Hostinger Review
Hostinger was founded in 2004.
It is headquartered in Lithuania.
It offers Web, Shared, Wordpress and VPS hosting products.
- Brazil
- Lithuania
- Singapore
- United States
Quick Links
| Hostinger plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Hostinger instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Hostinger servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Hostinger trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Hostinger trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Hostinger VPS over the long term | Consistency |
Hostinger VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | No | |
| DDOS Protection | No |
It looks like DDoS protection is available for shared hosting: https://www.hostinger.com/how-to/do-your-servers-have-ddos-protection |
| Backups | Yes |
Hostinger allows creation of 1 snapshot free of charge. |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 4 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 3 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
CPU, Disk, Bandwidth and RAM usage. |
| Admin REST API | No | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | No | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal, crypto currencies | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | No |
Pros and Cons
Weaknesses
- Predatory pricing (extra long commitments needed to get advertised prices, prices double at renewal).
Hostinger Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Hostinger also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Hostinger VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200s | 200s | 200s | 1 |
Control Panel Screenshots
This provider offers the following promotion:
20% rebate for buying a hosting for at least 12 months.
Value: 20 %
Hostinger Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
