# Hostinger alternative for PHP hosting

Source: https://www.fortrabbit.com/alternatives/hostinger
Published: 2026-10-31
Updated: 2026-10-31


## About Hostinger

Hostinger was founded in 2004 in Kaunas and is based in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is privately held: a private equity firm owns about 30%, founders and team the rest. Hostinger sells shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS and a website builder, with data centers in Europe, Asia, the US and Brazil, and hPanel as its own control panel.

## Why not Hostinger?

The headline price comes with a 48-month term: Premium costs $2.49 a month and renews at $10.99. The Git feature deploys into `public_html` without a build step, and auto-deploy needs a higher plan. Cron jobs run in UTC, and the Single plan has no SSH.

For a WordPress site or a landing page, that is a lot of hosting for little money. A Laravel app with Composer builds, queue workers and staging needs more than a shared plan offers.

## Why fortrabbit

fortrabbit hosts PHP apps, with Git push deploys, Composer and npm in the build, MySQL as a component, and cron jobs and workers as settings. An app has environments for staging and production. Pricing is per component, billed monthly after use, with no term to prepay.

We don't host mail or run a site builder. A site that depends on those stays better on Hostinger.

## Hostinger and fortrabbit

| Feature | Hostinger Premium | fortrabbit |
| -- | -- | -- |
| Price | $2.49, renews at $10.99 | From about €5 |
| Billing | 48 months prepaid | Monthly, after use |
| Build step | None | Composer and npm |
| Workers | — | Jobs component |
| Staging | — | Environments |
| Mailboxes | Included | — |

## FAQ

### Is fortrabbit cheaper than Hostinger?

**No, at first** — Hostinger Premium costs $2.49 a month on a 48-month term and renews at $10.99. A fortrabbit app with MySQL starts at about €5 a month, billed monthly, with no long term.

### Does fortrabbit include email accounts?

**No** — fortrabbit hosts PHP apps, not mailboxes. Keep mail with a mail provider, and send app mail over SMTP or a transactional mail service.

### Can a site move from Hostinger?

**Yes** — The migration guide covers files, the database, mail and DNS. A coding agent connected to fortrabbit can run it.

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- [Migrate from Hostinger](/migrate/from-hostinger)
- [How to choose](/alternatives/how-to-choose-php-hosting)