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If any of you are wondering where you should host a website - stay away from Hostinger. Although their prices are competitive their technical expertise is extraordinarily shallow. Their refund policy defies belief.

I've been hosting an organization's website on Hostinger for two years. At the end of May 2022, Hostinger decided to move the website to a new server (supposedly part of some maintenance effort). Apparently the transfer completed and I was told to use a new IP address. I use FileZilla and was able to upload new files to the website on its new server. But this website is also used by a Raspberry Pi to download a set of slides that it (the RPi) would display in the organization's lounge. The RPi home directory contains a number of scripts that, once the slides are uploaded to the website, are executed to prepare the RPi for slideshow display (using feh). Part of that preparation is to copy (using wget) the slides into a local-to-the-RPi directory. feh displays the slides in that directory. This makes the slideshow independent of the Internet. But after the transfer, the wget script was broken. So too were all PHP scripts.

I advised Hostinger of the problem. Their denials sounded like something a junior programmer might espouse. Of course nothing that Hostinger did was wrong - it was entirely an error in my scripts (scripts that had worked flawlessly for almost one year before the transfer). About a month ago, I decided that Hostinger's inability to fix the problem was forcing me to re-host the website. I went to inmotion.

So, Hostinger was unable to fix the problem they caused. Would they refund the two years paid for. No! So I will not use nor recommend Hostinger for any website hosting.

Stay away.
Gus Gustafson

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