Hostinger vs. AWS – Popular Doesn’t Mean Better [2020]

Hostinger is a hosting service provider that’s suitable for almost all – from novices and start-ups to big companies and enterprises. In contrast, AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a popular IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) solution. Though it’s easy to begin with, it could soon get quite confusing and messy.

I used multiple key parameters to evaluate both Hostinger and AWS. I found that popular doesn’t mean better since Hostinger emerged a winner.

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1. Plans and Pricing

Hostinger’s flat monthly fee is better than AWS’s flexible but confusing pricing

With Hostinger, you’ll get shared WordPress, and email hosting along with VPS and cloud hosting. AWS offers cloud services like Compute, Storage, Containers, Databases, and Networking, among others. For this comparison, I’ll focus on its cloud services.

Its Lightsail (pre-configured virtual servers that live on the AWS cloud) are the easiest to begin with. You can use them for free for a month. Available in 7-tiered pricing, they start cheaper (monthly cost) than Hostinger’s 3-tiered cloud hosting plans (provided you opt for the cheapest quadrennial term). Lightsail plans give you a lot of flexibility as they are billed on an on-demand hourly rate. This means you’ll pay only for the resources you use. You’ll be charged the fixed hourly price, up to the maximum monthly plan cost. However, such variable costs could be hard to estimate and budget for.

Hostinger lets you try its plans risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Despite better pricing and more flexibility, AWS loses out to Hostinger for not being as beginner-friendly as its competitor is.

2. Features

Hostinger supports beginners; AWS focuses on tech-savvy people and professionals

You can run your websites or WordPress blogs with AWS as several AWS WordPress hosting reviews have mentioned. But it’s a tougher choice than Hostinger, especially if you’re not tech-savvy or need a lot of hand-holding. In AWS vs. web hosting (traditional) battle, I would suggest beginners choose Hostinger due to its beginner-friendly features.

When you need enterprise-grade web hosting, AWS wins hands down in AWS vs. traditional server competition. Though you can set up cPanel on AWS, beginners are likely to prefer cPanel hosting when they compare AWS vs. cPanel.

When it comes to cloud hosting plans, Hostinger gives you a free domain for a year, free SSL, CloudLinux OS, free CDN, SSD storage, 1-click app installer with 100+apps, custom-made and innovative hPanel, 1X-4X speed boost, free automated daily backups, and multiple PHP version (5.2-7.4) support, to name a few. When you create your VM instance with AWS, you’ll have to set up your OS and applications.

With AWS Lightsail plans, you’ll get multiple OS (6 Unix/Linux and 2 Windows), load balancers, SSD-based storage, managed databases, free SSL/TLS certificates (which you’ll need to provision and add to a load balancer), pre-configured application/development stack (like Windows, Plesk, WordPress, etc.), SSH/RDP access, and DNS management. You can also enable automatic snapshots (which are point-in-time backups for your VMs).

You can use this comparison table to compare Hostinger and AWS.

Though AWS has better resource allocations, it loses out to Hostinger’s user-friendly features.

3. Performance

AWS rocks but Hostinger isn’t far behind

Hostinger’s Tier-3 data centers are located across 7 different global regions. AWS has a much larger and more dynamic ecosystem with 76 availability zones in 24 regions with 216 points of presence. Thus, AWS maximizes redundancy by positioning its servers across a wide array of geographical environments. Both these providers use multiple performance-enhancing features. Hostinger’s cloud hosting architecture includes SSD drives with RAID-10, fully isolated VMs/containers for each customer, and Cloudflare CDN. AWS Lightsail uses SSDs, load balancers, resource monitoring and alerting, Amazon CloudFront CDN (free during the free trial) and Lightsail API to help extend your applications.

With its much better global availability and better performance, AWS wins this round.

4. Security

Your website security is in safe hands with both Hostinger and AWS

Hostinger’s extensive security measures for its cloud hosting include SSL certificate, automated daily backups, RAID-10, LVE containers, isolated resources, CDN, and prognostic server monitoring and maintenance.

AWS gives the highest priority to its cloud and uses the most comprehensive security and compliance controls. It lets you automate security tasks and offers SSL, automatic data encryption at the datacenter’s physical layer, and fine-grain identity and access controls with constant monitoring for almost real-time security information of your resources and their access, among others.

With comparable and robust security measures, it’s a tie between Hostinger and AWS.

5. Support

Hostinger’s free support rocks; AWS’s free support keeps you waiting

With its blazing-fast 24/7 live chat, ticket, and email support (logged-in users only), Hostinger impresses a lot. You could even use its quicker “Priority Support” though it’s a paid option. Hostinger’s live chat support was remarkably fast and efficient when I used it.

AWS has a 4-tiered support system. The Basic plan is free and offers support for service quota increases plus billing and account questions. The other plans (Developer/Business/Enterprise) are paid and offer an unlimited number of technical support cases with 24/7 email, phone, and chat (except for the Developer plan that has email support only). When I tried its free support, I got a reply within 24 hours.

Hostinger offers several tutorials plus a blog and an extensive knowledgebase for self-help. With AWS, you’ll get documentation, best practice guides, whitepapers, and support forums for self-support.

Hostinger wins this round easily with its blazing-fast support.

Hostinger Is the Top Choice

AWS wins the performance round and scores a tie in the security round. However, Hostinger wins the feature, pricing, and support rounds to emerge the overall champion. Thus, despite being more popular than Hostinger, AWS loses out to it. So, I would recommend Hostinger, which also features on our list of​ the best web hosting services. But if you can handle certain tech aspects on your own without hand-holding or support, and need enterprise-grade web hosting that blends scalability and flexibility, AWS could be a better option.

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