Hostinger Review April 2025 – After 6 Years & 7 Websites

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About Hostinger

Hostinger is a web hosting company that was established in 2004 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Back then, they called it Hosting Media, which was rebranded to Hostinger in 2011 after reaching a 1 million user base! 

Since then, it has seen consistent growth. The last few years since 2019 have been especially rewarding for them. As of now, they have over 3 million users spanning 150 countries around the globe.

Hostinger India is the Indian version of Hostinger, which can be accessed through Hostinger.in. Following is an overview of the features offered in its hosting plans!

Hostinger Features Overview 

Hostinger Review Video

If you are a video person, you can watch my video review of Hostinger here.

Hostinger User Interface

The interface of Hostinger looks elegant, simple, and friendly for beginners. Unlike the traditional cPanel offered by most hosting providers, Hostinger marks itself differently with hPanel. 

hPanel is Hostinger’s custom user interface with a modern design and easily accessible functions.

It offers all the important features from DNS Zone Editor to Domains, Email accounts, File Manager, Backups, Website Migrations, App Installer and WordPress Dashboard! It also offers a handy search bar so you can simply type in any feature you wish to access.

Another interesting feature they’ve added recently is the ability to change language. For example, if you choose the ‘Hindi language’, the entire UI is translated into Hindi! This could be really convenient for users whose primary language is not English.

Hostinger has made quite a lot of improvements in its hPanel in the last few years.

Considering hPanel’s ease of use, switching from cPanel to hPanel wouldn’t be a problem! But if you need to edit PHP files on your hosting, cPanel would be a better choice.

So, if you’re looking for a cPanel-based hosting solution, you can go with FastComet, ChemiCoud, or A2 Hosting.

Testing Parameters

For this review, I have used Hostinger’s Shared Business Web Hosting plan on three different servers. Following are the demo websites I’ve used for the testing.

• US Servers Website
• Indian Servers Website
• Singapore Servers Website

On all of these websites, I have used the following settings.

• OceanWP Theme
• Gym template (Elementor Based)
• LiteSpeed Cache plugin (default settings)

Now, let’s quickly dive deeper into the different tests. 

Hostinger Server Response Time

Server Response Time (SRT) refers to the time duration between a user making a request and the server responding to it. I checked the SRT of all my Hostinger websites from the US, Singapore, and Indian servers.

Let’s take a look at the results.

Indian Servers

I found the response time of the Indian servers to be quicker in Asian locations, including India (Bangalore), Singapore, Sydney, Japan, and Sao Paulo.

For instance, the SRT was lowest in Singapore and Sydney (1 ms). It kept on increasing as we moved to farther regions, including Germany (13 ms) and the US (24 ms). Despite using a CDN, the SRT was still high in the USA!

US Servers

On the US Servers, the response time was greater for the Asian countries but very swift for locations including the US (22 ms), Canada (36 ms), London (91 ms), etc.

Singapore Servers

When I checked the Server Response Time for the Singapore-based servers, I observed the following results.

The response time was exceptionally fast in Singapore (2 ms) and Mumbai (59 ms). Whereas, it kept on increasing for non-Asian regions.

Overall, the server speeds of Hostinger for Indian, US, and Singapore Servers were admirable, and I faced no problems with them!

Hostinger Speeds

Page Loading Speed refers to the time required for a webpage to completely load on your screen. According to research done by Portent in 2019, Website conversion rates drop by an average of 4.42% with each additional second of load time (between seconds 0-5).

Now, let us check out how our websites performed in the speed tests. 

Indian Servers

I checked the speeds of my website hosted on the Indian servers from Singapore, US, and India. Let’s look at the results.

Upon checking the speeds from Singapore, I noticed super swift speeds of 1.34 sec. Whereas, when I checked the website speeds from the US location, it took a massive 4.95 sec to completely load.

Finally, I also checked the speeds from Bangalore (India). My website loaded in merely 1.17 sec, which is really fast!

The reason for such results is that India and Singapore both belong to the Asian subcontinent. Thus, Indian servers performed better in the Singapore region.

US Servers

Next, I checked my website hosted on the US Servers from the Indian and US locations. These were the results.

On checking my US-based website from the Indian location, I noticed poor speeds of 4.51 sec.

Whereas, when I checked the speeds from the US location, my website loaded in merely 1.28 sec, which is exceptionally fast!

Overall, the New York servers of Hostinger offer exceptional speeds.

Singapore Servers

Finally, I checked the speeds of my website hosted on the Singapore servers from three different locations: Singapore, India, and the US. The following were the results observed.

When I tested my website speeds from the Singapore location, I noticed swift speeds of 1.03 sec.

Next, I tested my Singapore-based website from the Indian location and noted loading speeds of 2.16 sec.

Finally, I tested the same website from the US location and observed sluggish speeds of 4.11 sec.

Overall, the speeds are pretty fast on Hostinger, even with the default cache settings. They also use Litespeed servers on all plans, ensuring better performance.

If you want faster speeds, you can also try ChemiCloud or FastComet hosting!

Hostinger Uptime

Website Uptime is the time duration for which your website remains online and accessible to people. Uptime is a crucial factor for any business because a bad uptime can often result in the loss of your customers! 

Ideal uptime should be above 99.9%. If a website is functional 99.9% of the time, it means the total downtime will be 43m 49s in a month.

I have been monitoring the uptime of my Hostinger websites since 2021 using the Better Uptime tool. It checks the uptime of my websites every 30 seconds. Let’s check out how they performed.

Hostinger Uptime Status Report (Last 12 months)  

Singapore Servers

Here’s the uptime report for Hostinger Shared Business Hosting (Singapore Servers) for the last 365 days.

March 2025	100%
February 2025	100%
January 2025	100%
December 2024	100%
November 2024	100%
October 2024	100%
September 2024	100%
August 2024	100%
July 2024	100%
June 2024	100%
May 2024	100%
April 2024	100%
March 2024	99.99%
February 2024	99.98%
January 2024	100%
December 2023	99.99%
November 2023	100%
October 2023	99.95%
September 2023	99.94%
August 2023	99.97%
July 2023	99.93%
June 2023	99.95%
May 2023	99.98%
April 2023	99.99%
March 2023	100%
February 2023	100%
January 2023	100%

In the last 365 days, my website has been up 100% of the time. Similarly, in the last 30 days, I have also observed an uptime of 100%. There has been no downtime in the last year!

US Servers

Here’s the uptime report for Hostinger Shared Business Hosting (US Servers) for the last 365 days.

March 2025	100%
February 2025	100%
January 2025	100%
December 2024	100%
November 2024	100%
October 2024	99.99%
September 2024	99.99%
August 2024	100%
July 2024	100%
June 2024	100%
May 2024	100%
April 2024	99.98%
March 2024	99.95%
February 2024	100%
January 2024	99.69%
December 2023	99.98%
November 2023	99.99%
October 2023	99.99%
September 2023	99.99%
August 2023	99.89%
July 2023	100%
June 2023	99.96%
May 2023	99.99%
April 2023	99.95%
March 2023	99.98%
February 2023	100%
January 2023	99.99%

In the last 365 days, my website has been up for 99.99% of the time. Whereas, in the last 30 days, I have observed an uptime of an unbeatable 100%. The overall downtime in the last 365 days has been just 3 minutes!

Indian Servers

Here’s the uptime report for Hostinger Shared Business Hosting (Indian Servers) for the last 365 days.

March 2025	100%
February 2025	99.99%
January 2025	100%
December 2024	100%
November 2024	100%
October 2024	100%
September 2024	99.87%
August 2024	99.90%
July 2024	100%
June 2024	100%
May 2024	100%
April 2024	99.98%
March 2024	98.53%
February 2024	100%
January 2024	99.85%
December 2023	99.92%
November 2023	99.99%
October 2023	99.94%
September 2023	99.97%
August 2023	99.72%
July 2023	99.94%
June 2023	99.99%
May 2023	100%
April 2023	99.99%
March 2023	100%
February 2023	100%
January 2023	99.97%

In the last 365 days, my website has been up for 99.98% of the time. Whereas, in the last 30 days, I have observed an uptime of a solid 100%. The overall downtime in the last 365 days has been 1 hour and 4 minutes.

Cloud Startup Plan

Here’s the uptime report for Hostinger Cloud Startup Plan (Singapore Servers) for the last 365 days.

February 2025	99.99%
January 2025	100%
December 2024	100%
November 2024	99.99%
October 2024	100%
September 2024	99.98%
August 2024	100%
July 2024	100%
June 2024	100%
May 2024	100%
April 2024	100%
March 2024	100%
February 2024	100%

In the last 365 days, my website has been up for 99.99% of the time. Whereas, in the last 30 days, I have observed an uptime of 99.90%. The overall downtime in the last 365 days has been 48 minutes.

Note : I have active plans of Hostinger Business Shared Hosting. Every month, the uptime will be updated on this page.

Overall, I found the uptime of the Hostinger on all servers to be excellent. For improved uptime performance, you can go with ChemiCloud, StableHost, or Rocket.net.

Hostinger Load Test

Load Testing is a process of analyzing the performance and efficiency of software by exposing it to real-life conditions.  For this test, I sent virtual users to each of my websites to see how they handle large traffic. Let’s take a look at the results.

Indian Servers

Talking about the Indian servers, I sent 50 virtual users for about 5 mins and 42 seconds. The virtual users made a total of 9.9k requests, where only 1 HTTP request failed.

Here, the peak requests reached 49 req/sec and the P95 response time was just 13 ms. This means that 95% of the requests took around 13 ms to be executed.

In my observation, the Indian servers handled the load really well. I noticed no major spikes in response time as the load increased. Overall, the performance of the Indian servers was quite good.

US Servers

The US Servers handled the load test really well. I sent 100 virtual users over to my website where they made a total of 17.1k requests. The peak requests went up to 99.33 req/sec and the P95 response time touched 79 ms.

The impressive part is that none of the HTTP requests failed. However, the response time kept fluctuating throughout. Overall, the US servers displayed a great load-handling capacity!

Singapore Servers

When I sent out 100 virtual users to my website hosted on Singapore servers, they made a total of 17.5k requests. The peak requests touched 98.67 req/sec along with a P95 response time of merely 17 ms.

Interestingly, none of the requests failed,, which means it handled the load well. Overall, the Singapore servers performed well with no major spikes in the response time.

Hostinger CDN

Hostinger offers its in-house Hostinger CDN for free on all hosting plans. It keeps your website data cached on multiple servers across the globe and claims to offer 40% faster load times.

However, my experience with their CDN has been very different. When I tested my website hosted on Indian servers from the New York location, it took 3.89 sec to load. Loading time of about 4 seconds is pretty slow.

They state that they’ve recently added new POPs to improve CDN performance. However, according to my testing, the performance of CDN has not improved significantly

An interesting thing is the addition of a security section under the CDN feature. So, if your website is undergoing an attack, the CDN will automatically detect it. You can choose different levels of security from essentially off, low, medium, high, and I’m under attack. 

Overall, my personal recommendation would be to use a separate CDN instead of Hostinger’s built-in CDN. You can check out Bunny CDN. It’s an affordable option and I’ve been using it on my websites as well. 

Hostinger Cache

In-built Cache Manager

Hostinger has an in-built cache manager that can be enabled from the user dashboard. It boosts the speed of your website, thus, providing a better experience to your viewers!

Recently, Hostinger has also introduced an object cache on its Business plan and above. This brings drastic improvements in website speeds. If you have a dynamic website or an eCommerce store, object cache will be valuable for you.

Cache Plugin

Hostinger uses the LiteSpeed Servers, which also gives you access to the LiteSpeed Cache plugin. It is a free plugin that you can use to improve your website speeds. 

To know more about it, check out my video on LiteSpeed Cache Settings.

Hostinger Data Centers

As per recent update, Hostinger has expanded its data centers to include 10 locations. However, you only get 8 data center options if you opt for a shared hosting service.

• Europe – Germany, Lithuania, UK, France
• Asia – India, Indonesia
• USA
• Brazil

Hostinger Domains

Apart from web hosting, a relevant domain name is essential for running your blog or online business. Let’s take a look at Hostinger’s domain features.

Free Domains

Hostinger provides a free .com domain to its new hosting users for a year. However, it is only available on the Premium and Business Shared Hosting plans. The Starter plan does not offer a free domain.

In the case of WordPress hosting, all plans except the Single WordPress plan come with a free domain. If you want a lifetime free domain, you can check out ChemiCloud hosting.

New Domain Pricing

Hostinger also offers new domain registrations at quite affordable rates. For instance, these are the new lower prices for some popular domain extensions:

Extension	Pricing/year
.com	₹499
.in	₹119
.org	₹699
.tech	₹169
.xyz	₹179

These are the prices applicable for the first year when you purchase these domain names for a period of two or more years. After the 1st year, standard charges will apply to your domain.

Preview URL

A Preview URL (also called Temporary Domain Name) is a feature in Hostinger that lets you view your website without connecting your domain name. It helps test out your website if you haven’t yet pointed your nameservers to your web host.

Preview URL or temporary domain is available for as long as you have an active subscription.

Hostinger Security

Hostinger provides its users with a variety of security features. Let us check them out in detail.

SSL Certificate

An SSL Certificate is essential for your website’s security. You get unlimited free SSL Certificates for your websites with a hosting plan on Hostinger. 

Thus, every website that you add to your Hostinger account can be protected with a free SSL certificate!

Apart from that, you can also activate a free SSL certificate through Cloudflare. The process to do that is discussed in my Hostinger Training Program! So, keep reading to know more about it.

Patchstack Security

Hostinger recently collaborated with Patchstack, a powerful WordPress security plugin. 

Through this plugin, WordPress users will be notified of vulnerabilities arising in any of their plugins. This is a powerful security tool to safeguard your website.

2FA

2FA (Two Factor Authentication) is a method of verifying a person’s identity by requesting an extra factor like an OTP code, biometric recognition, hardware key, etc at the time of login. 

2FA adds another layer of security by preventing unauthorized users from accessing your online accounts.

Hostinger provides email and software-based 2FA to secure your hosting account. So, you can use authentication apps like Authy, LastPass, Google Authenticator, etc to secure your accounts. 

Cloudflare DNS Firewall

All the plans of Hostinger support Cloudflare DNS. You can activate it from the Hostinger dashboard. 

Cloudflare DNS effectively protects your website from all types of malicious traffic and DDoS attacks. 

Bitninja Security

Hostinger applies Bitninja security by default on all its servers. It is a powerful security feature that detects suspicious logins and then blocks them until they verify themselves.

Bitninja also protects against malware, DDoS attacks, brute force attacks, etc. 

Malware Scanner

Recently, Hostinger has launched its Malware Scanner tool that can be accessed from its dashboard Security features.

It automatically scans through all the files and data uploaded by the users and cleans corrupted and malicious files. Thus, it’s a very useful security tool for all website owners.

Automatic Updates

Recently, Hostinger has introduced the Automatic Updates feature. It automatically keeps your website updated with the latest versions of WordPress core, themes, and plugins.

This ensures that your website doesn’t fall prey to any vulnerabilities from your WordPress themes and plugins. Overall, the security features of Hostinger are quite good.

ISO Certification

ISO 27001 is the world’s most reputed standard for information security management systems. It focuses on 3 principles – confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Recently, Hostinger has acquired the ISO 27001 certification, ensuring their data centers are completely safe and secure for hosting your websites.

Hostinger Backups and Restoration

The Backup and Restoration features of Hostinger have seen a lot of improvements in the past few years. Hostinger provides free weekly backups on all its hosting plans.

Apart from that, their Business Shared Hosting and above plans also come with free daily backups. You can back up your website files, databases, or everything on your hosting account.

The daily backups are stored for 7 days. Whereas, the weekly backups are stored for up to 7 weeks. So, at any point, if you wish to restore your backups, you can restore from the past 7 days or weekly backups from the last 7 weeks.

Your data is backed up on a different server (off-server location) to ensure security. It also allows you to generate manual backups and supports one-click backups and restorations.

If you need free daily backups on other hosting plans, you need to pay additional charges to avail of this feature.

An interesting feature of Hostinger is that you get to selectively restore your website files. You can select which files you wish to restore, which is quite a convenient option.

For me, the only downside of Hostinger is its backup retention limit. Even on their highest plan, the backups are only retained for 7 days now. I think they should extend it to at least 14 days.

Hostinger Customer Support

Hostinger offers customer support through email, live chat, and a knowledge base.

I liked their extensive knowledge base of articles. You can find answers to most of your queries through their articles. They also have comprehensive tutorials on WordPress, Website Development, VPS Hosting, etc to help newbies.

Talking about their live chat support, you can avail it in 2 ways. They have recently introduced their AI assistant Kodee, who can help you with all the basic queries.

However, its replies are even slower than ChatGPT. Considering it’s an AI assistant, I was expecting a faster response. But the quality of support it offers is good.

Another way is through human agents. You can request Kodee to connect you to an agent. In my experience, the initial response was quick but the replies were inconsistent post that. Replies to some of my queries arrived quickly, while sometimes they took up to 10 minutes to respond!

Overall, the quality of their support has seen a huge improvement since the last year. But I think they can improve the live chat support speeds for both AI assistants and human agents.

Hostinger Plans & Pricing

Hostinger offers 3 plans under its Shared Web Hosting. Let us take a quick look at their significant features. 

	Single Plan	Premium Plan	Business Plan	Cloud Startup Plan
Monthly Pricing (48 months)	₹69	₹149 / $2.99	₹249 / $3.99	₹599 / $7.99
Renewal Pricing	₹399	₹599 / $11.99	₹699 / $13.99	₹1699 / $27.99
No. of Websites	1	25	50	100
Monthly Traffic	10k visitors	25k visitors	100k visitors	200k visitors
SSD Storage	10 GB	25 GB	50 GB	100 GB
Free Domain	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Email	1	25	50	100
Inode Count	200k	400k	600k	2M
Bandwidth	100 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Daily Backups	No	No	Yes	Yes

The maximum discounts are applied if you purchase these plans for 4 years. Opting for smaller time durations results in lesser discounts. Well, isn’t this an excellent strategy by Hostinger to gather users for the long term?

You can also find other hosting plans like WordPress Hosting plans, Cloud Hosting plans, VPS Hosting plans, etc.

Hostinger Payment Methods

Planning to get a Hostinger hosting plan? It supports a variety of payment methods.

These include Net Banking, PayPal, International Credit and Debit Cards, Cryptocurrency, and Hostinger Balance. Apart from that, it also supports UPI Payments, Paytm, and Google Pay for Indian customers.

The UPI Payments feature is very useful for Indian users who do not have International debit and credit cards.

Hostinger Refund Policy

Hostinger offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on all its plans. So, you can purchase a hosting plan, try it out for a month, and then get a 100% refund if you are not satisfied with it!

However, there are a few terms and conditions in their Refund Policy. I have explained them in layman’s terms in my Hostinger Training Program.

If you want an extended period of refund policy, you can consider A2 Hosting which charges you on a pro-rata basis!

Hostinger Coupon Code

If you wish to buy web hosting, here’s an exciting offer that will get you your favorite hosting plan at the cheapest rates possible. For instance, if you wish to purchase the Business Hosting plan for 48 months, it would cost you ₹11,962 in total.

But if you pick your plan through my link and use the coupon code KRIPESH at checkout, you’ll get an additional 10% discount on your purchase. So, the same plan will cost you ₹10,756 in total.

Which is the Best Hostinger Plan and Server?

Now that we’ve discussed all the significant features of Hostinger, it’s time to decide on the best plan and server. First, let us discuss the plan you should avoid at all costs.

In my recommendation, you can safely avoid going with the Single Web Hosting plan. It offers lesser RAM, which is not suitable even for operating normal websites and blogs. 

In some rare scenarios, if you have a simple website comprising 5-10 static HTML pages, the single shared hosting plan can be a good option. It’s only suitable for HTML or PHP websites.

However, if you need to work with WordPress, the Premium and Business Web Hosting plans would be the best for you. For hobby projects, the Premium plan would be good.

But if you have a serious business, the Business plan is ideal. It offers features like Staging, daily backups, object cache, free Amazon Affiliate plugin, AI tools, enhanced DDoS protection, etc. This makes it most value for money option.

Hostinger Training Program

If you are planning to get a hosting plan from Hostinger, I’m sure my training program would be of great help to you. This Training Program is for those users who have purchased plans from Hostinger using my links.

In this program, I have provided in-depth tutorials on how to use Hostinger, including

• How to purchase hosting from Hostinger
• Setting up your hosting
• Connecting hosting to your domain
• Installing WordPress
• Taking and restoring backups
• Contacting customer support
• Enabling cache plugins

and a lot more! 

These video tutorials are uploaded on the Thinkific Course Creator. I have enabled free previews of some of the video tutorials along with the step-by-step process of purchasing a plan.

All you have to do is sign up through my link and purchase your favorite plan. Once you mail me the receipt, you’ll get access to the training program within 7 working days. This course will be highly beneficial for beginners in getting equipped with the basics of Hostinger. 

Hostinger Migrations

Hostinger provides unlimited free website migrations on its hosting plans just like Rocket.net. 

To request a website migration, you need to select your website control panel (WordPress, cPanel, WHM) and mention your:

• Domain name
• Admin login page URL
• Username and password
• Previous web hosting service

After you make the migration request, someone from their team will personally transfer your website from your previous hosting provider to Hostinger free of cost! It might take anywhere between 2 to 4 days to complete the process.

Hostinger Staging

If you wish to test new themes, plugins, or design updates on your website, the Staging functionality of Hostinger might be helpful. With the Staging feature, you can create a copy of your live website and test out changes to it.

The Staging feature can be found under the Dashboard tab. All you need to do is create a subdomain and publish your staging environment over it.

Then, you can make edits to the site and test them out. If you are satisfied with the changes, you can simply push the test version to the live website by hitting the ‘Publish’ button under the list of staging sites.

In my opinion, Hostinger’s staging feature is one of the easiest. It’s great for developers and professionals. It lets you update your website with the latest developments without suffering any downtime!

However, this feature is now available only on Business plans and above.

Additional Hostinger Features

Hostinger Inode Count 

Inode Count refers to the total number of files on your website, including your files, folders, emails, and everything else stored on the servers. 

Hostinger offers generous inode count even for its shared hosting plans.

• Single Web Hosting – 200k
• Premium Web Hosting- 400k
• Business Web Hosting – 600k

If you wish to have unlimited inodes on your account, check out Rocket.net!

Account Sharing

If you want to share your hosting account with your team, the Account Sharing feature of Hostinger makes it possible.

The interesting thing about this feature is that you can can selectively share access with your developers and team members. Instead of providing them complete access to your account, you can grant them access to specific websites, services, or hosting plans.

Email Hosting

You get a free email hosting service along with your hosting purchase. Depending on your chosen plan, you get 1 to 100 mailboxes.

However, there are a few limitations to the email service as well. You can only have 15k messages in every email account and send up to 500 emails each day. Overall, their email service is good.

Technology Used in Hostinger

Similar to ChemiCloud, A2 Hosting, and Rocket.net, Hostinger uses fast and efficient LiteSpeed servers, so your website loads at lightning-fast speeds every single time!

Along with that, they also have in-built caching technology so you can enable ‘Automatic Cache’ and speed up your websites.

Hostinger uses the latest PHP 8.0 version and have also recently introduced HTTP/3, improving performance and load time.

Talking about CMS, they support WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and 100+ other CMS platforms! As of now, they don’t support Python and Node.js on their Shared hosting plans. I hope they implement it in the future.

Hostinger Website Builder

A website builder is especially helpful for those who want a quick website without getting into WordPress or other CMS platforms.

Hostinger offers its in-house Hostinger Website Builder (previously known as Zyro) on all its hosting plans. It lets you design everything from blogs to business sites, portfolios, and online stores with ease.

All you need to do is provide your business name and a short description. It will automatically generate a professional-looking website for you within seconds. It also features powerful AI tools to help you save time on designing.

The best part is that it comes free with all the hosting plans of Hostinger. You can also get it separately for ₹149.00/mo.

Overall, Hostinger Website Builder is a viable option for anyone looking to design professional websites quickly. It’s one of the easiest website builder on shared hosting. It looks like a refined product comparable to Wix and Squarespace on a budget.

If you want to read more about it, you can check out my Hostinger Website Builder Review.

Hostinger AI Tools

Recently, Hostinger has introduced several AI tools on their platform. Let’s look at the popular ones below.

1) AI Domain Names

Need a catchy domain name but can’t think of something unique? Try Hostinger’s AI Domain Name Generator. All you have to do is provide a short description of your project or website. The AI suggests catchy names around it.

For example, I described my website as – “A hair salon that offers hair coloring and hair styling solutions”. These are the domain name ideas it generated for me.

I liked the unique and catchy names it generated. You can experiment with different descriptions and keywords to get more interesting results.

2) AI Business Name Generator

Similarly, if you’re planning to start an online business but are struggling with naming it, you can check out Hostinger’s AI Business Name Generator.

All you have to do is specify a few keywords related to your industry. It’ll produce relevant business name ideas for you. For instance, these are some business names generated for the keyword “hair salon”.

If you like any of the names, you can click on the Buy Domain button to purchase it from Hostinger. It’ll show you the pricing for different domain extensions.

3) WordPress AI Troubleshooter

WordPress AI Troubleshooter is a unique tool that makes use of AI to ensure your website always remains online. It automatically detects and notifies you if your WordPress website encounters any errors.

Going a step further, it also offers helpful solutions to fix those errors on your website. Overall, it’s a really valuable tool if you’re a beginner.

4) WordPress AI Assistant

WordPress AI Assistant is a free WordPress plugin that comes with their Business and Cloud hosting plans. It helps you generate long and short-form content with AI.

To get started, you need to specify the post type, content tone, and length, and add a short description with the focus keyword. In under 30 seconds, it generates a 650+ word article with proper headings and a relevant header image.

I personally liked the article generated by the AI. You can make further edits and integrate examples, anecdotes, and media elements in the content to make it publish-ready.

5) WordPress AI Website Builder

Hostinger also offers an AI website builder specifically for creating WordPress wbesites.

With this WordPress AI website builder, you get AI-powered content creation along with a free domain, managed WordPress hosting, free CDN, and more. Its pricing plans start from ₹249/month!

6) Amazon Affiliate Plugin

If your work revolves around Amazon affiliate marketing, you’ll find this tool very useful. Hostinger’s Amazon affiliate plugin gives you a pre-built Amazon affiliate site that you can edit as per your needs.

This plugin is available for free with Hostinger’s managed WordPress Business plans and above.

7) Hostinger Horizons

Hostinger is launching Hostinger Horizons, a no-code platform for transforming your ideas into complete web apps. It is perfect for entrepreneurs and businesses. Currently, it is in early access phase.

8) n8n Automation on VPS Hosting

Now, Hostinger also supports N8N automation on its VPS hosting plans. n8n is a no-code workflow automation tool that allows you to connect your apps and data in a single place.

If you want to create AI agents, you should definitely check out Hostinger’s n8n VPS hosting!

How Is Hostinger So Cheap?

Now, we have come to the main question! I’m sure you must have thought about it, too. How is Hostinger surviving at such cheap hosting prices? What’s the catch?

Well, I dived into the details, and after much research and analysis, I found that they recover their costs through Affiliate Marketing. 

Hostinger keeps on collaborating with other companies like Patchstack, Fiverr, etc. These companies then promote their products and services through Hostinger.

For example, if you install WordPress on your Hostinger site, you will find a lot of pre-installed plugins (Bloatware) like:

• All-in-one SEO plugin
• All-in-One WP Migration Plugin
• OptinMonster
• MonsterInsights, etc. 

Though these pre-installed plugins can be easily disabled, they are a way of promoting the collaborating companies. This is how Hostinger provides its services at such affordable costs!

What do you guys think about this tactic? Is it a good way to recover their costs? Let me know your opinions in the comments section below!

Hostinger Pros

1. Swift Speeds

Hostinger uses LiteSpeed servers, which ensure that your websites load at lightning-fast speeds at all times.

2. Reliable Uptime

In the last 365 days, I noted an uptime of 100% on Singapore servers, 99.99% on US servers, and 99.98% on Indian servers. This is pretty good and reliable for most websites.

3. Feature-Rich Hosting

Considering its price point, Hostinger is one of the most feature-rich hosting. Besides offering hosting services, you also get a free domain, website builder, email hosting, security tools, unlimited migrations, and lots of AI tools.

4. Easy to Use

The hPanel provided by Hostinger is modern and user-friendly. It lets you easily manage your websites and is ideal for beginners. Overall, the UI is super easy to manage.

5. UPI Payments and GST Invoices

You get a bunch of payment options with Hostinger India. Integrating UPI Payments is a big advantage for Indian users as it reduces the hassle of entering card or bank details. You can also get GST invoices on Hostinger.

6. Indian Data Centers

Unlike last year, the performance of their Indian data centers has seen a massive improvement. You can now experience swift speeds, reliable uptime, and good load management on your websites hosted on Indian data centers.

7. Object Cache

Recently, Hostinger has introduced an object cache on its hosting plans. It ensures faster speeds and improved performance.

8. Excellent Load Management

Hostinger proves to be a great choice for high-traffic websites and eCommerce stores. It offers a stable response time with no request failures on all servers.

9. Hostinger Website Builder

You can now enjoy a powerful website builder with all the plans of Hostinger. It helps you build professional sites within minutes with AI. I think it’s one of the best and most affordable website builders as of now.

10. Good Backup Options

Hostinger offers good backup and restoration options. All plans support weekly backups, and the Business hosting supports daily backups as well. You can create manual backups and also selectively restore specific files, which is highly convenient.

11. Excellent Security

Hostinger provides all-around security for your hosting with advanced tools. These include SSL, 2FA, Patchstack Security, Cloudflare DNS, Malware Scanner, and BitNinja Security. Its Malware Scanner destroys any bugs or malware found in your website files. 

12. Affordable Pricing

Hostinger offers pocket-friendly hosting plans when purchased for longer durations. For instance, its Single Shared Hosting plan when purchased for 48 months costs just ₹69/month!

Hostinger Cons

1. Average CDN Performance

Hostinger’s in-house CDN has seen some improvements in the last year. They have also included security features. However, I didn’t see any significant improvement in its performance.

2. Reduced Backup Limits

Despite purchasing the highest web hosting plan, your backups are only retained for 7 days now. I hope they extend the backup retention limit to at least 14 days.

3. Slow Support Speeds

Their live chat support is helpful and knowledgeable. However, it would be great if they improved the speed and response frequency of their Kodee assistant and their human agents.

4. Bloatware

Because Hostinger frequently collaborates with many services, Bloatware (pre-installed plugins) is their way of promoting the services of these partner companies. However, these plugins can be disabled with one click!

I have discussed the step-by-step process of getting a free SSL from CloudFlare in my Hostinger Training Program. So make sure you check it out!

Who Should Buy Hostinger?

This is the sixth consecutive year I have reviewed Hostinger. I still feel that it’s an excellent hosting provider for beginners on a budget. 

They have improved to a large extent in terms of their interface, backup options, speeds, and ease of use. Though they can work on improving their customer support speeds, CDN, and backup retention limits, I was satisfied with the overall performance of Hostinger. 

So, if you have a US-based audience, you should go with a Hostinger plan with the US servers. They offer exceptional speeds and performance. The performance of Hostinger’s Shared hosting plans on the US servers is easily comparable to the performance of Cloud hosting plans!

However, if you have an Indian audience, I won’t be able to recommend their Indian servers. This is because the uptime and speeds that I observed on them were quite average. You can instead go with their Singapore servers that offer swift speeds and performance.

Overall, if you are a beginner who needs shared hosting that’s reliable, affordable, and easy to use, Hostinger is the best option for 2025. I have hosted dozens of my micro-niche blogs and websites on Hostinger and have faced no problems with it yet!

However, if you can increase your budget, then Chemicloud, FastComet, and Cloudways can be powerful hosting solutions as well.

Hostinger Alternatives

For beginners, Hostinger is the go-to hosting solution. But, if you can hike up your budget, these are the best alternatives to Hostinger service.

1) Hostinger vs ChemiCloud

ChemiCloud is a reliable American web hosting provider. Just like Hostinger, ChemiCloud offers Litespeed servers, ensuring fast speeds and reliable uptime. They both provide excellent load management, making them great choices for hosting.

However, ChemiCloud stands out with its top-tier customer support, a 45-day refund policy, and up to 200 free cPanel migrations—something Hostinger lacks. On the other hand, Hostinger offers a free domain, website builder, and AI tools, which ChemiCloud does not.

The pricing plans of Chemicloud start from at $2.95/month.

2) Hostinger vs FastComet

FastComet is another renowned web host launched in 2013. Just like Hostinger, FastComet deliver lightning-fast speeds, good uptime, and solid support. Both hosts are affordable choices with user-friendly interfaces.

FastComet differentiates itself with a fixed discount across all durations and cPanel support, whereas Hostinger offers a free domain, website builder, and AI tools—but lacks cPanel. Also, FastComet does not include free domains.

The pricing plans of FastComet start at $1.79/month.

3) Hostinger vs Cloudways

Cloudways is a popular managed hosting built upon unmanaged hosting providers like Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and AWS. Similar to Hostinger, Cloudways offers fast speeds, reliable uptime, and strong security.

The key difference is that Cloudways is a managed hosting solution with a pay-as-you-go model and scalability options. However, it doesn’t include email hosting. Hostinger, on the other hand, is more beginner-friendly and comes with a free website builder, AI tools, and a free domain.

The pricing plans of Cloudways start from $11/month (DO Servers).

Hostinger vs ChemiCloud vs FastComet

Why Should You Trust Me?

I have been working full-time in the digital industry since 2015. In all these years, I’ve used and tested all the popular web hosting services on my personal and client websites. I’ve been consistently reviewing hosting services like Cloudways, ChemiCloud, FastComet, etc, for the last 3 years.

Talking about Hostinger, I first purchased Hostinger hosting in 2019 for my micro niche blogs. Since then, I’ve bought multiple plans of Hostinger, including their Cloud Startup plan. I even have active subscriptions to various Hostinger plans that I keep testing every year.

Using, testing, and reviewing dozens of hosting services in the past few years has given me the knowledge and expertise to compare their features and recommend you the best hosting for your requirements.

Conclusion

Hostinger continues to be one of the best budget-friendly web hosting solutions. It offers a friendly UI, fast speeds, feature-rich website builder, and solid security features—along with seamless Indian payment options.

This year, Hostinger has made notable improvements, particularly for Indian users. They’ve improved their Indian data centers and upgraded to AMD EPYC servers, boosting bandwidth and speed.

That being said, there’s still room for improvement. Its CDN performance remains average, and support speeds could be better. But overall, Hostinger offers incredible value. If your website targets a global audience, it still delivers great performance at an affordable price.

Best of all, Hostinger offers a 30-day refund policy, so you can test it risk-free. If it doesn’t meet your expectations, you get a full refund! For budget-conscious users looking for a feature-packed and modern hosting solution, Hostinger is a solid choice in 2025.

Anyway, I hope you found this Hostinger Review informative. Which hosting are you currently using? Do you think Hostinger could be a good option for you? Do let me know in the comments below.

This is Kripesh signing off! I’ll be back with more interesting content soon. Till then, stay home and keep learning! 🙂

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