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Hostinger vs DreamHost

A comparison of Hostinger and DreamHost built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Updated 17 criteria compared

The short answer

Pick Hostinger if
Small sites where the recurring cost matters most and a control panel is preferred to a command line. Cron jobs are available through hPanel.
Pick DreamHost if
Running many small sites on one cheap plan — 25 websites and 40,000 visits at the entry tier, where most shared hosts give you one or three. Employee-owned, with no private-equity parent behind the renewal pricing.

7 sourced criteria separate them:

Entry paid plan
Hostinger: $10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan)
DreamHost: $10.99/month on renewal for Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan. The advertised $2.89 is a first-year rate on an annual prepay.
Pricing model
Hostinger: Prepaid multi-year terms at a heavily discounted first term, renewing at roughly 3.7x that rate. The Premium plan is $2.99/month if you buy 48 months up front ($143.52, against a $575.52 list price) and $10.99/month on renewal.
DreamHost: Annual prepay at a discounted first-year rate, renewing at roughly 3.8x. A one-year term is the shortest advertised.
Storage (entry plan)
Hostinger: 20 GB SSD storage on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan)
DreamHost: 25 GB NVMe SSD on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan
Sites or apps included
Hostinger: 3 websites on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan)
DreamHost: 25 websites on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan; 50 on Growth
Included bandwidth
Hostinger: Bandwidth listed as Unlimited for the Premium web hosting plan; no monthly visits figure is published
DreamHost: Listed as Unmetered on every shared plan. DreamHost states $0 overage charges on its VPS plans; no equivalent statement is published for shared.
Regions
Hostinger: Europe: France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom; Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia; North America: USA (Phoenix, Boston, Asheville); South America: Brazil
DreamHost: 4 data centers: Ashburn (Virginia), Hillsboro (Oregon), Amsterdam and Singapore
Backup retention
Hostinger: Weekly backups on the Premium plan; daily on Unlimited. Hostinger does not state how many are kept.
DreamHost: Daily automated backups on every shared plan. DreamHost does not state how many are kept.
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01.

At a glance.

CriterionHostingerDreamHost
Pricing
Entry paid plan$10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan)$10.99/month on renewal for Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan. The advertised $2.89 is a first-year rate on an annual prepay.
Pricing modelPrepaid multi-year terms at a heavily discounted first term, renewing at roughly 3.7x that rate. The Premium plan is $2.99/month if you buy 48 months up front ($143.52, against a $575.52 list price) and $10.99/month on renewal.Annual prepay at a discounted first-year rate, renewing at roughly 3.8x. A one-year term is the shortest advertised.
Limits
Storage (entry plan)
20 GB SSD storage on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan)
25 GB NVMe SSD on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan
Sites or apps included
3 websites on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan)
25 websites on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan; 50 on Growth
Included bandwidthBandwidth listed as Unlimited for the Premium web hosting plan; no monthly visits figure is publishedListed as Unmetered on every shared plan. DreamHost states $0 overage charges on its VPS plans; no equivalent statement is published for shared.
Infrastructure
Regions
Europe: France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom; Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia; North America: USA (Phoenix, Boston, Asheville); South America: Brazil
4 data centers: Ashburn (Virginia), Hillsboro (Oregon), Amsterdam and Singapore
Data
Backup retentionWeekly backups on the Premium plan; daily on Unlimited. Hostinger does not state how many are kept.Daily automated backups on every shared plan. DreamHost does not state how many are kept.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Entry paid plan

Hostinger
$10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan)
DreamHost
$10.99/month on renewal for Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan. The advertised $2.89 is a first-year rate on an annual prepay.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

Hostinger
Prepaid multi-year terms at a heavily discounted first term, renewing at roughly 3.7x that rate. The Premium plan is $2.99/month if you buy 48 months up front ($143.52, against a $575.52 list price) and $10.99/month on renewal.
DreamHost
Annual prepay at a discounted first-year rate, renewing at roughly 3.8x. A one-year term is the shortest advertised.
Sources (2) →
  • Web Hosting — Hostinger ↗

    “Premium [...] $11.99 $2.99/mo Choose plan Get 48 months for $143.52 (regular price $575.52). Renews at $10.99/mo.”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

  • Web Hosting — DreamHost ↗

    “Length of Subscription 1 Year [...] First year at $2.89 /mo [...] Auto-renews at $10.99 /mo after 1 year.”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

Storage (entry plan)

Hostinger

20 GB SSD storage on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan)

DreamHost

25 GB NVMe SSD on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan

Sources (2) →

Sites or apps included

Hostinger

3 websites on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan)

DreamHost

25 websites on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan; 50 on Growth

Sources (2) →

Included bandwidth

Hostinger
Bandwidth listed as Unlimited for the Premium web hosting plan; no monthly visits figure is published
DreamHost
Listed as Unmetered on every shared plan. DreamHost states $0 overage charges on its VPS plans; no equivalent statement is published for shared.
Sources (2) →

Regions

Hostinger

Europe: France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom; Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia; North America: USA (Phoenix, Boston, Asheville); South America: Brazil

DreamHost

4 data centers: Ashburn (Virginia), Hillsboro (Oregon), Amsterdam and Singapore

Sources (2) →
  • Hostinger server locations ↗

    “These locations are available for web and cloud hosting plans: Europe: France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom; Asia: India, Indonesia and Malaysia; North America: USA (Phoenix, Boston, and Asheville); South America: Brazil”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs

  • DreamHost — llms.txt ↗

    “**Data Centers**: Ashburn, Virginia; Hillsboro, Oregon; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Singapore”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official site

Backup retention

Hostinger
Weekly backups on the Premium plan; daily on Unlimited. Hostinger does not state how many are kept.
DreamHost
Daily automated backups on every shared plan. DreamHost does not state how many are kept.
Sources (2) →
03.

Which should you choose?

Choose Hostinger if…

Small sites where the recurring cost matters most and a control panel is preferred to a command line. Cron jobs are available through hPanel.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose DreamHost if…

Running many small sites on one cheap plan — 25 websites and 40,000 visits at the entry tier, where most shared hosts give you one or three. Employee-owned, with no private-equity parent behind the renewal pricing.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Hostinger: The advertised price is introductory. Compare the renewal rate, and note the plan is prepaid across a multi-year term.
  • DreamHost: The advertised price is a first-year rate that renews at roughly 3.8x. Only four data centres exist, all US, Amsterdam or Singapore, so there is no option closer to other regions.
04.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.

When you exceed a capHostinger: Throttled or errored rather than billed: exceeding CPU slows the site, exceeding RAM or process limits returns 503 errors, and exceeding the inode limit blocks new file creation
Memory (entry plan)Hostinger: 2 GB memory (RAM) and a PHP memory limit of 1536 MB on the Premium web hosting plan
Monthly visits capDreamHost: 40,000 monthly visits on Web Hosting Launch; 200,000 on Growth
File or inode limitHostinger: 400 000 inodes on the Premium web hosting plan
Max request durationHostinger: 360 seconds PHP max execution time on every shared plan, with a matching 360-second input time. MySQL statements are separately capped at 300 seconds and queries at 60 on Premium.
Git deploymentHostinger: Limited
Scheduled jobsHostinger: Supported
Managed databasesHostinger: Supported
Edge networkHostinger: Supported
Connection limitHostinger: 50 MySQL connections per user on the Premium plan, against a 500-connection global ceiling per server. 25 per user on Single, 75 on Unlimited.
05.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Hostinger or DreamHost?

Hostinger: $10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan)

DreamHost: $10.99/month on renewal for Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan. The advertised $2.89 is a first-year rate on an annual prepay.

Included bandwidth: Hostinger or DreamHost?

Hostinger: Bandwidth listed as Unlimited for the Premium web hosting plan; no monthly visits figure is published

DreamHost: Listed as Unmetered on every shared plan. DreamHost states $0 overage charges on its VPS plans; no equivalent statement is published for shared.

Storage (entry plan): Hostinger or DreamHost?

Hostinger: 20 GB SSD storage on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan)

DreamHost: 25 GB NVMe SSD on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan

Should I choose Hostinger or DreamHost?

Pick Hostinger if Small sites where the recurring cost matters most and a control panel is preferred to a command line. Cron jobs are available through hPanel.

Pick DreamHost if Running many small sites on one cheap plan — 25 websites and 40,000 visits at the entry tier, where most shared hosts give you one or three. Employee-owned, with no private-equity parent behind the renewal pricing.

Provider pages

HostingerShared web hosting sold on prepaid multi-year terms and managed through the hPanel control panel, with data centers in Europe, Asia, North America and South America.DreamHostEmployee-owned shared web hosting sold on annual prepay, with per-plan visit caps, unmetered bandwidth and daily automated backups.

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