Hostinger Review

Company Overview

Hostinger, founded in 2004, is a provider of stable, fast, and streamlined web hosting services. You can avail these services at very low prices. Initially formed as 'Hosting Media', the Lithuania-based web hosting company has grown rapidly.

It has become a popular and reliable web hosting provider. The hosting provider boasts over 29 million customers with local services in 39 countries. On average, about 20,000 customers sign up on a daily basis.

Hostinger has the goal of helping its users learn, grow, and create. They have been very successful so far with their amazing service and very economical prices.

Server Speed and Network Performance

There is no doubt that hardware is at the heart of any successful hosting service, and this is no different for Hostinger.

Powered by reliable cloud-based Solid State Drive (SSD) technology as well as double RAID protection, the company provides the kind of hosting solutions that you may not find anywhere else, especially at the same price.

And it does not mean that you will have to compromise on quality.

If you are a more demanding user, you may try one of Hostinger's dependable semi-managed VPS plans. These plans start with a basic one vCPU, 20GB storage, 1GB RAM, and 1TB bandwidth. Or you may go for a very capable four vCore, 80GB storage, 4GB RAM, and 4TB bandwidth plan.

Another hardware advantage provided by the company includes double RAID data protection. The technology is great as it results in your valuable data being written on more than one disk.

And that is not all; it's also capable of reading data at considerably higher speeds. As a result, you won't have to worry about any performance issues if you have heavy applications.

This is great value, given the affordable prices of these plans.

Uptime and Reliability

One of the most important web hosting elements is uptime. This is because it measures the availability of your website. Hostinger is excellent as it offers an uptime guarantee of 99.99%, which is an industry standard.

Keep in mind that the company's virtual servers are built on a reliable cloud network. And this means you are always assured of top availability, which is great for your business. This is because websites with excellent uptime are considered dependable.

On the other hand, websites with poor uptime are unreliable and inaccessible. Hostinger tends to outperform most of the competition, and this is extremely impressive, given that it is a simple shared hosting product.

And here is another reason to use this service. If your website's downtime goes below 99.9% because of Hostinger's faults, all you have to do is contact them. You will get 5% of the monthly fee back. So, given these fantastic results, you will be able to rely on Hostinger for dependable uptime.

Hosting Plans and Tech Features

The provider offers different types of hosting plans. Similar to most other web hosting services, Hostinger also offers shared hosting.

With shared hosting, your site will be on a server with many other websites, sharing the resources of a single server. You can start with a 'Single Shared Hosting' package. It is mainly aimed at home users.

The benefit of using shared hosting is that you divide the hosting costs, and this makes web hosting more affordable.

If you have higher hosting requirements, then the 'Premium Shared Hosting' plan can be an ideal fit for you. While the provider imposes a 20 GB storage limit, this may not affect you. And the best part is that you will enjoy unlimited bandwidth, FTP users and email accounts, and databases.

Some features of this plan include an Easy Website Builder. Also, you can use one-click installers for WordPress and many other popular applications. The Business plan has all the features of the Premium plan, but it adds daily backups, a free SSL certificate, and you will enjoy double the processing power.

All plans have a thirty-day money-back guarantee.

WordPress is one of the world's most popular content management systems. Like most other website hosts, Hostinger has multiple WordPress plans. The company has optimized WordPress performance 'via the use of PHP7.1, HTTP/2, and NGINX, customized built and caching WordPress (pre-installed) plugins.

Hostinger's WordPress hosting is quite good, other than the skimpy specs that are associated with their entry-level Single plan.

Control Panel and Software

You will be pleased to know that all shared, e-commerce and WordPress plans on the platform come with Hostinger's customized hPanel control panel. Note that you will use this to manage your site as well as your web hosting environment.

The nice thing is that Hostinger's control panel uses almost the same idea as the Microsoft tiles. You will easily be able to see the option or category along with a picture. It will provide some insight if you are not sure what it does, which is very helpful.

The hPanel is cloud based and is also intuitive and simple to use, which is great for you. And that is not all; Hostinger collects user feedback and frequently releases new features, updates, and improvements, so it has you covered.

While the simple setup of the customized control panel is very nice from a user's perspective, many experienced site owners and web developers prefer familiarity over simplicity.

Hostinger's control panel lets you install a CMS easily and then set up your account information, integrations and email accounts, domain configurations, files, databases, permissions, and a lot more.

Support Performance

We know that customer support is crucial and can either make or break a website host. This is because you may lose out on plenty of sales if your website is down for some reason and you are not able to contact a customer support individual as soon as possible.

There are many things that are likely to go wrong for most customer support teams. Fortunately, Hostinger's customer support is great, and you will get outstanding service.

You will find their staff to be very friendly and informative, and they will answer your questions with the suitable links and even some feel-great GIFs. So, this is another area where Hostinger will not disappoint you.

The company is also great as it provides you with a multilingual customer support team. They also offer live chat, and have integrated Intercom as one of their central support systems. However, there is one downside. Hostinger lacks telephone support, so it lacks human touch.

Also, Hostinger has a great knowledge base. It has articles that are comprehensive and short. You will be able to find information, guides, and answers to several questions on your own. You will be pleased by the sheer number of articles on offer (83 for hPanel, 82 under Website, and 40 for Domains).

However, many articles were only a line or two and lack the depth you would expect. Hostinger also has tutorials (everything from site building to SEO), including images and gifs on how to get things done.

Pricing, Value and Renewal Fees

What really sets this website hosting company apart from others in the market is their introductory prices.

The great thing is that Hostinger has nearly all the same features as those offered by a premium website hosting company, but only at a fraction of the price. For example, the Premium Plan costs just $2.15 per month.

As a whole, Hostinger plans are very affordable, especially when you first sign up for the service. However, when you renew, the company will increase their prices significantly.

Although Hostinger has changed their renewal pricing in order to lower the hikes recently, for many, the price increase may still be an unpleasant surprise. We think that while the renewal rates are a little more expensive compared to the introductory ones, they are still affordable.

And here is one thing that you will like. There're no hidden renewal fees, which is very reassuring. Also, you may always upgrade mid-subscription in order to get your remaining balance credited to your new plan.

So, when it comes to value, we will have to say that the company provides one of the best bang for your buck, particularly for people and businesses that are only starting out!

You may choose to pay your fee with Visa, American Express, MasterCard, Discover, BitDegree, Paypal, or various cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.