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www.hostinger.com · Mass-market hosting
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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.

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Live sites detected10,268,396via BuiltWith
Entry paid plan$10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan)
RegionsEurope: France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom; Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia; North America: USA (Phoenix, Boston, Asheville); South America: Brazil.
Free tierNo — Explicit statement, not inferred from the plan lineup; the 30-day guarantee is a refund, not a free plan.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 28 criteria comparedSources last checked

Hostinger pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan) source ↗
Pricing model
Prepaid multi-year terms at a heavily discounted first term, renewing at roughly 3.7x that rate source ↗
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… source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Hostinger pricing below.

01.Evaluation guide

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Hostinger's own site (hostinger.com) self-detects as: hosting — Indian hosting, Server Location, Cloud Hosting, Cloud PaaS, US hosting · CDN — Edge Delivery Network · DNS — TLD Redirects (category-level via BuiltWith, not a named vendor)

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Hostinger pricing

5 criteria
Free tierNo — Explicit statement, not inferred from the plan lineup; the 30-day guarantee is a refund, not a free plan.
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Kind of free offerNo free offer
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Entry paid plan$10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan)
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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.
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When you exceed a capThrottled 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
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Limits

7 criteria
Storage (entry plan)20 GB SSD storage on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan)
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Memory (entry plan)2 GB memory (RAM) on the Premium web hosting plan; 1 GB on Web Single, 3 GB on Unlimited.
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Sites or apps included3 websites on the Premium plan (cheapest paid shared web hosting plan)
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Monthly visits capUp 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.
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Included bandwidthUnlimited on Premium and Unlimited plans; 100 GB on Web Single, the cheapest tier.
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File, inode or volume limit400 000 inodes on the Premium web hosting plan; 200 000 on Web Single, 600 000 on Unlimited.
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Max request duration360 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.
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Deployment

2 criteria
Git deploymentLimited
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  • Web Hosting — Hostinger ↗

    “getting access to tools like SSH, WP-CLI, PHP version control, Git integration, MySQL manager, and many more. All can be found in hPanel control panel.”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official site · Report a correction

Scheduled jobsSupported
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  • Cron Jobs ↗

    “Schedule commands or scripts to run automatically — emails, reports, cleanup, app tasks.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction

Infrastructure

3 criteria
Managed databasesSupported
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Edge networkSupported
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RegionsEurope: France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom; Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia; North America: USA (Phoenix, Boston, Asheville); South America: Brazil.
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  • 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 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction

Data

2 criteria
Connection limit50 MySQL connections per user on the Premium plan, against a 500-connection global ceiling per server. 25 per user on Single, 75 on Unlimited.
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Backup retentionWeekly backups on the Premium plan; daily on Unlimited. Hostinger does not state how many are kept.
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Support

1 criteria
Support on entry paid plan24/7 support on every plan, alongside a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Compliance

8 criteria
ISO 27001ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified hosting provider; the certificate is listed under Compliance in the Hostinger Trust Center.
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HIPAAHosting plans are not designed to meet HIPAA compliance standards; review before storing protected health information on them.
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GDPR / data residencyAll personal data processed under GDPR; servers outside the EU/EEA (US, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia) are covered by EU standard contractual clauses.
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  • Privacy policy ↗

    “All personal data are processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 [...] Some of our servers are located outside EU or European Economic Area (EEA), such as US, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia [...] which comply with the European Commission approved standard contractual clauses for data transfers”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

PCI DSSHosting plans are not designed to meet PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance standards; Hostinger advises against storing payment card data on them.
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Encryption at restEncryption of personal and sensitive data at rest (databases, shared directories) is listed among the DPA's technical and organisational measures.
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  • Data processing addendum ↗

    “Encrypting Personal Data and sensitive data at rest (databases, shared directories etc.) [...] Encryption of external and internal communication via strong cryptographic protocols”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

Role-based access controlAccount Sharing assigns a shared user the Collaborator or Admin role, each with a different permission set; per-website sharing requires an Agency plan.
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Private networking / VPCNo private networking on Web and Cloud hosting plans: VPN is supported only on VPS hosting, and Cloudflare Tunnel and Access require VPS root access.
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Dedicated infrastructureCloud 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.
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  • Managed cloud hosting | 4X more speed | 99.9% uptime ↗

    “Cloud website hosting also comes with a dedicated IP address, ensuring better protection against security breaches and improved email deliverability [...] Unlike a shared IP address in traditional web hosting [...] VPS hosting provides dedicated resources and root access”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

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Hostinger pricing questions

How much does Hostinger cost?

$10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan).

Web Hosting — Fast, Secure & Affordable | Hostinger · read

How does Hostinger charge?

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.

Web Hosting — Hostinger · read

Does Hostinger have a free tier?

No.

How to try Hostinger services for free · read

What happens if you exceed Hostinger's limits?

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.

What to do if your hosting plan limits are reached in Hostinger · read

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