Hostinger is an experienced Lithuanian web host (opens in a new tab) with 1000+ employees and 1M+ subscribers worldwide.
The Datanyze Web Hosting Market Share Report (Opens in a new tab) ranks Hostinger 36th, used by approximately 71.000 companies, for 0,5% of the hosting market. While it's still not threatening GoDaddy (opens in a new tab) (with 14,9% of the market, in case you were wondering), it still outpaces big names like HostDime (opens in a new tab) (0,45 ,Four. Five %). Media Temple (Opens in a new tab) (0,44%), HostPapa (Opens in a new tab) (0,35%), and A2 Hosting (Opens in a new tab) (0,33%).
Hostinger isn't just building its own service, though, it's developed and launched new brands and products, including website builder ( opens in a new tab) Zyro, and web hosts including Hosting24 ( 000webhost ( opens in a new tab) and the free service 000webhost (opens in a new tab).
What kind of hosting plans does Hostinger offer?
- Host Subscription Options:
- 12 month plan - €1.99 per month (€23.88 total cost) (opens in a new tab)
Hostinger (Opens in a new tab) offers cheap shared hosting (Opens in a new tab) for small to medium-sized sites with low traffic. VPS hosting (Opens in a new tab) and Cloud hosting (Opens in a new tab) give your website more resources to boost speed, making them suitable for more demanding and critical sites. company. (How much? A good VPS can handle a WordPress site with hundreds of thousands of visitors per month.)
Hostinger doesn't have dedicated server products (opens in a new tab), which is bad news if you're looking for maximum performance and reliability.
But as compensation for at least some users, Hostinger is one of the few big hosting names to offer preconfigured Minecraft server hosting (opens in a new tab) starting at less than $10 per month.
What package is the adecuado para usted? Next, we'll explore Hostinger's range of shared, VPS, and WordPress (opens in a new tab) hosting, break down what they offer, what they don't, and help you identify the best choices for vosotras.
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting works exactly as the name suggests: your site is hosted on one web server with many others, all sharing server costs and resources. It's inexpensive and relatively easy to use, and while it's the slowest type of hosting, shared plans can still handle sites with tens of thousands of visitors per month.
Hostinger shared hosting starts with the Single plan. It's cheap at $1.99 per month for four years ($3.99 on renewal) and comes with welcome features: free SSL (opens in a new tab), easy WordPress installation and management. But it also has many limitations: support for one website, no free domain, 50 GB of storage, only one email account, 100 GB of bandwidth, backups are only weekly. If you know exactly what you need and it works, great; otherwise, it is better to ignore it.
The Premium plan is still cheap at €2.99 per month to start (€6.99 on renewal), but it waives or removes all those limits: there's support for 100 websites, one free domain, 100GB of storage, 100 email addresses, unlimited email and bandwidth. Backups are still only weekly, which is a significant weakness.
However, the premium business plan adds the must-have daily backups and adds the Cloudflare(opens in a new tab) CDN (content delivery network) for maximum speeds. Its price is €4.99 per month for the first four years, €8.99 upon renewal.
They are feature-rich products that performed very well in our speed tests and offer excellent value for money. The business plan is our pick of the range. It outperforms products that are twice as expensive as other hosts, and Hostinger suggests that it can handle sites with up to around 100 visitors per month.
Also consider HostGator, whose feature-rich shared hosting is a great value, quick to try out, and has some amazing extra features for demanding users (free SSL upgrade and a dedicated IP address on the business plan).
WordPress Hosting
WordPress is the world's favorite website builder, a versatile platform that works for everyone, from hosting beginners building a small family site to international corporations with the most business-critical web projects.
Hostinger has strong WordPress support across most of their lines, ensuring there is a solution for just about everyone.
The single WordPress plan is extremely basic (supports one website, only one email address, no free domains, few resources, slow speeds). But it has easy WordPress installation, weekly backups, and (Hostinger claims) can handle up to 10,000 visitors per month. The real draw of the plan, though, is its price, at just €1.99 per month for four years, €3.99 on renewal. It could work as a cheap way to learn WordPress, assuming you only build the most basic sites.
The Business WordPress plan is our pick from the range. It's much more expensive at €6,99 per month for four years, €16,99 on renewal. But it has much better specs: 100 websites, 100 email addresses, free domains, handles up to 100,000 visitors per month, and adds valuable extras including staging (a trial feature of the Precious Web site) and Cloudflare CDN (available opens in a new tab) (a huge speedup advantage). This is a plan that can handle more demanding personal and small to medium business sites.
If your needs are even greater (you have multiple business-critical sites, or perhaps a busy online store where speed is absolutely vital), then Hostinger's agency range could help. It has all the same features of WordPress, but makes it easier to manage and control access to multiple sites, and improves performance by giving you significantly more server resources.
The Agency Pro plan is our pick of the lineup: it gives you twice the resources of the Business WordPress plan, but is still very affordable at $14.99 per month for four years ($49.99 on renewal).
Also consider IONOS. Their Business WordPress plan offers free SSL, a free domain, and daily backups, but it's only $0.50 per month for the first year—great if you're looking to learn WordPress and see if it's right for you.
VPS hosting
Signing up for VPS (virtual private server) hosting gives you access to a private space on a web server with your own system resources. This automatically gives any VPS a speed advantage over shared hosting, and the more resources your plan includes (CPU time, RAM, storage space), the faster it will be. If your site has 100.000 visitors per month or more, or is particularly demanding and
Hostinger offers eight VPS plans, giving you plenty to choose from. They start at a cheap price of just $3.49 per month for four years ($6.99 on renewal) for an extremely basic CPU core, 1GB of RAM, and 20GB of VPS storage, but go up from there, and the Premium VPS plan offers 8 cores, 16 GB of RAM and 250 GB of storage for €77,99 per month for four years (€131,99 on renewal).
The range is fair, but it won't work for everyone. One of the reasons Hostinger's prices are low is because their VPS plans are unmanaged (opens in a new tab). This means that Hostinger does not monitor the operating system, configure the firewall, install security patches or do anything similar - you have to manage the server system software yourself. It's manageable for experts, and if you know what you're doing, the extra control can even be a bonus. But it's a potentially tricky nuisance for everyone.
There are also technical limitations. Hostinger's VPS plans get a 100 Mbps connection to the outside world, for example, which sounds good, but it's less than many major providers and you could be overwhelmed if you're using busy sites with lots of visitors simultaneously.
If low prices are a must, consider IONOS. Their most basic VPS starts at $2 billed per month, even a 6-core system with 12GB of RAM is only $35 per month billed annually ($18 for the first six months), and all plans include a network connection. at 400Mbps.
But if that's the option you're looking for, check out Hostwinds - opens in a new tab. You've got a cheap unmanaged VPS billed from $4.99 per month, but there's a range of managed VPS (where Hostwinds does all the low-level server administration for you) starting at just $8 per month. All plans are more configurable, there's Windows hosting if you need it, more powerful systems on the higher end, and 24Gbps network speeds to keep performance high even at peak times.
Does Hostinger have a website creator?
If you don't have a website yet and WordPress seems a bit intimidating, a website builder might be the easiest way to get started. They usually have a gallery of pre-made website designs that you can use to get started. Adding images, videos, maps, and other page elements is as easy as drag and drop, and customizing the content with your own text and photos works just like any editor.
Hostinger has an interesting website builder called Zyro (Opens in a new tab). Although mentioned on Hostinger's main site, the service is marketed separately under the Zyro band, and heading to the Zyro website is the best way to learn more about it.
That's exactly what we did and found a simple and straightforward tool that we could use right out of the box. No need to spend a lot of time scrolling through feature lists, comparing plans, or wondering how much you can afford - just provide your email address to create an account and you can start building right away.
Zyro is much more about ease of use than functionality, and it doesn't have many features. There are only 130 templates, for example, which isn't huge compared to other site builders. The editor is relatively basic. There aren't many objects you can add to a page, and the ones you get are pretty limited. Videos are from YouTube or Vimeo only; there's built-in support for adding an Instagram feed, but not tweets or Facebook posts. (You can add these and other types of content by searching for and embedding your HTML - opens in a new tab), but that's a pain and doesn't really fit the approach in...