Hostinger vs. Byte – Which One Is Actually Better? [2020]

Hostinger offers a wide bouquet of hosting services while Netherlands-based Byte offers managed cloud hosting services for e-commerce. This is just a small example of how different these two providers are. But there’s more to know about. I tested both on multiple parameters like features, performance, pricing, support, etc. to find out which would be an overall better choice. I found the answer in Hostinger.

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1. Pricing

Hostinger is easy on your pocket but Byte isn’t

Hostinger offers shared, WordPress, and email hosting along with cloud hosting and VPS. With Byte, you’ll get Magento, Shopware, and Akeneo cloud hosting plans on its Hypernode platform. All plans of Bytes are available in 2 nodes – development and production.

As expected from a managed cloud hosting provider, Byte’s plans are extremely steep compared to Hostinger’s cloud hosting plans. Even its cheapest Magneto development node plan costs more than 7X of Hostinger’s cheapest cloud hosting plan. However, Bytes doesn’t need you to make a long-term commitment as its plans are payable monthly. Though Hostinger’s cloud plans let you pay monthly, annually, biennially, and quadrennially, its cheapest rates are available with the longest term.

Hostinger gives you a 30-day money-back guarantee. In contrast, Byte offers a 14-day money-back guarantee, which is pretty unusual for a managed service. You’ll also get a 14-day free trial for Byte’s Magento cloud hosting plans and a 30-day free trial for its Shopware and Akeneo cloud hosting plans.

A wider range of hosting services and pocket-friendly cloud hosting plans help Hostinger win this round.

2. Features

A wider range of choices plus user-friendly features give Hostinger the edge

If you need almost free shared hosting, Hostinger’s starting shared plan can be a good choice. However, there’s no Byte free hosting on offer. With the cloud plans of Hostinger , you’ll get free SSL, a free domain (for the first year), CloudLinux operating system, SSD storage, 1-click auto-installer with over a 100 apps, 1X-4X speed boost, free content delivery network (CDN), innovative hPanel (custom-made), automated daily backups (free), multiple PHP version (5.2-7.4) support, and free migration, among others.

With Byte’s Magneto development node plans, you’ll get managed (paid) SSL, PHP 5.6-7.3, multi-store compatibility, Magento-optimized PHP and NGINX configuration, Magento development tools, daily/instant backups, and free automated migration, to name a few.

You can compare these two providers using this comparison table.

More variety in hosting plans and multiple user-friendly features help Hostinger win again.

3. Performance

Both the providers take performance quite seriously but Hostinger outperforms Byte

Both these providers have their datacenters spread across the world to offer low latency and help you avoid slow download speeds and lag. While Hostinger’s Tier-3 datacenters are positioned across 7 different global regions, Byte has multiple datacenters in the U.S. and Europe along with 2 each in China, Japan, and India, and 1 each in Canada, Singapore, and Australia. Hostinger’s cloud hosting architecture uses 100% isolated VMs/containers for each customer, SSD drives with RAID-10, and Cloudflare CDN. Byte uses SSD-based hardware, auto-healing servers, in-built advanced caches (Redis, Varnish, and FPC), HTTP/2, latest technologies like NGINX, RabbitMQ, etc. and is PHP 7.2-ready and CDN-compatible.

With its slightly better performance, Hostinger wins this round by a close margin.

4. Security

Byte goes all the way with its extensive security while Hostinger lags behind

Hostinger uses automated daily backups, SSL certificate, RAID-10, isolated resources, LVE containers, CDN, Bitninja/Imunify360 (WAF), Wanguard anti-DDoS protection, and prognostic server monitoring and maintenance.

With Byte, you’ll get MageReport Premium (to recognize vulnerabilities for your Magento webshop), HTTP/2 support, built-in TLS (SSL) encryption, Magento malware scanner, PCI-compliance service, brute-force protection, NeoPI Python script (for malicious code detection), proactive threat identification, and regular security patching, among others.

Despite comparable security measures to some extent, Byte has an edge over Hostinger with its comprehensive security and managed services.

5. Support

Awesome support from Hostinger that Byte just can’t match

If you’re tired of unresponsive or sluggish customer support, Hostinger offers a welcome relief with its superfast 24/7 live chat, ticket, and email support (logged-in users only). There’s a quicker “Priority Support” too but it’s a paid option. Hostinger’s live chat support was outstanding as I got instantaneous replies.

Byte offers phone and email (via an online form) support during its office hours (8 am-6 pm, Monday- Friday). There’s a paid 24/7 emergency phone support too.  When I contacted Byte via email on a Sunday evening, I got a reply as soon as its office opened on Monday morning.

For those who prefer self-help, Hostinger has several tutorials plus a blog and an extensive knowledge base. With Byte, you’ll get support documentation, Hypernode roadmap (for newly added/upcoming features), open source documentation for different Hypernode community projects, and a Hypernode essential starter kit.

Hostinger’s blazing-fast support is simply unmatched. As a result, it emerges as this round’s winner.

And…The Winner’s Prize Goes to Hostinger

Byte gives Hostinger a tough fight in the security round and even edges past it. However, Hostinger salvages its pride well to outperform it in all the other rounds (features, performance, pricing, and security) to come up as the overall winner. So, I won’t hesitate to recommend Hostinger, which also sits on this list of​ the best web hosting services. But if you need managed cloud hosting for your e-commerce stores and don’t mind the steep price, Byte could be worth a try.

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