Cloudways Vs Hostinger – Which Cloud Hosting Should You Get?

Cloudways and Hostinger are two of the biggest names in the cloud hosting space. But if you’re confused about which hosting would be a good fit for you, then this post is going to clear all your confusion and doubts. Because in this post, I’m going to compare Cloudways Vs Hostinger side by side and find out which cloud hosting option would be an ideal fit for you.

Cloudways and Hostinger might look similar but in reality, both of these hosting providers have a big difference.

And this post will exactly help you find out those differences so that at the end of the day, you can invest your money in a hosting that suits your needs.

So without wasting any further time, let’s dive right in.

However, before diving into an in-depth comparison, here’s a quick Cloudways Vs Hostinger comparison table for you that will quickly help you decide which hosting provider would be a good choice for you.

Features	Cloudways	Hostinger
Pricing	$14/Mo	$9.99/Mo
Good For	Developers	Non-Techies
Free SSL	Yes	Yes
Website Migration	Free	Free
Support	Outstanding	GOOD
Free Automated Backups	Yes	No
Free Domain	No	YES
CDN	Yes	YES
Security	Top-Notch	Not as good as Cloudways
Staging Environment	Yes	No
Free Trial	Yes	No

What Do I Like About Cloudways?

• Easy to use – Cloudways has built its system in a way that even a non-techie user can build their site on Cloudways within a few minutes. While on the other hand, you need to have strong coding knowledge or technical experience for using DigitalOcean.
• Optimized for better performance – With Cloudways you’ll get many extra performance-focused features that will help your website to load faster and perform better. Cloudways will take care of your technical stuff and you don’t have to do any optimization on your own.
• Free trial – Cloudways is among the very few hosting companies that provide a free trial and even better you won’t need a credit card for availing of this free trial. It’s probably the best thing that I like about Cloudways because you get an opportunity to explore their platform before even purchasing it.
• Use DigitalOcean inside Cloudways – Cloudways is a managed cloud hosting provider. That means Cloudways does not have its own server. Instead, Cloudways use the infrastructure of other cloud hosting providers like DigitalOcean and makes the whole process easy for non-technical users. However, Cloudways also provides many additional features along with the hosting.
• Amazing support – The support system of Cloudways is far better than Hostinger. They provide support over live chat, email tickets, and phone calls.
• Free website migration – Cloudways provides a free website migration service with all their plans. If you already have a website hosted on another hosting server then you don’t have to worry about migrating your site because the Cloudways team will do it for you for completely free.
• Free automated backup – Free website backup feature is available with every Cloudways hosting plan. While on DigitalOcean you have to pay extra money for enabling the automated backup feature.
• Outstanding security features – Cloudways has some outstanding security features that make sure your site keeps stays secure from any vulnerabilities. Some of the security features of Cloudways are Dedicated firewalls, Free SSL, Bot protection, Two-Factor authentication, and Regular security patching.

What Do I Like About Hostinger?

• It’s cheap – Hostinger is one of the cheapest cloud hosting provider. The pricing of the Hostinger basic plan starts from just $9.99/mo and it’s almost half the price of Cloudways.
• Good For Non-Techies – If you’re a not developer then you won’t get a better hosting option than Hostinger. It’s a perfect choice for developers because you’ll get many development features and freedom that most hosting providers don’t provide.
• Secured servers – Like Cloudways, Hostinger also pays extra attention to security. They use Cloud firewalls, Private networking, and Two-Factor authentication to keep their servers secure from any threats.

Cloudways Vs Hostinger – Let’s start the battle

At this point, I think you’ve got a quick overview of both of these hostings and know which one would be a good fit for you.

However, if you’re still not convinced about which one to choose then now we’re going to dive deep and compare the ins and outs of these hostings so that you can choose your ideal hosting provider without any doubt.

Performance

At first, the most important thing you have to notice before choosing any hosting provider is the performance or uptime of that hosting.

Why?

Because if you’re website frequently goes down then you’ll not only lose a lot’s potential sales and customers but it will also harm your business reputation.

Even the scariest thing is, those leaving customers might not come back to your website again.

And as a business, I don’t think you would ever want to lose your customers.

Here’s why by keeping the importance of performance in mind, at first I’m going to compare the performance of Cloudways and Hostinger and find out which one is more reliable in terms of performance or uptime.

Cloudways

They use many latest technologies to keep your website secure from any unpredictable downtime issues.

All shared hosting provider use shared server resources and if in case anything happens on that server, all the websites hosted on that server goes down.

But on Cloudways you’ll get dedicated server resources with your plans that will maximize the performance of your website and decrease the chances of downtime. 

However, the uptime of Cloudways hosting will mainly depend upon the cloud server you’ll choose. i.e Google Cloud, AWS, Digital Ocean

For example, If you choose DigitalOcean as your cloud server then your website uptime will purely depend upon the servers of DigitalOcean.

Still to give you a rough overview, on average Cloudways provides 99.99% uptime.

Cloudways has servers in the U.K., U.S.A., Singapore, the Netherlands, Germany, and Canada.

Hostinger

Hostinger provides excellent uptime compared to other cloud hosting providers.

Normally Hostinger claims to provide 99.90% uptime.

While on the flip side, The industry-standard uptime of a cloud hosting provider is only 99.9%.

So it’s quite clear that Hostinger is far better than any other cloud hosting provider in terms of performance.

Speed

Website speed is super important.

Having a slow-loading website does not affect user experience but it also badly affects SEO as well.

With new algorithm updates, Google is trying to focus more on user experience and page load speed.

And recently Google also announced that page experience and page load time are going to be one of the major ranking factors.

Still, if you don’t focus on improving your website speed, then you might have to face lots of troubles in the future.

To make this task a little easier for you I’m going to tell you a secret that will make your website super fast.

And that secret is – Choose a fast hosting server to host your site.

See the truth is, it doesn’t matter how optimized your website is, if your server is not up to the mark then your website is always going to load slowly.

That’s why it’s super important to invest in good hosting services for every website owner.

For now, let’s compare the speed of Cloudways and Hostinger and figure out which one is the fastest.

Cloudways

Although Cloudways doesn’t have its own server still it provides many additional features and flexibility to its users which gives Cloudways an extra edge in terms of speed.

Some of the additional features that Cloudways provides are a Built-in caching system, Built-in CDN, and Auto-healing servers.

And on top of that, the biggest benefit is the flexibility that Cloudways provides.

You literally get the option to choose your preferred cloud server among the world’s topmost cloud hosting providers. And just to remind you, DigitalOcean is one of them.

However, for a better understanding of the performance of Cloudways hosting I decided to check the real-life speed of Cloudways hosting.

And here is the result

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To be frank, I personally had a huge belief in Cloudways hosting and they exactly delivered the same.

Hostinger

Hostinger is known for its fantastic performance.

Hostinger team does all the possible performance optimizations for you so that your website can perform better.

Besides that, you also get additional features like In-Built CDN, Built-in caching system, and Auto-healing servers that Cloudways provides for free.

But that being said, at the end of the day everything depends upon results.

That’s why I also checked the load speed of a website hosted on Hostinger.

And this is the result.

I know the difference is that huge, but still, overall, Cloudways has an extra edge in terms of speed for sure.

Security

One thing that you cannot afford to ignore while selecting hosting for your website is security.

I think I don’t have to explain the importance of website security to you because you’re already intelligent enough.

However, sometimes even after knowing the importance of web hosting security, we sometimes ignore it.

The Internet is full of vulnerabilities 

We don’t know what’s going to happen with our website tomorrow.

That’s why I always prefer to stay on the safer side and recommend everyone as well.

So for now, let’s compare the security features of Cloudways and Hostinger and find out which host is more secure.

Cloudways

Cloudways uses many latest technologies to keep its servers super safe and secure.

They use Dedicated firewalls, IP Whitelisting, Bot protection, and Two-factor authentication, and regularly do security patching for securing your website.

Other than that, Cloudways also offers free one-click SSL certificate installation and a free automated backup feature with every hosting plan.

Note: $0.033/GB per server will be applied for offsite backup storage.

Hostinger

Hostinger is also damn good at their security.

Like Cloudways, Hostinger also uses many latest technologies like Cloudflare Protected Nameservers, Malware Scanner (It helps to block all malicious traffic), Private networking, and Two-factor authentication.

However, Hostinger does not provide a free daily backup feature like Cloudways. 

Instead, you have to pay an extra fee for enabling the automated backup feature on your website.

Overall, I think both Cloudways and Hostinger are pretty good at security but one thing that gives Cloudways an extra advantage is the free automated backup feature.

CDN

CDN (Content delivery network) is a group of servers distributed around the globe that works together to minimize the travel time between the server and the end-user and helps the website to load faster.

If you’re getting traffic from different parts of the world or if you want to improve the loading time of your website then CDN is a must for you.

However, CDNs are not cheap at all.

Most of the CDN providers are super expensive and charge heavy monthly recurring fees.

Although the good news is, now many hosting companies started providing Built-in CDN with their hosting plans.

But the question is – Do Cloudways and Hostinger provide this benefit?

Let’s find out.

Cloudways

Cloudways does provide an in-built CDN with all of its hosting plans.

Whether you buy the basic plan or the most expensive plan, you’ll get the CDN for sure.

I’ve told you that many hosting companies started providing free CDN but cloud hosting providers rarely provide this benefit.

But luckily, Cloudways is one of them.

Hostinger

While on the flip side, Hostinger also provides free CDN benefits with their hosting plans.

So here also Hostinger clearly wins without any doubt if you want a free domain with hosting.

Customer Support

Now let’s compare the customer support of both of these hostings.

Whenever you choose any hosting provider for hosting your website, it’s really important to look for the customer support system of that company.

So that in case, if anything happens in the future, you won’t get stuck.

Now the real question is – Which hosting provider has the best customer support?

Let’s find out…

Cloudways

Cloudways has an excellent customer support system.

They provide support over live chat, phone calls, and email tickets.

However, phone call support is only available with their premium support add-on.

For experiencing their support system in real life, I tried reaching out to their customer support over live chat. I got a response from their end within a few seconds, and they were able to solve my problem within a very short period of time.

Hostinger

In general, Hostinger provides 2477 support over live chat.

Which One Is Easy To Use?

Not everyone is a techy geek.

I’m not a technical person myself and I always try to avoid any technical tasks.

Hence, I decided to find out which hosting would be easy to operate even for a complete beginner.

If you’re a developer, then it won’t bother you much, but if you’re not a technical guy, then this is super important for you.

Hostinger

The main reason why people buy hostings from Hostinger is because of the ease of use they provide.

They manage all the complex activities and make it easy for the user to host their site on cloud servers.

Most of the cloud hosting providers have a really complex system.

But Hostinger is totally different and that’s why it’s so popular.

The interface of Hostinger is pretty clean and easy to operate.

Other than that, Hostinger also supports one-click app installation that helps you to install apps like WordPress with just a single click.

Cloudways

Cloudways on the other hand is a bit complex.

It’s an ideal choice for developers and for someone who knows technical stuff.

But if you’re someone like me who doesn’t know any technical stuff then Cloudways is not an ideal option for you.

However, it does offer a one-click app installation feature that is helpful to some extent.

Cloudways Vs Hostinger- Pricing

Now it’s time for the question that you’re probably thinking:

“Which hosting would be value for money?”

It’s a common question that comes into everyone’s mind whenever they buy something.

That’s why before deciding which hosting you’ll buy, let’s compare the pricing of both of these hosting and figure out which hosting would be worth spending the money on.

Cloudways

Cloudways has five different cloud providers.

And every cloud provider has different pricing.

But for now, I’m going to explore the plans for the DigitalOcean server.

DigitalOcean server has four different plans.

• $14/mo
• $28/mo
• $54/mo
• $99/mo

Remember that each of these plans comes with the same features but the only difference you’ll get is the amount of resource usage.

Cloudways also comes with a free trial option (Without a credit card) that you can avail of before making any buying decision.

You can also check out their pricing page for more detailed information about their plans.

Hostinger

Hostinger has different pricing for different kinds of hosting needs.

Each of these hostings has the same features but the only difference is the resources you’ll use.

But again the main question is:

“Which hosting would be value for money?”

My simple answer to this question is:

Cloudways.

I know that the pricing of Cloudways is slightly higher than Hostinger but overall if you look at the kind of features and benefits that Cloudways is providing then you’ll understand that it’s definitely worth spending the money on Cloudways hosting.

Even if it’s slightly more costly than Hostinger.

Cloudways Vs Hostinger – Let’s pick the winner. 

And the winner of this Cloudways and Hostinger comparison is…

Cloudways is clearly winning this Cloudways Vs Hostinger comparison because, besides managed cloud hosting, Cloudways is also providing many additional benefits and features like free website migration, built-in CDN, and many more.

That being said, I won’t say that Hostinger is a bad hosting option.

But if you’re not a developer then Hostinger is the right choice for you.

Now it’s your turn.

Tell me which hosting you’re going to choose. Cloudways or Hostinger?

Let me know in the comments below.