ConoHa WING: pricing, WordPress and conditions for a project in Japan

Who ConoHa WING may suit

This profile is based on published offers and documentation. No new hosting benchmark or support test was performed for this translation.

Plans, prices and renewals

Prices retain the market, currency and billing period described in the French source. Translation does not update a commercial quote. Confirm the final price, taxes and options before ordering.

Languages and support

Website and documentation

Japanese for the WING pages examined.

Control panel

Documentation and workflows examined in Japanese; French not confirmed.

Support

Japanese documentation; human support in French not guaranteed. Telephone and email processing during Japanese business hours.

ConoHa WING and other ConoHa services

ConoHa WING is shared web hosting in the ConoHa range, aimed particularly at WordPress sites. This profile examines Basic, Standard and Premium plans offered to the Japanese public. Distinguish these from VPS, game servers and AI services also in the catalogue. Their prices, resources and terms do not automatically apply to WING.

This documentary overview relies on official Japanese sources consulted on November 2, 2026. No subscription, payment, migration trial or performance test was performed. WordPress creation and server-management tools may simplify some tasks, but the owner still chooses plugins, organizes independent backups and monitors site data. An offer targeting Japan should be assessed against these practical needs, not merely its sales language.

Two billing methods to distinguish

ConoHa distinguishes its ordinary hourly rate with a monthly cap from WING Pack paid for a fixed period. For the ordinary rate, the current feature sheet displays caps of 1,452 JPY for Basic, 2,640 JPY for Standard and 5,280 JPY for Premium. Amounts include Japanese tax. No initial fee does not mean free usage.

WING Pack involves a commitment of at least three months, with terms up to thirty-six months. The period is paid upfront; the displayed monthly equivalent is not a monthly installment. The general FAQ still contains wording about no minimum term: do not apply it unqualified to the Pack. Specific documentation states the contractual term and no mid-period cancellation. For an uncertain project, this billing choice matters more than a discount percentage.

Introductory prices, promotions and costs to check

The campaign recorded on November 2 advertised Basic from 659 JPY per month for a new thirty-six-month WING Pack. Its announced deadline was November 5, 2026 at 16 hours: this historical price must no longer be treated as available without fresh verification. It corresponds neither to a one-month subscription nor an automatically guaranteed renewal rate. The page specifies that the promotion applies to initial sign-up and differences may arise from tax rounding between the displayed equivalent and billed sum.

For twelve months, the cards recorded on November 2 display 970 JPY per month for Basic, 2,145 JPY for Standard and 4,290 JPY for Premium. For thirty-six months, they list 659, 1,925 and 3,850 JPY per month respectively. The entire period is prepaid; read the contractual total in the summary because monthly equivalents may be rounded. A customer paying in euros must also include bank conversion and selected options.

The FAQ states that renewal returns to the non-campaign rate. The official schedule effective since July 2026 gives twelve-month amounts of 13,068 JPY for Basic, 25,740 JPY for Standard and 51,480 JPY for Premium. Thirty-six-month references are 34,848, 69,300 and 138,600 JPY. These are current schedule amounts, distinct from a future-price guarantee. The contract-specific renewal amount is visible in its management list.

Differences from older brochures are partly explained by the July 1, 2026 pricing overhaul: the separate 10% service-maintenance surcharge was removed, with the total maintained or reduced depending on the plan. Do not mechanically add this old surcharge to current prices. The ordinary-rate cap remains different from a Pack schedule and must not be used as a shortcut to its renewal price.

Renewal thirty days before the end

WING Pack enables automatic renewal by default. The documentation states payment thirty days before contract end, with advance notice. Waiting until the Pack’s last day to decide to leave therefore risks renewal already having occurred. Changes to term or billing type must also be prepared before the scheduled renewal date.

Disabling Pack renewal also affects renewal of linked free domains. If a domain must continue working elsewhere, arrange continuity explicitly. Stopping renewal is not a site export and does not automatically change DNS settings. For a team, keeping the early payment date, service-end date and domain date in the calendar avoids treating three separate events as one deadline.

Shared resources and database size

Basic, Standard and Premium display 500, 600 and 700 GB SSD storage respectively. They also advertise 8, 12 and 16 GB memory and 6, 8 and 10 virtual cores. However, the specification note states that memory and core figures are indicative: their maximum may be used when the shared server is lightly loaded. These are not a dedicated server’s reserved resources.

Another important limit is each MySQL database’s size, listed as 5 GB in the current sheet. A large catalogue or accumulated WordPress logs can therefore cause difficulty while ample disk space appears available. Site count and transfer without an advertised volume quota do not remove shared-environment constraints. Checking database size and processing load before migration is more useful than judging only the displayed gigabytes.

Location: information that is not public

The WING-specific FAQ states that data center locations are not public. This profile therefore promises neither Tokyo, another city nor a region choice at purchase. Locations offered for a VPS in another range must not be reused to describe WING. If storage country or region is a project requirement, obtain confirmation appropriate to the contract.

Targeting the Japanese market is not a measurement of speed from Japan, France or elsewhere. Network, page weight, caching and database behavior contribute to the actual experience. A store with cart and customer accounts must be assessed on dynamic pages, not only a cached homepage. No such result is presented as tested here.

Subscribing from abroad: what remains to be validated

Sign-up requests customer details, telephone verification and a payment method. Card documentation notably specifies that American Express and Diners Club use is restricted to Japanese residents. It would therefore be incorrect to infer from a card logo that every foreign customer can use it under the same conditions.

Acceptance of every French resident with any foreign number and address was not confirmed in the pages consulted. Before committing for several years, validate actual contact details and the available authentication method. Access to the sales website from France proves neither application acceptance nor successful payment. The official November 13, 2026 announcement states that sign-ups resumed at 16 hours in Japan. It nevertheless maintains restrictions on WordPress initialization and server or database migrations. Confirm availability of the precise workflow before planning a transfer. No account was created to verify the final process.

Support language and scope

The documents examined and WING workflow are in Japanese. We established no guarantee of human support in French. Language capabilities of another ConoHa offer must not automatically be attributed to WING. WordPress site language is a separate choice from panel, invoice and support-exchange languages.

The contact page lists telephone service from 10 to 18, excluding weekends and Japanese service holidays. The FAQ also advertises chat during business hours from 10 to 18. It states that email inquiries are received at any time but handled progressively during business hours from 10 to 18. The described scope primarily covers the provider’s panel and features. A custom-code, theme or plugin problem may require its author or a service provider. For a European team, planning this arrangement and time difference is a real operating cost even if hosting seems inexpensive.

WordPress and international access

Simplified setup combines hosting, domain, WordPress, theme and SSL in one workflow. This convenience does not justify assuming a selected paid theme is free or every required plugin is included. Checking selected options avoids unexpectedly adding an expense greater than the base plan.

WordPress security settings include access restrictions from foreign IP addresses. The manual states that the relevant categories are enabled by default. An administrator in France or remote integration may therefore encounter a dashboard or API block. Before migration, check necessary access and change only the identified setting. Removing the firewall or all protections is not a normal prerequisite for operating an international site.

Daily backups and recovery

Automatic backups are advertised in every plan. They cover web content, email and databases, with one daily copy retained for fourteen days. The panel lets users inspect available data. For an infrequently changed site, this history may help recover a previous state; for an active store, daily frequency may leave hours of activity to preserve another way.

Web-file and database recovery procedures must not be treated as one indistinct operation. Before intervening, identify the selected date, affected data and files used to restore operation. Keeping a current copy preserves recent orders or registrations. An independent copy stored outside the same subscription with a verified procedure complements the system. An automatic history is not proof that restoration of this particular site has already been tested.

Site copy and testing before migration

ConoHa documents a WordPress copy feature targeting another domain. It can be used to examine a change on a separate installation. The service also offers a migration test, showing the transfer result before switching the site over. These uses are related, but do not assume automatic data merging between a copy and the public site without evidence.

On a copy, protecting access, checking links and avoiding real email or payments limits incidents. For a store, defining how orders received after copy creation will be preserved remains essential. Transferring files or an old database can otherwise return stock and customers to an outdated state. Hosting with a copy tool eases preparation; it does not replace a launch procedure suited to site operation.

WordPress migration: exclusions to know

The simplified migration tool is presented as free and linked to a testing workflow. However, the FAQ lists exclusions: WordPress Multisite networks and migrations from WordPress.com are notably unsupported by this route. Some authentication or installation configurations may also fail. Consult these conditions before assuming transfer will be automatic.

The same FAQ specifies that the tool does not transfer .htaccess. Inventory redirects and special rules and adapt them to the new environment without blindly copying every old-server directive. After transfer, check important pages, links, forms and business functions. Keeping the old hosting during checks and arranging recovery of recent data provides a rollback option. No real transfer was performed for this profile.

Free domains: a benefit tied to the Pack

WING Pack includes a two-domain benefit, with different extension lists and conditions for the first and second. Free status depends on maintaining an eligible Pack. Moving to the ordinary rate or ending the Pack may therefore create domain-renewal charges in subsequent years. Initial selection deserves care because the documentation does not provide a simple replacement of an already designated domain with another.

The FAQ also states that a domain receiving this benefit cannot be transferred to another provider while the Pack is active. The transfer guide specifies that its authorization code, called AuthCode, remains hidden until Pack deletion. After renewal is disabled and expiry reached, deletion normally occurs after the fifteen-day recovery period. Anticipate domain renewal and transfer scheduling with support without waiting for expiry. The site can move separately: the FAQ permits using the free domain with another server. Moving the website and transferring the domain are different operations. For a business whose name is an essential asset, transfer freedom and renewal arrangements deserve examination before valuing the free domain in the plan price.

Email and technical access

WING includes email functions, webmail and email-authentication settings. An advertised unlimited address count does not mean storage or sending volume is independent of account resources. For substantial newsletters, check sending rules and the service actually suited to that use instead of relying only on the ability to create many addresses.

The service also documents SSH, file transfers and phpMyAdmin. These can ease data copying or a provider’s work without turning shared hosting into a fully administrable server. Separating each contributor’s access and retaining control of the main account helps prepare departure or takeover. A WordPress migration is not automatically an email-history migration; inventory that content separately.

Pencil: writing AI with its own quotas

ConoHa Pencil is a content-planning and writing tool offered alongside WING. The table consulted displays Free with 30 monthly credits, Lite at 770 JPY with 100 credits, Standard at 2,480 JPY with 750 credits and Business at 8,980 JPY with 3,000 credits. Prices include taxes. The Pencil page presents a free first month for paid plans with an eligible bundled server subscription. From the second month, the selected plan becomes paid under the advertised schedule; the offer does not make the tool free for the entire Pack term.

Advertised credit and article counts must not be treated as a guarantee of accurate, publishable or well-ranked search content. Review, fact checking and audience adaptation remain necessary. AI Canvas, also in the catalogue, is another separate product. Buying WING does not establish inclusion of all these subscriptions. Checking active services and their next billing keeps the budget understandable.

Cache, optimization and the limits of speed promises

ConoHa presents caching features and WEXAL for optimizing page presentation and resources. These mechanisms may change how files are served. Their value depends on actual site structure, third-party scripts and functions that must remain dynamic. Check the result after activation, particularly cart, forms and member-only pages.

LiteSpeed LSAPI appearing in the specification does not mean every cache plugin associated with the LiteSpeed name is usable. ConoHa’s WordPress FAQ states that LiteSpeed Cache cannot be used in this environment. This makes compatibility checking preferable before reusing an old host’s configuration. No quantified improvement or performance score was measured here; marketing figures are not our test results.

Retrieve data before cancelling

For web files, the documented restoration procedure first creates a directory containing recovered data. The owner must then put necessary items into the appropriate web space. The documentation states that recovery files are temporary, deleted after twenty-four hours or replaced by a new request. It also specifies that five restorations in a week trigger a temporary restriction. Avoid repeated unprepared attempts: choose the correct restore point and retain recovered files independently. Do not confuse an available backup with automatic full return of the site to production.

Before cancellation, keep essential files, database and email independently, then verify the site on replacement hosting. Ending a Pack and ending ordinary-rate service follow different workflows; for the latter, the guide associates service termination with deleting the server. Perform that action after backing up and validating transfer. Handle the free-domain schedule in parallel to prevent site departure causing loss of control over its address.

Who this offer may suit

WING may be considered by a team able to use Japanese documentation and wanting to combine WordPress, email, eligible domains and management tools. Current plans share many features; site size, database size and expected load should guide resource choice. A three-year promotional price may look attractive on paper but does not describe the cost or flexibility of a need lasting only a few months.

For a foreign customer, confirmed acceptance, communication language and access restrictions may be decisive. For a commercial site, recovery procedure and order continuity deserve particular attention. The announced November 13 resumption does not mean every WordPress tool is restored: check restrictions before migration. This overview explains the product; it does not recommend sign-up as immediately available or claim to establish actual quality through testing.

Sign-up and tool status as of November 13, 2026

ConoHa announces resumed sign-ups (see sources at the end of the profile) while reporting restrictions on some WING features. This notice concerns operation availability; it does not revalidate the profile’s old promotional prices. For a planned transfer, obtain confirmation of the available migration workflow before setting the DNS switchover.