Hostinger at a Glance
Hostinger has been our top budget hosting recommendation for two years running. But does it still deserve that crown in 2026? After six months of continuous testing, here's our honest verdict.
Overall Rating: 4.5/5
Best For: Beginners, bloggers, small businesses on a budget
Starting Price: $1.99/month (Single plan, 48-month term)
Performance Test Results
We deployed a standard WordPress installation with a popular theme and 10 plugins on Hostinger's Premium shared hosting plan. Here are the numbers:
Speed Metrics
- Time to First Byte (TTFB): 198ms average (excellent)
- Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): 1.2 seconds (good)
- Full Page Load: 1.8 seconds (good)
- Google PageSpeed Score: 92/100
Uptime
Over our 6-month monitoring period, Hostinger achieved 99.96% uptime. That translates to about 1.75 hours of total downtime over six months — well within their 99.9% guarantee.
What We Love
LiteSpeed Servers
Hostinger uses LiteSpeed web servers instead of Apache, which gives a significant performance boost, especially for WordPress sites with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin.
