Which is the best hosting provider in 2021?

Web hosting isn’t something that many people think about until they need it, but technology is one of the internet’s pillars. Without web hosting services, your favorite sites, podcasts, and videos would live on in a radically different, and likely inconvenient, fashion. If you’re planning to open a business or expand an existing one, you’ll need a good web host. Hostinger is one option, offering solid and dependable plans that can get your company online in no time. 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 is a web hosting company that is owned by its employees. It was founded in 2004 and originally had the name Hosting Media.

However, in 2011, once the company reached the milestone of having a million users, its name was changed to Hostinger.In 2007, Hostinger was a subsidiary of 000webhost.

10 Reasons Why Hostinger Is The Right Host For You!

1. Hostinger Is REALLY Fast

 

We put our Hostinger US test site through a speed stress test using our proprietary server speed checker (still the best and only server speed checker in the world #shamelessplug), benchmarking it against Google’s recommendation of 200 ms, and here are the results.

 

 

Ladies and gentlemen, the speed test results of our Hostinger US test site came back with a worldwide average of a blazing fast 143 ms, which ranks them as one of our A+ top tier hosts!

Next, we tested our Hostinger Singapore site to see how it responds to pings from all over the world

 

If you intend to cater to audiences in Asia (and Australia / New Zealand), you’ll be happy to know that Hostinger returned a stupid fast response of 5 ms from Singapore, with an average speed of 176 ms around the world. Hostinger Singapore gets an A+ ranking from us.

 

Last but not least, we’ve got our Hostinger EU site to evaluate.

 

For those of you targeting European markets, Hostinger would be one of the fastest web hosts for you. 54 ms from London, those are really impressive speeds! Hostinger Europe is equally speedy like their Singapore and American counterparts, and they returned decent worldwide average speeds of 165 ms, which means that they’re ranked a solid A+!

 

If you study our test results, you might be a little concerned that locations far away from their designated data centers aren’t that great. That’s actually quite normal as the data has to travel further to get to their target destination.

 

This should be a nonissue though, because Hostinger has a grand total of 6 data centers across the globe, namely in the USA, EU, Brazil, Netherlands, Singapore & Indonesia (there’s 1 more being built in their home country of Lithuania). Just pick the data center closest to your users and they’ll get to enjoy your site’s breakneck loading speeds in all its glory!

 

2. 99.9% Uptime Guarantee!

 

Few people out there take uptime guarantee seriously, but to us it can make or break our opinions on a web host. Small business sites need to be up as much as possible, as any sort of downtime means loss of potential sales.

Extended downtimes can lead to our sites losing rank on Google, which is bad news for the business.

While some web hosting companies provide uptime guarantee, some of them can be rather sketchy, sliding in terms like “release of payment is up to our due discretion” which means that they can choose not to reimburse whatever they guaranteed.

We combed through Hostinger’s TOS and found no traces of such nonsense.

 

If your site’s downtime dips below 99.9% due to Hostinger’s faults, just contact them to get 5% of your monthly fee back.

So far, we’ve been happy with Hostinger’s uptime!

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Faster Loading With Cache Manager

 

We’re just so happy that Hostinger has come up with so many ways of improving loading speeds. One of them is their very own Cache Manager. Enabling it allows for quicker load times and improved speeds!

Here’s what you need to do to turn it on.

Enter hPanel and hit “Manage” on the site you want to turn it on. Scroll down to “Advanced”. You’ll see “Cache Manager” listed as one of the options. Click on “Cache Manager”

 

Once you’re inside, all you have to do is click on “Change” and you should see the “Automatic Cache” button turn green, indicating that it’s On. Click on “Purge All”, and you’re good to go!

 

We ran some tests on our Hostinger test site using webpagetest.org, to see how it performs with Cache Manager on here are the results:

 

 

Our test sites are stock installs, super light with no optimizations so there’s not much that Cache Manager can do. However, Cache Manager’s effect will be amplified once the site has more content and images.

 

4. Awesome Benefits That Increase SPEED!

 

Our Hostinger Premium Shared account came with an entire list of benefits, all of which improves speed one way or another. Here are some of our favourites!

 

 

 

5. Excellent Custom Dashboard

 

Hostinger is one of the very few web hosting companies with cajones big enough to mess with the UI of cPanel. Better yet, they managed to get everything done right.

 

Branded hPanel, Hostinger’s custom dashboard is clean, a breeze to use and very intuitive. All the features are sorted by categories, and their well designed minimalistic icons give an almost Muji like feel to the dashboard. You get the feeling that there’s a place for everything and everything is in its place. It’s so intuitive that i think someone with no experience will be able to use hPanel quite effectively.

Kudos to Hostinger’s UI & UX team for their excellent custom dashboard!

 

 

6. Responsive Support (They’re Fun Too!)

 

Sometimes, communicating with a web hosting company’s support team can make one want to physically reach through the phone and strangle the useless donkey on the other line. Other times, it can pleasant, productive, and even downright awesome. We are pleased to say that from our experience with Hostinger’s support team, they belong to the latter category.

We didn’t get a chance to submit a ticket (our installs went off without a hitch) so we just contacted their live chat to see how they responded to some basic issues, and we were impressed!

Not only did the support team respond to us almost immediately (we had to wait a few seconds, but that’s pretty amazing considering we had to wait close to 30 mins with some other web hosting), they were knowledgeable, patient, and get this – they were FUN. They will also hold your hand and soothe your troubled soul as they assist you in fixing your problems step by step.

If Hostinger got one thing right, it’s their support interface:

 

 

We get to communicate with gifs and emojis (which some may say is a gimmick, but we can see how this can lessen the frustration when dealing with complicated matters), and we can send attachments! This is great for the times when a picture is better than a thousand words.

 

We’re not the only ones that share the same level of enthusiasm about Hostinger’s support. Here are some actual examples of what other customers had to say about their experience with Hostinger’s support team:

 

 

 

The support team actually practices a “zero-tier support system” (unofficial name, don’t quote us on this) whereby each of their team members are trained to answer every single query without forwarding to upper tier support. This results in extremely fast problem solving, as they don’t have to waste time connecting you to upper tier support to solve your issues.

 

 

Another great thing about their support is that they’re very localised! The support team serves 20 countries from their 4 support centers in their native language so locals have an easier time communicating with the team, and they’re planning to include more localised languages!

 

 

 

 

7. Free Domain!

 

If you folks didn’t already know, to start your website, you need to buy a domain name from a domain registrar on top of paying for web hosting. Little expenses like these can add up and snowball, and it can really hurt small business owners especially when they’re just starting out.

 

Getting a free domain name from your web hosting can really help, and Hostinger is truly making a difference by supporting new entrepreneurs by giving a domain for free!

 

The only thing is that with domains, you’ll also want to get WHOIS protection which protects your online identity. Some domain registrars like Namecheap provides WHOIS protection for free, but this isn’t the case with all registrars. More often than not, you’ll have to pay for it, and unfortunately, this is the case with Hostinger.

 

But look on the bright side – you’ll be getting a FREE DOMAIN! Paying $5 a year for WHOIS protection really is peanuts compared to that. It’s a worthy investment!

 

8. Unlimited Features!

 

As if everything else on this list isn’t impressive enough already, Hostinger’s Premium Plan continues to impress with their entire list of unlimited features. Let’s have a look at some of them.

 

 

 

 

9. Great Introductory Price

 

Last but not least, Hostinger’s introductory prices are really what sets this web hosting company apart from the competition.

Hostinger has almost all of the same features as a premium web host, but at a fraction of the price; our Premium Plan only costs $2.89/month, and their entry-level Single plan is only $0.99/month, while our current favorite web host, SiteGround, charges $6.99 for their entry-level account. 

In terms of value, we have to say that Hostinger provides one of the best bangs for your buck in the industry, especially for those that are just starting out!

 

10. They Own The Zyro Website Builder

 

Expanding an already impressive product range, Hostinger recently added on to their inventory a website builder. Zyro is aimed at the real beginners among users and takes simplicity to a whole new level.

 

What Zyro offers is a more holistic experience. They’ve further simplified the basic website builder and added on external features that will help users build complete websites quickly. These include the ability to auto-generate content, streamline design, and more.