We talk to a lot of business owners who are paying $30, $50, sometimes $100+ a month for hosting on a website that's a handful of pages — an "About Us," a contact form, maybe a blog. No logins, no shopping cart, no dynamic features. Just information, sitting on infrastructure priced for something with a database and live traffic spikes.
That's not always a bad deal — managed hosting buys convenience, and convenience is worth something. But often nobody's actually checked. The plan was set up years ago, by whoever set the site up, and it's just been auto-renewing ever since.
So we built a tool that checks for you: the Site Scanner.
How it works
Paste in any URL. The scanner fetches the page, looks at the response headers and the HTML, and figures out what platform it's running on — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, and more. It also checks for dynamic features: logins, e-commerce, membership areas, anything that actually needs server-side processing.
From there it produces an Overpay Score from 0–100, plus a plain-English verdict from Claude explaining the reasoning:
- 0–30 (paying fairly): your hosting roughly matches what your site needs.
- 31–60 (room to save): there's likely a cheaper option that would serve your site just as well.
- 61–100 (overpaying): your site is static or close to it — a simple brochure site that should be running on hosting built for static pages, which is dramatically cheaper.
Who it's for
Business owners who aren't sure if their hosting bill matches their actual needs, and want a quick, honest second opinion — not a sales pitch. It's free to run, no account needed.
Still in the lab
This one's actively being developed — detection coverage and recommendations are improving regularly. If you run it on your site and something looks off, we'd genuinely like to hear about it.
Free, takes about 30 seconds.