Hostinger Review 2026: One of the Cheapest Big-Name Hosts to Start With, If You Read the Renewal and Refund Rules First

One purchase, five things with different clocks: the hosting term, a one-year domain, a one-year email trial, one-time AI credits and the backups.

Hostinger's web plans look like one product, but each plan card bundles several services that renew, expire or refund on their own rules. The hosting plan runs for the term you prepay (1, 12, 24 or 48 months) and auto-renews at the renewal rate. The free domain is free for the first year only and renews at the regular price. The mailboxes are a one-year free trial of Hostinger's Business Starter email with 1 GB of storage each, renewing at $0.59 per mailbox a month. The AI Builder credits are a one-time allowance that, per the plan tooltip, “don’t renew monthly.” And backups are weekly on Premium and daily on the higher plans. Everything is managed in hPanel, Hostinger's own control panel.

For a beginner who has never heard the words “inode” or “PHP worker”, Hostinger's tutorial on what web hosting is embeds this beginner explainer from its own Academy channel:

“What is web hosting? A simple explanation (for beginners)”, official Hostinger Academy YouTube channel (@HostingerAcademy), embedded in hostinger.com/tutorials/what-is-web-hosting.

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A renamed plan line-up, a merged AI Builder, a new CEO, disclosed security incidents and a Refund Policy revised on Oct 15, 2026.

If you last priced Hostinger a couple of years ago, the plan names have moved. The old Single plan is no longer on the main pricing page, and the help center says “The Web Business plan is now offered as Unlimited on most pages,” with Business still sold on select landing pages. Website, storage and email limits for web and cloud plans were updated on March 18, 2025. In August 2026 Hostinger merged its Website Builder and its vibe-coding tool Horizons into one product, AI Builder, and merged its Kodee assistant and AI Agents into one Hostinger Agent. On June 16, 2026 it named product chief Giedrius Zakaitis as CEO, replacing Daugirdas Jankus, who stays on for strategic projects.

Hostinger describes the CEO change as part of its “pivot from a hosting provider to a fully agentic-first company.” The same announcement gives numbers buyers rarely see from a private host: revenue of €275.4 million in 2025, up 51% year over year, nearly 900 employees and “more than 5 million users in over 150 countries.” It also says Kodee, now part of Hostinger Agent, can perform “more than 500 admin-level tasks, including access to and control of users’ IT systems.” That is convenient, and it is also a reason to think about what an assistant is allowed to do in your account (see AI and agents).

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For buyers in late October 2026, the most practical change is the calendar: Hostinger's site was already running “Get your Black Friday deal before it ends” on Oct 26, with 2x AI credits as the Black Friday extra on 48-month plans. The page does not say whether the promo prices change after Black Friday, so check the cards on the day you buy.

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The second most used hosting provider on the web by site count, a WordPress.org recommended host, and a 4.6 Trustpilot score built largely on invited reviews.

W3Techs, which surveys the technology behind websites, put Hostinger on 5.2% of all websites on Oct 26, 2026, second only to Shopify (5.3%) and ahead of Amazon (4.4%), Wix (4.2%), GoDaddy (2.5%), Newfold Digital, the owner of Bluehost (2.3%), SiteGround (2.0%) and DreamHost (0.3%). That is a share of websites, not of customers or revenue: a host with many cheap, small sites scores high on this measure. Hostinger itself claims more than 5 million customers and 10 million websites created on its About page; those are vendor counts, not audited figures.

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Two more signals. WordPress.org lists Hostinger among its recommended hosts; the same page says that “some will donate a portion of your fee back” to WordPress.org if you click through, so treat the list as curated, not independent testing. And Hostinger is privately held: its About page says a private equity firm “holds a minority stake of around 30%,” with the rest held by the founders and team. There is no Hostinger-published app in the US App Store or US Google Play search results; the apps that appear for “hostinger” are third-party guides.

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Mostly happy beginners at scale, and a sharp minority describing suspensions, refund disputes and lost data.

On Oct 26, 2026 Trustpilot showed Hostinger at 4.6 (“Excellent”) from 73,446 reviews, with 87% five-star and 7% one-star. Read that with Trustpilot's own label in mind: the profile says the company “invites their customers to review, whether positive or negative,” and invited reviews tend to come from customers right after a smooth purchase or a solved chat. Trustpilot also notes that Hostinger replied to 98% of negative reviews, typically within 24 hours, and the profile carries a “Paid Trustpilot subscription” label. The sample is huge, so the 7% one-star slice is still thousands of people, and their complaints cluster tightly.

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The newest reviews on that day showed the pattern in miniature. The five-star ones praised the interface, the AI tools, support and how easy and cheap it is for a beginner to manage domains. The one-star ones were about hosting suspended without a clear explanation of which rule was broken, websites shut down, and a refused full refund. Hacker News, where the posters tend to be technical, has fewer Hostinger threads, but the two that stand out are both about suspensions:

We cannot judge whether any individual suspension was justified, and Hostinger's side is rarely public. What the stories share is a lesson that Hostinger's own documents back up: its Hosting Agreement says “all websites associated with your hosting account may be removed if one website is in violation,” and its Terms make you “solely responsible for backing up your data in all circumstances.” Praise centers on price, the friendly hPanel dashboard and fast chat. Frustration centers on renewal prices, refunds and suspensions. Churn trigger: the renewal invoice after the promo term, and outgrowing shared resources.

$2.49 to $7.99 a month on a 48-month prepay, $3.99 to $9.99 on 12 months, and $10.99 to $25.99 a month once the term renews.

Hostinger labels the $7.99 plan two ways: Cloud Startup on the cloud hosting page, and Ecommerce Startup, with “Ecommerce built in,” on the web hosting and AI Builder pages, with the pricing page using both names. The price, renewal and limits are the same. We use Cloud Startup, the name on the cloud hosting page.

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All four terms read from the term selector on hostinger.com/web-hosting, Oct 26, 2026. The cards show the same renewal rate for the 12, 24 and 48-month terms.

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What the “80% off” is measured against. The struck-through price on each card is the monthly rate ($12.19 for Premium), and the “regular price” in the small print is that monthly rate times the term ($585.12 for 48 months). Nobody on a long term pays that. Measured against the renewal rate you will actually face, the 48-month Premium discount is about 77%, and the renewal is about 4.4 times the promo price. The real cost section runs the numbers.

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What each plan actually includes

The compare table is where the plans differ in ways that matter for a growing site: storage, daily backups, the number of databases and, most importantly for WordPress, CPU, RAM and PHP workers (how many PHP requests can run at once). Premium has one CPU core and 40 PHP workers; Unlimited has two cores and 60; Cloud Startup has four cores, 100 workers and a dedicated IP address.

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Add-ons sit outside the plan price. Hostinger Ecommerce is “$1 for 3 months, renews at $8.99/mo” (WooCommerce itself is free on every plan), extra mailboxes renew at $0.59 each a month, daily backups can be bought for Premium from the Backups page, and AI Builder credits can be topped up. The Refund Policy lists AI Builder credits, the email storage add-on, domain privacy and paid support services as non-refundable.

Four years of Premium for $119.52 is the cheapest path; the bill that decides your total arrives in year five.

These examples are arithmetic on Hostinger's published prices on Oct 26, 2026, before VAT, for one small site. They assume a .com domain at the $19.99 renewal price listed on Hostinger's domain search page and leave out email after the trial. Under the Terms, a plan auto-renews by default for the same length as your last term (or a shorter one on sale), charged up to 30 days before the term ends, at the then-current price.

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What the numbers say. The 48-month term saves real money: $324 over four years against renewing a 12-month plan every year (setup A against B). The price of that saving is commitment. You hand over $119.52 on day one, and if you leave after month two you get nothing back for the remaining 46 months, because refunds stop at 30 days. The second lesson is the renewal: at today's rate, the second four years of Premium cost $527.52, more than four times the first four. Hostinger may also change that rate before you renew. A calendar reminder 30 to 35 days before your term ends, when the renewal can be charged, is worth more than any coupon.

Email and the domain add up too. After the first year, keeping the two free mailboxes costs 2 × $0.59 × 12 = $14.16 a year, and the .com renews at $19.99 a year. So a Premium site with its domain and two mailboxes costs about $34 a year on top of hosting from year two, which more than doubles the effective yearly cost of the 48-month plan in years two to four.

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Refunds that delete everything, a domain you keep but pay for, backups with three different lifespans, and "unlimited" that means a small business website.

Hostinger's legal pages are long but unusually specific. The versions quoted here were current on Oct 26, 2026: Terms of Service last revised Sep 29, 2026; Refund Policy Oct 15, 2026; Hosting Agreement Aug 28, 2026; Expired Registration Recovery Policy and Domain Name Registration Agreement May 13, 2026; Customer Service Policy May 10, 2023.

1. The 30-day refund is real, and it ends the service

The Refund Policy's standard rule: “Products purchased from Hostinger may be refunded only if canceled within 30 days of the date of the transaction.” The useful detail is the definition. “Date of the transaction” includes “the date any renewal is processed,” so a hosting renewal you did not want is refundable for 30 days too. Hosting is refundable on all plans except “first payment after Free Trial and all VPS hosting plans” (VPS has its own rule: once per 180 days).

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What surprises people is what a refund does. Hostinger's cancellation article says: “requesting a refund will result in the immediate termination of the service,” and “As soon as a refund is processed, the service is terminated, and all associated data is erased immediately.” There is no option to refund but keep the site until the end of the month. If you just want to stop paying later, you turn off auto-renewal instead, and the plan runs to its expiry date and is then deleted. There is “no delete button or menu option” for services in the dashboard.

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Not everything is refundable. The policy's “not available for refunds” list includes domain name renewals, privacy protection, Hostinger AI Builder credits, the Hostinger Email storage add-on, website cleanup and “All paid support services.” Purchases paid in crypto are never refunded. A refund to your Hostinger Balance is instant but irreversible, and Balance credits expire after two years, per the Terms. If your payment method limits refunds, Hostinger may issue the refund as Balance credit instead.

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One more mismatch to know about: the web hosting page promises that “If you’re not 100% satisfied, let us know within 30 days of purchase for a full refund,” but the free domain's fee is deducted from that refund (next section). On a plan with a free domain, “full” means full minus the domain.

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2. The free domain: yours to keep, free for one year, deducted from refunds

The free-domain FAQ is clear and fair on ownership: the domain “is registered in your name with Hostinger as the ICANN accredited registrar, and WHOIS privacy is included,” and you can move it elsewhere “after the 60-day lock that applies to every new registration.” The conditions: Premium or Unlimited on a term of 12 months or longer, one domain per account, a choice of 22 to 37 extensions depending on your country (on hostinger.com, 34 on Premium and 32 on Unlimited; .ai and .io are not included), and the pricing page adds that it “must be registered within 12 months of acquiring the hosting plan, or it will be cancelled.” After year one, it “renews at the regular price.”

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The cost shows up if you change your mind. “If you cancel within the 30-day money-back window, the domain registration fee is deducted from the refund, because it has already been paid to the registry. The domain stays yours either way.” The Refund Policy says the same in legal language: free domains are non-refundable, and Hostinger may refund “a difference between your paid amount and the domain you received for free price.” Neither page says which price is used. If it were the .com's listed $19.99, a 48-month Premium refund would come to about $99.53 instead of $119.52.

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Domains you pay for have their own, shorter clock. A new paid domain registration is refundable only if the refund is “initiated within 96 hours,” and the policy lists dozens of country endings, including .ca, .de, .eu, .uk, .us, .au and .ai, whose registries “DO NOT permit refunds upon cancellation.”

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The bigger domain risk is forgetting to renew. Hostinger's Expired Registration Recovery Policy (written for .com) says auto-renewing domains are charged 27 days before expiry and five reminder emails are sent. If a domain does expire, you can renew it at the normal price for a while, but on day 26 after expiry the domain goes to auction. From day 31, if nobody has bid, recovery costs a redemption fee that “currently is $80.00 USD + Renewal Fee + VAT” for most domains; once there is a bid, “the domain is removed from your account and cannot be renewed anymore.” Day 74 is the end. A separate paid Domain Shield service keeps domains out of the auction. Domain renewals are not refundable.

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3. Backups: weekly on Premium, and three different retention periods

Backups are where Hostinger's documents disagree most. All three statements below are on Hostinger's own pages on the same day:

Our reading: the legal documents promise the least, so plan around them. On Premium you get weekly backups; daily backups need a paid add-on or the Unlimited plan, and the add-on keeps the last seven days. Hostinger's tools can restore files and databases and download them as .tar.gz and .sql.gz files, which is good. But “Downloading backups is not available for websites created with Hostinger AI Builder,” and the Hosting Agreement adds that backups made by third-party plugins inside your account may be excluded from Hostinger's own backups. Keep a weekly copy of your site somewhere outside Hostinger.

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4. "Unlimited" means a small business website, with hard limits underneath

Bandwidth is advertised as unlimited (“we do not limit the amount of visitors that your websites receives. Fair usage policy applies.”), and the Fair Usage Policy link on the pricing page points to the Hosting Agreement. Its definition is plain: “our unlimited services are intended for the typical operation of a small business website.” Underneath, every plan, “including the ones that contain unlimited services,” is limited by “Inode count, Database size, CPU power, amount of RAM, Entry Processes, Active Processes.” If you exceed them, “your site may slow down or not be served,” or be “temporarily or permanently suspended.”

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The numbers that matter are published, mostly. Premium allows 400,000 inodes (files and folders), Unlimited 600,000 and Cloud Startup 2,000,000; a WordPress site with a few thousand images and plugins uses tens of thousands, so inodes bite mainly on sites with many uploads or caches. Entry processes are named in the Hosting Agreement but not quantified on the pricing page or the limits article, which lists PHP workers instead. And the documents disagree on databases: the pricing page gives Premium 10 and Unlimited 150, while the Hosting Agreement's fair-use example still says shared accounts get “300 databases (excluding Single Plan which has 2 databases).”

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5. Email: a one-year trial with 1 GB and 100 messages a day

The “free” mailboxes on web plans are a Free Business Starter (1-year trial): 1 GB of storage and a daily message rate of 100 (inbound and outbound) per mailbox, per Hostinger's email limits article. If you cancel the trial it “cannot be reactivated,” and “If the hosting plan expires before 1 year, the email trial is canceled.” Separately, email sent by your website through the server's own mail function (PHP mail() and similar) is capped at “10 emails per minute and up to 100 emails per day” on every web and cloud plan; for order confirmations or newsletters, use SMTP or a transactional email service.

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The limits article also contradicts the plan card: the card promises Unlimited buyers “Unlimited mailboxes per website - free for 1 year,” while the limits table lists the Unlimited plan's free-trial mailbox count as “5 per website.” Similarly, the pricing page shows Cloud Startup with “Unlimited websites”, and the limits article says 100. Ask support which applies before you plan around the higher number.

6. Uptime credit, termination and the legal frame

The Hosting Agreement guarantees 99.9% uptime a month. If Hostinger misses it, “as solely determined by us,” you can request “a credit of 5% of your monthly hosting fee for that month,” usable only on further Hostinger purchases and claimed within 30 days. On a 48-month Premium plan at $2.49 a month, that is about 12 cents; the exclusions include scheduled maintenance, DDoS attacks and email or FTP outages. On termination, “We will not transfer or FTP your website or server content to another provider,” and content you have not moved “will be deleted and we will not be able to provide a copy.”

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The Terms cap Hostinger's total liability at “the actual amount of fees paid by you for the Services in 12 (twelve) months preceding the cause of action giving rise to liability or EUR 10,000 (ten thousand euros), whichever is less,” and any claim must be brought within 12 months. On a plan prepaid four years ahead, ask how the 12-month window is counted, because you may have made no payment in the 12 months before a problem in year three; we are not lawyers. The agreement is governed by Luxembourg law with Luxembourg courts, “unless this contradicts mandatory provisions of your local laws,” and which Hostinger company you contract with (UK, Indonesia, Singapore, Luxembourg or Cyprus) depends on where you live. The Terms also say the services “are intended for your commercial or professional use.”

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Match your situation to one line.

LiteSpeed servers, a beginner-friendly control panel, free migrations, and a site builder that now writes apps too.

Hostinger's core product is managed shared hosting: you get space on a shared server, and Hostinger handles the server software, security updates and backups. Its pages describe LiteSpeed web servers, NVMe storage on the higher plans (Premium's card says SSD), a CDN, free unlimited Let's Encrypt SSL certificates and an “AI SEO ready” option that publishes a guide file for AI search agents on WordPress sites. hPanel, Hostinger's own control panel, puts websites, domains, DNS, email, databases, file manager, backups, SSH, Git and PHP version control in one place. Hostinger migrates sites from another host for free, but “Only websites created with WordPress and other open-source platforms can be migrated.”

Where you host matters for speed. For web and cloud plans, the help center lists data centers in Europe (France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom), Asia (India, Indonesia and Malaysia), North America (Phoenix, Boston and Asheville) and South America (Brazil), with the CDN adding Johannesburg, Japan and Sydney. You choose at setup and can move later from Plan Details, but the article warns that “Users who change their server location may be unable to revert to their original selection.” The cloud hosting page's map lists Arizona, Massachusetts and New York for North America, which does not match the help center's Asheville; check the list in your dashboard during setup.

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AI Builder

Since August 2026, AI Builder is Hostinger's single site builder. You “start from a prompt, PDF, screenshot, or link,” then “let AI take the lead in agentic mode, or keep hands-on control in manual mode,” per the Week 34 product update. It is included in the web plans, with a one-time pool of AI credits (250 on Premium, doubled to 500 on the 48-month term, which Hostinger currently presents as a Black Friday offer). The trade-off is portability: Hostinger's help center says AI Builder site backups cannot be downloaded, manual-mode sites cannot be saved to your device, agentic-mode sites can export their code, and content can be exported to WordPress. For anything you expect to keep for years, WordPress on the same plan is the more portable choice.

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Buy, claim the domain, install WordPress, set up backups you control, and diary the renewal.

Hostinger's tutorial on starting a blog embeds this six-step guide from its own Academy channel:

“How to Start a Blog in 2026 (The Complete 6-Step Blueprint)”, official Hostinger Academy YouTube channel (@HostingerAcademy), embedded in hostinger.com/tutorials/how-to-start-a-blog. It is the vendor's own tutorial, not independent advice.

An AI agent answers first, humans are on chat around the clock, and there is no phone line.

Support starts with Hostinger Agent, which since August 2026 includes the former Kodee chatbot. The contact page invites you to “Chat with Hostinger Agent,” and the free-domain page says the human team “replies in chat around the clock in 10+ languages” (the About page says support is available in 30+ languages). The Customer Service Policy, last revised May 10, 2023, lists two channels: live chat (“We will reply as soon as possible”) and email to support@hostinger.com (“We will reply within 1 business day”). We found no phone support on the contact page. Premium's card shows “Priority 24/7 expert support” as not included; Unlimited and Cloud Startup include it.

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The agent can do more than answer. Hostinger says it handles tasks like connecting domains, configuring DNS and activating email, and its CEO announcement describes “access to and control of users’ IT systems.” For developers, the Hostinger Connector lets “Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding tools” deploy sites, set up domains and “manage subscriptions” by prompt; it is “Free to install. Works with your active plan.” If you use Claude, our Claude MCP connectors guide explains how connector permissions work and the Claude Code setup guide covers the terminal side. Treat any agent that can manage subscriptions like a person with your card: give it the narrowest access and review what it changes. The Terms make you responsible for keeping API keys confidential and rotating them.

Node.js apps on the higher plans, an API, a CLI and SDKs, and SSH and Git on shared hosting.

Beyond WordPress and PHP sites, Unlimited includes 5 “Web Apps” and Cloud Startup 10, for front ends built with “React, Next.js, Vite, Vue, and others,” per the pricing page (Premium has none). Hostinger publishes a public API (developers.hostinger.com), a CLI and SDKs in its documentation, and hPanel exposes SSH, WP-CLI, Git integration and PHP version control. Inbound UDP is not supported on shared hosting, per the Hosting Agreement. For self-hosted tools such as n8n, Hostinger sells VPS plans, which follow different refund rules.

From the compare table on hostinger.com/pricing and the help center's limits article, Oct 26, 2026.

Hostinger discloses its incidents in detail, and 2025 and 2026 gave it three to disclose.

Shared hosting means sharing a server, so a flaw in the server software can reach many sites at once. Hostinger's engineering blog describes three recent cases in its own words, and the way it handled them is worth reading before you choose.

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What we take from this: Hostinger detects, patches and explains quickly, and the managed plans got protection without customers lifting a finger. The flip side is the shared model itself. In the September case, one server meant 430 accounts with a webshell. Hostinger's Information Security Policy is written against the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard; we have not seen a certificate or audit report. The Hosting Agreement states that the services “are not intended to provide a PCI (Payment Card Industry) or HIPAA” compliant environment, so stores should take card payments through a hosted payment provider rather than on the server, and health data does not belong on these plans. Free SSL and WHOIS privacy are included, and the cloud hosting page lists a malware scanner.

Beginners and small businesses who want low cost and one dashboard, and who will take backups seriously.

Likely plan by work pattern: a personal blog fits Premium on 24 or 48 months; a business site or several client sites fit Unlimited; a WooCommerce store or a site with traffic spikes fits Cloud Startup.

Nine things to check before you prepay four years.

Priced from each vendor's page on Oct 26, 2026; the plans count different things, so they are not like-for-like.

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How to read this. On a 12-month start, Hostinger Premium and DreamHost's entry plan end up within about $13 of each other over three years, and both renew at $10.99 a month; DreamHost includes more sites and daily backups at that tier, Hostinger's edge is the deeper 48-month discount. SiteGround starts at a similar price but renews much higher; it includes daily backups on every plan. Hostinger's 48-month term is the outlier: $119.52 for four years is cheaper than any three-year path above, if you are confident you will stay.

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Questions people ask before committing

How much does Hostinger really cost?

Premium is $2.49 a month on a 48-month term, paid up front as $119.52, then renews at $10.99 a month. On 12 months it is $3.99 a month ($47.88), and month to month it is $12.19. Prices exclude VAT, as of Oct 26, 2026.

What does Hostinger renew at?

Premium $10.99, Unlimited $16.99 and Cloud Startup $25.99 a month, per the plan cards. By default the plan renews for the same length as your last term, charged up to 30 days before it ends, and Hostinger may change the renewal price before then.

Can I get a refund?

Yes. Hosting is refundable within 30 days of a purchase or a renewal; VPS plans have extra conditions, and domain renewals and AI Builder credits are not refundable. The refund terminates the service and deletes its files, databases and email immediately, and the free domain's fee is deducted.

Is the domain really free, and do I own it?

It is free for the first year on Premium or Unlimited with a term of 12 months or more, then renews at the regular price (.com is $19.99 a year). It is registered in your name with WHOIS privacy, and you can transfer it away after the 60-day lock.

Does Hostinger back up my site?

Weekly on Premium, daily on Unlimited and Cloud Startup. Retention depends on which Hostinger page you read (two, six or seven weeks for weekly backups), and the Terms say Hostinger does not warrant backups, so keep your own copy.

Is "unlimited bandwidth" really unlimited?

Visitors are not metered, but the fair-use rule says unlimited services are for “the typical operation of a small business website,” and every plan has limits on inodes, CPU, RAM, processes and databases. Exceeding them can slow or suspend the site.

What support does Hostinger offer?

24/7 chat, starting with the Hostinger Agent assistant, and email with a reply within one business day. There is no phone support listed. Priority support is included on Unlimited and Cloud Startup, not on Premium.

Where this came from, and when.

Every price, limit, rule and rating in this review comes from the pages below, all as of Oct 26, 2026 unless another date is given. Expand for the full list, the scoring method and what the review does not cover.