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Cloudways vs Hostinger: which is more reliable? (2026)
Cloudways and Hostinger are effectively tied on reliability (32.0 vs 33.8). Over the last 90 days Cloudways reported 12 incidents and Hostinger reported 184, with effective uptime of 93.44% and 96.34% respectively. Hostinger resolves incidents faster on average (4h 38m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Cloudways | Hostinger |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 32.0 | 33.8 |
| Rank (web hosts) | #9 | #8 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 93.44% | 96.34% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 12 | 184 |
| Partial / major outages | 5 | 9 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1d 3h | 4h 38m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Cloudways and Hostinger differ
- Hostinger reported 15.3× as many incidents as Cloudways over the last 90 days (184 vs 12).
- Hostinger had 9 partial or major outages, compared with 5 for Cloudways.
- Hostinger fixes problems faster: 4h 38m on average, against 1d 3h for Cloudways (6.0× quicker).
- Cloudways's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Apr 2, 2026); Hostinger's lasted 1d 20h (Oct 16, 2026).
90-day uptime
Cloudways
Hostinger
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Cloudways incidents
- InformationalOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 6d 21h
- MaintenanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 3h 22m
Cloudways Website & Affiliate portal unavailable
Affected: Cloudways Home
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 2d 3h
Critical PHP Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities - Monitoring & Mitigations Underwayofficial update ↗
Affected: Cloudways Cloud Platform Console, Cloudways Cloud Platform Service
- Major outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 23h 46m
Autonomous: Partial Service Degradation – London Regionofficial update ↗
- Major outageOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 1d 6h
Rackspace Webmail Login & Mailbox Provisioning Issuesofficial update ↗
Affected: Rackspace Email
- Degraded performanceOct 1, 2026 · resolved in 13d 5h
Degradation Impacting Vultr Server Operations
Affected: Cloudways Cloud Platform Service, Vultr
Recent Hostinger incidents
- InformationalNov 2, 2026 · resolved in 9m
- InformationalNov 2, 2026 · resolved in 1h 8m
- InformationalNov 2, 2026 · resolved in 17m
- InformationalNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 1h 4m
Emergency Server BOS-1335 Maintenance
Affected: Hostinger VPS API
- InformationalNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 9m
- MaintenanceNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 30m
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