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How to Set Up WordPress Hosting on Hostinger

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A step-by-step guide for clients starting a new website project

The short version

  1. Go to hostinger.com/wordpress-hosting
  2. Choose the Premium plan — the cheapest one
  3. Choose the longest period available in the dropdown
  4. Add your domain if you already have one; skip if you don’t
  5. Skip every add-on offered at checkout
  6. Click Continue, create your account, and pay
  7. Don’t start building anything — just send us access

The detail behind each step is below. It takes about ten minutes.

First, why you’re doing this yourself

Before we can build your website, it needs somewhere to live. That’s what hosting is — the space your site’s files sit in, so that anyone typing your address gets your website back.

You’ll be creating this account in your own name, with your own card. That’s deliberate. Your hosting account is the foundation everything else sits on, and it should belong to you, not to us. If we ever stop working together, you keep all of it: the site, the domain, the files, the account. Nothing is held hostage.

Step 1 — Open the hosting page

Go to hostinger.com/wordpress-hosting

Scroll down to the pricing section. You’ll see a few plans side by side.

Step 2 — Choose the Premium plan

Pick the cheapest one — Premium.

The more expensive plans exist for businesses running many websites at high volume. That isn’t where you are yet, and paying for it now means paying for capacity that sits unused.

The point at this stage is to keep your costs low while the business grows. Your money is better spent on the things that bring people to the website than on the website’s shelf space.

Premium does everything your site needs today. When the site grows to the point where it genuinely needs more, upgrading takes a few clicks and you pay the difference then — not now, on the guess that you might.

Step 3 — Choose the longest period offered

This is the step where the money is.

Hosting companies discount heavily in exchange for a longer commitment. Open the period dropdown and choose the option with the highest number of months.

Depending on when you’re reading this, that might be 48 months, or it might be 24. The number moves. The rule doesn’t: the longer the period, the larger the discount. If the longest option feels like too much to commit to, 12 months is a sensible floor — but avoid paying monthly, which is always the most expensive way to buy hosting.

Two reasons the longer option is usually right:

It costs less per month, by a wide margin. The saving between monthly and the longest term is not small.

It takes hosting off your plate while you’re growing. Pay once and it’s handled for years, rather than becoming another recurring bill you think about every month.

One thing to know rather than discover later: the discounted rate applies to the first term only. When that period ends, the plan renews at the standard price, which is higher. That’s normal across the whole industry, and a long first term buys you a long runway — but it’s worth setting a calendar reminder a month before renewal so you can review it rather than be surprised by it.

Step 4 — Your domain

Your domain is your web address — the name people type to reach you.

If you already have a name in mind, the checkout will offer you a search box. Search for it there and add it to your order. It’s the simplest path, since the domain and the hosting end up in the same place, already connected.

If you haven’t decided yet, skip it and continue. You can add a domain later from inside your account once you’ve settled on the name. Don’t rush this to save a few minutes at checkout — the name is going on your business cards for years.

If you’re unsure about the name, message us before you buy. It’s much easier to think through together than to change afterwards.

Step 5 — Skip everything else

The checkout will offer you extras — email marketing tools, and whatever else is being promoted at the time.

Skip all of it. If it isn’t the hosting plan and it isn’t your domain, you don’t need it today. These are useful products for a business that already has an audience to use them on, and none of them are decisions you have to make right now.

If we need email later, it can be added from the dashboard at any time. Nothing is lost by waiting.

Step 6 — Create your account and pay

Click Continue, create your account, and make the payment. That takes you to your dashboard.

What happens next

Once payment goes through, you’ll land in hPanel — Hostinger’s control panel. It may prompt you to start building a site or install WordPress.

You don’t need to do any of that. Leave it exactly as it is. If it asks you to pick a template or launch a builder, close it. We’ll handle the WordPress installation and set it up properly — starting from a clean slate is much easier than undoing an automated setup.

All we need from you is access to the account, which is a separate two-minute step.

→ Next guide: How to manage access to your Hostinger account

If any step doesn’t look like this guide, stop and message us. Checkout pages change their layout regularly, and it’s quicker to ask than to undo.

This guide walks you through creating your own Hostinger account, step by step