Choosing the Best Web Host: iPage vs. Hostinger Compared

I’m sure that soon after you did some online research on web hosting, you saw the inevitable ads. In each of these videos, the hosting company claims to be the best. Well, anyone can say this but few live up to the hype. If you’re struggling to choose between iPage vs Hostinger, I can help you avoid trouble.

A while ago, I paid for both web hosting services and dug deep into their features. My findings helped me create this detailed review. Here, I’ll be comparing Hostinger vs iPage based on the following:

Key hosting features
Server security and privacy
Plans pricing
Technical support
Extra features

No worries if you don’t have time to read the details – the next paragraph should be enough to help with your decision.

The main difference between Hostinger and iPage is that Hostinger is faster and more flexible than iPage. It also offers more advanced web hosting options. This makes Hostinger the better choice for a business website. iPage is more secure and simple. However, it makes more sense to use the service to host non-profit websites, as they require little resources and adequate security.

If you hope to grow your business online quickly, try Hostinger. If you prefer something simple and cost-effective, try iPage.

iPage vs Hostinger: Main Features for Shared, Cloud, and VPS Hosting

	iPage	Hostinger
Hosting Types	● Web hosting ● Web WordPress hosting	● Shared hosting ● WordPress hosting ● Cloud hosting ● VPS hosting ● cPanel hosting ● CyberPanel hosting ● Minecraft hosting
Websites	1 to Unlimited	1 to 300
Storage Space	Unlimited	20GB to 300GB SSD
Bandwidth	Unlimited	100GB/month to Unlimited
Databases	Unlimited	2 to Unlimited
Speed	Test site load time: 0.7s to 2.4s Response time: 658ms to 2100ms	Test site load time: 0.01s to 0.55s Response time: 37ms to 249ms
Uptime	100% in last month	99.9% in the last month
Server Locations	1 country	7 countries
User Interface	Easy to use	Easy to use
Default Control Panel	vDeck	hPanel
Dedicated Server RAM	–	1GB to 16GB

When it comes to picking web hosts for a personal or business website, you need to consider several key features. I’ve categorized those of iPage and Hostinger into four sections.

iPage

Web Hosting Key Features

Let’s start by dealing with the main capabilities that directly affect the quality of your website hosting. There are also four:

Available hosting types
Max. number of websites
Monthly bandwidth
RAM (mostly useful for dedicated servers)

The packages offered by these companies can either take the form of shared hosting or dedicated hosting. If it’s shared, your website and its content are stored on the same server as those of other users.

That means the more other users consume RAM, bandwidth, etc., the less is available for your site to use. This can get to a point where your website either becomes too slow or crashes frequently. The one advantage of shared web hosting is that it’s the most affordable type.

Dedicated hosting is more expensive, but it has several advantages. With this type, you get specific and closed resources. This could come from having a full server to yourself or getting parts of its resources allocated to your account.

Either way, you never have to worry about your site’s performance dropping because other users succeed online.

So, before I signed up for iPage, I was given a choice of hosting packages. I must say it didn’t feel like much of a choice as I only found two plans to choose from: Web hosting and WordPress hosting.

Both of those plans (Web and WordPress) are the shared hosting kind. They’re ideal for personal blogs, small business websites, and landing pages.

The optimized WordPress hosting includes lots of specialized features that will greatly improve your experience. I’ll show you more about that later.

iPage does not offer dedicated server hosting. I was shocked to see this as I could remember they used to offer these services in the past.

So, I contacted their support staff through the live chat option (more on that later). It turns out that iPage has stopped offering dedicated hosting of any kind.

The company seems to be focusing all its resources on shared web hosting. While this strategy may have its advantages, many big business sites can’t compete without dedicated resources.

Now, for the good stuff. You can host from 1 to unlimited websites with iPage. Also, all plans come with unlimited bandwidth, which means your site can transfer an endless amount of data over the internet when visitors use your site.

Storage

Servers are basically special computers. Hence, they have limited disk space for storing your site’s files, images, videos, and more.

Most times, this storage comes as either HDD or SSD. You want to get one with SSD or SSD Nvme because it’s faster. With iPage, you get unlimited storage (SSD) no matter the plan.

While the storage helps with keeping web content (videos and other media files), you also need a way to keep site data such as inventory lists, web polls, customer feedback, leads, etc. Having a database on the backend should do the trick.

MySQL happens to be one of the best database management systems out there, which makes it cool that iPage allows unlimited MySQL databases on its plans.

Performance

Your website’s performance will be determined by several factors, especially speed (load and response times) and uptime.

The faster your site, the better its chances of ranking higher on search engines. Also, how often your site remains responsive (uptime), will affect your visitor’s experience and keep you from losing customers and money.

Bearing all that in mind, I tested iPage’s performance. Here’re the results:

Test site load time: 0.7s to 2.4s
Response time: 658ms to 2100ms
Uptime: 100% in last month

iPage’s speed is well below the average in the hosting business. However, it makes up for this a little with impeccable uptime.

Server location also affects performance because those close to your target audience will reduce response and load times.

Unfortunately, iPage only has servers in the US.

Interface

Even without any tech knowledge, a control panel allows site owners to manage their hosting without stress. iPage uses vDeck, their custom software, as the default control panel. I found it easy to use.

For more relevant options, you can check our iPage alternatives guide.

Hostinger

Web Hosting Key Features

There are seven hosting plans on Hostinger: Shared, WordPress, VPS, Cloud, and more.

For shared web hosting, the Shared Hosting and WordPress Hosting packages fall within the category. The VPS and Cloud hosting plans are dedicated in nature. Both are similar with some minor differences.

VPS and Cloud hosting on Hostinger use partition technology to give each client dedicated resources from a pool of servers. However, VPS will give you and your tech team root access, while Cloud will not.

I recommend that you only pay for root access if you or your team members have the technical knowledge to manage the server configuration. Otherwise, let Hostinger bother about that.

Other differences are in their RAM sizes. VPS hosting plans offer 1GB – 16GB RAM and Cloud, 3GB – 12GB.

According to web experts, you only need less than 1GB to run a high-traffic blog. Bigger sites with cart and payment processing features such as an eCommerce store require 2GB RAM.

Hostinger will allow you to create 1 to unlimited websites based on your package. You also get 100GB/month to unlimited bandwidth.

Storage

In terms of disk space, you get 20GB to 300GB SSD storage. The hosting provider also allows 2 to unlimited databases. I don’t see the point of having such a small lower limit when other services are offering a lot more, including iPage. The 300GB maximum SSD storage could also be better.

Performance

Here’s a rundown of Hostinger’s performance:

Test site load time: 0.01s to 0.55s
Response time: 37ms to 249ms
Uptime: 99.9% in last month

The hosting service has a high performance that few competitors can match. It blows iPage out of the water when it comes to site speed.

Hostinger has data center and server locations in 7 countries:

the USA
the UK
the Netherlands
Lithuania
Singapore
India
Brazil

Interface

The web host has its own control panel, a user-friendly software called hPanel. I found it as easy to use as vDeck.

For more details on Hostinger, you can check the complete Hostinger review.

🏆 Winner is: Hostinger

Without a doubt, Hostinger wins this round. The mere fact that they offer dedicated hosting and iPage does not is a big win.

iPage vs Hostinger: Security & Privacy

	iPage	Hostinger
SSL Certificates	Yes	Yes
Server Security	● Malware protection ● Blacklist monitoring ● Anti-spam	● mod_security ● PHP protection
Backups	Daily (paid add-on)	Weekly to Daily
Domain Privacy	Yes ($9.99 per year)	Yes ($5 per year)

It’s not enough to have high performance and abundant resources – a web hosting service should also secure user data and information on the client’s website. Let’s see their security measures.