Hostinger vs AWS - Discover the Best Choice.

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4.5
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4.5
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AWS Customer Support Review By someone in this business for 17 years and owns 5 other accounts with Server providers
Aziz Baroody,
10
If anyone ever wants to know the truth and facts about AWS Customer Supports Vs GoDaddy, Hostway, Hosting Source, Google, Apple READ THIS:
7 years now dealing with AWS I cannot explain how many times they have gone beyond wha... Más t their rules and Regs and policies are to HELP, SUPPORT and maintain whatever it takes for AWS to serve and keep us as a client.
They are the NUMBER 1 Company and they already WON Best Customer Support globally as far as I am concerned
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Me sorprendió gratamente su panel
Yanina Acevedo,
8.4
Recién comienzo hoy con un plan multisite WordPress para mis clientes. Estoy en la etapa de enamoramiento del primer día ja, pero me encantó, la facilidad de uso y lo intuitivo del panel sobre todo para manejar varios sitios ... Más que ya de por si suele ser tedioso, la sencillez y rapidez para migrar sitios alojados en otros proveedores con un solo click, me cansé de gastar dinero con los amargos de donweb (no se los recomiendo ni aunque sea el único proveedor en la faz de la tierra, lo barato sale caro) y de otros proveedores. Ojalá sigan sorprendiéndose y me atiendan cuando los necesite, por ahora me siento muy cómoda y tranquila, ojalá pueda aumentar mis clientes y darles un excelente servicio ! Menos
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Mucho cuidado para los ESCRITORES que quieran difundir su libro a través de AMAZON
Elena Iglesias Perez,
2.0
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Ojo con el contrato y la letra pequeña que hay que firmar.... Más
No recomiendo en absoluto que utilicen Amazon porque se apropian del libro y lo venden como si fuese de ellos.
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No recomendable
Antonio Jose,
3.6
Hace cinco días que pague por la renovación de mi hosting single web en esta empresa de alojamiento por un total de 43,41 euros y aún no me han activado el servicio por lo que sigo sin poder disponer de la web en red. Les env... Más íe el recibo bancario donde consta la operación efectuada y el pago y lo único que saben decirme es que espere, que mi caso está siendo estudiado por facturación y que no reciben respuesta. Llevo esperando cinco días sin servicio, para un trámite que tarda solo 24 horas. Hace años que uso hostinger y antes funcionaba muy bien a nivel tecnico y administratio, sin embargo ahora el servicio ha empeorado bastante y para mi deja de ser recomendable. No se que les habra podido pasar pero esto es una tomadura de pelo. Menos
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Winner

Ganador

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Ganador: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Delight Johnson Hosting Expert

Hostinger is a traditional hosting provider. Whereas, AWS is a cloud hosting platform. These two platforms serve the same fundamental purpose – website and web app hosting – using two different models (more about this later).

In this article, I did the heavy lifting for you by comparing both platforms’ features, pricing, performance, and customer support. AWS came out on top in the end, but Hostinger might still be a great choice for you depending on your hosting needs.

Want to know which of these two is best for you? Keep reading!

 

Overall Comparison Hostinger vs AWS

Hostinger AWS
Features Web; WordPress; VPS; Cloud Hosting

Free SSL/WordPress

Unlimited bandwidth

4/5

VPS; Serverless & Cloud Computing

Free SSL + data encryption

Unlimited bandwidth
5/5

Pricing Starts at $1.99/month; 30-day money-back guarantee

5/5

Pay-as-you-go;

30-day money-back guarantee

5/5

Performance 99.90% uptime;

4.5/5

99.99% uptime

4.5/5

Support 24/7 support;

knowledgebase; tutorials;

Live chat;

Video guide;

email

4.5/5

24/7 support;

Live chat;

tutorials;

knowledgebase;

Phone;

Email;

Video guide;

Documentation;

5/5

Ease of use Custom cPanel

WordPress install;

Beginner-friendly UI;

Free site builder

5/5

Powerful cPanel

WordPress install,

Beginner-friendly UI

Multiple web apps

5/5

Security Free SSL

Firewalls

Automated daily backups

DDoS protection

4.5/5

Free SSL

DDoS protection

Firewalls

Domain monitoring

55/5

Server location U.S.A

Europe

Asia

North America

South America

5/5

U.S.A

Europe

Asia

North America

South America

5/5

Winner: AWS

Hostinger has server locations in the same regions as AWS, but the latter has more concentrated centers in the U.S.A region. AWS is also much more scalable, flexible and faster than Hostinger. Keep reading to learn more about what each of these hosts offers:

 

About Hostinger and AWS

Founded in 2011, Hostinger is a hosting provider and domain registrar with a mission of providing the most affordable and reliable hosting services to businesses, whether small, medium, or large. They offer a variety of hosting services, including web, VPS, and WordPress hosting.
Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host AWS is one of the biggest cloud platforms in the world. Since its founding in 2006, AWS has grown to over 1 million active users in 2022. AWS provides a variety of cloud hosting services including VPS, elastic load balancer, cloud, and serverless computing.

Round 1: Hosting features – Key Hosting Features and Services

Hosting Feature Hostinger AWS
Disk space and bandwidth Web hosting – Unmetered bandwidth; up to 200 GB disk space

VPS hosting – Up to 4TB bandwidth & 10GB disk space

WordPress hosting  Unmetered bandwidth; up to 200 GB disk space

Object storage – 5GB storage; over 22,000 requests

VPS Hosting – up to 32GB memory and 640GB disk space

Load balancers – up to 15GB of data processing

high-performance SSD storage Yes Yes
Free daily backups and restore Yes Yes
Free WordPress installation Yes Yes
Free site migration Yes Yes
Free website builder Yes Yes
Free SSL Yes Yes

Key Hostinger Features

Hostinger offers unlimited bandwidth (except the basic plan) and varying amounts of disk space (high-performance SSD storage) on all web hosting plans. Also installed are a free SSL certificate, website builder, Cloudflare-protect, and regular backups.

Its VPS plans offer a varying amount of bandwidth (up to 4TB) and disk space (10GB). You also get the same features as the web hosting plans. The WordPress plans grant you up to 200,000 monthly visits and 200GB worth of storage plus WP-CLI, a WordPress staging tool, and many more.

Key AWS Features

AWS offers different features from Hostinger. With their object storage (aka Amazon S3), you get 5GB of standard storage, 20,000 Get requests, and 2,000 Put requests.

For VPS (Amazon Lightsail), disk space ranges between 20GB to 640GB with up to 8 Core processor, 32GB memory, and a 3-month free trial. Also included in all Amazon Lightsail plans is an SSD technology, DNS management, SSL certificates, and 1-click SSH terminal access.

You also have an elastic load balancer (suited for websites and apps that experience huge traffic spikes), serverless computing, and elastic cloud computing.

And the winner is… AWS

When it comes to features, AWS is not like traditional hosts like Hostinger. AWS uses unique, state-of-the-art technology to bring unbeatable security, speed, and performance features to users. AWS is the winner of this round.

 

Round 2:  Prices & Plans

Web hosting Hostinger (web hosting) AWS (Amplify)
Entry Level plan Single Shared Hosting

$1.99 / month

Pay as you go

$0.01 per minute

$0.023 per GB per month

$0.30 per 1 million requests

Middle plan Premium Shared Hosting

$2.99 / month

Highest plan Business Shared Hosting

$3.99 / month

Cloud hosting Hostinger AWS (EC2)
Entry Level plan Cloud Startup

$9.99 / month

Data Transfer OUT From Amazon EC2 To Internet

First 10 TB / Month $0.09 per GB

Middle plan Cloud Professional

$14.99 / month

Next 40 TB / Month $0.085 per GB
Highest plan Cloud Enterprise

$29.99 / month

Next 100 TB / Month

$0.07 per GB

VPS hosting Hostinger AWS (Amazon Lightsail)
Entry Level plan Snappy 2000

$23.95 / month

$3.50 / month
Middle plan Snappy 4000

$34.95 / month

$20 / month
Highest plan Snappy 8000

$59.95 / month

$160 / month

Hostinger Pricing Plans

Hostinger offers a variety of hosting plans, including Web, VPS, Cloud, and WordPress hosting. Here’s who each plan is best suited for:

  • Web hosting – best for small to medium websites
  • VPS hosting – best plans for scaling your website in response to increased traffic
  • Cloud hosting – best for large-scale projects
  • WordPress hosting – optimized for WordPress hosting
  • Agency hosting – tailored for entrepreneurial developers

AWS Pricing Plans,  

Unlike Hostinger, AWS uses a pay-as-you-go payment model on all of its cloud hosting plans. Typically, you pay based on the number of resources you use in a given time period (minute, hourly, monthly, etc).

  • Amazon EC2 – Elastic cloud computing of apps that need to scale
  • Amazon Lightsail – Virtual Private servers for hosting common web apps like WordPress, Drupal, and Magneto
  • Amazon Lambda – Serverless computing for web apps and static sites
  • Amazon S3 – Secure and scalable object storage great for hosting static websites
  • AWS Amplify – For creating fast and secure static sites and server-side rendered apps

And the Winner Is… AWS

I personally like AWS’ payment model best. You only get to pay for the resources that you use. This is in contrast to Hostinger where you have to pay a fixed price regardless of how much resources you end up using.

 

Round 3: Website performance (Uptime & Speed)

Speed and uptime are two key metrics for measuring a website’s performance. Basically, uptime tells you how long the host’s server stays up and running. So the higher the uptime, the better for you.

Your website loading speed is also one of the main metrics that search engines use to rank your website and depends on your server’s response time. If the speed is high, you rank high in search results, meaning more business for you. Over to Hostinger vs AWS

Test Hostinger AWS
GT Metrix 0.524 s 0.208 s
PageSpeed Insights 0.780 s 0.410 s

Hostinger Uptime & Speed

I used two performance testers – GTMetrix and Google PageSpeed Insights – to test the speed and performance of the hosts’ domains (I expect their domain to be hosted on their servers) and the results are as follows:

On GTMetrix, Hostinger had an overall performance of 90% and a time to first byte (TTFB) of 524 ms:

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

Google PageSpeed Insights showed a performance score of 88% and 780ms as the TTFB:

AWS Uptime & Speed

To test the speed and performance of AWS vs Hostinger, I ran the same tests on AWS’s domain and the results were better. Let’s see:

On GTMetrix, AWS had a TTFB of 208 ms and an overall performance of 96%:

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

Google PageSpeed Insights showed equally amazing results: a TTFB of 410 ms and an overall performance score of 92%:

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

And the Winner Is… AWS

This doesn’t come as a surprise to me. The core mission behind AWS is superior speed and scalability. Not many traditional hosting platforms can beat the high speed that AWS provides.

 

Round 4: Customer Support – Who Has the Best Support System?

Type of Support Hostinger AWS
24/7 support Yes Yes
Phone Support No Yes
Live chat Yes No
Email Support Yes Yes
Ticket support Yes Yes
Forum Support No Yes
Video guides Yes Yes
Knowledgebase Yes Yes

Hostinger customer Support

You can contact Hostinger’s support team via live chat and email. However, you’ll not be able to use the live chat option unless you’re an active customer and signed into your account as a customer.

Other support options are YouTube guides, tutorials, a knowledgebase, and blog.

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

You can learn more about Hosting from their ‘find out more’ portals:

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

Their knowledgebase is also packed with so much information. You can use the search bar to filter out the results that match your current queries to the letter.

Their YouTube channel, ‘Hostinger Academy’, is also a great way to learn if you’re a visual learner:

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

AWS customer Support

AWS supports the same channels that Hostinger does, plus telephone. Live chat sessions are held with AWS agents using the Slack application.

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

The support team also provides 24/7 access to AWS documentation, FAQs, technical papers, support forums, and their YouTube channel.

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

Their YouTube is your go-to place for all tutorials and guides related to any of AWS’ products and services.

And the Winner Is… AWS

This was a close one. But AWS wins with telephone support.

 

Round 5: Ease of use – Which Platform Is Easier to Use?

Hostinger AWS
Account management dashboard Easy Easy
Control panel Easy Easy
Setup process (Install OS) Easy Easy
Transfer an existing website Easy Easy
Easy creation of backups Easy Easy
Emails Easy Easy
Enable CloudFlare Easy Easy

Hostinger Ease of use

Hostinger’s user interface is very intuitive to navigate and comes with a beautiful theme. The homepage offers important hosting details as well as links to their various hosting plans.

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

Hostinger also offers a branded cPanel (hPanel) that makes it super intuitive for customers to manage their website.

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

I personally like the clutter-free design of the hPanel. There are also a ton of apps and integrations that make managing your website a total breeze.

AWS Ease of use

AWS features an appealing dark theme that makes their text pop. Their UI is very intuitive to navigate, and their homepage is set up so that you can easily access any section you’re looking for.

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

AWS supports the official cPanel and WHM AMI which includes email management, domain management, and enhanced security. It’s also very customizable (customizing the panel can be quite confusing if you’re new to AWS):

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

And the Winner Is…Hostinger

I have to restate that AWS’s cPanel can be difficult to navigate if you’re not familiar with hosting backends. By contrast, Hostinger’s cPanel is much more intuitive which is expected given it’s a traditional hosting platform. To the right person, AWS cPanel can be a powerful tool for managing and optimizing your website.

 

Round 6: Security – Which Platform is More Secure?

Hostinger AWS
Free SSL certificate Yes Yes
DDoS protection Yes Yes
CloudFlare Yes Yes
Daily backups Yes (for more expensive plans) Yes
Malware scans Yes Yes
SiteLock Security Yes N/A
WAF (Web Application Firewall) Yes Yes
Security Features Free SSL;

DDoS protection;

CloudFlare;

Daily backups;

Malware scans;

WordPress WAF plugins

Free SSL

CloudFlare

Malware scanner

Data backup

DDoS protection

Domain monitoring

Firewalls

Hostinger Security

Straight out-of-the-box, Hostinger provides all the necessary security features needed to protect your site. This includes a free SSL certificate, DDoS protection, and Cloudflare on all its plans to safeguard your data.

For higher-up plans across Web, VPS, WordPress, and Cloud hosting, you get daily backups and other advanced security protections. Also included are a malware scanner, web application firewalls, and SiteLock protection.

AWS Security

AWS touts itself as having the most secure cloud infrastructure, for good reason. They operate on the highest standard of data privacy and security.

For example, all Lightsail plans include free SSL, Cloudflare, 24/7 domain monitoring, access control, threat detection, vulnerability analysis, and other security measures built into the architecture.

And the Winner Is… AWS

When it comes to security, AWS operates on a far higher level than conventional hosts like Hostinger. Though Hostinger’s security features are top-notch, they’re no match for AWS.

 

Round 7: Server locations

If you want to widen your website’s global presence, then you must consider the server locations of your host company. You’d want your web host to have as many servers as possible globally. This results in quicker load times, and in turn, higher search rankings and more business for you.

Hostinger Server location

Hostinger’s servers are located in four continents:

  • North America (the U.S.A),
  • South America (Brazil)
  • Europe (the Netherlands, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom)
  • Asia (Singapore, and India).

To achieve wider global coverage, you can connect your hosting account with CloudFlare and tap into high-speed CDN technology.

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

AWS Server location

AWS’ cloud datacenters are located in 10 regions:

  • US West (Oregon)
  • US East (Northern California)
  • US (GovCloud)
  • US East (Northern Virginia)
  • European Union (Ireland)
  • China
  • Asia (Singapore)
  • Asia (Tokyo)
  • Asia (Sydney)
  • South America (Brazil)

Final: Hostinger vs AWS – When to Choose Each Host

And the Winner Is… AWS

Both AWS and Hostinger have data centers on four continents – Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. However, AWS has more server locations than Hostinger (especially in the U.S.A and UK) with a total of 52 edge locations globally.

 

Hostinger vs AWS: final recommendations

When to Choose Hostinger?

Hostinger is one of the best hosting platforms in the market today. They offer a wide variety of hosting plans under the web, VPS, cloud, and WordPress hosting categories. But it doesn’t just stop there. Here are some other good reasons to use Hostinger:

  • Super affordable hosting plans
  • High-speed global access (with CDN services)
  • Top-grade security features out-of-the-box
  • Simple and intuitive control dashboard
  • Great for small, medium, and large-scale businesses
  • Agency-friendly plans
  • Great speed and performance

When to Choose AWS?

AWS is the most popular cloud platform in the world. They provide a wide range of services including cloud computing, serverless computing, load balancers, and VPS servers. Reasons to use AWS are:

  • Efficient resource management
  • Incredible speed and performance
  • High scalability and flexibility
  • Multiple server locations and edges
  • Suitable for mobile, web, and social applications
  • Great for building data lakes and warehouses
  • Hosts web apps, websites, CDNs, and DNS
  • Unbeatable security features
  • Powerful custom cPanel

 

The Bottom Line

This comparison is between a traditional web host and a cloud host, so it’s not exactly evenly matched. However, for the following reasons AWS came out on top.

With traditional hosts like Hostinger, you get all the different kinds of hosting, with specialized ones like Cloud hosting for scalability. AWS, on the other hand, is built exactly for scalability and can automatically add extra bandwidth if it notices an increase in traffic. This makes it more efficient than Hostinger.

Furthermore, AWS is faster, more cost-effective, and more secure than Hostinger. It’s also more flexible, allowing you to select your preferred programming language, web framework, and OS.


FAQs

1. What is the difference between AWS and Hostinger?

Hostinger is a traditional host. Whereas, AWS is a cloud host. As a cloud host, AWS doesn’t dedicate a specific amount of resources to each plan. Instead, it automatically allocates resources based on real-time demands. This means AWS is much more efficient than Hostinger.

2. Is Hostinger cheaper than AWS?

Hostinger offers the most affordable hosting plans in the market. For just $1.99 per month, you can host your website on Hostinger (with limitations, of course). AWS uses a pay-as-you-use model. The amount you pay is based on the total amount of resources you use over a period of one month or year.

3. What are some great Hostinger and AWS alternatives?

Some good Hostinger alternatives are Hostinger, InMotion, Namecheap, and BlueHost. Some good AWS alternatives are Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.