Empowering entrepreneurs with affordable web hosting

Posted on April 07, 2022 by ROHIT KUMAR, One of Thousands of Executive Coaches on Noomii.

Hostinger, as a web hosting company, has a large variety of web hosting plans to help you achieve success online. But we also understand that having many options can make it difficult to decide which is the right one for you.
In this article, I will provide an in-depth rundown of our hosting plans, their notable features, and what they’re most suitable for. By the end of this article, you’ll be able to choose the best hosting plan for your needs
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting is a type of hosting where multiple websites are hosted on the same server, sharing its resources.
Think of it like renting an apartment with roommates – you get your own space, but, in most cases, you’ll have to share some facilities like the kitchen and the bathroom.
Shared hosting is also the most affordable type of hosting, making it very popular for small and medium-sized websites.
Hostinger offers three different shared hosting plans:
Single Shared Hosting
Premium Shared Hosting
Business Shared Hosting
Each plan has a different set of features, and their pricing reflects the number of features included with them. For instance, the Premium Shared Hosting plan packs more features when compared to Single Shared Hosting.
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As your website grows, you might find yourself needing more features in the future. Our Shared Hosting plans are easily upgradable, so you can painlessly switch to a more powerful Shared Hosting or even to a Cloud Hosting plan.
Let’s learn more about each of our shared hosting plans.
Single Shared Hosting
Single Shared Hosting is a suitable plan for those who only want to host one website and one email account. It is our most affordable plan, starting at $1.39/month.
With Single Shared Hosting, you’ll get 30 GB SSD storage, 100 GB bandwidth, weekly backups, and a free SSL certificate. You can create one FTP account and up to two subdomains.
Even with its low price, Single Shared Hosting is also a managed plan, which means you’ll receive full support from us. But keep in mind that our free domain offer is not eligible on this entry-level plan, so if you don’t have one yet, you’ll need to buy a domain name.
Who is this plan suitable for:
Bloggers
Web development beginners
WordPress users
Users who only need one email account
Very small online stores that don’t use resource-intensive themes and plugins
Picture-heavy websites (not recommended for video-heavy websites due to bandwidth limitations)
Premium Shared Hosting
Premium Shared Hosting allows you to host up to 100 websites simultaneously. It’s a cost-effective option for those who want to use one plan to host multiple websites. Premium Shared Hosting starts at $1.99/month.
While you can host multiple websites, keep in mind that this is still a Shared Hosting plan. If you plan to host a great number of resource-intensive websites, you might need a different plan.
Still, Premium Shared Hosting should be enough to host resource-efficient websites.
With Premium Shared Hosting, you still get weekly backups instead of daily, but you’ll receive considerable upgrades compared to Single Shared Hosting.
They include 100 GB SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, a free SSL certificate, unlimited FTP accounts, 100 email accounts, a free domain name for one year, and Google Ads credit.
And like the rest of our Shared Hosting plans, we also offer full support for Premium Shared Hosting users.
Who is this plan suitable for:
Users with many blogs or small websites
Users with a few medium-sized websites
WordPress users
Personal websites
Small online stores that don’t use resource-intensive themes and plugins
Business Shared Hosting
Business Shared Hosting is our most powerful Shared Hosting plan, starting at $3.99/month.
The large storage space and other features offered with this plan allow users to host more websites that are significantly resource-intensive. It’s the best we have to offer when it comes to Shared Hosting.
You’ll get to enjoy all features from Premium Shared Hosting and additional major upgrades.
Business Shared Hosting offers 200 GB SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, a free domain for one year, a free SSL certificate, 24/7 support, daily backups (worth $11.40), and a free content delivery network (worth $9.95) for blazing-fast load times.
Who is this plan suitable for:
Users with few small or medium-sized stores
Users with many blogs
WordPress users
Users with several personal websites
Users with one big online store
Cloud Hosting
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Cloud Hosting is a type of hosting where you get dedicated resources from a network of servers to ensure maximum performance and uptime. No more sharing resources with other websites or users and risking downtime.
The dedicated resources you get with Cloud Hosting are comparable to Virtual Private Server (VPS). But, unlike the latter, you don’t need technical knowledge to manage Cloud Hosting. Setting up and managing Cloud Hosting is as easy as with Shared Hosting.
In a nutshell, Cloud Hosting is an extremely powerful yet simple-to-use type of hosting.
The Cloud Hosting architecture that Hostinger uses is the CloudLinux with LVE containers. Each user gets a dedicated container that has resource boundaries to maintain everything working smoothly. Even if a host has to be put down, account migration to a different host happens seamlessly, helping to avoid downtime.
At Hostinger, we offer three different Cloud Hosting plans:
Cloud Startup
Cloud Professional
Cloud Enterprise
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If you previously used Shared Hosting, you may need to upgrade to Cloud Hosting when your website grows bigger and needs more resources. With Hostinger, you can upgrade from Shared Hosting or to a higher Cloud Hosting plan with ease.
Cloud Startup
Cloud Startup, which starts at $9.99/month, is our entry-level Cloud Hosting plan. While it’s our most basic Cloud Hosting plan, it offers substantial resource upgrades from our Shared Hosting.
With Cloud Startup, you get numerous features, including the ability to host up to 300 websites, 200 GB SSD storage, 2 CPU cores, 3 GB RAM, unlimited bandwidth, and 24/7 support. The plan also provides a free domain for one year, a free SSL certificate, daily backups (worth $11.40), and a free CDN (worth $9.95).
Who is this plan suitable for:
Users who own many small online stores or a few large ones
Many resource-intensive projects and websites
Several demanding applications
WordPress and other CMS users
If you’re looking for even more power, take a look at our higher Cloud Hosting plans.
Cloud Professional
Cloud Professional is our mid-tier Cloud Hosting plan. It has the resources to power large eCommerce websites and complex projects. It’s nearly the best we can offer when it comes to Cloud Hosting, with a starting price of $18.99/month.
With Cloud Professional, you get all features in Cloud Startup plus several upgrades. It includes 250 GB SSD storage, 4 CPU cores, 6 GB RAM, and a 2X speed boost thanks to our custom-built infrastructure.
Who is the plan suitable for:
Large online stores
Multiple websites and locales
Users who own a great number of websites and want all of them to run fast and smoothly
WordPress and other CMSs
Cloud Enterprise
Cloud Enterprise is our most powerful Cloud Hosting plan, so if regular Cloud Hosting doesn’t cut it for you, Cloud Global – priced at $69.99/month – undoubtedly will.
Cloud Enterprise offers an extensive lineup of specifications, including 300 GB SSD storage, 6 CPU cores, 12 GB RAM, and all the features that come bundled with Cloud Enterprise.
Who is this plan suitable for:
A very large online store or several decent-sized shops
Business owners whose websites have multiple versions or locales
WordPress and other CMSs
WordPress Hosting
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WordPress Hosting caters specifically to websites built on WordPress. The features we include with WordPress Hosting plans ensure high performance and top-notch optimization for any WordPress site.
At Hostinger, we offer four different WordPress Hosting plans:
Single WordPress
WordPress Starter
Business WordPress
WordPress Pro
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The difference between Shared, Cloud, and WordPress hosting lies in the preconfigured settings we’ve put in place.
Unlike Shared or Cloud Hosting, WordPress hosting comes with machine-level adjustments, plugins, and memory tweaks to achieve maximum performance on WordPress. You also get 24/7 support from a team of WordPress specialists.
WordPress Hosting also includes additional features built-in to the hPanel (Hostinger’s control panel). For example, you can disable or enable plugins from hPanel – no need to log into your WordPress admin dashboard to do this simple task.
Single WordPress
Single WordPress is our most basic and affordable WordPress Hosting. Starting at $1.99/month, it can power one website and one email account, making it an ideal choice for WordPress beginners.
For an entry-level plan, Single WordPress packs all the necessary features to run a single site. You get 30 GB SSD storage, 100 GB bandwidth, a free SSL certificate, weekly backups, up to two subdomains, one FTP account, and a free domain name for one year (purchasing a 48-month subscription or longer).
Keep in mind that Single WordPress doesn’t support WordPress multisite. So, with this plan, you’re unable to run multiple websites using the same WordPress installation.
Even though it’s our most affordable WordPress Hosting plan, it’s still a managed plan, which means you’ll get to enjoy support from our team of WordPress specialists.
Who is the plan suitable for:
Bloggers
WordPress development beginners
WordPress users
Users who only need one email account
Very small online stores that don’t use resource-intensive themes and plugins
Picture-heavy websites (not recommended for video-heavy websites due to bandwidth limitations)
WordPress Starter
WordPress Starter can host up to 100 WordPress sites. This plan starts at $3.99/month, an affordable option if you’re looking to host multiple WordPress sites with a single plan.
Even though it’s possible to host many WordPress sites with this plan, keep in mind that WordPress Starter uses the shared hosting architecture. This means you’ll still be sharing resources with other websites and users. If you want to host multiple WordPress sites with this plan, make sure they’re resource-efficient to avoid dips in performance.
WordPress Starter offers many upgrades from the Single WordPress plan, including 100 GB SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, a free SSL certificate, up to 100 subdomains, up to 100 email accounts, and a free domain name for one year.
And like the rest of our WordPress Hosting lineup, our WordPress specialists are ready to help the plan’s subscribers.
Who is this plan suitable for:
Users that own many blogs or small websites
Users that own a few medium-sized websites
WordPress users
Personal websites
Small online stores that don’t use resource-intensive themes and plugins
Business WordPress
Business WordPress is a suitable choice for small to medium-sized businesses on WordPress. Starting at $6.99/month, you’ll get 5x the WordPress Starter’s storage space and other features that allow you to maintain more websites and data.
With Business WordPress, you get significant boosts plus extra perks, including 200 GB SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, a free domain for one year, and a free SSL certificate. Additionally, it comes with 24/7 support, daily backups (worth $11.40), and a free CDN (worth $9.95) to increase loading speeds.
Who is this plan suitable for:
Users with few small or medium-sized stores
Users with many blogs
WordPress users
Users that have several personal websites
Users that have a big eCommerce store
WordPress Pro
WordPress Pro is our top-tier WordPress Hosting plan. It starts at $11.59/month and provides significant upgrades from Business WordPress, namely the ability to host 3x more websites and handle 3x more traffic per month.
Unlike other WordPress Hosting plans, WordPress Pro is built on a Cloud Hosting infrastructure.
It’s a great choice for those who own an extensive portfolio of small to medium-sized businesses or those who are simply looking for the most powerful WordPress Hosting.
With WordPress Pro, you have all the features from Business WordPress and additional upgrades.
You’ll get 200 GB SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, a free domain for one year, a free SSL certificate, daily backups (worth $11.40), and a free CDN (worth $9.95). You’ll also be able to host up to 300 websites, and obtain Jetpack Personal, a premium plugin for security, performance, and marketing needs, for free.
Who is this plan suitable for:
Users with many small online stores or a few large ones
Many resource-intensive projects and websites
Many demanding applications
WordPress and other CMS users
VPS Hosting
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Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting is a type of hosting where you gain full access to dedicated resources from a server’s virtual partition. You don’t need to share resources with anyone, and you can tweak everything in our Linux-based servers to fit your needs.
The main benefits of VPS hosting, besides the dedicated resources, are stability and flexibility.
Besides being able to work on resource-intensive projects, you’ll also get root access, which ensures total control over your hosting. You don’t get this level of freedom with managed products like Shared and Cloud Hosting. We’ve also covered the difference between Shared vs VPS plans on our blog, if you’d like to check further.
While VPS is the preferred type of hosting for many technical experts, it’s not recommended for complete beginners. VPS Hosting requires some level of technical knowledge to utilize it fully.
Due to its semi-managed nature, you only get partial support with our VPS Hosting. Our support team can only help with inquiries related to VPS management and a few other back-end issues.
We have a total of six different VPS plans starting from $3.95/month, each with a different set of specifications. The higher the plan, the more resources you’ll get.
Our VPS hosting is easily scalable, so you can upgrade to a higher plan whenever you want. Check out our tutorial if you’re planning to move your website from shared hosting to VPS
Minecraft Hosting
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Minecraft Hosting allows you to set up a server for the popular video game Minecraft. Hosting your own server offers extensive flexibility and scalability when playing on Minecraft’s multiplayer mode.
We offer seven different plans in our Minecraft Hosting lineup, starting at $8.95/month. They’re built on cloud-based VPS servers, which gives you dedicated resources with every plan. If necessary, you can also upgrade to a higher plan whenever you want.
We use the Multicraft panel, which makes the setup and management of Minecraft hosting very easy. You’ll also get full root access to the server, allowing you to install any mods or plugins.
Besides, we pre-installed some mods that you can enable or disable easily from the Multicraft panel.
Our Minecraft Hosting servers are located in five locations: United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Lithuania, and Singapore, for a smooth performance with minimal latency. It is also possible to change your server’s location – our support team is ready to help.
Server Locations
We have servers in seven regions of the world: the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Netherlands, Singapore, Indonesia, and Lithuania.
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Conclusion
At Hostinger, we offer hosting services for all kinds of needs. Here’s a summary of your options:
Shared Hosting: Affordable and beginner-friendly, but you share resources with other websites. Suitable for newbies and small to medium-sized websites.
Cloud Hosting: Powerful and easy-to-use. Great for large online stores or other resource-intensive projects.
WordPress Hosting: Tailor-made to ensure maximum performance and optimization for WordPress sites. The perfect fit for anyone who uses WordPress.
VPS Hosting: Flexible and reliable but requires some technical knowledge. The best choice for technical experts with large projects that require complete management freedom.
Windows VPS: The same as VPS Hosting, but the servers are based on Windows instead of Linux. Great for people who prefer using an interface similar to Windows and need high compatibility with software developed for Windows.
Minecraft Hosting: Easy to set up and manage, it is the best fit for Minecraft players who need reliable servers for a smooth and scalable gaming experience.
Now that you’ve learned the ins and outs of each of our hosting plans, we hope you’ll be able to make the right decision.