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Hostinger and Liquid Web 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.
Hostinger
Low-cost managed WordPress and shared hosting with an in-house hPanel control panel.
Built-in WordPress staging available from the Business plan up, not on entry Premium
Free staging site included on every plan
Automatic Daily Backups
Entry Premium plan has weekly auto backups; daily backups start at the Business plan
Automatic daily backups on every plan
Backup Retention (Days)
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7 days7-day backup retention on the entry Spark – Launch plan (30 days on Thrive/Elevate)
Free Site Migration
Free unlimited automated WordPress migrations
Free self-serve migration on the entry plan (assisted migration on higher tiers)
SSH & WP-CLI Access
SSH access with WP-CLI pre-installed on Premium and above
SSH (Secure Shell) access with WP-CLI on managed WordPress plans
WordPress Multisite Support
WordPress Multisite officially supported on managed WordPress plans
WordPress Multisite supported (subdomain or subdirectory networks)
Support & security
Uptime SLA (%)
99.9%99.9% uptime guarantee
100%100% uptime SLA (network and power), with service credits
24/7 Support
24/7 live chat support on all plans (priority support on Cloud)
24/7/365 support on all plans
Malware Removal / Hack Fix
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Malware remediation is a paid one-time service ($200/incident), not an included guarantee
WAF / DDoS Protection
In-house WAF + Cloudflare-nameserver DDoS protection on all plans
Web application firewall + DDoS protection (Cloudflare Enterprise) included on every plan
Platform & integrations
Control Panel
customhPanel, Hostinger's in-house control panel
customCustom Sites & Stores portal (sites-portal.liquidweb.com), not cPanel/Plesk
White-Label / Agency Features
Hostinger Pro: unified multi-site dashboard with unbranded (white-label) client dashboards and per-site client access
Reseller / white-label hosting and client management for partners
Email Hosting Included
Free email mailboxes included (2 per website on Premium, free for 1 year)
Email hosting not included; mailboxes require a paid add-on or third-party provider
The verdict
Hostinger
Best for hosting multiple sites with a money-back option
The entry Premium plan covers 3 sites and 20 GB versus Liquid Web's 1 site and 15 GB, and runs a LiteSpeed server with PHP up to 8.5. It also adds a 30-day money-back guarantee where Liquid Web's fees are non-refundable, and bundles free email mailboxes Liquid Web omits. Trade-off: free CDN, object cache, staging, and daily backups only start on higher tiers.
Best for a fully-loaded single-site stack from $6/mo
The $6 entry plan includes Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, Redis object cache, staging, and daily backups by default, all of which Hostinger gates behind higher tiers. It backs a 100% uptime SLA versus Hostinger's 99.9%, on Tier-4 datacenters. Trade-off: 1 site and 15 GB, no money-back guarantee, no included email, and malware removal is a paid $200 add-on.
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