[Articles](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/articles/), 12 October 2026 # Hosting more expensive or down? How to stay in control You are less dependent on your hosting company than you think, if three things are in order: your domain name is in your own name, you have your own copy of your site and your email, and you know how to cancel. In autumn 2026 it became clear why that matters: customers of Versio couldn't get into their control panel for over two weeks, servers went down at mijn.host, and more and more well-known hosting brands belong to one group. ## See where your domain is Enter your domain name and see with which company the settings are. We can't see in whose name the domain is; you request that from that company. You don't need to leave an email address. We keep the domain and the result, no name and no IP address. More in the [privacy statement](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/privacy/). ## Which outages were there in autumn 2026? Two Dutch hosting companies reported a longer outage on their own status page. This is what it said there on 12 October 2026: | Company | What | When | |---| | Versio | Customer portal unusable; changes only through customer service | 25 September to 12 October | | mijn.host | A number of servers offline due to broken storage | From 12 October, 02:21 | | mijn.host | Outage on the backup platform | 30 September to 7 October | According to [Versio's status page](https://status.versio.nl/), domains, websites and email kept working during the outage. [mijn.host](https://status.mijn.host/history) wrote about 12 October (translated from Dutch): "The outage is caused by failed storage within our platform." That afternoon at 14:05, according to the page, 90 percent of the VPS servers and 60 percent of the shared hosting had been restored. An outage can happen to any company, including us. Both companies kept a public status page, and that is exactly what you want as a customer. What should be on your own site on such a day is in [Website down? Put this on your outage page](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/articles/website-down-outage-page/). ## Why is a control panel that doesn't work so awkward? Because the control panel is where you manage your domain name and your DNS. The DNS is the list behind your domain that determines where your website is and where your email arrives. Without the panel you can't change it yourself, and the transfer code for your domain name is usually requested there too. Your site stays online, but you can't change anything yourself or switch yourself. For a .nl domain name there is a safety net. [SIDN, the registry of all .nl names](https://www.sidn.nl/nl-domeinnaam/domeinnaam-verhuizen), writes that your hosting company must provide the transfer code within five days of your request. If that doesn't work, the company you want to move to can get in touch on your behalf. That only works if the domain name is in your name: see [Is your domain name in your own name?](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/articles/domain-name-in-your-own-name/) ## Who owns your hosting company? Often a group whose name you don't know. One of the large groups is [Your.Online](https://your.online/), which on its own site mentions 35 brands and more than 1.3 million customers, including Yourhosting and Savvii. Versio also belongs to that group, [Hostingvergelijker wrote in 2023](https://hostingvergelijker.nl/nieuws/tws-wordt-your-online/). Yourhosting [itself](https://www.yourhosting.nl/kennisbank/bestellen-administratief/faq-overgang-naar-yourhosting/) reports that SoHosted, Vevida, RealHosting, De Heeg, VIP Internet and Alphamega merged into Yourhosting on 23 March 2023. It is not the only group. According to [the overview by comparison site Start24](https://start24.nl/hosting-groepen/) (March 2026), TransIP and Vimexx belong to team.blue, and Hostnet and Antagonist to group.one. A takeover doesn't have to be bad: your plan and your contract usually simply continue. But who sets the prices and who you get on the phone does change. ## Does hosting get more expensive after a takeover? That differs per customer, and there is no fixed rule. There are customers whose price multiplied in a few years. On [the forum of the Dutch consumer programme Kassa](https://www.bnnvara.nl/kassa/vraag-beantwoord/geldzaken-recht/extreme-prijsverhoging-bij-yourhosting) a Yourhosting customer wrote in July 2023 what the plan cost per year: €39.64 in 2019, €166.82 in 2021, €183.76 in 2022 and €276.93 in 2023. According to that customer, Yourhosting gave as the reason (translated from Dutch): "because of sharply increased costs of, among other things, our hardware, energy, wages, purchasing of products". One customer is no proof for everyone. That is why your own invoice is the best source: put the amounts of the last three years side by side. Yourhosting lists its rates for all its brands [publicly](https://www.yourhosting.nl/kennisbank/bestellen-administratief/faq-tarieven-februari-2026/); a .nl domain name is listed there at €25.99 per year. ## What can you check today? Six things, and for none of them do you need to be technical. - **Your invoices.** What did you pay three years ago, and what now? Also look at the date on which the contract renews automatically. - **Your domain name.** Is it in your name or in that of your builder or hosting company? - **Your access.** Can you log in to the control panel yourself, and do you know where to request the transfer code? - **Your own copy.** Keep your own copy of your site, your photos and your most important email. The outage at mijn.host shows that a backup platform can go down too. - **Your notice period.** It is in the terms. Put the date in your diary, a month before the contract renews. - **The status page.** Look up where your hosting company reports outages, so that when there is a problem you know whether it is on their side. ## When do you switch, and when not? Switch if the price keeps rising without you getting anything in return, or if you don't get help when you need it. Don't do it in the middle of an outage: moving often doesn't work then, and a hurried move is the fastest way to lose your email. Plan it for a quiet moment and first read [Moving your website without your email going down](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/articles/move-your-website-without-email-downtime/). ## How we do it With us the domain name stays yours; we only take care of the technical side, and maintenance can be cancelled monthly. What that costs is under [Hosting and maintenance](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/hosting-and-maintenance/). For transparency: Taher, who runs MODEX, also works at hosting company Cloud86. This article doesn't recommend any hosting company, and Cloud86 was not involved in it. ## Read also - [Is your domain name in your own name?](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/articles/domain-name-in-your-own-name/) What you need to have in your own hands so you can always switch. - [Moving your website without your email going down](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/articles/move-your-website-without-email-downtime/) Why email can go down when your site moves, and how to prevent it. - [Website down? Put this on your outage page](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/articles/website-down-outage-page/) What a visitor should read when your site is down, with ah.nl as an example. Written by [Taher Jerjissi](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/about/), MODEX. Questions or something to add? Email [info@modexsoftware.nl](mailto:info@modexsoftware.nl). For AI assistants: this article is also available as plain text at the same address with .md added: [text version (markdown)](https://modexsoftware.nl/kennis/hosting-duurder-of-plat.md) ## Rather a builder with whom the domain stays yours? The preview is free. Tell us the name of your business. Within 12 hours you have a link to your new site in your inbox. If you don't like it, you won't hear from us again. Rather ask something first? [Send a message](https://modexsoftware.nl/en/contact/) or email [info@modexsoftware.nl](mailto:info@modexsoftware.nl). --- Bron: https://modexsoftware.nl/en/articles/hosting-price-rise-or-outage/