Hostinger Alternative: Prices, Renewals, Locations [2026]

TL;DR

• is*hosting is the better Hostinger alternative for multi-country setups: VPS in 40 countries, against 9 on Hostinger.
• Hostinger gives more RAM per dollar for one Linux server. KVM 1 gives 4 GB RAM for $6.49 a month, but only on a 24-month prepay, and it renews at $11.99.
• Hostinger VPS pricing is built on long terms. is*hosting bills for 1, 3, 6, or 12 months, with up to 15% off for a year.
• Extra IPs: Hostinger sells none; is*hosting adds up to 256 IPv4 per plan at $4 a month each.
• Windows: Hostinger VPS is Linux only; is*hosting offers Windows Server from the Start plan.
• Other Hostinger alternatives covered below: DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode, and IONOS, with what each one fits.

Prices checked on November 3, 2026.

Why Developers Look for a Hostinger Alternative

The reasons developers leave Hostinger VPS usually come down to four: geography, IP limits, the Linux-only catalog, and the renewal price. This applies to people running apps, APIs, automations, or multi-region stacks on a VPS; if you’re looking for WordPress hosting or shared hosting for a blog, a different comparison fits. Hostinger's server locations page (updated October 29, 2026) lists 10 VPS data centers in 9 countries, and its support articles linked below confirm one IP per VPS and no Windows images. If none of these four is a blocker, Hostinger will likely serve you fine. If one is, read on.

VPS in nine countries

Hostinger VPS is available in France, Germany, Lithuania, the UK, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the US (Phoenix and Boston). There is no VPS option in Japan, Australia, Canada, Poland, Turkey, the UAE, or Mexico. The Netherlands and Asheville sites serve web hosting and cloud hosting plans only.

For web and cloud hosting, Hostinger covers some of those regions with CDN points of presence, including Johannesburg, Japan, and Sydney. That doesn’t help VPS users, and a CDN caches only static files anyway. Logins, API calls, checkout, and anything personalized still travel to the origin server. For that traffic, the fix is a VPS in the region, so the round trip ends close to the user.

Hostinger's support page also says the VPS location is fixed after setup: moving to another data center means a backup and a reinstall.

One IP per server, no add-ons

Hostinger's VPS IP article states that each VPS gets one dedicated IP and there is no option to attach additional IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. That is fine for one app. It breaks setups that need a separate IP per client site or per allowlisted payment endpoint. On Hostinger, eight IPs means eight servers.

Linux only

Hostinger does not provide Windows VPS. If your stack includes a .NET Framework app on IIS or a trading terminal that runs only on Windows, you need another hosting provider.

Hostinger VPS Pricing: What You Get and What Renewal Costs

Hostinger VPS pricing starts at $6.49 a month for KVM 1, and that figure is a 24-month term price billed as one payment. The renewal rate is close to double. This matters if you plan to keep the server past month 24 or can't prepay two years. Here is what Hostinger's VPS page lists as regular 24-month term prices (checked November 3, 2026; KVM 2 was temporarily $8.79 in the Black Friday sale):

The page states that all hosting plans are paid upfront and the monthly rate is the total divided by the months in the term. Renewal is again a 24-month term at the higher rate. The page doesn't publish prices for shorter terms.

Compare hosting providers at the renewal price, over the time you'll keep the server. Four years of KVM 1 cost $155.76 plus $287.76 at renewal, $443.52 in total, or $9.24 a month. KVM 4 over the same four years averages $20.99 a month.

Key features included in the price

On specs per dollar, Hostinger is strong. Every KVM plan runs on AMD EPYC CPUs with NVMe storage and a 1 Gbps port. The bundle includes automated weekly backups, Wanguard DDoS filtering, a firewall manager, a Docker manager, a public API, and Hostinger Agent, an AI assistant inside the web terminal. Hostinger advertises a 99.9% uptime guarantee and a 30-day money-back guarantee on VPS.

The limits are the ones from the previous section. Bandwidth is capped from 4 TB to 32 TB depending on the plan, one IP per server, Linux only, nine countries.

is*hosting VPS Pricing: What You Get and What Extras Cost

is*hosting VPS pricing starts at $6.99 a month for Lite billed monthly, or $5.94 a month on a 12-month term. No long prepay is needed to get the advertised price: the deepest discount is 15% for a year, and you can pay for 1, 3, 6, or 12 months. The trade-off is less RAM and disk per dollar than Hostinger's KVM plans. Here is what the is*hosting VPS page lists (checked November 2026):

Lite, Start, and Medium cost the same in 34 of the 40 countries. Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the UAE cost more. RAM, disk, and IP addresses can be added to an existing plan, so you grow the one resource you need instead of moving to a bigger plan.

Count the cost over the term you can commit to. At current 12-month prices, four years of Medium cost $1,019.52, or $21.24 a month. On monthly billing it's $24.99 a month with no commitment. Start averages $10.19 a month over the same four years.

Key features included in the price

The bundle is built for running servers in many places with little overhead:

• VPS run in 45 locations across 40 countries, including 5 US cities, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Servers are hosted in Equinix, Telehouse, Digital Realty, M247, and other data centers.
• Each plan can take up to 256 extra IPv4 at $4 a month each, plus up to 64 IPv6 free.
• Besides Linux, you can run Windows Server 2012–2022 (license $20 a month, or bring your own), macOS, MikroTik CHR, or a custom ISO.
• From Medium up, traffic is unmetered, with no per-terabyte billing.
• Weekly backups are free, and a REST API covers automation.
• Support engineers answer chat and tickets 24/7. On servers ordered with a control panel (ispmanager, FastPanel, DirectAdmin, HestiaCP, aaPanel, or cPanel), standard administration and migration from your current host are included.

The limits are worth knowing upfront:

• Lite and Start include 2 TB and 3 TB of traffic, and overage costs $10 per TB.
• Medium's unmetered traffic comes with 15 Mbps of guaranteed bandwidth under Fair Use. Extending it costs $2 per 10 Mbps in Europe.
• Disk is 20 to 40 GB on these plans, and more space is a paid add-on.
• Daily backups cost extra.
• Without a control panel, setup and migration are billed at $35 an hour.
• There are no managed databases or object storage.
• A trial VPS is available on request, subject to approval.

is*hosting vs Hostinger: Head-to-Head

is*hosting wins on geography, IP capacity, OS choice, and short billing terms; Hostinger wins on RAM and disk per dollar for a single Linux server. The split matters most for multi-region teams and for anyone who needs more than one IP on a box. The table compares published plans as of November 3, 2026. If your project lives in one of Hostinger's nine countries and needs one IP, Hostinger gives more RAM and disk per dollar; if it spans more regions, is*hosting covers it from one account.

Three of those rows need context.

Price per GB of RAM

• is*hosting Medium: 4 GB RAM, 3 vCPU, unmetered traffic in most locations. $21.24 a month on a 12-month plan, $24.99 billed monthly.
• Hostinger KVM 1: 4 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 4 TB of traffic. $6.49 a month for the first 24 months, $11.99 after renewal.

If all you need is RAM for one Linux box in Germany, Hostinger is cheaper. Better to know that before the first invoice.

One server in each of six countries

• is*hosting: a Start VPS in Japan, Australia, Canada, Poland, Germany, and Brazil. 6 × $11.99 = $71.94 a month, billed monthly from one account.
• Hostinger: covers two of the six, Germany and Brazil. The other four need a second or third hosting provider, each with its own billing and support.

Ten IPv4 addresses

• is*hosting: one Medium server with 1 included IPv4 and 9 add-ons. $21.24 + 9 × $4 = $57.24 a month on a 12-month plan; add-on IPs aren’t discounted.
• Hostinger: ten KVM 1 servers with one IP each. 10 × $6.49 = $64.90 a month for the first 24 months, 10 × $11.99 = $119.90 after renewal, plus ten machines to patch.

Lite, Start, and Medium cost the same in 34 of the 40 countries. The six exceptions (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the UAE) cost more: Medium is $35.99 a month there instead of $24.99. Full list on the data centers page.

Other Hostinger Alternatives Worth Considering

There is no single best Hostinger alternative. If you are moving off Hostinger, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and Vultr are the other Hostinger competitors likely to make the shortlist. Each has its strengths; a short comparison is below.

Who Should Choose is*hosting Over Hostinger

Choose is*hosting if your servers need to sit outside Hostinger's nine VPS countries or need more than one IP each. Stay with Hostinger if you run one Linux server for users near its data centers and you're fine prepaying two years. The numbers behind that split are in the head-to-head above: 40 countries against 9, up to 256 extra IPv4 per plan against none.

is*hosting is the best Hostinger alternative if you are

• A multi-geo operator. You need an IP that sits in the target country. Proxies and VPN exits can get flagged by ad networks and payment processors; a VPS in Mexico or Turkey with its own IPv4 does not raise that question. Monthly billing lets you add a GEO for one campaign and drop it after.
• A SaaS or DevOps team adding regions. Dynamic requests need low-latency hosting across multiple regions, and user data has to stay where you put it. Running a VPS in multiple data centers under one account keeps billing and access in one place, and Lite, Start, and Medium cost the same in 34 of 40 countries.
• An agency running many client projects. A separate IP per client site means extra IPv4 on one server at $4 a month each, instead of one server per IP.
• Running Windows workloads. Hostinger has no Windows VPS. is*hosting offers Windows VPS from the Start plan, with the license at $20 a month or bring your own.

Stay with Hostinger if

Your project is one Linux server, your users are close to Hostinger's data centers in Europe, the US, India, Southeast Asia, or Brazil, and a 24-month prepay doesn't bother you. For that profile, Hostinger gives more RAM and disk per dollar, and moving would cost you money. Spend the difference on monitoring.

If your setup is on the first list, start with one VPS in the country you need and grow from there.