HostingSimple vs Hostinger.
$15/mo billed monthly. No 4-year handshake.
Hostinger's $2.99 sticker only exists if you prepay 48 months upfront — that's $480 committed to one shared box. We're $15/mo billed monthly, cancel any time, no prepay tricks. Here's what the monthly model actually buys you.
When Hostinger is genuinely
the right pick.
We want you on the right host — even if that's not us. This is when we'd tell you to stay.
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Hostinger is honestly excellent at what it does: cheap, fast-enough, reliable-enough WordPress hosting for hobby sites and small businesses. If you've prepaid four years and your traffic is under 50k/mo, you got a genuinely good deal. The case for moving is mostly about whether you've outgrown 'cheap and fast-enough.'
Yes, we cost a little more.
Here's exactly what's included for it.
+$4.01/mo more than Hostinger at renewal. About $0.13 a day. Here's what gets bundled into our $15 that Hostinger either gates to a higher tier, sells as an add-on, or simply doesn't offer.
- Monthly billing
- Off-site backups, 30 days
- Soft visit caps
- Same renewal price
- Human support, <5min reply
- Engineer-led migrations
- Monthly billing $15 this month, $15 next. Cancel any time. Hostinger requires 48 months upfront for the sticker.
- Off-site backups, 30 days Daily backups with 30-day retention on every plan, stored off-site in a separate region, restorable file-by-file from the panel.
- Soft visit caps Hostinger throttles at the cap. We let traffic through and have a conversation about upgrading.
- Same renewal price No 4× jump at year 5. $15 stays $15 — forever.
- Human support, <5min reply An engineer on chat, not a tiered ticket queue.
- Engineer-led migrations We move your site in 24h, free. Hostinger's auto-migrate works until it doesn't — then you're alone.
Same workload, both hosts.
What it costs, what runs.
Three common workloads, run through the same calculator. Numbers are 3-year sticker cost — no estimates, no hand-waving.
Don't switch from Hostinger
if any of these are true.
We'd rather lose a sale than recommend a bad move. If one of these describes you, save your migration energy for a better moment.
You're 8 months into a 48-month prepay.
You can't refund the unused portion. The savings only start after year 5 — finish the prepayment.
You're hosting hobby projects under 10k visits/mo.
Hostinger is a genuinely fine choice for this. Save your migration energy for when the workload demands it.
Your team only knows Hostinger's hPanel.
DirectAdmin is similar but not identical. If your team is barely-technical, factor the retraining time into the move.
The specific differences,
not the marketing.
Six rows. Concrete values. If something looks stale, tell us — we update within 24h.
Pre-migration questions,
answered by an engineer.
Real questions we get during pre-sales calls — answered the way we'd answer them on chat.
Can I get a refund on my unused Hostinger prepay?
Within the first 30 days, yes. After that, generally no — they only refund the unused portion for specific cases. Check their refund policy before you commit to switching.
My Hostinger sites use LiteSpeed Cache plugin — does that work on you?
We replace LiteSpeed with our Redis + Varnish + edge stack. The LSCache plugin can stay (it'll no-op cleanly); we configure the equivalents at the server layer.
What about the free email Hostinger included?
We can host email; for serious use we recommend Google Workspace or Fastmail. We'll migrate inboxes during the move at no charge.
Is it true Hostinger's 100-site plan is 'real'?
It's real in the sense that you can install 100 WordPress sites. It's not real in the sense that running 100 active sites with traffic on one shared CPU performs well. The cap is sites; the throttle is on resources.
Move off Hostinger. We do the heavy lifting.
Send us your Hostinger credentials. A human engineer migrates your site within 24 hours, with zero downtime. Free, every time.