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Hostinger
Modern value at scale
Hostinger pairs a clean modern dashboard with LiteSpeed-powered shared and cloud plans across global data centers. It is the platform we recommend most often for creators, freelancers, and small businesses who want capable hosting without paying enterprise prices.
Where Hostinger actually fits
Hostinger is best understood as a shared host built for creators, small businesses, growing wordpress sites. Plans start at $2.99/mo/mo and are backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee window, which gives you a realistic runway to test under your own traffic before committing to a renewal. Support is handled via 24/7 chat — a detail that matters far more once something breaks at 2 a.m. than it does on the day you sign up.
On performance, our composite Perf Index puts Hostinger at 100/100 across 9 data-center regions. Readiness for modern workloads breaks down as good for SaaS and limited for AI-adjacent workloads — numbers we re-check quarterly rather than inherit from a brochure.
Our take: Best overall value for most builders.
The specs that matter
- Uptime
- 99.9% measured across our test window
- Support
- 24/7 chat
- Refund window
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Starts at
- $2.99/mo/mo
- Perf Index
- 100/100
- Data center regions
- 9
- SaaS-ready
- Good
- AI workload-ready
- Limited
Perf Index is Hostilo’s composite of TTFB, sustained uptime, and median support response — scored 0–100. See our methodology for the full weighting.
Hostinger — findings, not adjectives
5 support audits · How we test
- Support first response
- 3m 42s avg12 chat tickets, Jul–Oct 2026
Worst case: 18m on Sun 03:00 UTC
- TTFB (Frankfurt, cached)
- 168 ms p507-day Pingdom, Jul–Oct 2026
- Refund honored
- 2 of 2Test cancellations within 30-day window, Jul–Oct 2026
- Renewal multiplier
- 4.0x$2.99 intro → $11.99 renewal, business plan
- Competitive intro pricing for 48-month plans
- Free domain for 1 year with most plans
- Comprehensive AI tools for building & marketing
- Free migrations with dedicated support
- Daily backups included with higher plans
- Renewal prices are significantly higher than intro rates
- Only 3 websites on the lowest plan
- Free domain and email marketing are for 1 year only
- Unlimited features are subject to a Fair Usage Policy
What you get
Hostinger intro vs. renewal — tracked
Observed intro price over time from our automated checks, plotted against the disclosed renewal rate. Hover any point for the source and date.
Every point is an observed intro price from our automated checks against Hostinger’s public pricing page. The dashed line is the disclosed renewal price. At today's intro, renewal is 3.7× higher.
Intro $2.99/mo/mo, renews at $10.99/mo.
One-click WordPress installer with managed caching and staging on higher tiers.
We’d revise Hostinger’s score if…
- If the starting price for the 'Premium' plan increases above $3.99/month, re-evaluate its value proposition.
- If the renewal price for the 'Premium' plan drops below $7.99/month, significantly improve its score.
- If a clear uptime SLA (e.g., 99.9% or higher) is published, consider it a positive improvement.
- If the refund policy changes to less than 30 days, flag it as a negative change.
- If AI Builder credits are removed or significantly reduced from current offerings, re-assess feature value.
Every revision is logged on the public corrections log. If you have evidence that one of the above already applies, email corrections@hostilo.net.
What's actually changed at Hostinger
Every price move, outage, policy change, and ownership shift we’ve verified — chronological, sourced where possible. This is the record behind the score.
- PolicyAuto-verified
Score-revision criteria updated
Detected during automated Q4 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - FeatureAuto-verified
Features no longer listed: Free SSL, Weekly backups (daily on Business plan), Drag-and-drop website builder…
Detected during automated Q4 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - FeatureAuto-verified
New features detected: Free SSL certificate, Weekly/Daily backups, Built-in CDN…
Detected during automated Q4 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - SupportAuto-verified
Support channels updated: "24/7" → "24/7 chat"
Detected during automated Q4 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - PolicyAuto-verified
Refund policy changed: "30-day money-back" → "30-day money-back guarantee"
Detected during automated Q4 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - PriceAuto-verified
Intro price changed from $2.99 /mo to $2.99/mo
Detected during automated Q4 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - FeatureAuto-verified
Features no longer listed: LiteSpeed Web Server, Free SSL & weekly backups, Free domain on annual plans…
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - PolicyAuto-verified
Score-revision criteria updated
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - PriceAuto-verified
Intro price changed from $2.99 to $2.99 /mo
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - SupportAuto-verified
Support channels updated: "24/7 live chat, multilingual" → "24/7 chat"
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - FeatureAuto-verified
New features detected: Free SSL, Weekly backups, Free domain for 1 year…
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - FeatureAuto-verified
Features no longer listed: LiteSpeed Web Server, Free SSL & weekly backups, Free domain on annual plans…
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - PolicyAuto-verified
Score-revision criteria updated
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - PriceAuto-verified
Intro price changed from $2.99 to $2.99 /mo
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - SupportAuto-verified
Support channels updated: "24/7 live chat, multilingual" → "24/7"
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - FeatureAuto-verified
New features detected: Free SSL, Free domain for 1 year, Weekly backups (daily on Business plan)…
Detected during automated Q3 2026 audit of Hostinger.
Source ↗ - FeatureEditorial
LiteSpeed cache enabled on all shared plans by default
Reduced TTFB on WordPress installs by ~22% in our re-test.
- PriceEditorial
Renewal pricing on Premium plan rose ~18%
Intro price unchanged at $2.99/mo, but year-2 renewal moved from $9.99 to $11.99/mo.
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