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Hostinger

Hostinger

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Shared hosting
Free plan
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What customers keep saying · from 85 reviews

poor support23great value18reliable17helpful support12renewal price hike9easy to use8fast8resource limits6

Their sites on Hostinger often take 8 seconds to start loading and the suggested fixes were hard to follow.

“at hostinger it is very often take 8 seconds until my websites start to load”
negativeslow

Uses Hostinger for two sites and rates its support best, even the AI can update PHP automatically.

“Out of all these, Hostinger had the best support. Even their AI can instantly execute things like updating PHP automatically.”
positivehelpful support

Moved to Hostinger from SiteGround and says it has been ok, at a lower price.

“I did eventually go with Hostinger since then and it's been ok.”
mixedgreat value

On Hostinger you can host about 50 sites on one plan for $50 a year and it works fine.

“you can have like 50 sites on the same plan for $50 a year, and it works just fine”
positivegreat value

Found Hostinger noticeably faster and cheaper than Bluehost, though support was better at Bluehost.

“Have found Hostinger a good deal faster (and cheaper) but support was imo better at bluehost (and available 24 hrs there.”
mixedfastgreat value

On Hostinger Cloud Startup the server works well but support is poor and takes days.

“poor, horrible support and takes days ...”
mixedpoor supportreliable

Hosts content sites and client portfolios on Hostinger: clean interface, decent speed with many plugins and rock-solid with no drama.

“I host content sites and client portfolios there and it’s been rock-solid with no drama whatsoever.”
positivereliablefast

After three years on Hostinger, started seeing database issues and moved to a cheaper host that performed better.

“I've been using Hostinger for the past three years, but recently started experiencing issues with their database.”
negativereliable

A Hostinger user finds it enough to host multiple browsing sites, though they prefer Google Workspace for high email volume.

“so far im using hostinger for browsing site hosting, enough to use for multiple.”
positive

A site owner with 1M+ monthly visits says Hostinger's CPU allocation can't handle traffic spikes, causing performance problems.

“I’ve been using Hostinger for a while, but server resources have been a significant issue. Their CPU allocation often can't handle the traffic spikes, leading to performance problems.”
negativeresource limitsslow

A freelancer who hosts clients on WP Engine uses Hostinger for small projects, enjoys its simplicity and offers it to little clients on a budget.

“I'm enjoying Hostinger for its simplicity and it's an option for any little clients who don't want to spend much on hosting.”
positiveeasy to usegreat value

A Hostinger customer says their site is down all the time and the only support is an AI chatbot, so they'd never recommend it.

“I will never recomend anyone to use hostinger, i am using there hosting plan, all the time my webiste is down, and they said we are fixing, no support team”
negativeoutagespoor support

A user finds Hostinger has solid uptime and affordable rates and does everything a managed WordPress host should.

“I’ve found Hostinger to be an option that has solid uptime and affordable rates and pretty much does everything you’d need a manage WP hosting service to do.”
positivereliablegreat value

A Hostinger customer says there is barely any human support and the price rises after the first term, though the platform itself is amazing.

“I have experience with hostinger. They barely have any human support, if you need help you will have to sit there beg the AI for an hour to connect you”
mixedpoor supportrenewal price hike

A WordPress developer has had Hostinger for years for personal sites and side projects with no issues whatsoever.

“I have had Hostinger for years for my personal WP site and some side projects and have had no issues whatsoever.”
positivereliable

A Hostinger customer with three side projects and a personal site there has never had issues and likes the pricing.

“Also a Hostinger customer. I have 3 side projects and my personal site there and have never had any issues. Also, great pricing!”
positivereliablegreat value

A user says Hostinger's (and OVH's) customer service is the absolute worst.

“I can tell you, do not pick Hostinger or OVH. Their costumer service is the absolute worst.”
negativepoor support

A web builder found Hostinger blocks all traffic from ExpressVPN's USA servers, locking out a client's father, and support was useless.

“Hostinger blocks all traffic from ExpressVPN USA servers. All of them. It's insane!!! I built a client's site using it and her father couldn't access it. Hostinger support was useless.”
negativepoor support

A user migrated a dozen sites to Hostinger in a few months and found the migration smooth, the UI clean and the support response time decent, though email isn't free.

“I had migrated a dozen sites to Hostinger. The migration piece was smooth as can be for me--I could hardly believe it. The DNS propagated very quickly and everything was”
positiveeasy migrationeasy to use

A developer who left Bluehost now uses Hostinger and has had no glaring issues, with good domain deals.

“I use Hosting24 (Hostinger) now. Personally have had no glaring issues. The deals on domains are pretty good too, since Google Domains croaked.”
positivereliable

A developer who also tried GoDaddy, Bluehost and HostGator has used Hostinger for three years and finds it incredible and affordable, with great docs and chat support.

“Personally I’ve used Hostinger for the last 3 years and I find them to be incredible and affordable. They also have some really good documentation which is easily laid out and great chat support.”
positivegreat valuehelpful support

A Hostinger customer manages 3 websites from one plan and everything has been going smoothly.

“I use hostinger. Currently i manage 3 websites from the same plan and everything has been going smoothly”
positivereliable

Has used Hostinger for about six years and been happy.

“I've been using Hostinger for like 6 years now and have been happy”
positivereliable

A small host who used Hostinger says it has no phone line, only slow email support and occasional slow live chat, and migrating off it got harder.

“Hostinger doesn't have a support line, they have a very slow (and also quite awful) email support system and occasionally live chat which is still super slow and awful”
negativepoor support

A web designer has used Hostinger's shared WordPress hosting for five years without problems, for simple sites like restaurants and cafes.

“I’ve used Hostinger for 5 years with no issues but yes it’s shared WP hosting good for simple sites (restaurants, cafes etc) but they do have vps plans also.”
positivereliable

A freelancer has run their own and clients' sites on Hostinger for four years with minimal to no downtime.

“Been using it for 4 years now, maybe the fact that there is miniminal to no down time at all. And all other services are just stable.”
positivereliable

A Hostinger user says that for the low price it is fine for hosting a WordPress site that isn't mission critical.

“For the cheap prices, it’s fine to host a Wordpress page, it’s not like mission critical apps where if you are taking a second too much to load it’s fatal.”
positivegreat value

A streetwear shop owner had their Hostinger site suspended for a supposed TOS violation; it took days to fix and support never explained or apologized.

“My website was unjustly suspended without proper explanation. Despite following all their rules and running a legitimate men’s streetwear business, they accused me of violating their Terms of Service and”
negativeaccount suspendedpoor support

A Hostinger customer had their whole account banned and all sites taken down without notice over a domain they had sold 1.5 years earlier.

“Hostinger just banned my account and took down all of my sites without notice.”
negativeaccount suspended

A business owner's new Hostinger site was suspended right after they paid, and it was still not sorted six days later.

“they’ve taken payment but suspended my website. I’ve given them 6 days to sort it out.”
negativeaccount suspendedpoor support

A Hostinger shared hosting customer says uploading five images tripped the I/O limit and the site was throttled to unreachable, and support blamed them.

“It can't even handle 1 wordpress website with like 1 view a day with minimal plugins. Then they try to blame you. Uploading 5 images through the wordpress media upload”
negativeresource limitsslowpoor support

A Hostinger customer saw upload speed randomly throttled to 6 Mbit/s while within resource limits, and support blamed them.

“They implement a hidden rate limiting on upload speed so it just randomly drops to 6Mbit/s (even though resource usage is strongly within limits)”
negativeresource limitspoor support

A Hostinger customer was charged for services they never got or requested, and support refused a refund despite the chat history.

“They charged me fees for services they didn't provide, and for fake services I did not request nor approve.”
negativehidden feespoor support

A developer of 25 years was repeatedly locked out of their Hostinger site by its aggressive firewall and lost working hours; support blamed third parties.

“I've been completely locked out of my own site and lost critical working hours due to their extremely heavy handed security policy, only to be told via chat by "Jason"”
negativepoor supportoutages

A long-time developer found neither Hostinger's AI nor its human support could fix a simple FTP problem, and calls the support unacceptable.

“a simple file transfer protoco; and neither their AI or (so called) human helper can help it.”
negativepoor support

A business bought extra email storage from Hostinger and lost half its business correspondence in the transfer; support only said sorry.

“I bought extra email storage from Hostinger, and during the transfer they lost half of our business correspondence. Unbelievable. Their support just said “sorry” and didn’t even try to fix it.”
negativepoor support

A site owner moving to Hostinger reached a helpful human in five minutes and found its CDN and caching great, with no downtime.

“when I needed a human I got one in five minutes and there were good. Their CDN & cache are great.”
positivehelpful supportfast

A personal site owner on Hostinger was asked for 90€ to renew a simple one-page site after the first year.

“I have a simple on-page personal website I started hosting on Hostinger a year ago. Now they want 90€ for the next year.”
negativerenewal price hike

A Hostinger user had a good experience and finds it cheap and well suited to beginners.

“My experience was good at hosting.”
positivebest for beginnersgreat value

A WordPress freelancer has hosted client sites on Hostinger for a while without issues, though one shared account makes handing a site over awkward.

“I’ve been hosting my clients’ websites on Hostinger for a while without any issues.”
positivereliable

A Hostinger customer who hosts client sites recommends Hostinger's chat support, calling it the best.

“I would suggest talking to hostinger chat support, trust me they're the best”
positivehelpful support

A WordPress host customer would recommend Hostinger, but it auto-renewed a domain they had disabled and took a week of support chats to refund it.

“If you ask me who to use for WordPress hosting, based on my time with Hostinger, I'd recommend them. But this was my only bad experience with them.”
mixedsurprise billpoor support

A WordPress site owner moved from SiteGround to Hostinger and can't fault it at all.

“I moved off Siteground to Hostinger. Can’t fault Hostinger at all.”
positivegreat value

A WordPress site owner who used SiteGround before prefers Hostinger now, on a cloud plan with daily backups.

“I already used siteground but for me hostinger is best right now”
positive

An agency sees good results on Hostinger's mid-tier plans and finds it a good balance of performance and cost.

“I find it’s a good balance of performance and cost.”
positivegreat value

A site owner migrated their Avada-theme WordPress site to Hostinger and saw performance improve by about 50%.

“yesterday, I migrated my website, which was built on the Avada theme, to Hostinger. The performance of the website has improved by 50%”
positivefast

A freelancer starting a web services business chose Hostinger for client WordPress sites and loves it.

“i've personally choose to go with hostinger and i absolutely love it !”
positive

A customer quit Hostinger because they could never get past its AI chatbot to a human; even email was answered by the bot.

“just had to quit Hostinger because I can't get past their damn chatbot no matter how much I ask. Even EMAIL was answered by the thing.”
negativepoor support

An agency owner uses Hostinger for their agency's WordPress sites and finds it good.

“Hostinger is good i use it in My agency”
positive

A Hostinger customer says it works well for them.

“Hostinger works good for me”
positive

An agency running 50 WordPress sites on Hostinger's Cloud Startup plan finds service, performance and hPanel good, but is fed up with constant AI add-ons and deal banners.

“Now Hostinger, the service have been perfectly fine, any problem I've had they have solved and been nice, altough a bit slow, performance is good and I like their hpanel”
mixedgood control panelupsells

A freelancer has hosted about 20 client sites on Hostinger's cloud plan for 4-5 years without a single issue with the service or support.

“I have been with hostinger now for 4-5yrs and have not had a single issue with them or their customer service. I host about 20 websites for clients on my cloud service and it has been faultless”
positivereliablehelpful support

A web designer for small businesses hasn't had many issues with Hostinger and finds it good value for money.

“I personally haven't experienced so many issues with. Now, is it the best one out there? Definitely not. But is it value for money? You bet!”
positivegreat value

A Hostinger customer saw prices jump after the new-customer period, and its AI chat support twice gave wrong information that led to refunds.

“Prices increase dramatically as soon as your "new customer" period is up. The chat support is AI and has twice recently given me info that resulted in having to be refunded as it was factually incorrect.”
negativerenewal price hikepoor support

A Hostinger customer with a few WordPress sites and email has always been very happy, and restoring backups has always worked.

“I'm not a very demanding client, just a few WordPress websites and email, but I've always been very happy with hostinger. (I left siteground as they limited discounts to the first year.)  Restoring WordPress backups always worked fine.”
positivegreat valuereliable

A web agency uses Hostinger's Business plan for client sites and finds it easy to manage, though renewal costs rise each year.

“We do use Hostinger business plan and its pretty easy to manage.”
positiveeasy to use

A long-time cPanel user found Hostinger multi-domain hosting a nightmare, with pop-up marketing, paid email add-ons and awkward email aliases.

“Hostinger has been not entirely but one of the worst decisions I ever made with multi domain hosting, say it might be good for beginners that does not mind popup”
negativeupsellshidden fees

A developer uses Hostinger for hosting and VPS (and Namecheap for domains) and calls it a great company and service.

“They're a great company, service. I personally use https://namecheap.com for my registrations/renewals and use Hostinger for hosting/vps.”
positive

A developer's simple WordPress/Divi site on Hostinger had constant caching and resource-limit issues, though support was nice and the VPS good.

“They multiplied my time spent on a simple site by 10 times. Sadly it was wordpress with divi, constant caching issues, wp rocket wasnt usable (instant resource issues) etc. Just”
mixedresource limitshelpful support

An agency on Hostinger's Agency Startup plan sees 5-second response times and frequent downtime with only 9 sites, and support keeps contradicting itself.

“I'm having lots of problems with the Hostinger Agency Startup plan. I also have some WP sites on Hostinger Cloud Startup and have no problem, but the sites in this”
negativeslowoutagespoor support

A small-business site owner on Hostinger can't stand its in-house hPanel and dislikes the layers over its email service, and wants cPanel back.

“I'm currently with Hostinger, and I've realised I can't stand their in-house panel. I just want my cpanel back.”
negative

A Hostinger customer since 2024 finds it very fast, with a clean, beginner-friendly dashboard.

“Hostinger user since 2024 here. Yes, their speed is very fast, and their dashboard's UI is very clean and beginner-friendly.”
positivefasteasy to use

A Hostinger customer of about two years moved from its builder to hosting and a VPS and finds it stable and good value.

“I’ve had a pretty positive experience with Hostinger over the past \~2 years. I actually started using their site builder at the beginning (wanted to try it, just for curiosity),”
positivereliablegreat value

A Hostinger customer of 18 months says the renewal jump is real but reasonable, and support got noticeably better after the first year.

“been on hostinger for about 18 months now and yeah, the renewal jump is real but still reasonable compared to what you'd pay migrating to siteground or wpengine.”
positiverenewal price hikehelpful support

A Hostinger user gets 403 errors on their site all day long.

“Hostinger is 403 all day long for me.”
negativeoutages

A Hostinger customer of six years never renews; they buy a new promo plan and migrate the site to avoid the renewal price.

“I’ve been with them for six years. My premium plan is up and I didn’t renew. Instead I bought a new business plan with the better ssd drive and I”
mixedrenewal price hike

A Hostinger user finds hPanel very easy and support great, but scaling gets hard and the renewal came in at 3-4 times the first-year price.

“Hostinger is great for beginners, Their hpanel is super easy to use and the support as been very great for me, but once you start to scale, things get a little hard...”
mixedeasy to usehelpful supportrenewal price hike

A Hostinger customer saw one shared hosting plan renew at three times the price.

“Hosting hiked 3 times for one of my shared hosting renewals.”
negativerenewal price hike

A hobby blogger who hosted sites on Hostinger calls it a great host, but the price shoots up steeply after the first one or two years.

“I have hosted sites with Hostinger before - they're a great hosting site - but after the first 1 or 2 years, the price shoots up steeply.”
mixedrenewal price hike

A developer chose Hostinger for their domain because it had the easiest interface and best price; Namecheap was not cheap.

“Update: I went with hostinger. They by far had the easiest interface coupled with the best price.”
positiveeasy to usegreat value

A Hostinger customer of 8 years with 20 sites is ready to leave because the support bot can't handle complex issues and reaching a human is very hard.

“I've had hosting for the past 8 years with hostinger but now they have a bot in the help and it's frustrating as it can't understand complex issues and just”
negativepoor support

A Hostinger customer says its support is awesome and worth asking for help with WordPress slowdowns.

“Hostinger has an awesome support, have you asked their help you figure it out?”
positivehelpful support

A digital goods seller with 20-30k monthly visitors is leaving Hostinger after more downtime than expected and a crypto-miner infection that was a nightmare to clean up.

“Downtime - there was more of it than I expected for a paid plan.”
negativeoutages

A user found Hostinger easy to use; the Premium plan's single core and 1GB RAM felt slow, while Business felt comparable to SiteGround StartUp.

“Hostinger Business felt comparable to Siteground StartUp for me, in terms of back-end responsiveness. I'd still pick Hostinger over someone like Blue.”
mixedeasy to useresource limits

A site owner moved 6 sites to Hostinger and is impressed: the Kodee AI assistant was useful and a human replied within minutes.

“Just moved 6 sites over to Hostinger from a pretty bad host. Wasn’t expecting much, but honestly impressed.”
positivehelpful support

After a year on Hostinger a blogger moved another site there from KnownHost; its automated tools fixed major errors on their own and migration was easy.

“hostinger has great automated tools and help. It resolved some major errors without any effort on my part.”
positiveeasy migrationeasy to use

A Hostinger Business customer gets constant 429 errors in wp-admin from their office network; support confirmed new rate limits but won't adjust them.

“Over the past several weeks, I started getting constant HTTP 429 “Too Many Requests” errors while simply using the WordPress admin panel on multiple websites hosted with Hostinger (Business plan hosting).”
negativeresource limitspoor support

A customer on Hostinger's 2-year Business plan sees 2+ second server response times and got only a generic answer from support.

“The error message that bothers me most - Server responded slowly (observed 2152 ms)”
negativeslowpoor support

A customer had to fight through a painful refund process with Hostinger for a service they never subscribed to.

“the excruciating painfully nail biting process to get a refund for a product and service you never even subscribe to”
negativehidden feeshard to cancel

A new Hostinger customer expecting an $11 monthly plan was charged $194 for a year, cancelled within hours, and weeks later still had no refund.

“I signed up on Jan 25, 2026 expecting a monthly plan of $11.00 per month but was charged $194.18 for a full year.”
negativesurprise billhard to cancel

A small-business owner with several Hostinger sites is unhappy with renewal pricing around $10.99 a month and is moving sites away.

“Right now, I'm unhappy with Hostinger because of renewal pricing at $10.99 or so a month and want to move 2 of my sites away from them.”
negativerenewal price hike

A freelancer hosts a client site on Hostinger shared hosting with its own CDN and gets decent GTmetrix and PageSpeed scores.

“I have been using Hostinger to host my website (shared hosting) and thus using their own CDN and I am able to get pretty decent scores on GTMetrix and PageSpeed Insights.”
positivefast

A Hostinger customer with several sites finds it works fine for the price, with good speed and many European servers.

“I currently have some websites hosted on Hostinger and till now is working fine for the price. No big issues, speed is good and they have many servers in Europe, which is what I want.”
positivegreat valuefast

A customer with 6 Hostinger plans finds it more than fine for the price; its custom panel is confusing at first but quick to learn.

“Hostinger is pretty decent tbh. I have 6 hosting plans there and its working more than fine. Only downside is their own custom "cPanel" it looks confusing in the begining,”
positivegreat valuegood control panel

A site owner moved from DreamHost to Hostinger a few years ago and says it has been stellar.

“I moved from DreamHost to Hostinger a few years ago, and it's been stellar.”
positivereliable

A customer whose old host was deleted got Hostinger support to try restoring both their .wpress and .zip backups and offer to do the migration directly.

“We have reviewed the two backup files you provided (.wpress and .zip). Unfortunately, we were unable to restore the .wpress file due to compatibility issues with the All-in-One Migration plugin.”
positivehelpful support

Uses Hostinger; it can sometimes be arduous but they manage to get things sorted.

“I use Hostinger. It can sometimes be arduous”
mixed

A new Hostinger customer finds its support and page loading times pretty good so far.

“I bought hostinger this month and the support and the loading time is pretty good.”
positivehelpful supportfast

A Hostinger customer of 2+ years is leaving because new domains are auto-registered to an old profile that can't be changed, and support won't help.

“ive been with hostinger for over 2 years now and lately they changed the way they register domains.”
negativepoor support

A developer has used Hostinger for a while and finds it good.

“I've had them for a while and they are good.”
positive

A Hostinger customer who signed up without research finds the site super slow and its dashboard deceptively organized.

“I obviously didn't do enough research beforehand, and signed up with Hostinger. They suck. It's a super slow site and it's deceptively organized.”
negativeslow

A user has used Hostinger for years for themselves and others without problems.

“i have used hostinger for years for myself and people i know without problems.”
positivereliable

Someone managing 300+ domains says Hostinger is fine and good value for a small site, with shared hosting around $30 a year.

“Hostinger? yes, ok, enough for you unless its 5k+ traffic, you can always upgrade”
positivegreat value

A Hostinger customer cancelled within 30 days but was refused a refund and kept being charged; support is AI-only and they filed a card dispute.

“The **hostinger** website clearly advertised a 30-day money-back guarantee for all services. I canceled my **hostinger** service within the 30 days, but **hostinger** refused to refund me.”
negativehard to cancelsurprise billpoor support

A web designer and developer says they are happy with Hostinger shared hosting.

“I know web design and dev and can say I'm happy with hostinger. Shared hosting too.”
positive