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Cloudways vs Hostinger

Higher score
CloudwaysIndie
9.2/ 10
HostingerIndie
8.9/ 10
Across 4 measured dimensions: Cloudways wins 2, Hostinger wins 2
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Side by side.

8 dimensions
MetricCloudwaysHostinger
Score
Winner: left
9.28.9
Δ 90 days
Winner: right
↑ 0.1↑ 0.3
Parent & badge
DigitalOceanIndie
IndependentIndie
Founded
20122004
Best for
Scaling WP / WooCommerceStarter sites / budget
Year-1 price
Winner: right
$132$36
Renewal multiplier
Winner: left
1×2×
Tagline
Managed cloud · DO/Vultr/AWSShared / VPS · budget pricing
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What works, what doesn't.

Per provider
Cloudways4 pros · 3 cons
+ Pros
  • ✓Choice of underlying cloud (DO/Vultr/AWS/Linode)
  • ✓Hourly billing
  • ✓Excellent WP-specific caching
  • ✓Lifetime 7% revshare on affiliates
– Cons
  • ✗Email is a paid add-on (Rackspace)
  • ✗Backup add-on costs extra
  • ✗Owned by DigitalOcean since 2022
Hostinger4 pros · 3 cons
+ Pros
  • ✓Honest renewal pricing (most budget hosts double on renewal)
  • ✓hPanel is genuinely good
  • ✓LiteSpeed servers across the fleet
  • ✓Frequent legit promos
– Cons
  • ✗Phone support is paid-tier only
  • ✗Limited US/EU data centers vs giants
  • ✗Custom control panel means lock-in
Make the call

Pick one and go.

Both links are affiliate. Score doesn't move because of it.

VisitCloudways ↗Score 9.2VisitHostinger ↗Score 8.9
← Read full Cloudways review·Read full Hostinger review →
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