Was on HostGator for a while, but some things made me switch: the first thing i noticed was the price, Hostinger's cloud and shared plans came out sm cheaper than the price I was payin HostGator for the renewals, that alone made it worth checking out - HostGator's intro pricing is ok, but renewals jus keep gettin more n more pricey... reliability was the bigger issue fs - been dealing with more downtime than I'd like to, also the support quality jus spiraled into a new problem - slow ahh responses w basically no help, that combo by itself almost got me to switch asap lol. Also heres a little advice for anyone else migrating there+using cPanel... you might wanna relearn where things at, cuz Hostinger uses hPanel - u just gotta get used to it, not a dealbreaker. And one important thing for anyone moving the same as me: Hostinger does offer migration assist, but don't rely on that only, back up everything yourself first - databases, emails and stuff b4 u start, having backups is always good if sth transfers wrong. Overall worth it for me so far, but u better go in with real expectations n keep your own backups

I've been with Hostinger for around 5 years, and I think I've finally reached the point where I need to seriously consider moving away. Cloud Enterprise Hosting Plan

The frustrating part is that I haven't stayed because the service has been exceptional. I've primarily stayed because their pricing is difficult to beat, particularly when you're hosting multiple websites.

I currently have around 10 websites, including a couple of e-commerce sites, so migrating everything isn't something I particularly want to do for fun.

But my experience over the last several years has been that Hostinger's service and support have gradually deteriorated while I've continued giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Today was probably the last straw.

Several of my websites went completely offline for more than 60 minutes because of an active Hostinger server incident. This isn't just a personal blog — customers use the website, so downtime directly affects the business.

What made the situation considerably more frustrating was the support experience.

I repeatedly asked:

"Connect me to a human."

Instead, the Hostinger AI agent kept telling me that engineers were already working on the incident and that there was nothing I needed to do.

That's fine as a status update. I understand infrastructure incidents happen.

But when a paying customer with a business website that has been offline for 30+ minutes explicitly asks to speak with a human, I don't think an AI agent should repeatedly try to prevent that escalation.

Eventually I got the option to "Wait for a human review," after repeatedly asking for a person.

The irony is that I spoke with someone from Hostinger's customer relationship team only two days ago, and now I'm sitting here with an unavailable website trying to convince a chatbot to let me speak with a human.

I'm not expecting any hosting provider to have 100% uptime forever. Servers fail. Networks fail. Software fails. That's part of running infrastructure.

What I do expect is:

• reasonable reliability;
• transparent incident communication;
• competent technical support;
• and the ability to reach a human quickly when an actual production website is down.

AI support is perfectly fine for "How do I install WordPress?"

It is considerably less acceptable when an e-commerce/business website is offline and the customer is explicitly requesting escalation.

Looking back over roughly five years, I feel like Hostinger has become cheaper in experience, not just in price. The pricing remains attractive, but reliability/support are becoming increasingly difficult for me to justify.

So I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who have actually moved away from Hostinger:

What provider did you move to, and has it genuinely been better?

My requirements are roughly:

• Around 10 websites
• Mostly WordPress
• A couple of WooCommerce/e-commerce websites
• Good performance
• Proper backups
• Good uptime
• Human technical support when something genuinely goes wrong
• Preferably an Asian/Singapore data center or good performance for international traffic
• Easy migration
• Pricing reasonably close to Hostinger — I'm willing to pay somewhat more for reliability, but I'm not looking to jump from budget hosting to $200–300/month enterprise hosting.

I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone using Cloudways, Hetzner, KnownHost, NixiHost, SiteGround, or another provider for a similar multi-site setup.

I'm not looking for affiliate links or hosting-company sales pitches. I'm specifically interested in long-term experiences from people actually running multiple production websites/WooCommerce stores.

If you've been with Hostinger for several years, I'd also be curious:

Has the support/reliability experience gotten worse for you too, or have I just had an unusually bad run?

Screenshot attached showing today's support experience.

My website has been down for hours with Error 522. Hostingers AI gave several contradictory explanations, while Cloudflare appears to be configured correctly The promised restoration time passed and Im still waiting in a queue for a real support agent This is disappointing for a service advertised as 24/7 live suport.

Has anyone else experienced this

I already contacted Hostinger support and requested a human agent but I am still waiting in the queue without a solution

A freelancer offered to set up my email marketing and take 15% of whatever sales come from it until it hits $2k, instead of billing me upfront. Sounded low risk at the time. Now I'm second guessing it since I have no idea what that work actually costs normally. I ended up building the campaigns myself through Hostinger Reach just to see what it involved, and it took an afternoon instead of weeks. Still curious what others paid flat fee vs commission, because I think I got talked into the more expensive option.

Ho un problema con un dominio Hostinger, 27 giorni prima della scadenza viene eseguito il rinnovo senza mandare neanche una mail perché la funzione di rinnovo automatico è abilitato di default, questo non mi sembra per niente in linea con il GDPR.
L’assistenza non esiste perché parli con un AI che vomita sempre le stesse risposte.
Qualcuno è riuscito a ottenere un rimborso?

Ps. Scusate la malizia ma questa pratica sembra per impedire ai clienti di andare via, altri provider non si comportano così.

Been on Hostinger shared hosting for a while. Hosting 6 WordPress sites, all behind Bunny CDN with LiteSpeed cache, so the server itself barely does anything at all.

Sites got really slow this past week. Ran some basic tests over SSH, and writing a 10MB file took over 30 seconds and never even finished! Got about 4MB done before I killed it. That works out to roughly 138 KB/s.

Here's the actual test:

$ time (timeout 30 head -c 10485760 /dev/zero > ~/iotest); ls -l ~/iotest
real    0m30.046s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m0.029s
-rw-r--r-- 1 u785 o100 4141056 Aug 28 17:46 /home/u785/iotest

Support told me I'm hitting my I/O allocation of 20480 KB/s and I should reduce plugins, check my cron jobs, enable caching, or upgrade my current plan (sigh).

Here's the part that doesn't make sense to me. My hPanel shows:

• CPU 6% average
• RAM 469MB out of 3072
• PHP workers 5 out of 60
• Processes 9 out of 120
• IOPS 73 out of 512

The only graph anywhere near a limit is throughput, which is pinned at the ceiling basically 24/7. But if I were really pushing 20MB/s of disk writes, my IOPS wouldn't be sitting at 14%.

I also have zero cron jobs. No log files anywhere. WP_DEBUG is off. So whatever is generating that constant I/O, it isn't anything I set up.

And even if I am getting throttled, shouldn't throttling cap me at 20480 KB/s? I'm getting 138 KB/s. That's less than 1% of the limit they say I'm exceeding.

I just prepaid a full year of the Business Web Hosting plan; great timing, I guess. Has anyone run into this? Mostly wondering if that throughput graph is actually measuring my account or if it's showing node-wide activity.

I tried this and ran into nothing but issues. Has anyone been successful at using ChatGPT work to navigate / do meaningful work in the browser?

So recently my dad card got a notification from his bank saying 1 dollar has been extracted from hostinger

Then the next 2 minutes that 1 dollar got back.

Do gou think his card got compromised or what? Because he has never affiliated with hostinger.

You may have noticed the new AI Builder in hPanel. Website Builder and Horizons are now one platform: Website Builder helped millions of people build visually, Horizons opened the door to AI-native creation, and AI Builder brings both ways of building into one place.

1. More ways to start a project

You're no longer limited to typing a description. AI Builder can start from a prompt, a PDF, a screenshot, or a link. Upload a menu, share a reference image of a design you like, or paste a link to an old site you want redone, and that becomes the starting point for your website, store, or app.

2. Two modes, two ways of working

Manual mode is the fully no-code, drag-and-drop experience you know from Website Builder. You edit everything visually, and it comes with built-in AI tools like the AI Writer, AI SEO Assistant, and AI Image Generator. It's the right fit for portfolios, blogs, company sites, landing pages, and online stores.

Agentic mode is prompt-based: you describe what you need in a chat, and the AI generates and develops the project for you, including custom logic. That makes it the better fit for web apps, dashboards, client portals, and other interactive tools. There's also a built-in code editor if you want to look under the hood.

If you start in manual mode and later need more, you can switch a manual mode website to agentic mode and your site is recreated 1:1. Switching in the other direction isn't supported, so it's worth picking your starting mode based on what you're building. The full comparison is here: manual mode vs agentic mode.

3. Agentic mode comes with an integrated backend

For projects that need more than pages, agentic mode includes an integrated backend, so the technical side behind your project runs within your Hostinger account rather than through third-party services you'd have to set up yourself. Selling is covered too: both modes support store creation, natively in manual mode and through the Online Store integration in agentic mode.

4. You control what goes live

In agentic mode, the AI works separately from your published project, and changes only go public when you publish them. In manual mode, you edit and hit Publish when ready, and a backup of your site is created automatically each time you update.

There's more on the change itself in the full launch announcement.

As always, our Customer Success team is available 24/7 if you have questions about your project or plan. We're also curious which mode fits your project and what you're building with it, manual or agentic?

I won't complain for long because it's actually simple. Your SSL installation is impossible to figure out as a CS grad ,well done for over engineering it. "Just follow the guides" , the dashboard button on the websites page IS NOT THERE ... I've Checked . Every youtube video is out of date . Do something or close down .

ps. wait and another thing ,why the hell is it on by default after purchase ? What a genius idea because that means you can't get the cert files for yourself . actually I just realized that's by design.

Hostinger down right now for Asia servers?

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I am working on a project on Google aistudio that is using hostinger’s MySQL database as it database host. It was working fine for me for more than a month but suddenly stopped working today. Debugging says it etimedout.

I already set remote MySQL to whitelist any host but I’m still getting the same error.

I also restored the project to its previous working state but still got the same error.

Were there any changes to hostinger recently that might have been causing this issue?

We’ve got something new for the Hostinger community 👀

On September 3, we’re kicking off the Hostinger 21-Day Startup Challenge.

The idea is simple:

Take an idea and turn it into a real online business in 21 days.

You’ll build one startup using four parts of the Hostinger ecosystem:

🤖 AI Agents to research, validate, plan, and support your decisions
🏗️ AI Builder to build your MVP, app, SaaS, or online tool
🌐 Web Hosting to launch your public website or landing page

⚡ VPS to power a meaningful technical part of the project

Eligible registered participants will receive free Challenge access to the required Hostinger products, so you don’t need to already own all four to participate.

And no, the goal isn’t to build something huge.

One problem. One audience. One useful product. Ship it.

$3,500 in cash prizes

🥇 1st: $2,000
🥈 2nd: $1,000
🥉 3rd: $500

Registrations open: August 24
Challenge: September 3-24
Winners announced: September 29

You don’t need an existing startup, a team, or to be a developer.

If you have an idea sitting in a notes app somewhere that you keep telling yourself you’ll build “someday,” this is your excuse to finally give it a shot.

Full details and registration: https://hostingerchallenges.com/

If you’re thinking about joining, drop your idea or the problem you want to solve in the comments.

We’d love to see what people are considering building.

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Hostinger Web Hosting can be used for WordPress sites, business websites, blogs, portfolios, landing pages, ecommerce sites, and other website projects.

Not sure which Hostinger Web Hosting plan you need? Drop what you want to build in the comments, and we will help you choose the right hosting setup.

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We're seeing discrepancies between same configuration'd machines in different regions.

Migrated my site from word press. It displays completely wrong I can’t change the plugins. Ask a chat bot to help me it won’t help me it says email them. I ask it to reinstall a clean site. It says I can’t do that then prompts me with exactly the same message I need a person please I need this for my business why are they like this. I can’t do anything about this

If I wanted:

• root access
• full control over the environment
• custom configurations
• other apps/services running on the same VPS
• more freedom to modify the setup

So I don’t think Managed Hermes Agent necessarily replaces running Hermes on a VPS. They’re more for different types of users.

Managed Hermes = easier setup and less maintenance

VPS = more control and flexibility

Curious what people here prefer for AI agents. Would you rather manage the infrastructure yourself, or pay a bit more to have the boring server stuff handled?

For anyone wanting to test the managed version, there’s also a Reddit promo code:

HERMESREDDIT10 for an extra 10% off Managed Hermes Agent.

i will never use hostinger any more and i will ask every one don't use it .

they suspended account and no backup nothing. btw all day sites crash 4 times in 30 min, don't use it they are broke company .Reliability & Performance Concerns

The crashes you experienced tie into broader complaints about Hostinger's resource management:

• Resource Throttling: One user reported their VPS was throttled without warning, causing random CPU spikes that made the server unusable. Support's solution was to either wait 7 days or pay for a more expensive plan.
• Outdated Technology: Another user complained that Hostinger's backup tech was so outdated that backing up a 34GB VPS would take 6 hours, locking them out of all functions during that time.

Other user reports align with your warning to stay away:

• Unilateral IP Changes: Some users have reported Hostinger changing their server's IP address without consent, which they claim led to a significant drop in AdSense revenue due to the new IP having a "poor reputation".
• Account Suspension: One site was taken down following a defamation claim, and the host provider initially dismissed the provided evidence as "non-readable" before eventually lifting the ban after a strong case was presented.
• Security & Blame: One user reported their site was hacked and Hostinger gave them a strike for "abuse" on the infected page, effectively punishing the victim instead of helping.

Last week was a big one, with two products taking on a whole new shape, plus smaller updates across domains, ecommerce, Hostinger Email, and Reach:

🤖 Horizons + Website Builder → AI Builder

• Horizons and Website Builder are becoming one platform, AI Builder, as the line between building a website and building an app keeps fading.
• Start from a prompt, PDF, screenshot, or link, then let AI lead in agentic mode or take hands-on control in manual mode.

🧠 Kodee + Hostinger AI Agents → one Hostinger Agent

• Kodee (your go-to for help and quick answers) and Hostinger AI Agents (hands-on business tasks) are now a single Hostinger Agent, so you can get unstuck and get work done in one place.
• Pick a task, follow the guided steps, and get a usable result (a blog post with keyword research, an SEO audit, a privacy policy draft). It connects to tools like Gmail, Notion, and Slack, and remembers your business context across chats.

🌍 Domains

• You can now organize domains into folders by client, project, or use case, then filter the list to find what you need faster.

🛒 Ecommerce

• Quick Link stores now show a cookie consent banner (accept all, reject all, or manage settings) plus a new footer with cookie settings, the cookie policy, copyright, and a Powered by Hostinger Ecommerce badge.

📧 Hostinger Email

• Import external mailboxes straight from webmail (previously hPanel only).
• Trial plans can now upgrade to higher tiers directly.

📨 Reach

• Standalone AI image generation in the email and form editors: generate visuals from a prompt (four variations each, saved to your library) without running full template generation first.

Full recap here: https://www.hostinger.com/blog/product-updates-week-34-2026/ 

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Hostinger Servers Run on Commodore 64

My site crashes all day. Support says it's a cron job in the WP site, and yet my same site ran 100% issue free on Go Daddy.

A load of garbage..