Domains & Web
Last updated: November 2026. Prices checked on each provider’s own website on 8 November 2026.
The cheapest BDIX hosting we found from a well-known Bangladeshi provider is Hosting Bangladesh’s Starter plan at ৳1,650 for the first year (about $13), followed by IT Nut Hosting’s BDIX Essential at ৳2,388, then Hostnin Basic and ExonHost BDIX-Starter at about ৳3,590 each. But the cheapest plan is not always the best value: IT Nut charges extra for backups, Hosting Bangladesh’s Starter hosts only one website, and almost every price on the market right now is a sale price that will be higher when you renew.
If your visitors are mostly in Bangladesh, a server in a Dhaka data center connected to BDIX will load noticeably faster for them than a cheap plan in the US. If your audience is international, the opposite is true. This guide compares the real 12-month cost of entry-level and mid-range BDIX plans from four Bangladeshi hosts, explains what BDIX actually is, and helps you choose without being caught out at renewal.
Short answer: For one small site with a mostly Bangladeshi audience, Hosting Bangladesh Starter (৳1,650 a year, daily backups kept 30 days) is the cheapest sensible choice. For two sites, IT Nut BDIX Essential (৳2,388) is cheapest but add ৳1,200 a year if you want its backup service; ExonHost and Hostnin include daily backups and a 30-day money-back guarantee for about ৳3,590. Always ask for the renewal price in writing before you pay.
Sale prices everywhere. On the day we checked, every provider was running a promotion (Black Friday or “up to 81% off”). Only IT Nut Hosting showed its renewal prices on the plan page. Expect your second-year bill to be higher, sometimes double.
BDIX (Bangladesh Internet Exchange) is an internet exchange point: a place where Bangladeshi internet service providers connect directly to each other so traffic between them stays inside the country. It was set up in 2004 as a not-for-profit initiative under the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP), with UNDP funding. Before that, as The Daily Star reported at the time, an email between two customers of different local ISPs could travel abroad over expensive satellite links and back again.
“BDIX hosting” means your website sits on a server in a Bangladeshi data center (usually Dhaka) that is connected to this exchange. When a visitor in Bangladesh opens your site, the data takes a short domestic route instead of travelling to Singapore, Europe or the US and back. The result is lower latency (the delay before a page starts loading), which matters most on pages with many small files, such as WordPress sites.
The trade-off: visitors outside Bangladesh reach a BDIX server over international links, so it can be slower for them than a server in Singapore or the US. IT Nut Hosting’s own FAQ says BDIX “may not be ideal for globally targeted websites”.
Ranked by what the first year costs at the price shown on 8 November 2026, paying yearly. Dollar figures use Bangladesh Bank’s weighted average rate for 8 November 2026 (৳124.35 per US dollar) and are rounded.
| Plan | First year | In USD | Websites | Storage | Backups | Renewal shown? | Money-back |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Hosting Bangladesh BDIX Starter | ৳1,650 | about $13 | 1 (no addon domains) | 5 GB NVMe | Daily full backup kept 30 days, plus hourly database backup | No (a ৳3,500 figure is shown beside the price) | Not stated |
| 2. IT Nut Hosting BDIX Essential | ৳2,388 | about $19 | 2 | 10 GB NVMe | Not included: ৳100 a month extra (৳1,200 a year) | Yes: ৳3,500 a year | 30 days |
| 3. Hostnin BDIX Basic | ৳3,588 | about $29 | 2 | 5 GB NVMe | Daily (JetBackup), kept 7 days | No | 30 days |
| 4. ExonHost BDIX-Starter | ৳3,600 | about $29 | 2 | 5 GB SSD | Daily (JetBackup; the page says 5 restore points in one place, 7 in another) | No | 30 days |
| XeonBD | Not verified: every XeonBD page we tried was blocked behind a bot check, so we haven’t listed a price. | ||||||
Hostnin also sells Basic at ৳999 month to month, or ৳6,804 if you pay for three years upfront (its “৳189 a month” headline). ExonHost’s yearly price is ৳3,599.76; a site banner advertises “up to 30%” off, which may be applied at checkout. Hosting Bangladesh shows a second, higher figure next to each price, which appears to be the regular price; the page does not label it as the renewal price.
First-year cost
Entry-level BDIX hosting in Bangladesh
Yearly price shown on each provider’s site, 8 November 2026
Scale: ৳0 to ৳4,000. Prices are first-year sale prices; renewal is usually higher.
| Plan | First year | In USD | Websites | Storage | Free .com domain | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Nut Hosting BDIX Business | ৳4,800 | about $39 | 10 | 20 GB NVMe | Not seen | Renews at ৳6,900; backups ৳1,200 a year extra; 3 GB RAM |
| Hosting Bangladesh BDIX Grower | ৳4,950 | about $40 | 6 (5 addon domains) | 15 GB NVMe | Yes (or ৳500 off without it) | Unlimited bandwidth; 2 GB RAM; 30-day backups |
| Hostnin BDIX Starter | ৳5,628 | about $45 | 5 | 10 GB NVMe | Yes, on yearly plans (claim within 3 days) | Unlimited bandwidth; 7-day backups |
| ExonHost BDIX-Standard | ৳6,999 | about $56 | 5 | 10 GB SSD | Not mentioned | 500 GB bandwidth; daily backups |
| Hosting Bangladesh | IT Nut Hosting | Hostnin | ExonHost | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free SSL | Yes | Yes (Let’s Encrypt) | Yes | Yes |
| LiteSpeed web server | “Apache / LiteSpeed” | Yes, with LSCache | Yes | Yes, with LSCache |
| Control panel | Not stated on the BDIX page | cPanel | cPanel | Not stated on the BDIX page |
| Data center | Dhaka | Bangladesh (city not named) | Dhaka, 10 Gbps BDIX link | Bangladesh |
| Pay with bKash | Yes (also Nagad, Rocket, card) | Yes (also Nagad, bank, card, PayPal) | Not stated on the BDIX page | Yes (also Rocket, card, PayPal) |
| Support | 24/7 ticket and chat in Bangla and English, phone | 24/7 ticket, live chat, phone | 24/7 chat, call and WhatsApp in Bangla and English | Ticket, live chat, sales phone; 24/7 advertised |
| Also sells non-BDIX hosting | Yes (USA/EU from ৳1,150 a year; Singapore from ৳1,399) | Yes (regular cPanel, USA VPS) | Yes (US, UK, Germany, Singapore and more) | Yes (US, Singapore, Germany) |
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| Your site | Best server location | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Local business, news, e-commerce or school site; most visitors in Bangladesh | BDIX (Dhaka) | Shortest route for your visitors; local payment and Bangla support |
| Blog or SaaS with a mostly international audience | Singapore, Europe or the US | Closer to most visitors; a BDIX server can be slower abroad |
| Mixed audience | Singapore, or BDIX plus a CDN | Singapore is a reasonable middle ground for South Asia; a CDN such as Cloudflare caches static files near visitors elsewhere |
| Email-heavy organisation (NGO, company) | Hosting for the website; a separate email service | Shared hosting email is often the first thing to break; see our guide to email tools for nonprofits |
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Web hosting on a server in a Bangladeshi data center connected to the Bangladesh Internet Exchange (BDIX), so visitors using Bangladeshi ISPs reach it over a short domestic route. It usually loads faster for local visitors than hosting abroad.
Of the providers we could verify on 8 November 2026, Hosting Bangladesh’s BDIX Starter was cheapest at ৳1,650 for the first year (one website), followed by IT Nut Hosting’s BDIX Essential at ৳2,388 (two websites, backups extra).
Not usually. International visitors reach a BDIX server over international links, which can be slower than a server in Singapore, Europe or the US. If much of your traffic is from abroad, choose an overseas server or put a CDN in front of the site.
Yes. Hosting Bangladesh, IT Nut Hosting and ExonHost all list bKash among their payment methods, and most also accept Nagad or Rocket and cards.
Most hosts advertise a discounted first-year price. The renewal is charged at the regular rate, which can be close to double. IT Nut Hosting, for example, shows ৳2,388 for the first year of BDIX Essential and ৳3,500 for renewal.
Most shared hosting plans include cPanel email accounts (IT Nut lists 100 on its entry plans). They are fine for a few addresses, but for an organisation that relies on email, a dedicated email service is more reliable.
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