Hostinger review
Budget hosting with a genuinely usable control panel
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Quick verdict
The value pick, provided you go in with your eyes open about renewal pricing. Buy the longest term you are comfortable with.
A low-cost shared and cloud host that built its own control panel (hPanel) rather than shipping cPanel. Popular with first-time site owners because the onboarding is unusually gentle for the price bracket.
Who it suits
- · First-time site owners
- · Tight budgets
- · WordPress sites
- · UK-based sites and UK audiences
Who should look elsewhere
- · Renewal pricing is substantially higher than the intro rate
- · Cheapest tiers are resource-limited and throttle under load
- · Support is chat-first with no phone line
Hostoholic Score
How this rating is built
Weighted from six dimensions. Affiliate commission is not an input — there is no field for it in the calculation.
What you pay across the full term — including the renewal, not just the headline.
Channels offered, hours covered, and whether the answers are any good.
Staging, email, SSH, Git, database and security tooling included as standard.
Control panel, onboarding, migration and how much you need to already know.
Not yet assessed: Performance, Reliability. These are excluded and the remaining weights renormalised, rather than counted as zero.
What is good
- Among the cheapest credible hosts for a first website
- hPanel is far easier to navigate than stock cPanel
- UK data centre available, which matters for UK visitor latency
- Free migration offered on most plans
What is not
- Renewal pricing is substantially higher than the intro rate
- Cheapest tiers are resource-limited and throttle under load
- Support is chat-first with no phone line
The detail
Features and specifications
Anything marked unknown has not been verified by an editor yet. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
Hosting and platform
- Control panel
- hPanel (custom)
- UK data centre
- Yes
- Data centre regions
- United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States, Singapore, Brazil, India, Lithuania
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- Yes
- Free migration
- Yes
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Yes
- CDN included
- Yes
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Yes
- Git
- Yes
- WP-CLI
- Yes
- Cron jobs
- Unknown
- PHP versions
- Unknown
- Node.js support
- Unknown
Ecommerce and security
- WooCommerce support
- Yes
- Malware protection
- Unknown
- Web application firewall
- Unknown
- DDoS protection
- Unknown
- Support channels
- live chat, email, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
We publish a price only once an editor has checked it against the provider's own pricing page and recorded the date.
Renews at 7.99 — check the term length before committing.
| Plan | Type | Sites | Latest checked price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single | shared | — | GBP 1.49 |
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Sources
Where this information came from
- Hostinger hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- Hostinger pricing page· Entry pricing · checked 17/08/2026
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