Linux Basic
$2.99/month
or $29.90 a year
Payload hosting
Payload hosting, installed in one click
Install Payload from your dashboard with its database set up for it, on a managed Linux platform with free SSL, daily backups and a global CDN on every site.
Get startedPlans from $2.99 a month
- 700,000+websites hosted on our platforms worldwide
- 58languages, dashboard and support alike — five of them right to left
- 27applications you can install in one click, kept up to date for you
- 100%renewable electricity on every server we run — verifiable, not offset
About Payload
Payload is a TypeScript-native headless CMS that ships as code: your schema lives in your repository, and the admin panel and API are generated from it.
Why people choose Payload
Developers choose Payload when they want the CMS to be part of their codebase — typed, versioned in Git and deployed like the rest of the project — instead of a separate hosted service. It arrives installed and ready to sign in to.
What our hosting does for Payload
- It is set up with a SQLite database inside your account, because Payload has no MySQL adapter upstream — nothing extra to provision, and the data stays in your hosting.
- SSH and Git are included, so the schema, collections and admin customisations live in your repository and deploy with it.
- Daily backups and free SSL come with the plan, so your content and its API are protected and served over HTTPS.
Plans and pricing
Payload runs on our Linux hosting. One plan, everything included.
Linux Business
$7.99/month
or $79.90 a year
Linux Pro
$14.99/month
or $149.90 a year
- Try it firstEvery managed plan starts with a free trial of 14 days, so you can put a real site on it before you pay for anything.
- 30-day money-back guaranteeIf a managed plan is not right for you, tell us within 30 days of your first payment and we refund it. Application hosting is covered. Read the refund policy
- Real support, includedSupport is included on every plan, from people who run this platform rather than a script. Accounts that cannot wait can go to the front of the queue. How priority support works
What you pay when the first term ends
Cheap hosting is usually cheap once. The industry sells a low first term paid years in advance and then renews at several times the price you signed up at. We do not do that, and here is the arithmetic beside three hosts that do.
| Host | What you pay up front for the advertised price | What the price does on renewal |
|---|---|---|
| Zinn Digital® | Nothing — pay monthly, or pay for a year up front and save. Every plan shows both prices before you buy. | Nothing. The price you see is the price you renew at |
| SiteGround | 12 months, in advance | Multiplies by 5.3 |
| Hostinger | 48 months, in advance | Multiplies by 3.6 |
| Bluehost | 36 months, in advance | Multiplies by 2.5 |
Read from each host's own pricing page on 2026-09-08. Their prices are theirs and they change; the multiple is the renewal price they publish divided by the price they advertise beside it.
Everything included
Generated from the hosting platform's own capability record, so it describes what the plan grants today.
What you get
- Web space: Unlimited
- Bandwidth: Unlimited
- Websites: Unlimited
- Subdomains: Unlimited
- MySQL databases: Unlimited
- Additional FTP users: Unlimited
Built for speed
- Anycast CDN caching on every site
- Automatic image and asset optimisation at the edge
- Edge cache and traffic statistics
- Switch PHP version whenever you need to
- Full control of PHP settings and extensions
Security, on by default
- Free SSL certificate on every domain
- SSL issued and renewed automatically
- Force HTTPS across the whole site
- Daily malware scanning
- Malware findings reported in your dashboard
- Security headers applied at the edge
- Password-protect any directory
- Block visitors by IP or country
- Hotlink protection for your images and files
For developers
- SSH and SFTP access
- Deploy from Git
- FTP access
- phpMyAdmin for direct database access
- Scheduled tasks (cron jobs)
- Browser-based file manager
- Set file and directory permissions
- Maintenance mode while you work
Backups and recovery
- Daily backups
- Timeline backups — restore a site to a point in time
- Timeline Backups Pro, with a longer history and finer restore points
Applications
- Application manager for one-click installs and updates
- Every application we add in future, included
- Reinstall the platform from scratch whenever you want
Business email included
- Mailboxes: 10
- Mailbox size: 10 GB
- Mail forwarders: Unlimited
- Auto-responders: Unlimited
- Webmail, with contacts, filters and out-of-office replies
- IMAP sync from your old provider
- DKIM signing configured for you
- Guided DMARC setup
- Spam and virus filtering on every mailbox
Know what your site is doing
- Bandwidth usage, per site
- Disk usage, per site
- Access and error logs you can read yourself
- Automatic diagnostics when something looks wrong
- Usage against your allowance, always visible
Where your site lives
Hosted on our own server fleet, in Germany (EU).
Powered by 100% renewable energy
Every server we run, on every product, is powered by renewable electricity. Not offset after the fact — sourced that way.
- 100% renewable electricity across all our hosting
- Data centres running at a PUE of 1.1 to 1.2
- Sites on our shared platform pass the Green Web Foundation's checks — a third party you can verify for yourself
Where to go next
The pages people usually read after this one — the platform underneath, the rest of the range, and the help you get once you are here.
Questions people ask before they buy
How do I install Payload?
From the applications section of your dashboard. Choose Payload, pick the domain, and the install runs — including the database, if it needs one.
Which version do you install?
The current release from the platform's application catalogue. You can update it yourself afterwards like any other install.
Can I run other applications alongside it?
Yes. Each Linux plan's website comes with subdomains, and Linux Pro has no cap on databases or subdomains, so you can run Payload beside other applications from this list — or add a plan for each further website.
Do I get SSH and database access?
Yes — SSH, SFTP, phpMyAdmin and remote MySQL are all included, so you are never locked out of your own install.
Where will it be hosted?
That depends on the plan you choose.
Can you migrate an existing Payload site?
Yes. Send us the details of your current host and our team runs the migration for you.
Start today, and keep the price you started at
Every shared plan begins with a free trial and is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee, and the price you sign up at is the price you renew at. If you would rather ask somebody first, the people who answer are the people who run the platform.
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