Web hosting review
Hostinger explains its renewal prices, outages, security basics and data locations clearly. A few things were harder to pin down from the website alone: the legal company you sign with, support response times, and the limits behind "unlimited". Its lowest prices come with a four-year upfront term.
5 clear × 10 + 5 partly clear × 5 + 0 not seen × 0 = 75 / 100
Price over time
This is common in hosting, and Hostinger shows both prices on its plan cards. Intro prices need a 48-month term paid upfront. Monthly prices in US dollars, without VAT, from hostinger.com/web-hosting on 19 Oct 2026.
Assumes the listed $10.99/mo renewal price for 48 months. Actual renewal prices and terms may change.
Each finding links to the Hostinger page it came from. Prices are the US-dollar prices on hostinger.com, without VAT.
Every plan shows its renewal price right under the intro price. Premium is $2.99/mo and renews at $10.99/mo. The page also says plans are paid upfront and prices exclude VAT. The intro price comes with a 48-month term, so Premium costs $143.52 upfront. On the day we looked, the homepage showed Premium at $2.49/mo under a Black Friday banner, while the hosting page showed $2.99/mo.
The About page names the leadership team and lists offices in Vilnius, Kaunas, Luxembourg and Yogyakarta. The legal company is named in the terms: customers in the EU sign with Hostinger International Ltd, registered in Larnaca, Cyprus. We didn't see a company registration number on the pages we read.
A public status page tracks about 100 parts of the service, including each data centre. It lists past incidents and links to a full incident history and 90-day uptime. The terms themselves contain no uptime guarantee and say any guarantee is set out in other documents.
Support is offered 24/7 through live chat, WhatsApp and email. Hostinger says it doesn't offer phone support. The chat option on the homepage starts with an AI assistant. We didn't see stated response times, or when a chat moves to a person.
You get 30 days to ask for your money back, and the refund policy lists exactly what is excluded, such as domain renewals and some add-ons. Refunds go back to your original payment method by default. Auto-renewal is on by default, and the renewal charge can come up to 30 days before your term ends. We didn't see a partial refund option after the first 30 days on a multi-year plan.
Premium gets weekly backups, kept for 6 weeks. The Unlimited plan and up add daily backups, kept for 7 days. You can download your files and databases yourself. We didn't see whether a restore costs extra. Like most hosts, the terms ask you to keep your own backups too.
Every plan includes a free SSL certificate, installed automatically, and malware scanning. Your account supports two-factor login with an authenticator app or email codes.
Data centres are named by country, including the Netherlands, Germany, France, Lithuania and the UK, and you choose one when you set up. A GDPR data processing addendum is part of the terms, with EU standard contractual clauses for data sent outside the EEA.
Storage is on the pricing page. CPU, memory and file limits are in a help article: Premium gets 1 CPU core, 2 GB of RAM and 400,000 files and folders. Bandwidth is listed as "unlimited" under a fair usage policy, which we didn't find on the pages we read. The pricing page lists unlimited websites on Cloud Startup, and the help article lists 100. The two pages may be describing different things.
Backups download as standard archive and database files you can take to any host. You can unlock a domain and get its transfer code from the dashboard, with the usual 60-day wait after registration. We didn't see a fee for moving a domain away.
Storage comes from the pricing page. The other limits come from Hostinger's help article on plan limits. Bars compare each row against the largest plan.
| Limit | Premium | Unlimited | Cloud Startup |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage | 20 GB SSD | 50 GB NVMe | 100 GB NVMe |
| CPU cores | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Memory | 2 GB | 3 GB | 4 GB |
| Files and folders | 400,000 | 600,000 | 2,000,000 |
| PHP workers | 40 | 60 | 100 |
| Websites | 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited on pricing page, 100 in help article |
| Backups | Weekly | Daily | Daily and on demand |
Tech stack
Hosts are built for different kinds of sites. Here is what Hostinger says it runs, and on which plans. Tech fit is separate from the signal score.
WordPress plans run on LiteSpeed servers, with one-click install, staging, automatic updates and WP-CLI. A separate managed WooCommerce plan is offered.
Plans: all web and cloud plansPick PHP 8.2 to 8.5 per website, with 8.3 as the default. SSH access is included from the Premium plan up.
Plans: Premium and upNode.js 18 to 24, with Next.js, Express, NestJS, Nuxt, Astro and more. Deploy from GitHub or a zip upload. The help article describes it on Unlimited and Cloud plans, with up to 5 and 10 Node.js sites.
Plans: Unlimited and CloudHostinger supports Python on its VPS plans, where you install and manage it yourself with root access.
Plans: VPS, from KVM 1KVM servers with full root access, a Docker template, and panels such as Coolify and Dokploy. The smallest VPS has 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 50 GB NVMe.
Plans: VPS, from KVM 1One-click VPS templates include n8n, Nextcloud, Uptime Kuma and PostgreSQL, and you can pick from 12 Linux systems.
Plans: VPS, from KVM 1Sales practices
We check five common sales practices and note them next to the score, without changing it. Two need a pass through checkout, which this scan didn't do. We'll add them on the next recheck.
Each partly clear signal leaves a question that the website didn't answer for us. Hostinger's chat can probably answer them before you buy.
This report covers what Hostinger publishes, as read by an AI. It can miss things or misread a page. We didn't host a test site, so it says nothing about real speed or how helpful support feels.