Finding the Right Web Host: NameHero vs. Hostinger Compared

It seems like for every web hosting company that claims to have the fastest and most secure service; there’s another claiming to be even better. The result is that choosing the right service to host your website becomes a nightmare. It doesn’t help that the internet is crawling with fake reviews on the subject.

The NameHero vs Hostinger dilemma is a common one. I realized this, so I set out to help readers like you.

I recently purchased both services and tried all their key features. My experience with them helped me compile a detailed review that covers the following points:

Main features
Security and privacy measures
Pricing
Support
Extra features

Don’t think you can find the time to read every detail? Here’s the major gist to help you decide right away:

The main difference between NameHero and Hostinger Hosting is that NameHero provides better server resources (RAM, SSD storage, and bandwidth) than Hostinger. It also uses more secure servers. Hostinger is a faster and more affordable option, making it ideal for WordPress blogs and low-traffic websites.

So, if you need a business site, you should try NameHero. If you would prefer a personal WordPress blog, you should try Hostinger. You can also check our detailed analysis on whether Hostinger is good for WordPress or not.

NameHero vs Hostinger: Web Host Main Features

	NameHero	Hostinger
Hosting Types	● Web hosting ● Reseller hosting ● VPS hosting ● Cloud Dedicated Servers hosting	● Shared hosting ● WordPress hosting ● Cloud hosting ● VPS hosting ● cPanel hosting ● CyberPanel hosting ● Minecraft hosting
Websites	1 to Unlimited	1 to 300
Storage Space	30GB to 900GB	20GB to 300GB SSD
Bandwidth	500GB/month to 10TB/month	100GB/month to Unlimited
Databases	Unlimited	2 to Unlimited
Speed	Test site load time: 0.74s to 1.15s Response time: 100ms to 500ms	Test site load time: 0.8s to 1s Response time: 25ms to 244ms
Uptime	100% in last month	100% in last month
Server Locations	2 countries	7 countries
User Interface	Easy to use	Easy to use
Default Control Panel	cPanel	hPanel
Dedicated Server RAM	2GB to 62GB	1GB to 16GB

I’ll start by taking you through all the key features offered by both NameHero and Hostinger.

NameHero

Web Hosting Key Features

If there were one big factor to consider before buying a web host, it would be the quality of the features that accompany its hosting. It can be divided into four parts:

Available hosting types
No. of websites allowed
Monthly bandwidth cap
RAM (mostly useful for dedicated servers)

Hosting types have two main categories: shared hosting and dedicated hosting. With shared hosting, your website uses the same resources as other sites on a given server.

This means that one site might end up using way more RAM, bandwidth, and CPU than the other sites, adversely affecting their performance.

A way to avoid this is to get yourself a dedicated server or its resources. That way, you’re allocated specific RAM and processors on one or several servers.

Shared hosting is ideal for hosting local business websites and personal blogs. It is also a more affordable option.

For NameHero, we’ll start with the four hosting types available: Web, Reseller, VPS, and Cloud Dedicated Servers.

Web and Reseller fall within the shared hosting scope. However, Reseller allows you to sell some of your resources to 40 – 100 clients and provide each with their own account. If you’re a web developer, digital marketer, or designer, it’s the ideal way to upsell better.

The VPS and Cloud hosting are dedicated in nature. There’s a difference, though. With VPS hosting, you don’t get the full physical server; however, significant resources will be dedicated to you.

Cloud Dedicated Servers hosting, however, offers you fully-customizable servers for a higher price. All of NameHero’s dedicated resources plans provide from 2GB to 8GB RAM for VPS and 8GB to 62GB RAM for Cloud.

Now that you understand the service’s hosting types, its’s time to explore their general features. In terms of site allowance, you can host 1 to unlimited websites, depending on your plan.

Monthly bandwidth starts from 500GB and caps at 10TB. That allows your site to send and retrieve tons of data as people use your site.

Storage

You need storage space to save your website’s images, videos, files, and other forms of data. That’s where server storage comes into play. It could be HDD or SSD (or NVMe). Most web hosts use SSD as it uses a newer and faster technology.

You can get 30GB to 900GB of SSD storage. From my experience, not many hosting providers can offer such huge capacities. I must say, I was pleasantly surprised.

Still, on keeping site data, you may need somewhere to store inventory lists, web polls, customer feedback, leads, etc. Creating several databases can help you achieve this. NameHero allows for unlimited databases on all plans.

Performance

Site performance has to do with speed (load and response times) and uptime. Speed affects both user experience and search engine rankings, while uptime determines how often your hosting servers are down (unresponsive).

Most web hosting services claim to have an uptime of 99.5% or more, and even they acknowledge that emergencies or scheduled maintenance could lead to some downtime.

So, I ran several tests on NameHero’s servers and discovered the following:

Test site load time: 0.74s to 1.15s
Response time: 100ms to 500ms
100% in last month

These numbers are better than what most hosting providers can offer.

Site performance also depends on the server’s physical location. The closer your target audiences and customers are to your data center, the faster their load and response times. NameHero only has servers in two countries: the USA and Netherlands.

Interface

NameHero uses the cPanel as the default control panel, which makes managing website hosting way easier, even for customers with no tech experience. I found it easy to use.

Hostinger

Web Hosting Key Features

Hostinger has a great setup for its seven hosting plans, which are Shared, WordPress, Cloud, VPS, and more.

Their Shared and WordPress (managed hosting) plans will have you using the resources on the same server as others.

Both the VPS and Cloud hosting plans are dedicated in nature. They both use partition technology to give customers specific and closed resources from a pool of servers. However, there are differences.

With VPS, you get root access to your server, but with Cloud, you don’t. I strongly recommend you choose Cloud (without root access) if you don’t have server tech experience or can’t hire someone who does.

VPS hosting plans offer 1GB – 16GB RAM and Cloud, 3GB – 12GB. All plans allow from 1 to unlimited websites per account with 100GB/month to unlimited bandwidth. These resources are significantly less than what NameHero is offering.

Storage

You get 20GB to 300GB SSD storage with Hostinger web hosting plans. You’re also allowed from 2 to unlimited databases.

Again, Hostinger falls short with its server resources. NameHero offers better storage on their servers.

Performance

So far, it wasn’t looking too good for Hostinger, but after testing their speed, I got some interesting results:

Test site load time: 0.8s to 1s
Response time: 25ms to 244ms
Uptime in the last month: 100%

These show that Hostinger is well significantly faster than NameHero.

Checking their data centers and server locations yielded even more positives for the hosting company. Hostinger has servers in 7 countries:

the USA
the UK
the Netherlands
Lithuania
Singapore
India
Brazil

Interface

The company uses its own control panel, a user-friendly software called hPanel. I found it as easy to use as cPanel.

For more information, you can check the detailed Hostinger review.

🏆 Winner is: NameHero

This was close, but NameHero took a narrow win thanks to its superior server resources, which was enough to neutralize Hostinger’s better site performance.