Rephrase and rearrange the whole content into a news article. I want you to respond only in language English. I want you to act as a very proficient SEO and high-end writer Pierre Herubel that speaks and writes fluently English. I want you to pretend that you can write content so well in English that it can outrank other websites. Make sure there is zero plagiarism.: Hostinger is web hosting provider that caters to home users that have little to no web hosting experience all the way to seasoned web-devs. For this review, we used the most basic web hosting plan and a VPS to see what Hostinger has to provide for a range of users . We built a test site, explored their custom control panel, tested support, monitored speeds, uptime, and compared our results with the best of the competition.What we found was a service easy for complete beginners to use but with the tools and flexibility to keep more experienced customers happy. (Image credit: Hostiner)Hostinger: The prosEase of useIt used to be that if you had zero experience and wanted a website you’d go to a place like Squarespace or Wix because they offer an easy to use website builder and hosting all in one. They cost a bit more but if you don’t want to pay for a web developer they’re still much cheaper. Hostinger has changed the game as you can use Hostinger’s website builder, AI tools, and guides to easily create and host a website at a much lower cost.Hostinger has put a lot of effort into making their shared hosting experience as seamless and beginner friendly as possible. From the minute you sign up, Hostinger walks you through every step with very clear and easy to follow instructions that can help complete beginners get their website up and running. With the inclusion of additional features such as page speed monitoring, malware scanning, and analytics, they’re really making sure that you can manage every aspect of your website directly from Hostinger’s hPanel. For beginners, it really goes above and beyond the industry standard control panel cPanel and it does a good job of hiding away any of the techy stuff that can confusing, presenting everything in a logical manner.When it comes to their VPS offerings, you’ve very much on your own. VPS tend to be aimed at people with experience setting up and managing servers and, in exchange for far more performance for your money, you will need to know how to run and manage the server yourself.Hostinger guide you through every combination of scenarios – building a fresh website vs migrating an existing one, doing it yourself vs getting a developer to do it – they really caters for everyone. They’ve even customised the WordPress admin panel to ease the transition from their own control panel to help newbies get to grips with WordPress.Wordpress is by no-means difficult to use, but if you’re not familiar with it then it can be overwhelming and their customisations are a really nice touch. Overall impressions are very high.(Image credit: Hostinger)Lots of featuresHostinger’s plans are well priced and stuffed with features, many of which are chargeable extras elsewhere. Page speed monitoring, malware scanning, and analytics are all nice extras for beginners.Excellent uptimeReliability is one of the most important elements in any quality web host. A provider can offer as many other features as it likes, but if your site is down all the time, most of your visitors will disappear.We measured Hostinger’s performance by setting up a test WordPress website, then using Uptime.com to monitor its speed and any downtime from multiple locations around the world.Although our site was hosted on Hostinger’s most basic shared hosting plan, it still managed an excellent 100% uptime record over 10 weeks of monitoring.Fast load timesWe measure website load speeds with help from GTmetrix, which accesses a test page and reports how long its main content takes to load (a value called Largest Contentful Paint, or LCP). A low LCP means your website begins to appear on the screen more quickly, keeping visitors happy.Hostinger scored here with a speedy LCP of 0.607 seconds, the second fastest result in our last 15 tests, just behind HostGator. One-off load speed checks are important, but we also like to see how a site performs when it’s busy. To do this, we use the stress-testing service k6 to unleash 20 virtual users on our site and measure what happens.Hostinger’s results showed it could handle 15 requests per second throughout the test. That’s similar to other providers, but very acceptable for shared hosting, and if you’re opting for a more high-powered shared or VPS plan, you should be able to handle even more visitors.Low starter pricesHostinger’s prices start at just $2.49 a month for the four year Premium hosting plan (renewing at a still very reasonable $7.99.)Not keen on signing up for such a long time? Switch to the annual plan and it’s still well priced at $2.99 a month and $9.99 on renewal.The pricing can be a bit confusing and renewal prices can change based things like whether you have auto-renew enabled. You can ignore the countdown timer on the page as it’s always refreshing and the prices stay the same. However, we do recommend that you take more time to look at the long term cost of your plans. (Image credit: Hostinger)Data centers in eight countriesSign up with many web hosts and they’ll give you storage space in a data center but they won’t tell you where it is, or give you any choice of locations.That could be bad performance news if, say, your target audience is in California but your website is hosted in a data center halfway around the world.Hostinger has data centers in eight countries: the USA, UK, France, Netherlands, Lithuania, Singapore, India and Brazil.That’s far more than most hosts, and it’s especially good to see a service which doesn’t purely focus on North America and Europe.There is one catch though, some plans don’t support all the data centers. The Shared, Cloud and WordPress plans are available everywhere, but Hostinger’s Linux VPS plans can’t be hosted in France, Netherlands or Singapore.Check the small print of individual plans to find out more, or take a look at Hostinger’s ‘Where are your servers located?’ support document.Quality custom control panelHostinger doesn’t offer cPanel (an intuitive server and site management platform) to its shared hosting users, opting to provide its custom hPanel platform, instead. Custom control panels make us wary, probably because most of them are underpowered in the extreme, but hPanel is a rare exception.It looks similar to cPanel with server details (location, IP address) in a sidebar, and colorful icons representing features in categories such as Domains, Emails, Files, WordPress and more.Most functions are accessible to even novice users. Creating an email address, for instance, is as easy as entering the address and a password. Advanced features like importing existing emails, to setting up SPF and DKIM records (to authenticate emails and protect against phishing) are just a click or two away too.Hostinger: The consConfusing pricesWith three different subscription lengths and each one having a different renewal cost, it can be hard to work out which plan is best for you. Keep in mind when calculating long term costs that after the reduced renewal price the monthly fee will revert to the monthly cost of $11.99.There are significant discounts to be had for longer plans but are you really going to need that plan for 48 months? Check your business plan and pick a subscription length not just based on price but one that might come up for renewal when you’re about to out grow your hosting plan.Performance restrictionsAny site that does any kind of image processing or has big databases will find low performance because disk read/write speeds are throttled and memory is not that generous. Any static site will be fine but performance of sites that have user accounts and to some extent eCommerce sites will be affected.No telephone supportHostinger say that telephone support just slows down getting things done and that they’ve been able to fix issues faster by removing this option. If you really care about speaking to a human via a voice call there are other hosts that offer phone support but they are more costly.(Image credit: Hostinger)Hostinger: TestedWe’ve put Hostinger through its paces to see how well it copes and how…
