A WooCommerce site on Hostinger could not cope with the small resource slice, so they migrated to another host the same price.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
58% Positive11%31% Negative
Customers generally praise it as cheap, easy and reliable for small WordPress and client sites, with a simple panel.
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Customer reviews (139)
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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.
A customer on Hostinger's 2-year Business plan sees 2+ second server response times and got only a generic answer from 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.
A Hostinger customer who signed up without research finds the site super slow and its dashboard deceptively organized.
A site owner with 1M+ monthly visits says Hostinger's CPU allocation can't handle traffic spikes, causing performance problems.
They run 4 WordPress sites on Hostinger and find the speed poor, so they are looking for a faster host.
Their sites on Hostinger often take 8 seconds to start loading and the suggested fixes were hard to follow.
Common questions about Hostinger
What do customers say about Hostinger?
Customers generally praise it as cheap, easy and reliable for small WordPress and client sites, with a simple panel. The main complaint is support that is mostly AI chat and hard to get past to a human, followed by renewal prices rising well above the first term. A few report suspensions or resource-limit throttling.
Is Hostinger worth it?
Of the 105 reviews with a clear verdict, 58% are positive, 11% mixed and 30% negative. The praise mentioned most is great value. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about Hostinger?
The praise reviewers mention most: great value (26 reviews), reliable (18 reviews) and easy to use (15 reviews). For example: An agency sees good results on Hostinger's mid-tier plans and finds it a good balance of performance and cost.
What are the most common complaints about Hostinger?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (23 reviews), renewal price hike (9 reviews) and outages (5 reviews). For example: A business owner's new Hostinger site was suspended right after they paid, and it was still not sorted six days later.
What does the signal score of 76 mean?
It's how well reviewed Hostinger is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Hostinger?
Category: Shared hosting.
Where do these Hostinger reviews come from?
139 are quotes from Reddit and YouTube, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.