Hostinger Review: Speed, Uptime, Load Test (2021)

If you search for cheap web hosting, you can find Hostinger. And Yes! It is budget-friendly.

Hostinger is one of the affordable & fastest web hosting platforms available to host your website.

If you are a beginner, you should first create your website on shared hosting & then move to some better plans.

If you are confused about whether to buy hosting from Hostinger, here is a Hostinger review for you.

Hostinger Review

I bought the premium shared hosting plan & tested it. The results are excellent.

My old personal website was hosted on the premium shared plan of Hostinger in Singapore. Hence, this is an honest review.

Hostinger provides Shared, VPS, Cloud, WordPress & Email Hosting. It even has a website builder called Zyro.

They have their data centers in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Lithuania, Singapore, Brazil, Indonesia.

They also provide domain registration & transfer. You get a free domain name with the premium & business hosting plan.

Now, let’s take a look at the different plans & their features that Hostinger provides.

Shared Hosting

There are three plans – Single, Premium & Business Web Hosting.

All the plans come with a free SSL certificate & hPanel. Take a look at their features.

	Single	Premium	Business
Websites	1	100	100
Disk Space	30 GB	100 GB	200 GB
Bandwidth	100 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited
Free Domain	No	Yes	Yes
Daily Backups	No	No	Yes
Subdomains	2	100	100
Email Accounts	1	Unlimited	Unlimited
Inodes	200000	400000	600000
Physical Memory	256 MB	512 MB	1 GB
Entry Processes	10	20	30
Active Processes	25	40	60
CPU max %	1 core	1 core	1 core
Price*	$0.99/month	$2.19/month	$3.99/month
Renewal Price	$2.99	$4.99	$8.99
	Buy Now	Buy Now	Buy Now

*Price may change

Cloud Hosting

Hostinger provides entry-level plans starting from just $7.45/month. You can take a look at their Cloud Hosting Plans below.

If you have a shared web hosting plan on Hostinger, upgrading to cloud hosting is extremely simple. All you have to do is order an upgrade from the control panel, and everything will be migrated automatically.

WordPress Hosting

If you are going to start a WordPress website, you can go with the WordPress Hosting plan from Hostinger starting from $2.15/month.

You get tons of things such as free site migration, automated backups, staging tool (coming soon).

VPS Hosting

Working on a big project? If your website gets a huge amount of traffic, VPS can handle it. Their VPS plans start from $3.95/month.

You get SSD Disk Drives, Full root access, dedicated IP & 30-day money-back guarantee. You can install CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse operating system.

Premium Plan Tests

I tested out the Premium Shared Hosting Plan & the results are here. Take a look.

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Uptime

Uptime should be always 100% and it is in the case of Hostinger. You can see 100% uptime for the past 30 days.

Hostinger provides 99.9% uptime guarantee & you can get some credit if it falls below. You can read more details here.

Response Time

The hosting server was located in Singapore. Hence, the response time is excellent in Singapore & in other regions too.

Speed

Speaking of the speed which is an important factor, my website loaded in just 1 sec. The test was done in Australia.

Load Test

When it comes to a high traffic website, the server should be able to handle it.

This test was done in absence of a cache plugin.

I sent 15 virtual users on my website & here is the result. Only 2 HTTP failures & response time is somewhat stable.

But if more than 15 users are online at once, more HTTP failure occurs. It means that the server can handle only 15 users at a time.

Hostinger’s Features

Let’s take a look on what Hostinger provides.

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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

If you are not happy with your hosting & want to cancel it, you can cancel within 30 days & get a full refund.

But there are some products that are not refundable & some have special refund terms. You can read their refund policy here.

Good Support

Good support is what makes a company reliable. Well, in the case of Hostinger, you get way better support.

They provide Email support for all users & Live Chat support for logged-in (registered) users.

I tried their live chat as I had some problems with my domain name. My domain was unverified & I wanted to change the Whois Email.

I messaged them & got a reply within 5 min. Well, they take a little time to reply, but they are very knowledgeable. My problem was solved within a day.

Knowledge Base & Tutorials

You can find articles about information features, troubleshooting guides,
and other technical information related to the hosting service in the knowledge base.

There are 100s of tutorials available on their website to get you started & become a pro. They have tutorials related to hosting, SEO, marketing, etc.

You can read the latest updates & news on their blog related to marketing, news, daily life & engineering.

hPanel

This is what makes Hostinger different from others. It doesn’t have cPanel, it has developed its own interface known as hPanel.

If you are a cPanel lover, you will find it somewhat difficult to use. If you are a beginner, this is the best panel you get which is easy to use.

Cache Manager

All of their hosting servers are powered by LiteSpeed Web Server. This means that WordPress users can easily enable LiteSpeed Cache Plugin.

To activate it, you can head to the Cache Manager icon. Now, you can simply enable the cache option.

99.9% Uptime Guarantee

As we got 100% uptime in the test, Hostinger abides by its uptime guarantee. I can say that you will definitely get 99.9% Uptime, always.

But if due to any reason the uptime falls below 99.9% for a month, you can request a credit of 5% of your monthly hosting fee for that month. That’s great!

The credit may be used only for the purchase of further products and services from Hostinger. You can read all the hosting terms here & check server status here.

Do I Recommend Hostinger?

The answer is Yes! As I am a user of Hostinger, I can say that their speed is fast, uptime is impressive & support is quick. With their custom dashboard (hPanel), using their service is quite easy.

If you are a beginner, you can buy their shared hosting plan & then later upgrade to VPS or Cloud Hosting. You also get a free domain name with the Premium & Business Hosting Plan.

Hostinger Alternatives

A2 Hosting can be said as one of the best alternatives to Hostinger. It is one of the fastest web hosting platforms at an affordable cost.

Another good alternative will be HostGator which is recommended by many professional bloggers.

Conclusion

Hostinger is loved by people for its affordable hosting plans with excellent speed & support. It competes with high standard hosting companies like Siteground, A2 Hosting, Bluehost.

If you are looking for a budget-friendly hosting, go with Hostinger.

Good luck!

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