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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 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 live chat, multilingual — 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 86/100 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 live chat, multilingual
- Refund window
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Starts at
- $2.99/mo
- Perf Index
- 86/100
- 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
3 support audits · How we test
- Support first response
- 3m 42s avg12 chat tickets, Feb–Apr 2026
Worst case: 18m on Sun 03:00 UTC
- TTFB (Frankfurt, cached)
- 168 ms p507-day Pingdom, Apr 2026
- Refund honored
- 2 of 2Test cancellations within 30-day window, Mar 2026
- Renewal multiplier
- 4.0x$2.99 intro → $11.99 renewal, business plan
- Excellent dashboard UX
- LiteSpeed servers with native caching
- Generous global data center footprint
- Strong entry-level pricing
- Renewal pricing climbs after the intro term
- Phone support is not standard
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.
Renews higher after the introductory term. Always check renewal pricing.
One-click WordPress installer with managed caching and staging on higher tiers.
We’d revise Hostinger’s score if…
- Renewal pricing rose materially above the $2.99/mo bracket without a corresponding feature uplift.
- Median support response time exceeded our category threshold across two consecutive monthly probes.
- Measured uptime fell below the 99.9% measured across our test window commitment in a 90-day rolling window, or a confirmed outage went unannounced.
- The refund window (30-day money-back guarantee) was narrowed, or readers reported friction actually claiming it.
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.
- 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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