Hostinger 2025 review: a surprisingly serious website builder

Creatives shouldn't overlook Hostinger's website builder.

Screenshot from the Hostinger website builder
(Image: © Daniel Schwarz)

Our Verdict

The Hostinger website builder is a serious contender in the website building space, not just another feature of a hosting provider that you think will ‘be handy’ but won’t ever use. It does everything that must people will need it to do, and does it exceptionally well with its visually appealing, speed-of-light interface and intuitive controls. Striking the perfect balance between professional UI design tools and just making it work, I encourage you to think of Hostinger as not just a hosting provider but as a platform that enables you to build and host all kinds of websites (even online stores). Honourable mention for the AI support, which is surprisingly decent (human support not so much). All-in-all, more website builders like this please.

For

  • Fun to use
  • Incredible user experience
  • Great features and customisations

Against

  • Poor customer support
  • Unintuitive responsive design

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Generative AI features

As you begin your website-building journey with Hostinger, you’re presented with the opportunity to let AI create a website for you. If you don’t want to do that, you can start off with a pre-made template instead. However, I saw great success with the AI, running with the first iteration that it created.

The Verdict
9.5

out of 10

Hostinger

The Hostinger website builder is a serious contender in the website building space, not just another feature of a hosting provider that you think will ‘be handy’ but won’t ever use. It does everything that must people will need it to do, and does it exceptionally well with its visually appealing, speed-of-light interface and intuitive controls. Striking the perfect balance between professional UI design tools and just making it work, I encourage you to think of Hostinger as not just a hosting provider but as a platform that enables you to build and host all kinds of websites (even online stores). Honourable mention for the AI support, which is surprisingly decent (human support not so much). All-in-all, more website builders like this please.

Previously a design blog editor at Toptal and SitePoint, and before that a freelance product/UX designer and web developer for several years, Daniel Schwarz now advocates for better UX design alongside industry leaders such as InVision, Adobe, Net Magazine, and more. In his free time, Daniel loves gaming, café culture and Wikipedia, and also travels perpetually when there isn’t a pandemic.

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