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
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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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