# Hostinger

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/hostinger/

Shared 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.

## Who it suits

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

Consider something else if The advertised price is introductory. Compare the renewal rate, and note the plan is prepaid across a multi-year term.

## Adoption signals

- Detected running on 10,268,396 live sites (BuiltWith, checked 2026-09-12)

## iScore

58 / 100 (80% interval 54–62), rank 1 of 3 in hosting.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/hostinger/alternatives/

- Price: 15 (9–22), weight 24%, 3 of 3 criteria scored
- Capacity and limits: 60 (46–73), weight 26%, 4 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: monthly_visits_cap, regions
- Capabilities: 78 (72–84), weight 11%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Trust and compliance: 62 (56–68), weight 16%, 9 of 10 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: customer_managed_keys
- Evidence: 98 (98–98), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 80 (70–90), weight 14%, 1 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No — Explicit statement, not inferred from the plan lineup; the 30-day guarantee is a refund, not a free plan. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/1583320-are-free-hosting-plans-available-at-hostinger/), read 2026-09-13)
- Kind of free offer: No free offer ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/1583320-are-free-hosting-plans-available-at-hostinger/), read 2026-09-13)
- Entry paid plan: $10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan) ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting), read 2026-09-05)
- Pricing model: 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. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting), read 2026-09-06)
- When you exceed a cap: 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 ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/1583532-what-to-do-if-your-hosting-plan-limits-are-reached-in-hostinger/), read 2026-09-05)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 20 GB SSD storage on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan) ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting), read 2026-09-05)
- Memory (entry plan): 2 GB memory (RAM) on the Premium web hosting plan; 1 GB on Web Single, 3 GB on Unlimited. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/6976044-parameters-and-limits-of-hosting-plans-in-hostinger/), read 2026-09-14)
- Sites or apps included: 3 websites on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan) ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/6976044-parameters-and-limits-of-hosting-plans-in-hostinger/), read 2026-09-14)
- Monthly visits cap: Up to 100,000 monthly visits stated for the Business WordPress hosting plan — Knowledge-base capacity figure; the plan parameters-and-limits tables publish no visits row for any plan. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/how-to-use-the-hostinger-affiliate-marketing-tools-plugin-to-build-an-affiliate-website/), read 2026-09-13)
- Included bandwidth: Unlimited on Premium and Unlimited plans; 100 GB on Web Single, the cheapest tier. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/6976044-parameters-and-limits-of-hosting-plans-in-hostinger/), read 2026-09-14)
- File, inode or volume limit: 400 000 inodes on the Premium web hosting plan; 200 000 on Web Single, 600 000 on Unlimited. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/6976044-parameters-and-limits-of-hosting-plans-in-hostinger/), read 2026-09-14)
- Max request duration: 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. ([source](https://support.hostinger.com/en/articles/6976044-parameters-and-limits-of-hosting-plans-in-hostinger), read 2026-09-06)

### Deployment

- Git deployment: Limited ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting), read 2026-09-06)
- Scheduled jobs: Supported ([source](https://docs.hostinger.com/websites/cron-jobs), read 2026-09-05)

### Infrastructure

- Managed databases: Supported ([source](https://support.hostinger.com/en/articles/6976044-parameters-and-limits-of-hosting-plans-in-hostinger), read 2026-09-06)
- Edge network: Supported ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting), read 2026-09-06)
- Regions: Europe: France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom; Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia; North America: USA (Phoenix, Boston, Asheville); South America: Brazil. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/1583267-where-are-hostinger-servers-located/), read 2026-09-14)

### Data

- Connection limit: 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. ([source](https://support.hostinger.com/en/articles/6976044-parameters-and-limits-of-hosting-plans-in-hostinger), read 2026-09-06)
- Backup retention: Weekly backups on the Premium plan; daily on Unlimited. Hostinger does not state how many are kept. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting), read 2026-09-06)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: 24/7 support on every plan, alongside a 30-day money-back guarantee. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting), read 2026-09-14)

### Compliance

- ISO 27001: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified hosting provider; the certificate is listed under Compliance in the Hostinger Trust Center. ([source](https://trust.hostinger.com/), read 2026-09-13)
- HIPAA: Hosting plans are not designed to meet HIPAA compliance standards; review before storing protected health information on them. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/pci-and-hipaa-compliance-on-hostinger-hosting-plans/), read 2026-09-13)
- GDPR / data residency: All personal data processed under GDPR; servers outside the EU/EEA (US, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia) are covered by EU standard contractual clauses. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/legal/privacy-policy), read 2026-09-13)
- PCI DSS: Hosting plans are not designed to meet PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance standards; Hostinger advises against storing payment card data on them. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/pci-and-hipaa-compliance-on-hostinger-hosting-plans/), read 2026-09-13)
- Encryption at rest: Encryption of personal and sensitive data at rest (databases, shared directories) is listed among the DPA's technical and organisational measures. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/legal/dpa), read 2026-09-13)
- Role-based access control: Account Sharing assigns a shared user the Collaborator or Admin role, each with a different permission set; per-website sharing requires an Agency plan. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/1583777-how-to-share-access-to-your-account-at-hostinger/), read 2026-09-13)
- Private networking / VPC: No private networking on Web and Cloud hosting plans: VPN is supported only on VPS hosting, and Cloudflare Tunnel and Access require VPS root access. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/support/which-web-standards-and-connectivity-features-are-supported-at-hostinger/), read 2026-09-13)
- Dedicated infrastructure: Cloud hosting includes a dedicated IP address (web hosting uses a shared IP); dedicated resources and root access are attributed to VPS hosting. Dedicated IP addressing only; no single-tenant hardware option is published inside the managed hosting range. ([source](https://www.hostinger.com/cloud-hosting), read 2026-09-13)

## Compared with

- [Hostinger vs DreamHost](https://inetgeek.com/compare/hostinger-vs-dreamhost/)
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