Hostinger vs HostGator, In Depth Hosting Comparison

Stuck between Hostinger and HostGator for your web hosting?

Then this Hostinger vs HostGator comparison is for you.

I compare the two hosting giants on price, plans, features, customer service and the other things that decide whether you will be happy in year two.

I have used both hosts myself, so everything below comes from my own experience with them.

Hostinger and Hostgator Quick Introduction

First, a quick introduction to each, so the comparison makes more sense.

1.Hostinger

Hostinger is a well-known hosting provider company which was established in 2004, right now hostinger has more than 29 million users all over the world in its 178 subsidiaries. It provides LiteSpeed technology based shared hosting and managed WordPress hosting. They also have a google cloud hosting plan for beginners and professionals both. Hostinger is known for low prices and solid hosting. I think it is the cheapest LiteSpeed based host in the world, and its reputation is far better than GoDaddy's.

Their hosting plan starts from $0.99/mo*, but if you are from India you can get it from ₹59/mo*. There is no reduction in server quality here, the difference in price is only due to competition.

2. Hostgator

Hostgator is a Houston based hosting provider company which generally provides shared hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private server and dedicated hosting service. It is also a well-known hosting provider company in the world. It is a subsidiary or you can say a sub-brand of the same organisation that owns Bluehost Hosting company. This surprises a lot of people, but one organisation, EIG, owns many hosting brands, including iPage, BigRock, HostGator and Bluehost. Their corporate family tree is their business. What matters to you is the hardware, and HostGator runs good quality SSD based servers.

Their pricing is not comparable with Hostinger because they start their hosting plan from $3.46/mo^*, but wait, If you are from India then your pricing may start from ₹90/mo*. The difference in pricing is due to reduce in server quality and competition.

Hostgator and Hostinger Quick Comparison Table and Honest Winner

Features	Hostinger	Hostgator	Winnner
Technology ⚙	LiteSpeed	Normal SSD	Hostinger
Starting Price	$0.99	$3.49	Hostinger
Free Domain	Yes	Yes	Tie
Server Location	No Option	India and USA	Hostgator
Caching	Server Side	Not Mentioned	Hostinger
Free SSL	Yes	Yes	Tie
Managed WordPress	Yes	Yes	Tie
Cloud Hosting	SSD + Google Cloud	SSD Based	Hostinger
Cloud Starting	$12.95/mo	$4.95/mo*	HostGator
Support	Average	Average	Hostgator
Overall	4/7	3/7	Hostinger*

Note- From the above comparison table of Hostinger vs Hostgator you may think that Hostinger is the winner but it is not valid for everyone. You may need something Hostinger does not offer, and on cloud pricing HostGator wins.

Detailed Feature Comparison of Hostinger vs Hostgator

Here is how the features compare, and which host comes out ahead.

1. Features of the HOSTINGER-
2. 99.97% uptime guarantee- we all know how much important uptime is for the growth of your website.

it is very vital for a website if you want to retain your daily visitors. Research says the sites with high uptime have the best visitor retention rate, so that’s what exactly hosting provides.

Hostinger guarantees you the 99.97% uptime which is almost 100%, so in case you are a hostinger user, you will not face any problem related to the page loading and downtime your site will always remain fast.

• user-friendly control panel: The control panel is like the heart of the website, with the help of the control panel you will control everything that’s going on your website & it is very necessary for a hosting provider to have a user friendly and easy to understand control panel so that everyone from beginner to the expert can use it.

hostinger provides a user-friendly control panel so that its users can easily understand everything and can control everything without facing any kind of technical problems.

It can give you the full access to your website and you can control everything with just a few clicks.

They have given all the necessary control on a single dashboard.

It does not matter whether you are a beginner or an expert. Anyone can find their way around this interface.

It is that simple.

• 24*7 customer support: we all know the customer is known as the king of the market, and in the world of online business and digital marketing, it becomes even more important.

Technical problems are normal when you run a site, and hosting issues tend to turn up at the worst possible moment. That is why a host has to offer help around the clock.

Hostinger provides the 24*7 customer support for 365 days a year without any interruption.

They provide customer service in the way of e-mail, chatbots, phone calls etc.

• daily backup- data losing is known as one of the great problems for online entrepreneurs and online marketer or the person who own any kind of blog or website.

People lose data on a day to day basis and it becomes more complicated when that data is very important, that’s why hostinger is providing daily backup service, with the help of which you can easily take your backup daily so that in case you lose any data you will be able to recover that later.

• blazing fast website speed- website speed matters a lot when it comes to the growth of the website or the failure of the website.

The speed of your website can become the reason for the success of your website or failure.

On that front, Hostinger loads sites quickly, so your visitors are not left waiting.

And, with that loading speed, you can gain a lot of visitors who will be impressed by the speed.

• Litespeed cache- cache is known as an annoying problem, so this small feature which is known as the LiteSpeed cache will help you in cleaning the cache data and increasing the site loading speed.

Hostinger provides this feature along with its all plans so that you can be able to clear all the cache in your website and your website will be smooth as butter.

• Unlimited and free stuff: with the above amazing features hostinger also provides unlimited facilities which are described as bellow.
• Unlimited MySQL databases.
• Unlimited FTP accounts.
• Unlimited cronjobs.
• Free domain.
• Free SSH access.
• -Free SSL certificate- actually it is an important service which is being provided by the hostinger, if you are a user of the hostinger then you will be provided with an SSL certificate for no money.

• free domain: if you get any plan of the hostinger then you will get a free domain, which is very good.

Those are Hostinger's features. Now for HostGator's.

• FEATURES OF HOSTGATOR-
• 99.9% uptime- Hostgator is also providing a good quality of uptime for the running of your website, that’s why to help you out in this particular area HostGator is providing you with the 99.9% uptime guaranteed.

As per the Hostgator, the availability of your website is their top priority and they stand by that.

With this kind of uptime, your website will be able to dodge the unnecessary downtime which usually happens in a website.

• Unlimited storage- storage plays an important role when it comes to the performance and the quality of the website, because the more your website consist storage the more your website have the opportunity to write more article, insert more highly convertible images, videos, infographics etc.

The happy news about the Hostgator is that it is providing unlimited storage to its users which means you can store whatever you want in your website and you can insert any kind of graphics in your posts or contents.

• Unmetered bandwidth-bandwidth plays an important role when it comes to the traffic holding capability of a site.

the bandwidth which is provided by the Hostgator will be unlimited for you if you are a user of the Hostgator.

One of the biggest advantages of the unlimited bandwidth is that this will support your visitor base at another level.

So you can send as much traffic as you like. The bandwidth is generous and the site will not crash under it.

• Domain Registration- it is one of the important features of the Hostgator, it allows you to get yourself registered online. With the help of the Hostgator, you can claim the name of your domain or the name of your website in no time via online and you can get yourself registered in very easy steps.

• SSL certificate- the SSL certificate is the indication of the security and very important for the security of the website.

If your website has an SSL certificate then it will be indicated as the secured website and your visitors can trust you when comes to scrolling your website.

HostGator takes security seriously.

It provides an SSL certificate with its hosting service, so your website is secured.

• 24/7/365 customer support- just like the hosting, Hostgator also provides the 24*7 customer support for 365 days.

in case you face any kind of problem, the support team of the Hostgator will be there for you.

The Hostgator can connect with you via calling us, chat us, tweet us options.

And there are also find answers, learn stuff buttons clicking on which you can find a lot of stuff about how to use this or how to use that.

You can also find a lot of knowledgable blogs in their blog section which will be helpful for you.

• One-click installs-integration is very important for the growth of your website as an example of social media integration and others will give you the ability to control the sharing programme of your contents.

So, to help you out, the HostGator generally provides you with the one-click installs in which you can find a lot of valuable integration and apps.

These apps and integrations will help you in the growth of your website in a relevant way like sharing your contents on the social media platforms and other valuable functions.

• Highly optimized cPanel- we all know what is the meaning of the cPanel and how much important it is for the control of a website.

the main purpose of the cPanel is that it helps you in controlling things which are going on your website.

The cPanel which is provided by the Hostgator is highly optimized and easy to understand and to use it is so relevant to understand that a newcomer can also understand how to control things on HostGator's cPanel in minutes.

• Dedicated Server- with the out server there will be no website, and a hosting provider needs to offer a good and stable server to the users and that’s exactly what Hostgator do.

the Hostgator takes the server problems very seriously which means, you will not be facing any kind of server problems during the usage. The servers you will be using as a Hostgator user will not go down and it will remain very fast which will help you in eliminating the speed and reload time and other complications.

• Automated backups-  the Hostgator also provides you with the automated backups options, which means all your data will be backed up automatically within a regular interval.

The thing of advantage is that the backup process is fully automated which means you don’t have to do a thing to back your data up.

With the help of this feature, all your data will be safe and secured.

• SEO Tools available- now it is a bonanza offer, along with the above amazing features and facilities Hostgator is also providing the pre-installed SEO tool, there are some SEO tools which generally come up with the Hostgator.

With the help of these tools you can easily do the SEO works of your website and your contents, these tools will also help you in the ranking factor of your contents in the search engine.

By the help of this tool, you will get easy to follow insights and analytics which will assist you in the improvement of your search rankings which will further help you in the boosting of your traffic or visitors.

1. WHO WON IN THE FEATURES BATTLE?

Both hosts are strong in different areas.

• As an example, the uptime of the hostinger is better.
• The variety of features provided by hostinger is wide, so in a nutshell you can say that hostinger have more and wider range of features compared to the hostgator.
• Both the hosting provider are providing 24*7*365 days customer support. But the ways of supporting customers ot users is better in hostinger.

So you can say that in this features round of hostinger vs hostgator the winner is hostinger.

Next round: prices and plans.

Pricing and Plan Comparison of Hostinger and Hostgator

HOSTINGER provides a diversified hosting plan which is presented in the paragraph below.

• Shared hosting plans.
• VPS hosting plans.
• Cloud hosting plans.
• WordPress hosting plans.
• Email hosting plans.
• CMS hosting plans.
• Ecommerce hosting plans.

And all the plans have different price lines and they all come with the different features as per their prices.

HOSTGATOR plans are presented in the List below.

• Shared hosting plans
• WordPress hosting plans.
• Cloud hosting plans.
• VPS hosting plans.

From here on I compare shared hosting and WordPress hosting only, because 80% of people buy one of those two.

1. Hostinger Shared Hosting Plans

Hostinger's shared hosting plans are divided into 3 main categories based on features, resources and Budget Price.

1. Single web hosting.
2. Premium web hosting.
3. Business web hosting.

1. Single Web Hosting Plan in Detail

As the name suggests, this plan is best suitable for single website hosting, in fact, there is the restriction on adding multiple domains. So you can use only one domain in this hosting plan. All other features of this plan are mentioned below.

Features of Single Web Hosting Plan by Hostinger

Price of Single web hosting plan depends on tenure or duration of hosting purchase. Currently, you can get this plan for 4 Year at a rate of ₹59 per month but when you reduce the duration of plan to 1 Year price will be ₹99 per month and further for single month 199 per month.

Renewal of this hosting plan will be ₹159 per months or less if you renew it for long duration depends on offers.

I dislike this kind of pricing, although in fairness it works out for both the customer and the company. Mostly the company.

2. Premium Web Hosting Plan

This plan is best suited for newbie bloggers and learning developers as you can host as many as the website you want for your regular experiments and learning.

Features of Premium Web Hosting Plan

100 Website.

20 GB SSD Storage.

~25000 Visits Monthly.

Free Email Account.

Free SSL.

Unlimited Bandwidth.

Managed WordPress.

WordPress Acceleration.

30 Days Money Back Guarantee.

Unlimited Databases.

GIT Access.

Weekly Backups.

Cloudflare Protected.

Name servers.

24/7/365 Support.

99.9% Uptime Guarantee.

DNS Management.

Access Manager.

100 Subdomains.

Unlimited FTP Account.

Unlimited Cronjobs.

Price- rs 389 per month.

Renew- rs 199 per month.

C- BUSINESS PLAN-

Features-

-100 Website.

-100 GB SSD Storage.

-1,00,000 Visits Monthly.

-free Email Account.

-Free SSL.

-free CDN.

-free SSH access.

-unlimited Bandwidth.

-Managed WordPress.

-WordPress Acceleration.

-30 Days Money Back Guarantee.

-unlimited Databases.

-GIT Access.

-Weekly Backups.

-Cloudflare Protected.

-Name servers.

-24/7/365 Support.

-99.9% Uptime Guarantee.

-DNS Management.

-Access Manager.

-100 Subdomains.

-unlimited FTP Account.

-unlimited Cronjobs.

Price- rs 489 per month.

Renew- rs 399 per month.

That covers Hostinger's shared hosting plans. Now for HostGator's.

HOSTGATOR SHARED HOSTING-

HostGator sells four shared hosting plans.

1- starter.

2- hatchling.

3- baby.

4- business.

Now let's describe each plan of the hostgator shared hosting with its relevant features.

> STARTER PLAN-

This is HostGator's smallest shared plan. Do not let the name fool you, it runs a website comfortably.

Regular price with a discounted price: the regular price of the Hostgator starter plan is

Discounted- 5 Years @ Rs.99 /mo

Regular- Rs.199/mo SAVE 50%

Discounted- 3 Years @ Rs.139 /mo

Regular- Rs.199/mo SAVE 30%

Discounted- 2 Years @ Rs.139 /mo

Regular- Rs.199/mo SAVE 30%

Discounted- 1 Year @ Rs.159 /mo

Regular- Rs.199/mo SAVE 20%

=FEATURES OF THE STARTER PLAN-

1- Single Domain

2- 10 GB Disk Space

3- 100 GB Transfer

4- 5 Email Account(s)

5-No Free Dedicated IP

6-No Free SSL Certificate

7- 1-click installation

8- Free Cpanel

9- New: PHP 7.1

>HATCHLING PLAN-

In my opinion, this plan suits people who are past the beginner stage in blogging or digital marketing and already know how to run a website.

Regular price with a discounted price: the regular price of the Hostgator hatchling plan is

Discounted- 5 Years @ Rs.199 /mo

Regular- Rs.399/mo SAVE 50%

Discounted- 3 Years @ Rs.279 /mo

Regular- Rs.399/mo SAVE 30%

Discounted- 2 Years @ Rs. 279 /mo

Regular- Rs.399/mo SAVE 30%

Discounted- 1 Year @ Rs.319/mo

Regular- Rs.399/mo SAVE 20%

=FEATURES OF THE HATCHLING PLAN-

1- Single Domain

2- Unmetered Disk Space

3- Unmetered Transfer

4- Unlimited Email Account(s)

5- No Free Dedicated IP

6- No Free SSL Certificate

7- 1-click installation

8- Free Cpanel

9- New: PHP 7.1

>BABY PLAN

This plan is also prefered for those who are already in the world of digital marketing and want to own multiple domains or more than one domain.

This plan is perfect for the experts in running of a website.

Regular price with a discounted price: the regular price of the Hostgator baby plan is

Discounted- 5 Years @ Rs.249 /mo

Regular- Rs.499/mo SAVE 50%

Discounted- 3 Years @ Rs.349 /mo

Regular- Rs.499/mo SAVE 30%

Discounted- 2 Years @ Rs. 349 /mo

Regular- Rs.499/mo SAVE 30%

Discounted- 1 Year @ Rs.399/mo

Regular- Rs.499/mo SAVE 20%

=FEATURE OF THE BABY PLAN

1- 3 Domains

2- Unmetered Disk Space

3- Unmetered Transfer

4- Unlimited Email Account(s)

5- NO Free Dedicated IP

6- NO Free SSL Certificate

7- 1-click installation

8- Free Cpanel

9- New: PHP 7.1

=BUSINESS PLAN-

This is HostGator's biggest shared plan, and the one I recommend, because it has every feature you will want once your site grows up.

And the main thing is that this plan will be perfect for you if you are running an online business via a website.

Regular price with a discounted price: the regular price of the Hostgator business plan is

Discounted- 5 Years @ Rs.349 /mo

Regular- Rs.699/mo SAVE 50%

Discounted- 3 Years @ Rs.489 /mo

Regular- Rs.699/mo SAVE 30%

Discounted- 2 Years @ Rs. 489 /mo

Regular- Rs.699/mo SAVE 30%

Discounted- 1 Year @ Rs.559/mo

Regular- Rs.699/mo SAVE 20%

=FEATURES OF THE BUSINESS PLAN-

1- Unlimited Domains

2- Unmetered Disk Space

3- Unmetered Transfer

4- Unlimited Email Account(s)

5-Free Dedicated IP

6- Free SSL Certificate

7- 1-click installation

8-Cpanel

9- New: PHP 7.1

So, guys, these are the price, plans and features of the shared hosting which are provided by the hostgator.

Now.

Winner of Pricing and Plan in this Comparison

This round is closer than the others.

In this round of hostinger vs hostgator review.

• In the pricing, the prices of the hostinger are less than the prices of the Hostgator, so in the pricing, hostinger won
• And, in the features offered under the plans, the features provided by both the hosting providers are pretty much same but the variety of hostinger is a bit diversified or wide including LiteSpeed Caching for better speed.

so in this field hostinger won.

• And in the number of plans under shared hosting, HostGator provides 4 types of shared hosting plans compared to the 3 types of shared hosting plans of hostinger.

So in the number of plans, Hostgator won this fight against Hostinger 3 in Hostinger vs Hostgator Comparison of 2021.

My Final Thoughts on Hostinger vs Hostgator in 2021

Both hosts are well known, both have millions of users worldwide, and both run efficient operations. But on the things that decide how a website does, like uptime, loading time, features, clarity, price and renewal price, Hostinger beats HostGator.

So we can clearly say that hostinger won this battle of Hostinger vs HostGator in 2021.

Hostinger also goes up against NameHero, which is the closer fight on support and resource limits. I break that one down in NameHero vs Hostinger.