely known for industry-leading after-sales support that sticks with you.

The honest comparison

The best web hosting in India
doesn't trap you at renewal.

Most hosts advertise a low intro price, then charge extra for the things we include — and quietly multiply your rate at renewal. Picking the best hosting provider in India means reading the renewal page, not just the banner. Here's the difference, side by side.

  Typical host
Security suite — WAF, malware scanning & DDoS protection Included Often a paid add-on (~$3–10/mo)
Performance — SSD-RAID storage, server caching & free CDN Included Reserved for higher tiers
Automated daily backups + 1-click restore Included Often a paid add-on (~$2–5/mo)
Free SSL certificate Included Sometimes charged
Free website migration, done for you Included $50–150, or do-it-yourself
Free domain for the first year Included Rarely included
Renewal pricing Renews at the same price you paid Jumps 2–4× after the intro term

A 5-year snapshot on the Starter plan

Typical host ~$910 A cheap first year, then renewal jumps — plus paid security and backup add-ons stacked on top.
With Cenmax $159 $2.65/mo, renewing at the very same price — with every feature already included.
That's roughly $750 back in your pocket over five years.

Figures are illustrative, based on typical advertised renewal and add-on pricing across the shared-hosting industry. Actual costs elsewhere will vary by provider and plan.

Sustainability

Hosting that's
good for the planet

We're committed to reducing our environmental impact with every sale.

1% for the Planet

We contribute 1% of our revenue to Stripe Climate, funding carbon removal technologies worldwide.

One Tree Planted

For every hosting purchase and renewal, we plant a tree to help reforest the planet.

Together, we're building a greener internet—one website at a time.

Testimonials

Builders don't
switch back.

From solo developers to agencies running dozens of client sites — here's what people say after they've actually lived on Cenmax for a while, and why so many call us the best web hosting company in India.

4.9 out of 5 — join 10,000+ customers hosting with us since 2014
About 14 months in, running 12 or so client sites. I came for the SSH and WP-CLI access and stayed for the one-click staging. Zero overnight downtime so far, which I genuinely could not say about my last host. Backups and SSL are baked in per account, so I'm not nickel-and-dimed on every site.
AM
Aarav Mehta Freelance WordPress Developer · Pune
Our app has NEVER loaded this fast. Seriously. We migrated on a Tuesday and by the end of the week two different customers had emailed asking what we'd changed. That just doesn't happen! Thrilled with it.
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Sarah Lindqvist Founder, Bright Solutions
So here's the thing, my old host crashed on me two Black Fridays in a row and I'd basically made peace with it happening again. This year we did our biggest day of sales ever and the site didn't so much as hiccup. They even did the migration for me; I handed over the login, went and made a coffee, and by the time I came back it was done.
DO
Daniel Okoye Owner, The Coffee House · WooCommerce
As an agency we run a little over 40 client sites on retainer, and provisioning a new one in MaxPanel is genuinely quick. What stands out most, however, is the transparency of the pricing. The quoted rate is the rate we pay, with no surprises at renewal and no awkward conversations with clients about features that turn out to be paid extras.
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Priya Nair Director, Creative Studio
I almost didn't write a review, but I've been here long enough that it felt right to. I started the blog on a whim, grabbed the free domain, and fully expected to move on once it grew. Two years and around 80k readers a month later, here I still am. The support folks have stayed up with me through a couple of late-night panics, and they've always been so kind about it.
TR
Tomás Rivera Travel blogger
I went in skeptical (cheaper usually means oversold servers and slow tickets, in my experience). It took a few weeks before I stopped expecting something to break. What shifted it for me was a Saturday-night ticket answered in roughly ten minutes, by a person who'd clearly read what I sent. It's not flawless, there's no dark mode in the dashboard yet, but the fundamentals are solid.
NM
Nguyen Minh Backend Engineer · Hanoi
For a small nonprofit like ours, every cost we keep down means a little more going toward the people we serve. The hosting has been kind to our budget. I'll also admit the environmental side won us over: they plant a tree on renewals and give 1% to climate causes, and our board was glad to be able to pass that along to our supporters.
RH
Rebecca Hall Executive Director, Hope Foundation
moved over, site's way faster, haven't thought about hosting since. that's the review.
KR
Karthik R. Indie hacker
My portfolio is wall-to-wall high-res photography, and it used to load like it was wading through mud. The CDN and caching changed that almost the moment I switched. Now clients tell me the site feels “expensive”, and for a photographer, that's pretty much the whole game.
EV
Elena Vasquez Portrait & travel photographer
I'll be upfront, I'm not a tech person in the slightest, I run a gym and not a web company. When I moved my booking site over I figured I'd be completely lost, but the chat team walked me through every step and handled the bits I didn't follow. It loads quicker now and I've stopped thinking about it, which is all I really wanted.
MB
Marcus Bryant Owner, City Fitness
Came over from one of the big cloud platforms mainly to cut my bill, and I assumed I'd be giving up performance to save the money. It was the other way round. What one project cost me there now covers three projects here comfortably, and the panel is a lot less of a maze to get around. Only regret is not doing it a year sooner.
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Omar Haddad Self-taught developer
Been hosting with this lot since 2016, and in all that time I've had maybe two reasons to contact support. Both sorted the same day. I'm not someone who normally bothers writing reviews, but loyalty like mine takes a fair bit to earn, and they've earned it.
DW
David Whitman Owner, web design studio
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FAQ

Frequently asked
questions

Everything you need to know about our web hosting in India.

We use MaxPanel — a next-generation control panel built to replace old-school tools like cPanel, which carries decades of technical debt and stays chained to a dying RHEL base. Built on Debian/Ubuntu with a modern GoLang core, MaxPanel is ultra-lightweight and fast. It ships with MaxContainer™ isolation and a built-in security suite, plus everything you'd expect — file manager, databases, email, DNS, and backups.

If you've used cPanel before, you'll feel right at home — only with a better, faster and more secure hosting control panel.

Every site runs on high-speed SSD storage in RAID and high-performance processors, delivering up to 32x faster performance. We layer in a full caching and acceleration stack: object cache (Redis), page cache, server-level next-generation compression, and a fine-tuned web server that's HTTP/3 and QUIC ready — plus our WordPress plugin to tie it all together. Your sites load fast out of the box, with no tuning required.

Every plan includes built-in security at no extra cost: a web application firewall (WAF), real-time malware scanning, proactive defense against zero-day attacks, brute-force protection, and DDoS mitigation. It comes included with MaxPanel — not as a paid add-on.

All plans include automated daily backups with offsite storage, built into MaxPanel. You can restore any backup with one click. Your files, databases, and email are all backed up automatically — included free with every plan.

Each mailbox gets 512 MB of storage on the Starter plan, and 1 GB per mailbox on the Pro and Business plans. Every account includes webmail and IMAP/POP3 access.

Our web hosting in India starts at $2.65/mo on a 3-year term ($95.40 charged today for 36 months) or $3.99/mo on a 1-year term. The Pro plan is $9.65/mo and the Business plan is $22.99/mo on the 3-year term. Whatever you pay today is what you renew at — the rate never jumps after your first term.

On a 1-year term, charges come to $47.88 per year for Starter, $149.40 per year for Pro and $407.88 per year for Business. On a 3-year term the totals are $95.40, $347.40 and $827.64 charged once for 36 months, which works out cheaper per year. Renewal charges stay the same as the price you originally paid.

Yes. Every plan includes a 1-click WordPress installer, WordPress staging, WP-CLI and SSH access, and the stack is tuned for WordPress and WooCommerce with server-level caching. Free SSL and daily backups are included too, so the basics don't need paid add-ons.