Don't waste time with Hostinger, here's my experience with them

If you're looking for the best affiliate hosting provider, do not use hostinger as your website hosting provider unless you are really starting out.
If you are gaining traffic, you need to migrate immediately.
Move to Cloudways, here is my affiliate link: bit.ly/3EKgUhh
Or sign up with a monthly hosting provider where you can cancel anytime if their product starts to decay.
They charged me once, and I asked for a refund. They refunded via "hostinger balance" and my auto renewal charged me again. I had a huge battle with them.
Thinking that I received my refund, 3 plus months passed and I did my transaction review and noticed I was still charged. We went one for couple days as to why I was charged, even though I asked for a refund. They told me I had auto-renewal. I asked, why would I ask for a refund and you kept me to renew after it was refunded? this is a horrible practice. After I threaten the person handling the support that I will notify every member of hostinger and tell everyone about this horrible scam, she then refunded me account, hopefully.

[@John_Krone]

This helped me a lot. I was about to move to Hostinger today but decided to research a bit more and found your video. Customer support is important to me. Thanks for sharing

[@jayk]

Glad it helped!

[@riezan]

Same here

[@examplechannel8467]

All youtubers are promoting hostinger only because they pay higher affiliate offers. But actually their server is not that good.

[@mrbabyhugh]

never EVER trust a person that is talking bad about one thing, then promote another where they earn money. Remember, he said his websites are affiliate links websites, and here he is, giving an affiliate link to sign up to a COMPETITOR. You FULL of BS!

[@jayk]

Haha ok. That doesn't make any sense. But good luck paying for 3 years instead of going monthly. And you're stuck with a hosting platform that constantly gives you issues. And good luck watching videos promoting their own affiliate links and never telling you their bad experiences. My experience is not BS, but if you want to believe it, you can do whatever you want. Sign up for hostinger for all I care. I just recommended a competitor. If you don't want me to recommend any other options then you can figure out which hosting platform is good for you and spend hundreds of dollars switching until you find the right one. Stop looking for other people's recommendations.

[@ecodepromopromo6694]

No it's really true I had cpu limit reached after only 100 clicks a day

[@darinjohnson3671]

Thanks for the suggestions. I never had any good luck with them. My best experience is Cloudways.

[@conlitras3379]

Thank you for sharing your experience! It is valuable to me 😊

[@googleanalytics8572]

i'm facing the same problem now :(

[@DGTCommunications]

thanks for this, I'm re-thinking my choices now.

[@ubuntugeek4520]

they blame your isp provider, how genius is that 😂

[@ImmiTheKhan]

I was about to click the buy button and your video stopped it.

[@OghamTheBold]

Same - especially _inodes_ - my old site(s) use PHP with session files so 10,000s get produced - have to bite the bullet and use MySQL for the session variables

[@DoomFinger511]

Why would your ISP affect users from accessing your site if the site is hosted on a server in a different location? Your personal ISP has nothing to do with your site unless you hosted the site locally. Was the issue that YOU can't access the Hostinger dashboard and edit sites, or that users from around the world can not view your sites hosted on hostinger?

[@jayk]

Why don't you ask Hostinger..this is what wrote "I have checked your IP and it is not greylisted. However, the traceroute from the server to your IP is not completed, so ping can’t be passed What does it mean: there are connectivity issues on the trace from your computer to the server’s IP, and because of this you cannot reach the website. No worries, in most cases it’s a temporary issue, which should be solved in several hours, meanwhile, your website visitors from the different IPs will see your website without any problems. If the issue happens to you several times, I would recommend contacting your Internet Service Provider, so they can check possible connectivity issues on their side and assign you a different IP address if it’s possible. And if your ISP won’t be able to locate the issue and it will persist, you can go for a server transfer and see if it helps"

[@DoomFinger511]

@All Things SEO with Jayk did you end up seeing if your ISP could assign you a different IP address? That's basically what you're doing with the VPN which you said let you gain access again.

[@jayk]

@@DoomFinger511 i dont think you understand my point. i was in two different countries with several different ISP from where i stayed to cafes if i am getting the 403 issues, how many of my potential visitors to my site am i losing? Who else is experiencing this issue? do you think they are going to call their ISP and ask them that they want to visit my site and they will wait hours talking to their ISP to fix this issue?

[@DoomFinger511]

@@jayk Oh so you were still getting a 403 when trying to connect using several different IP addresses? It was difficult to understand from the video if the main complaint was that you you couldn't connect to your account or if users couldn't connect to viewing the websites. Was the chart you showed in the video showing user no longer visiting the sites?

[@mdahugyv3583]

Customers support are too bad

[@PravinRavi]

Still Using Hostinger Since 6 Years without issue

[@jayk]

Maybe you haven't used multiple IP address. Some of your visitors are going to get a 403 forbidden error when trying to access your site and they are blaming the ISP blocking from accessing the site. So, if you prefer to miss out on a few potential visitors that are not able to access your site, then you can stick with it. I am using Cloudways and BigScoot for all of my hosting needs now.

[@PatrickBagina]

I started using hosting from 2022 but today I am tired and looking alternative because I am leaving it. Many clients are not accessing my platform depending on the ISP

[@PatrickBagina]

We are facing the same issue my dear. I prefer to leave

[@maxva6245]

You're incompetent bro.

[@foamformbeats]

also, it's kinda weird that you switched to Cloudways, which resolved the issue, yet your traffic still hasn't recovered. are you sure there's not some other issue also going on?

[@jayk]

I did see some traffic increase. Although with all the algorithm updates it's been hard to actually measure. No, these are plain affiliate sites. Nothing heavy. 12 plugins each, same layout throughout.

[@foamformbeats]

@@jayk I am probably ignorant here but I have a feeling your site got hit with some sort of penalization from Google, rather than your host just throttling your website. If you switched and the traffic didn't go back to normal, it seems like there is something else going on probably. Again, I could be wrong.

[@jayk]

I moved all of my sites to cloud ways and not having any issues

[@hezugaming9995]

Ther are scammers! I bought a domain but on setup they show regulatory issue and when i contact to coustomer support they asked me to fill the form in which i have to provide my cnic and utilitiy bill and after 2 days theu reject my domain and siad that i am a sdn which means i m international criminal wow They just make me a international criminal and now they are saying you are not able to get refund

[@andiar.igobwakoech9382]

Thank you for this review

[@foamformbeats]

did you have a lot of big files or heavy resources on your site? just wondering because I have been considering switching hosting to hostinger from inmotion.

[@RaeGrafix-Designs]

I switched from InMotion to Hostinger and it was the best decision in hosting I've made. I did love InMotion's support but Hostinger has great support too, but Hostinger is very fast and has great up-time.

[@OghamTheBold]

I thought _inodes_ are per file - so lots of little files (my guess was PHP session files) - I need to put them in a database this time (1 file)

[@jayk]

I had a lot of issues with resources with hostinger, name cheap all the cheap ones.. with cloud ways I haven't had a single problem. I even have a job site RSS feeding cron job of all of the jobs posting on a daily basis

[@KELVIEAPP]

Why not Contabo? Cheapest and best.

[@BaoVuongg]

What do you recommend then?

[@jayk]

Just made a video kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZWTXoiKibOVacU but if you dont want to watch the whole thing, read the description. the main thing to take away from the video is not to sign a 1-3 year contract and be stuck with something that won't work for you, or might work now but not later.

[@BaoVuongg]

@@jayk sounds good, i’ll watch it!

[@badrbouzoubaa4196]

they are the worst ever.

[@NABEELAZIZ]

Which hosting are you using right now? I am using their Cloud Startup plan and I am worried.

[@jayk]

Cloudways and.big scoot

[@NABEELAZIZ]

@@jayk how much you are paying them? I have aroune 60 wordpress simple websites of around 5-8 pages based on Elementor, how much would it cost me if I make my mind to move to CloudWays?

[@jayk]

Sorry for the delay. Been a bit busy. I'm paying around $60/m for 30 sites all running smoothly. They have more then 8 pages. Some of them have 100-500 blog posts

[@OghamTheBold]

I'm not a top Computer Scientologist - inodes - sounds like PHP session file per visitor (you can find them with one Linux command) that's my issue on Host-crocodile it stops backup but I just delete them (another Linux command _rsync_ to empty is fast)

[@bobbysongsmith]

Subscribed Bro! I like your style!

[@stevenbingham4828]

Maybe you just had a bad experience my brother been using them for a while with no issues, so I guess what was a bad experience for you may not be for others.

[@jayk]

As I have mentioned several times before. If I was the only one having issues with them.. fine... But the hundreds or thousands of visitors going to your brothers site cannot access because of hostingers infrastructure and they have no idea why and blame the ISP. None of your brothers visitors will contact their ISP to fix this issue so they can visit your brothers site. They will simple not go to his site. He might not see this issue for himself, but I saw it because I have been traveling and using multiple IPs to access my site and realized this issue. Unless your brother is willing to go to every Starbucks, coffee shop, in the entire world or his target market and realize this or not, is up to him. I simply created this video because they are not admitting that this issue is their fault. I moved to cloudways and other hosting site and never had this issue. But your brother is doing fine, let him stay. I rather focus on my visitors.

[@capsula2007]

so bro what is your best option then for fast performance and price after Hostinger? thank u

[@jayk]

it depends. one site or multiple? I use cloudways for multiple projects. i have like 25+ sites and i an add more. but it cost $60+ dollars. I also use bigscoot but that is for high performance $35 per month. I don't trust anyone who asks me to commit 2-3 years. they can change a lot and can ruin your site. Look for monthly options, you can leave them anytime, but the price might be bit higher. but for me.. WPX hosting is also good.

[@VitalityNook30]

So with all. this, I need a very sincere answer since am an amateur in web development . I want to create an amazon affiliate website with WooCommerce and Blogposts. Which Webhosting should I go for? 😢😮

[@jayk]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZWTXoiKibOVacUsi=FqcHLQTZGrwPxkvf these are the 3 I use. If you are starting out host maria server is in UK but you can CDN. I migrate my good and growing business to cloudways and bigger business to big scoot.

[@alexanderberiom3660]

so.. why did your ISP blocked your websites, have you actually talked to them to find out?

[@jayk]

I was traveling to Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. So no. I have used Airbnb, hotels and Starbucks with mixed issues. So either all of them are a conglomerate for the entire south America or something is wrong with hostinger and they blamed the ISP provider. Mind you... I'm not focused on my ISP.. just like any other people who will most likely visit my website won't call their ISP and wait until they turn on my website. That is not the point.

[@slasheddepot]

I just transfered my domain from hostgator to hostinger 😢

[@jayk]

Good luck.. hopefully you didn't sign up for 2-3 years

[@PravinRavi]

Can i help you to fix it

[@indiapost849]

I pay money 5069 2years plan but not working

[@travis2470]

😂

[@vaathi2003]

Its my opinion* and ive value your opinion as well but im just sharing my thoughts as it is, in my past i got like 2 times refund abt 40usd and i never emailed them cause ive used chat support to reach out and raise out a ticket and they've responded me within mins and issued me with my refund with out asking questions at all and for the record i asked refund after using it for 20days are so, the reason i got my refund is i liked their hosting and wanted to upgrade to business starter plan from my premium plan and it could the isp and you could've asked them to whitelist the site its that simple and i don't know whether they responded or not so ill believe that you've tried that channel as well but on my opinion its better than other hosting providers that ive been used and here those list wix 1m, hostgator 1m, godaddy 1y, bluehost 3m, namecheap 1y, dreamhost 1m from all of those i prefer hostinger not cause its cheap comparing to otber hosting providers that i used before the reason is it is great and the only concern I have they could've got more data centres in India other than the Mumbai servers, like one more data centre in Bangalore or in Chennai or Coimbatore could be better but still im not complaining im happy with what i have:) and my opinion on your refund email ~ you could've raised an ticket through live chat support instead of mailing them sometimes those emails doesn't directly go in and ends up in gateway or never gets to them and you could've got an no reply support email and accidentally sent you concerns to that which are are not intended to receive emails back! Thats it But i really feel you brother cause I've been in your shoes a few years back with galaxygate an vps server provider that i have been using it for my discord bot for 4y and we really been enjoying using it until the fked up 🙂 now we switched to digital Ocean for our bot and bots website. But digital Ocean's support is great but the response time is very worst 6 to 8h average