HOSTINGER

The search for a high-quality web hosting service isn’t easy. There are many options, and your choice determines where your brand will live online for years to come. Hostinger is a worthy home for your website, as it offers excellent uptime and premium offerings for a decidedly non-premium price. That said, Hostinger’s plans lack some of the features you’d expect in a top-tier web host, such as dedicated hosting and telephone support

Hostinger, like many other web hosting services, offers shared web hosting. With this most basic hosting tier

Hostinger, like many other web hosting services, offers shared web hosting. With this most basic hosting tier, your website lives on a server with other websites. In other words, the sites literally share a single server’s cost and resources. As a result, shared web hosting is often low-cost web hosting. The downside? Shared hosting isn’t powerful hosting, so your site may slow, or become unavailable, if your content (or that of one of your cohabitants) receives, say, a big social media hit.

Hostinger has three Linux-powered shared web hosting plans: Single, Premium, and Business. The Single plan costs $9.99 per month, or $3.49 per month with a one-year commitment (it renews at $5.99 per month after the first year). In addition, Hostinger touts a low, $1.99 per month price tag, but that requires a four-year commitment. This Single plan lets you host just one website, and offers one email account (just one!), 100GB of monthly data transfers, and 50GB of solid-state storage.nces.

Hostinger may lack dedicated hosting, but it offers gamer-centric Minecraft hosting. There are five options for Minecraft hosting, starting at $8.95 per month, or $7.95 per month with a one-year commitment (renewing at $18.15 per month for the following year). The lowest-level plan gives you a server with 2GB of RAM, and 2x virtual CPU power. You can install your own game mods, establish rules, and even enable in-game advertising. Hostinger’s Game Panel supports more than just Minecraft: you can use its VPS services for Steam and other games, should you want to host, say, CS:GO. Check out So You Want to Build a Minecraft Server: Here’s How to Create One In a Few Easy Steps for a deep dive.

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Next up the ladder is the Premium plan. It costs $11.99 per month, or $2.99 per month with a one-year commitment (it renews at $8.99 per month). The plan lets you create up to 100 websites and email addresses, and offers unlimited monthly data transfers and 100GB of storage. Premium also comes with a free domain name, and free SSL certificate.

The Business plan is $16.99 per month, or $6.99 per month for the first year’s commitment (which renews at $11.99 per month). It builds upon the Premium plan by offering daily backups, a free Cloudflare CDN to speed up your site, and 200GB of SSD storage.

Hostinger’s plans also offer two-year and four-year deals that grant significant discounts. These are good shared hosting plans for a mom-and-pop shop that just wants to list its inventory. Still, the Editors’ Choice award-winning HostGator offers superior shared web hosting packages for a wider range of users. Not only does HostGator offer a choice of Linux or Windows servers, but it has unlimited storage, email, and monthly data transfers at each shared hosting tier. That’s impressive.

Virtual private server (VPS) hosting is the minimum web hosting tier you want if you’re serious about creating an online presence for your business. Compared with shared hosting, VPS hosting gives your website additional server resources to work with, as there are fewer websites on the server.