Hostinger
Compared on our own monthly crawl of 29.9M live business domains, both vendors' pricing pages read on Oct 3, 2026 and 1,142 G2 reviews.
Published Oct 4, 2026Updated Oct 4, 2026October 2026 crawl
Hostinger
345
domains gained from SiteGround in 90 days
SiteGround
140
domains gained from Hostinger in 90 days
Choose Hostinger if…
- The 48-month bill matters most, since Premium costs $143.52 upfront ($2.99 a month) and SiteGround StartUp comes to $683.52 over the same term at its listed and renewal rates
- You need more than one website on the entry plan, where Premium hosts 3 and SiteGround StartUp 1
- You trust G2, where Hostinger rates 4.4 on 834 reviews to SiteGround's 4.2 on 308 and leads six of seven criteria, product direction most of all (8.7 to 7.4), with quality of support level at 8.6
Choose SiteGround if…
- You want daily backups, kept up to 30 days back, and a CDN on the entry plan, where Hostinger Premium backs up weekly and has no CDN
- A 12-month commitment suits you better than 48, since StartUp's $2.99 a month means $35.88 prepaid, against $143.52 paid upfront at Hostinger
- You need more than 2 mailboxes per website, since SiteGround's entry plan lets you create as many email addresses on your domain as you need and Hostinger Premium includes 2, free for the first year
How we collect this data
Every number names its source and the date it was read.
345 domains dropped SiteGround and now run Hostinger in the 90 days to October 3, 2026, against 140 that went the other way, according to TechnologyChecker's October 2026 crawl. That is a 2.5 : 1 flow toward Hostinger. Hostinger is detected on 1,192,207 domains, 12.26% of web hosting and #2 in the category. SiteGround has 123,341, 1.27% and #14. Both are from the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 4 and 6, 2026. SiteGround counts come from SiteGround nameservers, SOA records or server headers. Hostinger counts come from Hostinger DNS, mail servers or platform headers. One domain can carry both, and 532 do. In a 40-domain sample of them checked on October 3, 25 were served by Hostinger while their DNS sat at SiteGround. On price, both entry plans advertise $2.99 a month, on different terms. SiteGround StartUp is $35.88 prepaid for 12 months. Hostinger Premium is $143.52 paid upfront for 48. Over the same 48 months at the listed rates, StartUp comes to $683.52 with its $17.99 renewal, against Premium's $143.52. StartUp also hosts 1 website to Premium's 3. Pick Hostinger for the lower multi-year cost and more sites on the entry plan. Pick SiteGround for daily backups and a CDN on every plan, and a 12-month introductory term.
At a glance
October 2026 crawlHostingerHostinger1,192,207SiteGround123,341HostingerHostinger12.3%SiteGround1.3%HostingerHostinger#2SiteGround#14HostingerHostinger345SiteGround140HostingerNot publishedSiteGroundNot publishedHostingerNoSiteGroundNoWho is switching between Hostinger and SiteGround?
Analysed Oct 3, 2026345domains moved from SiteGround to Hostinger in the 90 days to Oct 3, 2026 · 140 went the other way
Switched = dropped SiteGround on every host we track since May 29, 2026 and currently runs Hostinger. A drop is a tag disappearing from our crawl, not a confirmed cancellation. 532 domains run both today. Counts are domains, not accounts.
“345 domains switched from SiteGround to Hostinger in the 90 days to Oct 3, 2026 (TechnologyChecker, https://technologychecker.io/compare/hostinger-vs-siteground)”
345 domains switched from SiteGround to Hostinger in the last 90 days → See the list
40,314 domains have dropped Hostinger since we began tracking it in March 2026.
Neither Hostinger nor SiteGround publishes a month-to-month price on these pages. The Annual (per mo) column shows each plan's introductory monthly rate on the term named under it, which is 48 months paid upfront at Hostinger and 12 months prepaid at SiteGround. Over the same 48 months at the listed rates, Hostinger Premium costs $143.52. SiteGround StartUp costs $683.52: 12 months at $2.99, then 36 at its $17.99 renewal. Hostinger lists its prices without VAT. SiteGround's plan cards do not say whether tax is included. (checked Oct 3, 2026)
Hostinger plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per mo) | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premium | Not published | $2.99/mo | 3 websites, 20 GB SSD storage, free weekly backups, free domain for 1 year, 2 mailboxes per website free for 1 year, WordPress, AI Builder (5 credits), ecommerce, free automatic website migration48-month term paid upfront: $143.52 (regular price $575.52) · Renews at $10.99 a month |
| Unlimited | Not published | $3.99/mo | Unlimited websites, 50 GB NVMe storage, daily backups, free CDN, 5 Node.js web apps, free domain for 1 year, unlimited mailboxes per website free for 1 year, AI email marketing free for 1 year, AI tools, priority 24/7 expert support48-month term paid upfront: $191.52 (regular price $911.52) · Renews at $16.99 a month · Unlimited features are subject to a fair usage policy |
| Cloud Startup | Not published | $7.99/mo | Unlimited websites, 100 GB NVMe storage, daily and on-demand backups, free CDN, 10 Node.js web apps, dedicated IP address, free domain for 1 year, unlimited mailboxes per website free for 1 year, AI email marketing free for 1 year, AI tools, priority 24/7 expert support48-month term paid upfront: $383.52 (regular price $1,343.52) · Renews at $25.99 a month |
SiteGround plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per mo) | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| StartUp | Not published | $2.99/mo | 1 website, unmetered traffic, 10 GB storage, free domain for 1 year, free SSL, free CDN, free daily backups (up to 30 days back), free email addresses, 20,000 free monthly AI tokens, collaborators, free WordPress migrations, managed WordPress autoupdates, WP-CLI and SSHPrepaid for 12 months: $35.88 (regular price $17.99 a month) · Renews at $17.99 a month |
| GrowBig | Not published | $4.99/mo | Unlimited websites, unmetered traffic, 50 GB storage, everything in StartUp, plus on-demand backups, faster PHP and WordPress stagingPrepaid for 12 months: $59.88 (regular price $29.99 a month) · Renews at $29.99 a month |
| GoGeek | Not published | $7.99/mo | Unlimited websites, unmetered traffic, 100 GB storage, everything in GrowBig, plus staging with Git, private DNS, white-label client access and priority supportPrepaid for 12 months: $95.88 (regular price $44.99 a month) · Renews at $44.99 a month |
| Feature | Hostinger | SiteGround |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan, introductory rate | Premium, $2.99 a month on a 48-month term paid upfront ($143.52) | StartUp, $2.99 a month prepaid for 12 months ($35.88) |
| Entry plan, renewal rate | $10.99 a month | $17.99 a month |
| Websites | 3 on Premium; unlimited on Unlimited and Cloud Startup | 1 on StartUp; unlimited on GrowBig and GoGeek |
| Storage | 20 GB SSD on Premium, 50 GB NVMe on Unlimited, 100 GB on Cloud Startup | 10 GB on StartUp, 50 GB on GrowBig, 100 GB on GoGeek |
| Backups | Weekly on Premium; daily on Unlimited and Cloud Startup | Daily on every plan, kept up to 30 days back; on-demand from GrowBig |
| CDN | Free CDN on Unlimited and Cloud Startup; not on Premium | Free CDN with every site |
| Mailboxes free for the first year: 2 per website on Premium, unlimited on higher plans | Email addresses on your domain at no extra cost, as many as you need | |
| Free domain | Free for 1 year | 1 domain free for 1 year (.com, .us, .org or .net) |
| Staging | Free staging environments, listed under what every plan has | WordPress staging from GrowBig; staging with Git on GoGeek |
| Support | 24/7 on every plan; priority from Unlimited | 24/7 on every plan; priority on GoGeek |
| Site migration | Free automatic website migration | Free website transfer; WordPress Migrator plugin for self-service moves |
| Node.js | Unlimited (5 web apps) and Cloud Startup (10); not on Premium | GrowBig (5 projects) and GoGeek (10); not on StartUp |
| AI tools | AI tools from Unlimited; Premium gets AI Builder with 5 credits (15 on higher plans) | AI Studio with 20,000 free monthly tokens on every plan |
| Uptime promise | 99.9% uptime guarantee | 99.9% uptime stated, not worded as a guarantee |
| Money-back guarantee | 30 days | 30 days |
Hostinger40,314SiteGround6,337Hostinger691,600SiteGround103,654Hostinger+23,869SiteGround+8,345Top countries for HostingerTop countries for SiteGround- ManservOutsourcing and Offshoring Consulting
- GrupomateusRetail
- ShoghlonlineIT Services and IT Consulting
- L3tjobsDefense and Space Manufacturing
- Civil EngineerCivil Engineering
- Hinduja Global Solutions LimitedIT Services and IT Consulting
- eClerx LLCIT Services and IT Consulting
- Old Dominion UniversityHigher Education
- VistaprintSoftware Development
- Cal Poly PomonaHigher Education
Share of each vendor's enriched companies in the segment. A gap is a lean, not a verdict; rows under 30 companies a side or under 5 pp are marked.
By company size
Leans SiteGround (+6.6 pp)Hostinger61.9%SiteGround68.5%Hostinger20.9%SiteGround18.6%Hostinger6.8%SiteGround5.4%Hostinger3.1%SiteGround1.8%Hostinger0.5%SiteGround0.4%By industry
Hostinger5.6%SiteGround2.0%Hostinger3.9%SiteGround3.8%Hostinger3.6%SiteGround2.9%Hostinger2.6%SiteGround4.3%Hostinger2.9%SiteGround2.4%Hostinger2.1%SiteGround2.3%How buyers rate Hostinger and SiteGround
G2, read Oct 3, 2026- Largest segment
- Not published
- Entry price on G2
- Starting at $2.99 Per Month · Website Hosting
- Free trial
- G2 has no trial information
- Plans listed
- Not published
- Largest segment
- Not published
- Entry price on G2
- $2.99 Per Month · StartUp
- Free trial
- G2 has no trial information
- Plans listed
- Not published
Hostinger +0.3· 710 / 232 answeredHostinger8.8SiteGround8.5Hostinger +0.4· 723 / 238 answeredHostinger9.0SiteGround8.6Hostinger +0.4· 460 / 161 answeredHostinger9.0SiteGround8.6Hostinger +0.3· 363 / 138 answeredHostinger8.9SiteGround8.6Hostinger8.6SiteGround8.6Hostinger +0.4· 354 / 137 answeredHostinger8.9SiteGround8.5Hostinger +1.3· 706 / 219 answeredHostinger8.7SiteGround7.4Integrations named in G2 reviews
Hostinger
- Node.js 19
- GitHub 11
SiteGround
G2 does not publish integration mention counts for SiteGround.
Counts are reviews mentioning the integration, not a catalogue size. A vendor with no count here is one G2 does not report on — never one without integrations.
What else G2 puts on this comparison
| Product | Rating | Reviews | Largest segment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudways | 4.7 / 5 | 1,142 | Small-Business |
| A2 Hosting | 4.4 / 5 | 206 | Small-Business |
G2 scores features by category only when both products are rated on a shared feature set, and it publishes none for Hostinger and SiteGround. The feature table above is ours, read off each vendor's own pages.
G2 also publishes an AI-generated summary and a set of generated FAQs for this pair. We link rather than reproduce them — they are machine-written, we cannot verify the claims in them, and the verdict and FAQs on this page are the editor's. Read G2's own comparison →
Hostinger
What people like about Hostinger. Ease of use (274 mentions) and customer support (225) top the topic counts across 834 reviews on G2's Hostinger vs SiteGround comparison page, read October 3, 2026. Hostinger scores 9.0 on ease of use and on ease of setup. SiteGround gets 8.6 on each. In profile data analysed September 4, 2026, 66.33% of the 645,197 Hostinger companies with a known size have 1 to 10 people. By matched companies, Hostinger's three largest countries are India, Brazil and the United States.
What people do not like. Hostinger's most-cited complaints on G2's Hostinger vs SiteGround comparison page, read October 3, 2026, are poor customer support (108 mentions) and expensive (75). G2's AI-generated FAQ on the same page, last updated August 14, 2026, adds that Hostinger's renewal prices are higher than its initial rates. The pricing page bears that out. Premium's $2.99 a month needs a 48-month term paid upfront, then renews at $10.99.
G2's own summary of the g2.com/products/hostinger listing, with each topic's mention count.
Generated from real user reviews on G2
- Users commend Hostinger for its intuitive ease of use, simplifying management and enhancing focus on creative tasks.(78 reviews)
- Users appreciate the affordability of Hostinger, making it a great choice for small businesses and personal sites.(52 reviews)
- Users appreciate the excellent customer support at Hostinger, benefiting from both AI and knowledgeable real-person assistance.(46 reviews)
- Users appreciate the outstanding AI advancements in Hostinger, enhancing website creation and problem resolution significantly.(38 reviews)
- Users value the easy setup of Hostinger, making server creation and management quick and hassle-free.(36 reviews)
- Users experience poor customer support from Hostinger, facing long waits and inadequate solutions to their problems.(26 reviews)
- Users find Hostinger to be expensive, particularly due to high renewal rates and limited features for complex designs.(18 reviews)
- Users express frustration over the limited customization options, especially for advanced settings and email features.(16 reviews)
- Users find the limited features of Hostinger restrictive, particularly for advanced design and analytics needs.(15 reviews)
- Users report pricing issues with Hostinger, noting hidden charges and high renewal costs that can be frustrating.(15 reviews)
SiteGround
What people like about SiteGround. Customer support (9) and user-friendly (7) top SiteGround's topic counts across 308 reviews on G2's Hostinger vs SiteGround comparison page, read October 3, 2026. Both counts are small. G2's AI-generated FAQ on the same page, last updated August 14, 2026, adds reliability (6) and loading speed (4) to SiteGround's strengths. SiteGround's quality-of-support score is 8.6, the same as Hostinger's. In profile data analysed September 6, 2026, 72.32% of the 98,125 SiteGround companies with a known size have 1 to 10 people. SiteGround's three largest countries by matched companies are the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
What people do not like. SiteGround's complaint topics on G2's Hostinger vs SiteGround comparison page, read October 3, 2026, are expensive (5) and a second customer support topic (4). G2's AI-generated FAQ on the same page, last updated August 14, 2026, describes that second topic as customer support issues. The FAQ also says reviewers frequently mention SiteGround becoming expensive after the initial term. That matches the pricing page, where StartUp's $2.99 a month is prepaid for 12 months and renews at $17.99.
G2 has not published a summary for SiteGround; we do not paraphrase individual reviews.
The reviews and the switching data lean the same way. Hostinger leads SiteGround on six of seven G2 criteria. The biggest gap is product direction, 8.7 to 7.4. The other five gaps are 0.3 to 0.4 points, and quality of support is level at 8.6. In the 90 days to October 3, 2026, 345 domains dropped SiteGround for Hostinger and 140 went back.
The flow runs toward Hostinger, and relative to size it costs SiteGround more. In the 90 days to October 3, 2026, 345 domains left SiteGround for Hostinger. That is 0.28% of the 123,341 domains SiteGround is detected on. The 140 going back are 0.01% of Hostinger's 1,192,207. Both directions run above ordinary churn. Since tracking began on March 16, 2026, 422 domains have left SiteGround for Hostinger and 159 have gone the other way. The baseline is each host's own corpus-wide loss rate since that date, applied to the domains that carried both signals or moved between the two: the 532 that carry both today plus those 581 moves. Against it, departures from SiteGround to Hostinger run at 8.3x what SiteGround's rate predicts, and departures the other way at 3.5x Hostinger's.
On price, Hostinger and SiteGround start level and end far apart. Both entry plans start at $2.99 a month. Hostinger's rate is for 48 months paid upfront, SiteGround's for 12 months prepaid. After those terms, StartUp renews at $17.99 and Premium at $10.99. Over 48 months at the listed rates, you pay $143.52 for Hostinger Premium and $683.52 for SiteGround StartUp. SiteGround's entry plan does include daily backups and a CDN, which Premium lacks. G2's AI-generated FAQ on the Hostinger vs SiteGround comparison page, last updated August 14, 2026, says reviewers cite moving to Hostinger for its lower costs. The switching data cannot show whether price moved these particular domains.
The 532 domains that carry both Hostinger and SiteGround are mostly not running two hosts. SiteGround is detected from SiteGround DNS or server headers, Hostinger from Hostinger DNS, mail servers or platform headers. In a 40-domain sample checked on October 3, 2026, 25 were served by Hostinger with their DNS at SiteGround. Another 7 used Hostinger mail with SiteGround DNS, and 1 had both of those. By then, 3 showed only SiteGround and 3 only Hostinger. The last one sat behind Cloudflare nameservers, with neither visible. The count measures overlapping signals, not sites hosted twice.
How we compared · TechnologyChecker sells access to the switching lists behind this page; the numbers do not change with that.
Where this data comes from
October 2026 crawlOur detection dataFirst-party
The switching corridor, adoption curves, market shares and customer lists come from our own monthly crawl of 29.9M live business domains, detected across the full signal stack: HTTP headers, rendered DOM, JS globals, DNS, TLS and certificate transparency.
A switch is an observed change, not a survey answer: a domain dropped Hostinger on every host we track and now runs SiteGround. Counts are domains, not accounts. Company attributes (industry, employee band, country) come from the enriched samples named in each caption (691,600 companies for Hostinger, 103,654 for SiteGround).
Full detection methodology →The vendors' own pages
Pricing tables and the feature matrix are read from hostinger.com and siteground.com, entered by hand and checked cell by cell by an editor. Every table names its source URL and the date it was verified.
A verification older than 90 days withdraws the page from search until an editor re-checks it, so a stale price cannot outrank a current one.
G2's published numbers
Star ratings, review counts, the seven satisfaction scores with respondent counts, segment shares and topic mention counts, as read on Oct 3, 2026. Numbers only: no review prose is reproduced, and every figure links back to G2's own comparison.
G2's comparison of this pair →Only the first column is ours alone: no other tracker publishes who is switching between Hostinger and SiteGround. Where the sources disagree, the page says so next to the numbers rather than averaging them.
How many sites moved from SiteGround to Hostinger?
345 domains dropped SiteGround and now run Hostinger in the 90 days to October 3, 2026, and 140 moved from Hostinger to SiteGround. Since tracking began on March 16, 2026, the totals are 422 and 159. These are domains, not companies. A drop means every SiteGround signal has gone from every hostname we track for that domain. 532 domains carry both signals.
Which is more widely used, Hostinger or SiteGround?
Hostinger, by about 9.7x. Hostinger has 1,192,207 detected domains and 12.26% of the web hosting category, #2 behind GoDaddy. SiteGround has 123,341 and 1.27%, #14. Both are from the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 4, 2026 for Hostinger and September 6 for SiteGround.
Is SiteGround more expensive than Hostinger?
Yes, over a multi-year term at the listed rates. Both entry plans start at $2.99 a month. SiteGround StartUp is $35.88 prepaid for 12 months and renews at $17.99. Hostinger Premium is $143.52 paid upfront for 48 months and renews at $10.99. Over the same 48 months, StartUp comes to $683.52 and Premium to $143.52. SiteGround does ask for the smaller first payment, and its entry plan includes daily backups and a CDN. Hostinger Premium hosts 3 websites to StartUp's 1. Both pricing pages were read on October 3, 2026.
Why are sites moving from SiteGround to Hostinger?
Our data shows the move, not the motive. The flow runs about 2.5 : 1 toward Hostinger over the last 90 days. On G2, Hostinger leads SiteGround on product direction, 8.7 against 7.4, and the other criteria sit within 0.4 points. Hostinger's entry plan also costs less over 48 months at the listed rates, $143.52 against $683.52. G2's AI-generated FAQ on the Hostinger vs SiteGround comparison page, last updated August 14, 2026, says reviewers cite moving to Hostinger for its lower costs.
Can a domain use both Hostinger and SiteGround?
Yes, and 532 domains carry both in the October 2026 crawl. SiteGround is detected from a domain's DNS or a SiteGround server header. Hostinger is detected from Hostinger DNS, mail servers or a platform response header. That lets one domain carry both signals without running two hosts. In a 40-domain sample checked on October 3, 2026, 25 were served by Hostinger with their DNS at SiteGround, and 7 used Hostinger mail with SiteGround DNS.
Is Hostinger a Russian company?
No. Hostinger's about page, read October 3, 2026, describes a private company founded in 2004 in Kaunas, Lithuania, and headquartered in Vilnius. Among the companies matched to Hostinger's 1,192,207 domains in the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 4, 2026, the three largest countries are India, Brazil and the United States.
What is the downside of Hostinger?
Support and price draw the most complaints about Hostinger. Across 834 reviews on G2's Hostinger vs SiteGround comparison page, read October 3, 2026, the top complaint topics are poor customer support (108) and expensive (75). Hostinger's quality-of-support score, 8.6, still equals SiteGround's. On price, the $2.99 Premium rate needs a 48-month term paid upfront ($143.52) and renews at $10.99 a month. Hostinger Premium also has weekly backups and no CDN, where SiteGround StartUp includes both.
Is SiteGround a Russian company?
No. SiteGround's company page, read October 3, 2026, describes a privately owned group founded in 2004, with companies registered in the USA, the UK, Spain, Cyprus and Bulgaria. In the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 6, 2026, the companies matched to SiteGround's 123,341 domains are led by the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Is there anything better than Hostinger?
By detected domains, only GoDaddy is larger in web hosting. GoDaddy has 4,378,121 domains and 45.04% of the category, against Hostinger's 1,192,207 and 12.26%, in the August 2026 crawl analysed September 4, 2026. GoDaddy's count includes domains that only use its default DNS, so domains registered at GoDaddy but hosted elsewhere are counted. Against SiteGround, Hostinger is gaining: 345 domains arrived from SiteGround in 90 days and 140 went the other way. On G2, Hostinger scores 4.4 on 834 reviews.
Who is better than SiteGround?
By detected domains, SiteGround is #14 in web hosting with 123,341 domains. The three largest are GoDaddy (4,378,121), Hostinger (1,192,207) and IONOS (637,254), in the August 2026 crawl analysed September 4 and 6, 2026. GoDaddy's count includes domains that only use its default DNS. Head to head, Hostinger scores higher on G2, 4.4 against 4.2, with quality of support level at 8.6. Hostinger is also where SiteGround domains are going: 345 moved over in the 90 days to October 3, 2026, and 140 went the other way.
Is SiteGround better than GoDaddy?
By reach, GoDaddy is far larger, with 4,378,121 detected domains, 45.04% of web hosting and #1. SiteGround has 123,341, 1.27% and #14. Both are from the August 2026 crawl, analysed September 4 and 6, 2026. GoDaddy's count includes domains that only use its default DNS, so it measures registrations as well as hosting. This page does not compare GoDaddy's plans or reviews. Against Hostinger, SiteGround is losing ground, 345 domains to 140 in the last 90 days.
Includes questions people also ask on Google for this comparison, quoted as Google shows them; the answers are ours, from the data on this page.