Hostinger vs 3HCloud: Which Is Better?
We track Hostinger and 3HCloud prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About HostingerHostinger is a global, budget-friendly hosting provider serving 30M+ users across 150+ countries. It pairs aggressive intro pricing with a genuinely fast LiteSpeed + NVMe stack and an unusually beginner-friendly control panel (hPanel), making it a popular first host for blogs, small businesses and WooCommerce stores.
About 3HCloud3HCloud is a US-registered provider (3HCLOUD LLC, Hollywood, Florida) that launched in 2020 and runs OpenStack-based cloud servers from five locations: Miami, Dallas, San Francisco, Warsaw and Manila.
The catalogue is a single published price list: four instance families (shared vCPU, plus dedicated-vCPU general-purpose, CPU-optimized and memory-optimized), block storage sold separately by IOPS class, network load balancers and elastic bandwidth. Dedicated servers and colocation are quote-only through sales.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Hostinger | 3HCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $2.99 | $1.50 win |
| Renewal price | — | Same as initial |
| Datacenters | 9 win | 5 |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Free domain | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Backups | — | Paid |
| CDN | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Support | — | — |
| Uptime · 30d | 98.61% | 99.31% win |
Price History
Hostinger · PremiumCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
3HCloud · 1 GB 1 vCPU Shared PoolCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Hostinger 98.61% 3HCloud 99.31%Pros & Cons
Hostinger- Excellent intro pricing with free domain, SSL and email
- Fast LiteSpeed + global CDN on NVMe storage
- Beginner-friendly hPanel and 1-click WordPress
- 24/7 live chat with ~2 min replies in 20+ languages
- 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked
- Steep renewal prices after the first term
- Daily backups and dedicated IP are paid add-ons on entry plans
- No root access or cPanel on shared plans
- Cheapest rates require a long upfront commitment
3HCloud- Full public price list - every instance, hourly and monthly, on one page
- Hourly billing on every plan, not just the entry tier
- Dedicated-vCPU families for CPU-bound and memory-bound workloads
- 1 Gbit/s per instance with no traffic volume cap
- OpenStack API, Terraform and SSH-key access
- Five regions across the US, EU and APAC
- Storage is not included - disks are billed separately from $0.01/GB per month
- A public IPv4 address costs $1/month on top of the plan price
- Windows images add $3 per core per month and need at least 2 vCPUs
- No refunds - SLA downtime is repaid in service credits only
- No published ISO/SOC certifications
- Dedicated servers are quote-only, not self-serve
The Verdict
On the data we track, Hostinger wins more rows in the comparison table above (4 vs 2). That said, the right pick depends on which rows matter most for your use case — price, uptime, datacenters or backups.
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FAQ
Right now 3HCloud has the lower entry price across the plans we track. Prices update every few hours — the live snapshot above always shows the current starting price for both.
Over the last 30 days of our monitoring, 3HCloud had the higher measured uptime. We ping both providers every few minutes from multiple locations — see the uptime graph above.
Yes. Both run standard KVM virtualization, so you can snapshot your server, export the image, and import it on the other provider. For most stacks a fresh deploy plus a data copy is simpler.
It depends on your priority: pick the one that wins on the rows that matter most to you in the table above (price, uptime, datacenters, backups). For latency-sensitive apps favour uptime and network; for value favour price and specs.