How to Choose Web Hosting Plan: Comparison + Suggestions

Hostinger offers a wide variety of web hosting plans to help you succeed online. However, it may be challenging to choose between the many options available.

This article will provide an in-depth overview of our web hosting services, their notable features, and their use cases. We will also discuss five factors to consider when choosing a hosting plan.

Video Guide for Choosing a Hosting Plan

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Shared Hosting

Shared hosting lets you host multiple websites on the same server and share resources with other users. Think of it like renting an apartment with roommates – you get your own space, but you’ll have to share some facilities.

Shared hosting is the most affordable option, making it very popular for small and medium-sized websites. At Hostinger, we offer three types of shared hosting:

• Single Shared Hosting
• Premium Shared Hosting
• Business Shared Hosting

Each plan has a different set of features, and its pricing reflects the number of included benefits. For instance, the Premium Shared Hosting plan offers higher specifications than Single Shared Hosting.

That being said, all plans come with Hostinger’s control panel, hPanel, and an Auto Installer tool.

As your website grows, you might need more features. Fortunately, our shared hosting is easily upgradable.

Let’s learn more about each of our shared hosting packages.

Single Shared Hosting

Single Shared Hosting is a suitable plan for those who only want to host one website and an email account. It is our most affordable plan, starting at £1.49/month.

With Single Shared Hosting, you’ll get 50 GB SSD storage, 100 GB bandwidth, weekly backups, and a free SSL certificate. You can also create one FTP account and up to two subdomains.

Even though it’s the cheapest web hosting plan, Single Shared Hosting is still managed, so you’ll receive 24/7 support from our Customer Success team.

However, our free domain offer is not eligible for this entry-level plan. So if you don’t have one yet, you’ll need to register a domain name.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users with one personal blog
• Web development beginners
• WordPress and other CMS users

Premium Shared Hosting

Premium Shared Hosting allows you to create and manage up to 100 websites simultaneously. It’s a cost-effective option for those who want to use one plan to host multiple sites. Premium Shared Hosting starts at £2.59/month.

While you can host several websites, remember that this is still a shared hosting plan. You might need a more powerful package to host many resource-intensive sites. Still, Premium Shared Hosting should be enough for small websites.

With this package, you’ll receive considerable upgrades from Single Shared Hosting.

Premium Shared Hosting includes 100 GB SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, a free SSL certificate, unlimited FTP accounts, up to 100 email accounts, and a free custom domain for one year.

Like the rest of our shared hosting plans, we also offer 24/7 live chat and email support.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users with many blogs or small online stores that don’t use resource-intensive themes and plugins
• Users with a few medium-sized websites
• WordPress and other CMS users

Business Shared Hosting

Business Shared Hosting is our most powerful shared hosting plan, starting at £3.99/month.

The large storage space and additional resources allow users to host more resource-intensive websites.

You’ll get to enjoy all features from Premium Shared Hosting and several major upgrades.

This plan offers 200 GB SSD storage, a WordPress staging tool, and daily backups.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users with a few small or medium-sized eCommerce sites
• Users with many blogs or several medium-sized websites
• WordPress and other CMS users

Agency Hosting

Agency hosting provides a customized backend infrastructure designed for your agency’s needs.

This plan includes managed WordPress services, such as LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) and a staging tool. In addition, agency hosting allows users to perform various actions using the command line, such as control configuration and plugin updates.

You don’t need technical knowledge to manage this plan since it works similarly to our shared and cloud hosting plans.

At Hostinger, we offer four different agency hosting plans:

• Agency Starter
• Agency Cloud
• Agency Pro
• Agency Pro+

Like shared and cloud hosting, agency hosting also comes with hPanel and 24/7 email and live chat support.

Agency Starter

Agency Starter is our most affordable option, starting at $3.99/month. This plan allows you to host up to 100 websites at once. Hence, it is the best web hosting service option for those who want to start an agency business.

Despite its lower price, Agency Starter comes with 200 GB SSD storage space and advanced WordPress hosting services. In addition, you can create up to 100 domain-based email addresses for free.

For security, this plan also has a free SSL certificate. Furthermore, you’ll get daily backups, up to 100 subdomains, unlimited FTP accounts, and GIT access.

Like most of our web hosting services, Agency Starter offers a free domain for one year and unlimited bandwidth.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Small web agencies
• Users with a few small or medium-sized websites
• WordPress users

Agency Cloud

Agency Cloud allows you to host up to 300 websites simultaneously. This plan, which starts at $9.99/month, is a good option for those who want to host multiple sites and enjoy advanced features.

This plan is built upon a robust architecture, with 3 GB RAM and 2 CPU cores. Furthermore, Agency Cloud offers dedicated server resources, so you won’t be sharing with other users.

With Agency Cloud, we also provide free migration. Our technical team can transfer your website files to Hostinger at no additional cost.

Aside from that, this plan offers multiple PHP versions, from 5.2 to 8.1. We also have a custom-built cache manager to increase speed and decrease load times.

Agency Cloud comes with 200 GB SSD storage, daily backups, pre-installed WordPress, and an access manager.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Small to medium web agencies
• WordPress users
• Users with many small online stores and a few medium ones

Agency Pro

Agency Pro is suitable for hosting several large online stores. It starts from $14.99/month and is optimized to power up to 300 websites simultaneously.

With Agency Pro, you’ll get 250 GB SSD storage, 6 GB RAM, and 4 CPU cores. In addition, it provides up to 100 domain-based email addresses, unlimited bandwidth, daily backups, and dedicated server resources.

Like the other agency hosting plans, it offers managed WordPress services and unlimited databases.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Medium web agencies
• Users with multiple large eCommerce sites or resource-heavy applications
• WordPress users

Agency Pro+

Agency Pro+ is the most powerful agency hosting plan, which starts at $29.99/month. Its robust architecture can handle many large, resource-intensive websites at once.

This plan offers exceptional features, such as 300 GB SSD storage, 12 GB RAM, 6 CPU cores, and all the specifications that already come with Agency Pro.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Large web agencies
• Users with several resource-heavy projects or extensive eCommerce sites
• WordPress users

Cloud Hosting

Cloud based web hosting offers dedicated resources from a network of servers to ensure maximum performance and uptime. With this package, you won’t be sharing resources with other users’ websites and risk downtime.

The dedicated resources you get with cloud hosting are comparable to a virtual private server (VPS). But unlike VPS, you don’t need technical expertise to manage cloud hosting. Setting up and managing cloud hosting is as easy as shared hosting.

Hostinger uses CloudLinux with LVE containers. Each user gets a dedicated container with resource boundaries to maintain smooth operation.

Account migration to a different host happens seamlessly when a host is unreachable, avoiding downtime.

At Hostinger, we offer three different Cloud Hosting plans:

• Cloud Startup
• Cloud Professional
• Cloud Enterprise

If you previously used shared hosting, you may want to upgrade to cloud hosting once your website needs more resources. With Hostinger, you can always upgrade directly from hPanel.

Cloud Startup

Cloud Startup, starting at £8.99/month, is our entry-level cloud hosting plan. It offers substantial upgrades from our shared hosting packages.

Although it’s our most basic cloud hosting plan, you will 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 comes with a free domain name for one year, a free SSL certificate, and daily backups.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users who own many small online stores or a few large ones
• Users with several resource-intensive projects and websites
• WordPress and other CMS users

We recommend checking our upgraded cloud hosting plans if you want even more power.

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 £14.99/month.

With Cloud Professional, you will get all features in Cloud Startup plus several upgrades. Thanks to our custom-built infrastructure, it includes 250 GB SSD storage, 4 CPU cores, and 6 GB RAM.

Who is the plan suitable for:

• Large online stores
• Many resource-intensive websites
• WordPress and other CMS users

Cloud Enterprise

Cloud Enterprise is our most powerful cloud hosting plan, priced at £49.99. With this plan, you can host up to 300 websites at once.

Cloud Enterprise offers an extensive lineup of specifications, including 300 GB SSD storage, 6 CPU cores, 12 GB RAM, and all the features of Cloud Professional.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Many resource-heavy applications or eCommerce sites
• WordPress and other CMS users
• Users with a business that requires streaming media files daily

WordPress Hosting

WordPress hosting caters specifically to websites built on WordPress. The features included in the plan ensure top-notch performance and optimization for any WordPress site.

At Hostinger, we offer four different WordPress Hosting plans:

• Single WordPress
• WordPress Starter
• Business WordPress
• WordPress Pro

The difference between shared vs WordPress hosting lies in the preconfigured settings.

Unlike other hosting plans, WordPress hosting comes with machine-level adjustments, plugins, and memory tweaks to achieve the CMS’ maximum performance. You’ll also get 24/7 support from our Customer Success specialists.

Furthermore, this package includes built-in WordPress features on the hPanel. For example, you can disable or enable plugins from hPanel without opening the WordPress admin dashboard.

Single WordPress

Single WordPress is our most basic and affordable WordPress hosting plan. Starting at £1.49/month, it can power one website and an email account, making it ideal for WordPress beginners.

Single WordPress packs all the necessary features to run a single site. You will get 50 GB SSD storage, 100 GB bandwidth, a free SSL certificate, and weekly backups. Keep in mind that this plan doesn’t include a domain name, so you’ll need to buy one separately.

Single WordPress limits users to two subdomains, two databases, and one FTP account. It also doesn’t support WordPress multisite. Therefore, you won’t be able to run multiple websites on a single installation.

Even though it’s our most affordable WordPress hosting plan, it’s still a managed plan, so you’ll enjoy 24/7 support from our Customer Success team.

Who is the plan suitable for:

• Bloggers or users with a very simple eCommerce site
• WordPress development beginners
• Users who only need one email account

WordPress Starter

WordPress Starter can host up to 100 WordPress sites. This plan starts at £2.59/month and is a great option if you’re looking to host multiple websites with a single plan.

WordPress Starter offers many upgrades from the Single WordPress plan, including 100 GB SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, up to 100 subdomains, and up to 100 email accounts.

This plan also provides advanced WordPress tools to optimize your sites. Furthermore, it allows you to run multiple websites using WordPress multisite and unlimited database features.

Even though it’s possible to host many sites with it, remember that WordPress Starter uses a shared hosting architecture. This means you’ll still share hosting resources with other users’ websites.

If you want to host multiple WordPress sites with this plan, ensure they’re resource-efficient to avoid poor performance.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users that own many small personal websites or medium-sized ones
• WordPress development beginners
• Users with 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. Starting at £3.99/month, you’ll get twice as much storage space as WordPress Starter and other powerful features that let you maintain more websites.

With Business WordPress, you will get 200 GB SSD storage, daily backups, and a staging tool.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users with many small or medium-sized online stores
• Users with many blogs
• Advanced WordPress users

WordPress Pro

WordPress Pro is our top-tier WordPress hosting plan. It starts at £8.99 and provides significant upgrades from Business WordPress. Namely, the ability to host three times as many websites and handle twice as much traffic per month.

Unlike our other WordPress hosting plans, WordPress Pro is built on a cloud hosting infrastructure. Therefore, there’s no need to share resources with other users.

It’s an excellent choice for those with an extensive portfolio of small to medium-sized businesses. If you’re looking for the most powerful WordPress hosting we offer, WordPress Pro is the best pick.

With WordPress Pro, you get every feature from Business WordPress and additional upgrades. You’ll get 200 GB SSD storage, a free dedicated IP, and the ability to host up to 300 websites.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users with many small online stores or a few large ones
• Users who own resource-intensive projects and websites
• Advanced WordPress users

WooCommerce Hosting

WooCommerce hosting caters specifically to online stores built on the WordPress eCommerce plugin WooCommerce. This hosting type comes with many useful features for online stores.

At Hostinger, we offer three different WooCommerce hosting plans:

• Woo Starter
• Woo Premium
• Woo Business

With WooCommerce hosting, you’ll get a custom server setup to achieve a quick and responsive online store.

Furthermore, WooCommerce hosting includes a built-in control panel, access manager, unlimited FTP accounts, and 24/7 support.

Woo Starter

Woo Starter is our most basic WooCommerce Hosting plan that starts at $3.99/month. This is a good pick if you’re looking for an affordable option with basic features that can power up to 100 websites.

With Woo Starter, you’ll get 100 GB SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, and weekly backups. Since Woo Starter is an entry-level plan, it also offers 1024 MB RAM and 1 CPU core.

Woo Starter also has managed WordPress services, such as acceleration, multisite, and command line interface.

And like most of our hosting plans, it comes with a free SSL certificate, a free domain for one year, and up to 100 domain-based email addresses.

To ease your website transfer process to Hostinger, we offer free website migration services. A dedicated will be able to assist you through the entire procedure.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users with small eCommerce sites that don’t use resource-intensive themes and plugins
• WordPress users
• Users with a few medium-sized online stores

Woo Premium

Woo Premium is our mid-tier WooCommerce hosting plan, starting at $11.59/month. It is a cost-effective option if you want to host up to 300 websites simultaneously.

This hosting plan includes 200 GB SSD storage, 3 GB RAM, and 2 CPU cores. Woo Premium offers all the features you would get with a Woo Starter plan, with several additional ones.

You’ll get daily backups and a dedicated IP address. Woo Premium also comes with a WordPress staging tool that allows you to clone a whole production site into a subfolder.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users with medium-sized eCommerce sites
• Users with many small online stores
• WordPress users

Woo Business

Woo Business is our most robust WooCommerce hosting plan that starts at $23.99/month. This is the best option if you want to host up to 300 websites on a solid infrastructure.

With Woo Business, you will get all the features from Woo Premium plus some upgrades. This web host offers 250 GB SSD storage, 6 GB RAM, and 4 CPU cores.

Like most plans, Woo Business provides a free domain name for one year and a free SSL certificate.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Users with several medium and small eCommerce sites
• Users with many small online stores
• WordPress users

VPS Hosting

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) gives users full access to dedicated resources from a server’s virtual partition. You don’t need to share resources with anyone, and you can tweak every detail in our Linux-based servers to fit your needs.

The main benefits of VPS hosting are stability and flexibility.

You will be able to work on resource-intensive projects and gain root access, ensuring total control over your hosting. This level of freedom is not available with managed products like shared and cloud hosting.

We’ve also covered the difference between shared hosting vs VPS.

While VPS is the preferred hosting type for many technical experts, we don’t recommend it for complete beginners. Prior technical knowledge is required to utilize virtual private servers fully.

Due to its semi-managed nature, you will only get partial support with our VPS servers. Our support team can only help with VPS management-related inquiries and several other back-end issues.

We have six different VPS plans starting from £3.49/month, each with a different set of specifications. The higher the plan, the more resources you’ll get.

VPS is scalable, so you can upgrade to a higher plan whenever you want. Check out our tutorial to migrate your website from shared hosting to VPS.

Additionally, our VPS servers are located in multiple data center locations, including Lithuania, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

Keep in mind that this plan doesn’t include a domain name. Therefore, you’ll need to buy one separately.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Advanced web developers
• People with Linux operating system knowledge
• Programmers

CyberPanel VPS Hosting

CyberPanel VPS hosting comes with a pre-installed control panel powered by the OpenLiteSpeed/LiteSpeed web server. It has a robust lineup of specifications, such as auto-SSL, FTP server, auto-backups, PHP management, and the LSCache module.

Navigating and managing this hosting plan is relatively easy since it comes with a panel. It also has built-in security protocols, including LiteSpeed’s Web Application Firewall (WAF).

CyberPanel VPS also offers a command line interface for users who prefer a web-based terminal. Therefore, they can perform various tasks via their browser.

Additionally, CyberPanel VPS gives a Docker Manager to create containers, manage its system, and pull images from the Docker Hub.

We offer eight plans for CyberPanel VPS, starting at $3.95/month. All plans have dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, full root access, HTTP/3 support, and weekly backups.

Furthermore, we include ModSecurity to protect your server and multi-object caching support to integrate Redis, Memcached, or LiteSpeed Memcached (LSMCD) to the system.

Who is this plan suitable for:

• Advanced programmers
• People with LiteSpeed web server knowledge
• Advanced WordPress developers

Minecraft Server Hosting

Minecraft server hosting allows you to set up a server for the popular video game Minecraft. Hosting your own server gives you extensive flexibility and scalability, especially when playing in multiplayer mode.

We offer three Minecraft hosting plans starting at $6.99/month. They’re built on VPS with KVM virtualization, giving you dedicated resources with every plan. You can also upgrade to a higher-tier plan anytime.

Hostinger uses the Game Panel, which makes setting up and managing Minecraft hosting easy. Users also get full root access to install any additional mods or plugins. Some pre-installed mods are also included, which you can enable or disable easily.

Our Minecraft hosting servers are located in the United States, the Netherlands, and Lithuania to ensure smooth performance with minimal latency. Changing the server location is painless with our Customer Success team’s help.

Who is this plan suitable for:

What Factors Should You Consider When Choosing a Hosting Plan?

This section will discuss five crucial factors to consider when choosing a web hosting package.

Understand Your Website’s Requirements

Before deciding on a plan, consider what kind of website you want to build and its requirements. This will help you prioritize the hosting plan that will satisfy your needs.

For example, to build an eCommerce website, you must check the storage and bandwidth capacity offered by the web hosting service.

Many web hosts offer shared hosting for small to medium-sized businesses and cloud hosting for larger stores. In addition, Hostinger also provides CMS hosting with advanced tools to make building websites easier.

But if you want to create a project using Python and Composer, VPS is a better choice. It lets you fully control the system, allowing you to build anything that fits your needs.

At Hostinger, we offer three types of VPS servers – VPS, CyberPanel VPS Hosting, and Minecraft Server Hosting.

Think About Your Website-Building and Options

When building a website, consider which content management system (CMS) you’d like to use. With a CMS, you can easily create and manage a site without coding it from scratch.

Many web hosting providers offer various CMSs or integrated website builders. Others offer packages specifically designed for specific CMSs.

Hostinger includes popular CMS installers with our shared and cloud hosting, such as WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop, and Drupal.

In addition, we provide specialized plans such as WordPress, WooCommerce, Drupal, or Joomla hosting plans. They all come with additional features to achieve maximum website performance.

Keep in mind that the best hosting plan for you must support the platforms or building tools you want to use.

Check the Available Server Locations

Your server location must be near your target audience to ensure high site performance. The closer your web host’s servers are to your audience, the faster your web pages will load for them.

Therefore, checking whether your web host offers the option to choose among multiple data center locations is essential.

Hostinger has servers in seven regions of the world – the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, the Netherlands, Singapore, India, and Lithuania.

Consider the Level of Support

You may lose visitors and sales when your site is down or experiencing a cyber attack. Therefore, you want to be able to talk to a representative who can help you as soon as possible. Responsive support is one of the most crucial things your web hosting provider can offer.

Checking what support channels a hosting company provides is essential. Many web hosts offer live chat, email, or ticket support, while some only have a knowledge base.

Hostinger offers 24/7 email and live chat support. But since we offer managed hosting and unmanaged VPS plans, the available support level may be slightly different.

With managed hosting, you will receive full support regarding hosting issues. Meanwhile, our Customer Success team can only offer partial help for unmanaged VPS since the user has complete access to their server.

To learn more about VPS, check out our VPS tutorials.

Examine the Backup Options

The increasing number of cyber attacks put all websites at risk. You must always be alert to prevent one from occurring on your site.

Therefore, you should choose a web hosting company that offers quality backup services. A backup feature lets you recover website data if it runs into trouble.

Depending on what kind of hosting plan you purchase, you may have access to weekly or daily backups of your site. We also recommend finding out how long the backups will be stored on the server.

Hostinger offers weekly backups of the last seven weeks and daily backups of the previous seven days. With hPanel, you can back up your website files and databases.

Conclusion

As a web host, Hostinger offers plans for all kinds of needs. Here’s a summary of your options:

• Shared hosting. Affordable and beginner-friendly, but you will share resources with other users’ websites. Suitable for newbies and small to medium-sized websites.
• Agency hosting. Packed with plenty of resources to power multiple client websites. The perfect choice for web agencies.
• 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.
• WooCommerce hosting. Custom server setup to achieve fast and responsive eCommerce sites. Great for small to medium online stores.
• VPS hosting. Flexible and reliable but requires some technical knowledge. The best choice for technical experts with big projects that require complete management freedom.
• CyberPanel VPS hosting. Easy to manage and navigate, it is the perfect choice for new developers who want to create an advanced project easily.
• 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.

We have also discussed five factors to consider when choosing a web hosting package. You must:

• List your site needs.
• Consider which CMS or site builder to use.
• Check the available server locations.
• Consider the level of support you need.
• Examine the backup options.

We hope this article has helped you find the best hosting plan for you. If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave them in the comments section below.