Cloudways vs. Hostinger

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Cloudways and Hostinger compared across Company facts, Pricing, Performance & infrastructure, WordPress management, Support & security and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.

Cloudways

Managed cloud hosting that runs WordPress on your choice of DigitalOcean, AWS, or Google Cloud. Owned by DigitalOcean.

HQ St. Julian's, Malta

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Hostinger

Low-cost managed WordPress and shared hosting with an in-house hPanel control panel.

HQ Kaunas, Lithuania

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Cloudways

Hostinger

Company facts

Headquarters

St. Julian's, Malta

Kaunas, Lithuania Headquartered in Kaunas, Lithuania

Employees

264 Cloudways team (brand); owned by DigitalOcean since 2022

900 Around 900 employees (company-stated)

Pricing

Starting Monthly Price (USD)

$11 DigitalOcean 1GB/2GB entry plan; unlimited websites and unmetered visits

$10.99 Premium plan; intro $2.99/mo on a 48-month term

Entry Plan WordPress Sites

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3 sites Up to 3 websites on the Premium plan

Entry Plan Storage (GB)

50 GB

20 GB 20 GB SSD on the Premium plan

Free Trial Length (Days)

3 days 3-day free trial, no credit card required

0 days No free trial; 30-day money-back guarantee instead

Money-Back Guarantee (Days)

0 days No money-back guarantee (pay-as-you-go); 3-day free trial instead

30 days 30-day money-back guarantee

Performance & infrastructure

Underlying Cloud

DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, Linode, Vultr Customer chooses the cloud provider per server; DigitalOcean is the cheapest entry option

own datacenters Custom-built servers in Hostinger's own Tier-3 datacenters

Datacenter Locations

150 150+ data centers in 50+ countries across all five cloud providers

12 12 datacenter locations across 4 continents

Free CDN

Free CDN included from the Business plan up, not on entry Premium

Web Server

NGINX

LiteSpeed LiteSpeed web server with LiteSpeed Cache (LSCache)

Built-in Object Cache

Redis persistent object cache available at no extra cost

Object Cache (LSMCD) available from the Business plan up, not on entry Premium

Latest PHP Version

8.4 Up to PHP 8.4 (Debian 11/12 servers); 8.2 default

8.5 PHP selectable up to 8.5 (8.3 default)

Free SSL Certificate

Free 1-click Let's Encrypt SSL

Free unlimited lifetime SSL (auto-provisioned and renewed)

WordPress management

Automatic WordPress Updates

Automatic WordPress core updates managed by the host

Staging Environments

Free 1-click staging and cloning

Built-in WordPress staging available from the Business plan up, not on entry Premium

Automatic Daily Backups

Automated daily by default (adjustable to hourly); off-site storage metered

Entry Premium plan has weekly auto backups; daily backups start at the Business plan

Backup Retention (Days)

7 days Default 7-day retention; configurable from 1 to 4 weeks

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Free Site Migration

Free WordPress Migrator plugin (unlimited) plus one free expert-handled migration per account

Free unlimited automated WordPress migrations

SSH & WP-CLI Access

SSH + pre-installed WP-CLI on all servers; SFTP and Git too

SSH access with WP-CLI pre-installed on Premium and above

WordPress Multisite Support

Cloudways Flexible only (not Autonomous)

WordPress Multisite officially supported on managed WordPress plans

Support & security

Uptime SLA (%)

99.99% 99.99% uptime SLA (covers the Cloudways platform/console, not partner cloud providers)

99.9% 99.9% uptime guarantee

24/7 Support

24/7/365 live chat and ticket support on all plans

24/7 live chat support on all plans (priority support on Cloud)

Malware Removal / Hack Fix

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WAF / DDoS Protection

Built-in WAF included free on all Flexible servers (OWASP rules, IP/country blocking, bot + DoS protection)

In-house WAF + Cloudflare-nameserver DDoS protection on all plans

Platform & integrations

Control Panel

custom Cloudways Platform (custom dashboard; no cPanel)

custom hPanel, Hostinger's in-house control panel

White-Label / Agency Features

Team roles, project organization, client access control, and automated white-label invoices

Hostinger Pro: unified multi-site dashboard with unbranded (white-label) client dashboards and per-site client access

Email Hosting Included

No bundled email; optional Rackspace email add-on at $1/mailbox/mo

Free email mailboxes included (2 per website on Premium, free for 1 year)

The verdict

Cloudways

Best for scaling agencies and unlimited sites

At $11 the entry plan hosts unlimited sites on 50 GB with unmetered visits, versus Hostinger's 3 sites on 20 GB. You pick the cloud (DigitalOcean, AWS, GCP, Linode, Vultr) across 150 datacenters, get daily backups with 7-day retention, 1-click staging, and a 99.99% SLA out of the gate, plus white-label agency tooling.

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Hostinger

Best for a low-cost, hands-off single site

The Premium plan lists at $10.99 with a $2.99 intro term, bundles free email and managed WordPress auto-updates Cloudways lacks, runs LiteSpeed on PHP 8.5, and adds a 30-day money-back guarantee. The trade-off: 3 sites on 20 GB, only weekly backups, and no staging or object cache until the Business tier.

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Sources · 33 verified references

cbinsights.com hostinger.com linkedin.com cloudways.com support.cloudways.com

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