Cloudways versus Hostinger

Price

• Cloudways From $14/mo
  • Micro: $14.00 monthly
  • Small: $28.00 monthly
  • Medium: $54.00 monthly
  • Large: $99.00 monthly
• Hostinger From $2.99/mo
  • Premium: $2.99 monthly
  • Unlimited: $3.99 monthly
  • Cloud Startup: $7.99 monthly

Both list prices on the same basis. Compare what each plan includes; the lower amount alone does not make the better choice.

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Websites

Cloudways No limit on the number of applications on one server

Hostinger Premium: 3 websitesUnlimited: Unlimited websitesCloud Startup: Unlimited websites

Storage

Cloudways Micro: 25 GB NVMe storage, 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPUSmall: 50 GB NVMe storage, 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPUMedium: 80 GB NVMe storage, 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPULarge: 160 GB NVMe storage, 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU

Hostinger Premium: 20 GB disk, 1 CPU core, 2 GB RAM and 400,000 inodesUnlimited: 50 GB disk, 2 CPU cores, 3 GB RAM and 600,000 inodesCloud Startup: 100 GB NVMe storage

Traffic or visits

Cloudways Micro: 1 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visitsSmall: 2 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visitsMedium: 4 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visitsLarge: 5 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visits

Hostinger Premium: Bandwidth listed as Unlimited

Introductory rate

Cloudways 3-day free trial of Flexible without a credit card

Hostinger Premium: USD 2.99 a month equivalent; USD 143.52 paid upfront for 48 monthsUnlimited: USD 3.99 a month equivalent; USD 191.52 paid upfront for 48 monthsCloud Startup: USD 7.99 a month equivalent; USD 383.52 paid upfront for 48 months

Commitment

Cloudways Charged by the hour and invoiced in arrears in the first week of each month; plan changes show on the invoice immediately, and AWS and Google Cloud prices vary by region.

Hostinger 48 months (the term shown on all three plan cards)

Backups

Cloudways Offsite backup storage costs $0.033/GB per server.

Hostinger Premium: Free weekly backupsUnlimited: Daily backupsCloud Startup: Daily and on-demand backups

Restores

Cloudways One-click restore from automated or on-demand backups

Hostinger Unlimited: "Easy data restore" is listed with the daily backups

Migration

Cloudways Cloudways engineers migrate your first website free from any host.

Hostinger Free with any plan: submit a request in hPanel and Hostinger transfers the site within 24 hours. Each site needs its own request; up to five requests can be active at a time and bulk migrations are not permitted.

Staging

Cloudways Staging is listed.

Hostinger One-click staging tool

Support

Cloudways 24/7/365 live chat and ticket support on every plan; paid Advanced and Premium support add-ons give quicker responses.

Hostinger Priority 24/7 expert support

Limits to check

• Cloudways The number of sites is limited by server capacity: you can launch as many applications as the server can support.
• Hostinger Every plan is paid upfront (the monthly price is the plan total divided by its months), and "Unlimited" features are subject to the Fair Usage Policy.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Cloudways: overage charges; Hostinger: renewal rate.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

• Ask Cloudways about renewal rate; our sources do not establish it yet.
• Ask Hostinger about overage charges; our sources do not establish it yet.

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