Hostinger Review 2024: Is This Affordable Hosting Any Good?
Hostinger Review Summary
Hostinger is on our list of the top five recommended shared hosting services. Hostinger offers an excellent TTFB and uptime, comfortably beating competitors like Bluehost and HostGator. It took a long time to handle the load, but it processed all our requests without errors. Their Global TTFB is again a good score, suggesting they’re also suitable for your global visitors. Overall, Hostinger, given its affordable pricing, is an excellent choice to start hosting your WordPress websites.
Hostinger Pros
Hostinger Cons
Starts at $2.99/month
Review Methodology & Test Site Details
- We purchased Hostinger hosting with our own funds.
- Active hosting account: Premium Shared Hosting plan ($2.99/month).
- Test domain: hostperf-hr.com
- Data center location: North Carolina, USA
How to verify? Visit our test domain nameservers to confirm it’s hosted on Hostinger.
Hostinger Pricing
| Plan | Premium | Business | Cloud Startup |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $2.49/month | $3.49/month | $7.59/month |
| inodes | 400,000 | 600,000 | 2,000,000 |
The Hostinger plan starts at $2.49/month and can be bought for even less with our coupons. I don’t want to repeat generic information like the number of websites, traffic limits, storage space, etc. Let’s look into what is important to host a site and the inode limits per plan.
Hostinger offers one of the highest inodes, even on its starter (premium plan). The same plan starter plan at Bluehost and HostGagor offers only 50,000 inodes per cPanel account.
Hostinger Performance
1. TTFB Server Response Time
My Hostinger test site is monitored from 22 locations in USA and Canada. The test run every 60 seconds once and a total of 43,800 tests a month to measure the average response time.
Last 12 months average speed of Hostinger:
- October 2024 average TTFB: 448 ms
- September 2024 average TTFB: 429 ms
- August 2024 average TTFB: 462 ms
- July 2024 average TTFB: 546 ms
- June 2024 average TTFB: 445 ms
- May 2024 average TTFB: 421 ms
- April 2024 average TTFB: 400 ms
- March 2024 average TTFB: 417 ms
- February 2024 average TTFB: 429 ms
- January 2024 average TTFB: 401 ms
- December 2023 average TTFB: 421 ms
- November 2023 average TTFB: 410 ms
In 2023 (whole 365 days), Hostinger recorded an average server response time TTFB of 375 ms.
2. Uptime
Our Hostinger test site is measured 24/7 with 30-seconds timeout threshold to measure the average uptime in a month.
Last 12 months average uptime of Hostinger:
- October 2024 average TTFB: 99.99%
- September 2024 average uptime: 99.99%
- August 2024 average uptime: 99.99%
- July 2024 average uptime: 99.99%
- June 2024 average uptime: 99.99%
- May 2024 average uptime: 99.94%
- April 2024 average uptime: 99.99%
- March 2024 average uptime: 99.98%
- February 2024 average uptime: 99.98%
- January 2024 average uptime: 100%
- December 2023 average uptime: 98.79%
- November 2023 average uptime: 98.71%
In 2023, the overall uptime of Hostinger is 99.97%. The range is within their uptime SLA.
3. Load Testing
The load test is done by sending 500 concurrent visitors to the Hostinger site. The test are done from AWS UE East datacenter.
The average response time under load is 1228 ms. The score denotes Hostinger might handle all the load but the visitors might experience a slow load time. It’s not the best outcome but still Hostinger can be considered as they handled all the load. If this your major factor to choose a hosting, try A2 Hosting or GreenGeeks as both handle the same load in under 200 ms.
4. Global TTFB
The global TTFB is measured from 40 internation locations across USA, Europe and Asia. The average global TTFB is 572 ms.
5. Core Web Vitals
- Largest Contentful Paint: 621 ms
- Total Blocking time: 0 ms
- Cumulative layout shift: 0.07
Hostinger Features and Its Reviews
Easy-to-Use Control Panel
Hostinger has a main control panel called the hPanel, which is easy to navigate and use. If you had used a cPanel before, you would have had a much better experience with the hPanel, with a better interface and usability.
Most importantly, the hPanel gives you access to all the essential options from a single point of managing your account.
Global Data Center Locations
- North America: USA
- Europe: United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Germany, Lithuania
- Asia: India, Indonesia
- South America: Brazil
CDN
Hostinger now offers its own Hostinger CDN replacing Cloudflare CDN. The Premium web hosting which we are testing doesn’t come with free CDN, so at the moment in October 2024, we can’t verify the performance of Hostinger CDN.
CDN locations:
- United Kingdom
- France
- United States
- Singapore
- Brazil
- India
Inodes
Inodes stores information about the files and directores. Shared hosting companies offers a range of Inode limits for each plans with top tier plan having the highest inodes limit. The Hostinger inodes of each plan are
- Premium: 400,000
- Business: 600, 000
- Cloud Startup: 2,000,000
Hostingers offers the industry best highest limits on Inodes. For example, their competitor Bluehost offers only 50,000 inodes per cPanel account.
Hostinger Review – Do I Recommend?
I am sure you understand how Hostinger works. I have tried to make this post as comprehensive as possible and share everything I found about this service. According to my analysis, it offers excellent value for money, reflected in its performance, security, and features.
Of course, there is no denying that Hostinger could have addressed things like backup and staging better; however, there are good free WordPress plugins that customers can use for reliable backup and staging.
Don’t use Hostinger because they are the worst when it comes to uptime/reliability. Overall they can be more of a pain then a blessing. I had signed up for Cloud Enterprise plan and they over sell plus the support is just horrible. They made changes to a live site just to make a point that everything is working fine. Now who on earth disables plugins on a live e-commerce site when you have a staging env and you are running a sales campaign. I was just asking for refund and this is what you get in response.
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I appreciate you sharing your experience with Hostinger. Our latest benchmarks show Hostinger has improved in some areas, though uptime challenges remain same which is evident from your case.
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