I Benchmarked Hostinger's $2 and $3 Plans Side by Side. The Results Weren't Close.

I run Future Stack Reviews , where I tear apart AI tools and web infrastructure so you don't waste money on the wrong stack. Last month I went deep on Hostinger — not the marketing copy, the actual infrastructure. I cross-referenced HostingStep's 564,000+ monitoring tests, pulled Trustpilot complaint data, checked the Cybercrime Information Center's phishing reports, and fact-checked the whole thing through Perplexity Pro, Gemini, and Grok. The short version: every review site recommends the Premium plan because it screenshots well at $2/month. It's the wrong plan. Here's why. The $1 Gap That Changes Everything Hostinger Premium runs on SSD (not NVMe), ships without a CDN, and skips daily backups. In HostingStep's testing, it clocked ~495ms global TTFB with 245ms load handling. Hostinger Business — one dollar more — runs on NVMe, includes CDN, daily backups, and object cache. Same testing framework: ~223ms TTFB , 31ms load handling . That's an 8x improvement in load handling for roughl