Now that WordPress.com is offering website plans that include hosting, are they a better option than the other WordPress hosting options? How does WordPress.com compare with the web hosts recommended by WordPress.org? In this comparison of WordPress.com vs Hostinger, we take a detailed look at Automattic’s WordPress.com hosting plans against one of the best choices for affordable WordPress hosting, Hostinger.
Recently, Hostinger replaced SiteGround on the WordPress.org recommended hosting list. So, it’s interesting to see how Hostinger matches up against WordPress.com. Which one is better for your websites? Let’s take a look.
Advantages of Choosing WordPress.com over Hostinger:
Advantages of Choosing Hostinger over WordPress.com:
WordPress.com’s better features are available with their Business and Commerce plans. Similarly, with Hostinger the Business and Cloud Startup plans feature more premium features. Among the basic level plans, Hostinger offers better features, starting with multiple website hosting, AI website builder, ability to run plugins, and a 30 day money back guarantee.
It’s a closer call when comparing the upper level plans of WordPress.com and Hostinger. Both include optimized caching, and CDNs for faster performing websites. You also get features such as website staging, automatic updates, and enhanced security. Overall, in this category we give a slight edge to Hostinger based on better value with multiple site hosting.
Both WordPress.com and Hostinger deliver excellent website speed. We found page loading times and core web vitals very good. WordPress.com includes global edge caching along with an optimized environment and global CDN. Hostinger provides LiteSpeed and object caching with their optimized environment, along with their CDN.
In our testing and experience, results were very close. Hostinger posted slightly better page loading and CWV numbers, so they get a slight edge in this category. See our sample speed test results from GTmetrix below.
When it comes to customer support, WordPress.com and Hostinger are actually very similar, and it’s a close call here. While both hosts provide chat support, neither is true live chat support at this time. You can submit your question or request to the automated chat, but there will be a delay before you get a response if you have a specific issue or question. Additionally, with Hostinger we found the chat support is difficult to access—being buried somewhere in their knowledge base. For that reason, WordPress.com gets a slight edge here.
Started Business: 2005
BBB Rating: A+
Data Center Location:Data Centers: Global
Price: $4 mo. – $45 mo. (Enterprise Plans also available)
Unlimited Bandwidth: Yes
Unlimited Storage: No
Email: Yes
Host Multiple Domains: No
Hosting Interface: WordPress Dashboard
Server Uptime: 99.999%
Full Refund Period: 14 Days
Dedicated Hosting Available: No
Advantages of Choosing WordPress.com:
Choose WordPress.com if:
Started Business: 2011
Data Center Location: USA, Europe, Asia, Brazil
Price: $2.99 mo. – $7.99 mo.
Unlimited Bandwidth: No
Unlimited Storage: No
Email: Yes
Host Multiple Domains: Yes
Hosting Interface: Custom Dashboard
Server Uptime: 99.9%
Full Refund Period: 30 Days
Dedicated Hosting Available: No
Advantages of Choosing Hostinger:
Choose Hostinger if:
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In this comparison, we would recommend Hostinger over WordPress.com in most cases. With Hostinger, you get more value as you can host up to at least 100 websites, you get managed WordPress features, it costs less, and it’s suitable for both beginners and more experienced users.
While WordPress.com is certainly capable of hosting similar sites, it is more expensive and you are limited to one site per plan. The one case where we would recommend WordPress.com over Hostinger is if you need WooCommerce hosting for a single website that is your main business.
Overall though, Hostinger is the winner here. See our Review Ratings below.
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