review on hostinger

Hostinger is one of the most affordable web hosts on the market, with prices starting at just €1.99 per month. Even when compared to other budget-friendly hosting providers, this is a really low price. So, what’s the catch?

The catch is, to get the best deal you’d have to sign up for four years of hosting, and pay for it all at once. That’s quite the commitment, but it also means you’ll be getting a fixed, highly discounted price for nearly half a decade. Which is a good thing, as long as Hostinger can provide good service for the duration.

Can it? As we’ve tested this host multiple times over the years, I’d say very probably – depending on your needs. It primarily offers shared and WordPress hosting with marketing aimed at new customers. There is plenty of help for newbies to web hosting, and the service can work very well for personal sites, business landing pages, and small-to-medium-sized online stores.

Hostinger also offers VPS and cloud hosting for those looking to host traffic-heavy, resource-demanding websites. But this isn’t Hostinger’s strongest suit – these plans appear to lack value and flexibility when compared to plans from hosts that specialize in higher-tier services.

Hostinger is definitely best if you’re looking for a low-cost entry into the wonderful world of shared web hosting, or to migrate your site(s) from an overpriced or underperforming web host.

It’s also worth noting that Hostinger offers plans for resellers. These work well if you’re a solo web designer or web development agency serving individual clients or small businesses with sites that get average traffic.

Another important note: aside from English, Hostinger’s website is available in dozens of other languages, and its customer interface is available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Portuguese (and Brazilian Portuguese), Russian, Spanish (Argentina, Columbia, Mexico, and Spain), Turkish, and Ukrainian.

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Generous With Bandwidth, SSD Storage, and Number of Sites

With such affordable prices, I expected Hostinger to be tight on resources. Many budget web hosts cut costs by allocating fewer resources per customer, because this allows them to jam more hosting accounts onto each server.

But Hostinger offers plenty of resources for its low rates – the WordPress Starter plan includes support for 100 websites, 100 GB of SSD storage, and unlimited bandwidth. This is more than what many other budget hosts offer with their most expensive plans. You’ll have plenty of room to grow and develop your online presence, and you’ll be able to host many sites at once.

Optimized Performance From LiteSpeed Web Server

Hostinger employs the impressively fast LiteSpeed web server – this is the software running on the physical server that delivers your website’s content to your visitors. LiteSpeed outperforms the more traditional Apache web server, upon which many other web hosts still rely due to its open-source (i.e. free) license.

LiteSpeed itself already offers great performance, but its LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress plugin stores pre-loaded (cached) copies of your web pages, which can then be more quickly delivered to your visitors.

Unlimited Free SSL, and a Robust Security Suite

No matter how tight your budget is, you can’t afford to go with a web host that’ll leave your site vulnerable to malware or DDoS attacks. Fortunately, Hostinger understands the importance of security and provides protection from an array of potential online threats.

Every plan includes free SSL for all your sites, an in-house-developed web application firewall, an automatic malware scanner, and Cloudflare DDoS protection for Hostinger’s nameservers – this is not to be confused with Cloudflare’s content delivery network (CDN), which isn’t enabled by default. This may not be the most advanced security suite out there – but it’ll keep you safe from the most common threats. It’s also more than what you’d get with most other budget hosts.

Massive Discounts for New Customers (and a Free Domain Name With Certain Plans)

Pricing is usually what draws customers to Hostinger in the first place. Hostinger is easily one of the most affordable options for shared and WordPress hosting, with prices starting as low as €1.99 per month. These can be purchased on monthly, annual, biennial, and quadrennial (that’s 4 years!) billing cycles.

Signing up for four years gets you the best prices, but it also locks you into the longest commitment. The monthly plans are rather poor value, though you can still get a good deal with the annual or biennial plans. Hostinger offers a risk-free 30-day money-back guarantee, so if you aren’t satisfied, you can cancel within the first month for a full refund.

I’ll let you in on a little secret – you can get an even better deal if you play your cards right. The WordPress Starter plan comes with a free domain name, while the entry-level WordPress Single plan does not – meaning you’ll actually save more money with the higher-tier plan in your first year of hosting. You’ll get unlimited bandwidth and email accounts too, making it the best-value plan overall.

That's it for now, I hope you learned something new!