Hostinger is a European web hosting company, considered one of the cheapest paid hosting companies. In recent years, it has gained great fame, especially in the Arab region.
Hostinger was established in 2011, but that year was not the real beginning. The first seed of the company was in 2004 in Lithuania under the name "Hosting Media" and was later renamed to its current name "Hostinger".
Although Hostinger is a paid hosting company as is known, it owns 000webhost. It is a well-known free web hosting company. In addition to owning many subsidiaries in a number of countries either under the Hostinger brand or under the brands of independent web hosting companies.
Hostinger has witnessed a significant growth in the number of its customers over the past years, as the number of users of Hostinger services reached 29 million users in January 2017, after reaching ten million users in May 2014.
This impressive growth in the number of Hostinger users is mainly due to the company providing a hosting service with distinctive features and resources at very competitive prices compared to competitors, in addition to its great reputation due to its famous free web hosting service, 000webhost.
If you are thinking of purchasing Hostinger hosting, we advise you to read this review because it includes the advantages, disadvantages, and more details about the company.
After you learn about the advantages and disadvantages of Hostinger and the negatives and positives of the hosting service.
Hostinger Features
Cheap Hostinger Hosting
The most important feature of Hostinger is its low prices compared to its competitors, as the smallest package starts at $ 2.49, which is a low price compared to other hosting companies.
This does not prevent the other packages from being reasonably priced as well and not exaggerated in their prices, especially since many resources are unlimited. You can get these low prices by using the exclusive Hostinger hosting coupon for new users only.
Hostinger is one of the cheapest web hosting companies and among its competitors is the famous iPage hosting company, which differs from it in that it offers a single hosting package with unlimited resources and supports the creation of more than one site on the same account.
Hostinger hosting is fast
Site loading speed is very important for any website or any application.
Any slow site loading is a lost opportunity or a potential customer who will unfortunately not join your customers. Studies have shown that 40% of site visitors will leave it if the page takes more than 3 seconds to load.
Therefore, you must make sure that your site works as quickly as possible, as we are in the age of femtoseconds and most visitors will not wait for a slow site to load, but will click the back button in the browser and go to another site that does not waste their time.
Hostinger uses a set of good technologies that increase the speed of hosting such as SSD storage media, cache manager, PHP7, Cloud Linux, Litespeed, and HTTP/2.
As you can see in the image above, which is a follow-up of a simple website hosted on Hostinger shared hosting, the average speed of the site is 330 milliseconds.
Uptime is good
Uptime is the time during which your site is working normally without stopping. It is measured as a percentage, the higher the better.
For example, if the uptime is 99.9%, this means that your site has been down for 8 hours, 45 minutes, and 56 seconds per year, or 1 minute and 26 seconds per day on average.
It is difficult to find a hosting company that offers 100% uptime except for some limited and high-priced companies.
Hostinger offers a guarantee that its servers will work 99.9% of the time.
But our research and follow-up of a simple WordPress site hosted by the company shows that the actual uptime rate is better than the guarantee. The site's uptime was 99.95% in the last 24 months, which is a good percentage compared to other hosting companies.
Hostinger's multiple data centers
The data center is the location where the server on which your site is hosted is located. The closer it is to the visitor, the better, because it increases the speed of the site.
Hostinger allows you to host your site in one of its data centers in the following countries:
- United States of America
- Lithuania (Hostinger's headquarters)
- United Kingdom (Britain)
- Netherlands
- Singapore
- Indonesia
- Brazil
We always advise at SoFarBit to choose the data center closest to the vast majority of your site visitors. For example, if you are targeting the Arab region, it is preferable for the server to be in the countries of Southern or Central Europe, and in the case of Hostinger, Britain or the Netherlands.
However, if your site targets visitors from different regions of the world in a nearly equal manner in terms of the number of visitors, the preference in that case is for the United States of America due to the quality of its infrastructure and its strong connection to the Internet.
Unlimited Resources
Unlimited hosting is one of the hottest things in the hosting market right now.
Although the minimum package in shared hosting has limited resources, Hostinger offers some unlimited resources on its Premium and Business packages which are
- Number of hosted websites
- Bandwidth
- Number of MySQL databases
- Number of email accounts
- Number of FTP accounts
- Number of scheduled Cronjobs
- However, file storage capacity, number of files and folders, and number of processes are limited on all packages.
Good technical support
- Technical support is very important and you should give it great importance when purchasing hosting for your website because you don't want to call support and not find it when you need help!
- Hostinger provides good technical support service via live chat for its customers only (see the company's disadvantages) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Although Hostinger did not provide local technical support in the past and the support service was limited to English only and a few other languages, the company now provides technical support to its customers in different geographical areas in the local languages of those customers in addition to English.
- Among Hostinger customers who get technical support in their native language are Arab customers who can communicate with Hostinger technical support in Arabic in addition to the possibility of communicating in English as well.
Free domain from Hostinger
The domain "Domain" is your site's address and must be chosen very carefully and maintained as well.
The domain is a paid service, not free, and you must pay an annual cost to operate and host your domain, ranging from $15 for common extensions such as .com and Net, and may reach hundreds of dollars for some other extensions.
New subscribers get a free domain with hosting when they purchase a Premium or Business package without additional costs.
SSL for free
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The SSL certificate is responsible for securing the connection between your site and visitors. It has become mandatory for all sites, even if they do not contain sensitive data such as credit card information or passwords, to use SSL.
This is because it helps secure users and helps in the appearance of the lock icon in the browser and the transition to using the HTTPS protocol. This makes the visitor feel safe when visiting your site, and leads to improving your site's ranking in search engine results, since Google announced in August 2014 that it would be used as one of the search results ranking factors.
Hostinger offers a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt with the Business package (we will talk about this point later in Hostinger’s disadvantages), which will most likely save you from purchasing a paid SSL certificate if you do not need the features of paid certificates.
Hostinger control panel is acceptable
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The hosting control panel is the main interface for dealing with hosting your site and controlling your account and the sites hosted on it. Having a powerful control panel is one of the most important features that you should look for in a hosting company.
But having a control panel full of features and functions may lead to the complexity of the control panel. That is why most hosting companies try to balance the power of the control panel with ease of use.
In order to get rid of the hassle of developing a control panel, most hosting companies tend to use external control panels, and among the most prominent and most used control panels are cPanel and Plesk.
Hostinger uses its own control panel that it developed itself called hPanel, which you can try for free without registering via this link. It is well designed and includes most of the features and functions you need and will enable you to control the hosting and manage your account well, and it is also available in Arabic.
Hostinger later provided cPanel hosting service for a slightly higher price for those who want to use the cPanel control panel with Hostinger hosting.
Weekly backup
One of the most important precautions that must be taken is to always make sure that there is a backup copy of your site files and database. An emergency may occur and you need to restore your site to a previous point if you do something wrong or delete some content.
All Hostinger packages come with a free automatic weekly backup with the ability to restore the previous version of your site at any time.
We always advise at SoFarBit not to rely on the hosting backup only, but you should use an external backup service along with the service provided by the hosting company.
There are some companies that provide backup services such as Sucuri protection company and JetPack service specialized in WordPress, which includes real-time backup with the largest package.
Many payment methods
One of the most common problems that Arab users face when purchasing hosting is the payment method. Many Arab countries do not have credit cards that support online transactions in dollars, which can be easily obtained.
Hostinger provides many payment methods, whether common payment methods such as credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover), in addition to accepting payments via PayPal.
Hostinger is also one of the very few well-known hosting companies that accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and others.
Hostinger Disadvantages
Hostinger Hosting Control Panel
A large segment of hosting companies use the cPanel control panel, such as the well-known companies HostGator, Bluehost, and others. This makes the transition between a hosting company that uses cPanel and another not difficult, in terms of the ease of the transfer process and getting used to the control panel.
Also, the presence of a specialized company working on developing the control panel is a good thing in terms of the presence of periodic updates and the possibility of using the control panel by more than one hosting service provider.
Here is a point that counts against Hostinger, which is its use of its own hPanel control panel that no one else uses. But it launched a hosting service that works with cPanel later for a higher price, which you can check out here.
Although using it may not be a problem for new and beginner users due to the ease of the interface and its availability in more than one language, including Arabic, it may be an obstacle for other users who are accustomed to using cPanel and when moving to another hosting company.
Backups
Although all Hostinger shared hosting packages come with free weekly backups, this is not enough for the vast majority of websites.
Sites whose content changes frequently, such as news sites, need at least daily backups.
Some sites may also need real-time backups, such as those included with the Professional package of the WordPress JetPack service.
If you want to get daily backups, you will have to upgrade to the largest package because neither the first nor the second packages include this service.
Technical Support
Although Hostinger offers free technical support to all its customers, this service is unusually available only to current users.
In order to be able to contact Hostinger technical support, you must be logged in to your account so that you can communicate with the technical support team.
Resources are limited
- We talked earlier about the truth of the term “unlimited hosting”.
- Hostinger promotes itself as providing unlimited hosting resources. Unfortunately, this is not accurate!
- In order to get unlimited resources which also have a fair usage policy, you need to buy at least the medium or large plan. This is because the smallest Single plan does not include unlimited resources. Please also note that disk space is limited in all plans and its capacity is also low. For example, the large plan comes with 30 GB of file storage space and may not be suitable for some users.
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