Hostinger vs Raff: Pricing, Performance, and VPS Fit

At the 2 vCPU class, the old comparison used Raff General Purpose at $4.99/month for 2 vCPU / 4 GB. That price should no longer be used. Raff's current closest General Purpose 4 GB plan is 2 vCPU HiMem / 4 GB / 80 GB NVMe SSD at $9.99/month with unmetered bandwidth. Raff's current General Purpose entry plan is 2 vCPU / 2 GB / 40 GB NVMe SSD at $5.99/month.

Hostinger KVM 2 is $24.49/month on a no-commitment monthly basis for 2 vCPU / 8 GB / 100 GB NVMe with an 8 TB transfer cap. Compared against Raff's current 4 GB plan, Hostinger includes double the RAM and more storage, while Raff is about 59% lower on no-commitment monthly price and includes unmetered bandwidth. Compared against Raff's 8 GB matched-RAM tier, Raff General Purpose 4 vCPU HiMem / 8 GB / 160 GB NVMe SSD at $21.99/month is still lower than Hostinger KVM 2 at $24.49/month, while also including more vCPU, more storage, and unmetered bandwidth.

Raff Technologies is a US-based cloud platform running 10,000+ production VMs from Vint Hill, Virginia, with a 4.5/5 Trustpilot rating across 14 verified reviews. The performance picture from the original benchmark remains mixed: Raff is faster on CPU, memory write, and US East network throughput. Hostinger is faster on disk IOPS and bundles more RAM and disk per CPU at its KVM tiers.

Hostinger vs Raff: which is right for you?

This comparison resolves cleanly across four measured axes:

• Pricing — Raff is materially cheaper on no-commitment monthly pricing at the 4 GB tier: $9.99 vs $24.49. At 8 GB RAM, Raff's current $21.99 plan is still lower than Hostinger KVM 2 at $24.49.
• Performance — Raff wins on CPU and memory bandwidth; Hostinger wins on disk IOPS. Both saturate at roughly equivalent request rates on the Rails web run load test.
• Bandwidth and transfer policy — Raff includes unmetered bandwidth at 3 Gbps standard port speed on VM plans. Hostinger meters at 8 TB on KVM 2, scaling to 32 TB on KVM 8.
• Geography and templates — Hostinger operates VPS data centers across North America, Europe, Asia, and South America with a broad template catalog. Raff currently operates from Vint Hill, Virginia in the US East.

The right choice depends on which axis matters most for your workload. The full math, benchmark methodology, and migration path are below.

Hostinger overview

Hostinger is a consumer-and-prosumer hosting brand whose VPS line is a self-managed offering built on AMD EPYC hardware with NVMe SSD storage. Hostinger's product breadth covers shared hosting, domains, email, website builders, managed hosting, and KVM-based VPS — a wider catalog than a focused cloud infrastructure provider.

Hostinger's VPS proposition leans on convenience and geography: a large catalog of pre-built application and panel templates, AI-assisted setup, and data center presence across four continents. Bandwidth is metered per plan, with 4 TB on KVM 1, 8 TB on KVM 2, 16 TB on KVM 4, and 32 TB on KVM 8. Network speed is published as 1 Gbps. Weekly automated backups are included, with daily backups available as a paid upgrade.

Hostinger's VPS location is fixed at provisioning. Changing data centers requires backing up and reinstalling the server in another location, not a live migration.

Raff overview

Raff Technologies is a cloud infrastructure platform built on AMD EPYC hardware with DDR5 memory and NVMe SSD storage, operated from a US East data center in Vint Hill, Virginia. Raff is a Wyoming-registered LLC operating its own publicly registered ASN (AS402429). The platform is centered on cloud primitives — virtual machines, block storage, S3-compatible object storage, private cloud networks, and data protection — rather than a broad hosting-style catalog.

Raff operates 10,000+ production VMs and is rated 4.5/5 across 14 verified reviews on Trustpilot. The Raff VPS proposition is straightforward no-commitment monthly pricing, unmetered bandwidth on VM plans, and snapshot-and-live-migration capability rooted in distributed block storage rather than host-pinned local NVMe.

Raff General Purpose VMs now start at $5.99/month for 2 vCPU / 2 GB / 40 GB NVMe SSD. The current closest 4 GB plan is $9.99/month for 2 vCPU HiMem / 4 GB / 80 GB NVMe SSD. CPU-Optimized VMs start at $3.99/month for 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 25 GB NVMe SSD, with a new 2 vCPU / 2 GB / 50 GB tier at $13.99/month and the benchmarked 2 vCPU HiMem / 4 GB tier at $19.99/month.

The platform direction includes managed Kubernetes on the 2026 roadmap, managed databases on the roadmap, and Raff Apps PaaS in development. The VPS-to-VPS comparison below focuses on Raff General Purpose against Hostinger KVM VPS.

Hostinger pricing vs Raff pricing

Hostinger's headline VPS prices require a longer upfront term. The true no-commitment monthly prices shown in the original article are $19.49 / $24.49 / $42.99 / $73.99 for KVM 1 / KVM 2 / KVM 4 / KVM 8.

This comparison uses no-commitment monthly prices on both sides, matching Hostinger's published structure. The 24-month promo and renewal rates are disclosed below the table.

Note on Hostinger pricing structure: Hostinger's marketing-facing monthly figures require a long upfront commitment. The figures above use the true no-commitment monthly rate for direct comparison with Raff's straightforward monthly pricing. The 24-month renewal column shows what you pay per month after the promo expires, also on a 24-month basis.

How to read the table: Raff is no longer $4.99/month for 2 vCPU / 4 GB. The current 4 GB Raff General Purpose tier is $9.99/month. Raff still wins strongly at the 4 GB comparison point and remains competitive at 8 GB and 16 GB. Hostinger becomes stronger if the buyer values higher RAM per vCPU, larger bundled VPS specs, or long-term promotional contracts paid upfront.

Raff also offers CPU-Optimized VMs with dedicated vCPU resources starting at $3.99/month for 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 25 GB, $13.99/month for 2 vCPU / 2 GB / 50 GB, and $19.99/month for 2 vCPU HiMem / 4 GB / 80 GB NVMe SSD. The comparison above and benchmarks below use Raff General Purpose to match Hostinger KVM VPS's shared-CPU architecture. Raff CPU-Optimized vs Hostinger KVM is not a direct class match.

Automated backups

Hostinger includes free weekly automated backups on every VPS plan. Daily backups are a paid upgrade. Hostinger's snapshot model allows one manual snapshot per server, automatically deleted after 20 days.

Raff includes the first 3 automated backups free per VM and bills additional backups by GB at standard rates. Raff supports on-demand snapshots without auto-deletion, backup retention from 1 day to 100 weeks, and snapshot-driven workflows for staging, rollback, and migration.

On the same workload, Hostinger is convenient for weekly-only retention. Raff is stronger if you need multiple backup points, snapshot retention beyond 20 days, or snapshot-driven operational workflows.

Bandwidth and transfer policy

Hostinger meters VPS outbound transfer by plan: 4 TB on KVM 1, 8 TB on KVM 2, 16 TB on KVM 4, and 32 TB on KVM 8. Hostinger's public documentation does not list a simple transparent per-TB overage rate; overage handling may depend on account context.

Raff includes unmetered bandwidth on General Purpose and CPU-Optimized VM plans — no per-GB egress bill and no bandwidth overage charge. Published standard port speed is 3 Gbps.

The math at common monthly egress levels at the 2 vCPU tier:

Above the 8 TB cap, Hostinger's effective cost depends on overage handling, which is less predictable before sign-up. For workloads that ship logs, sync artifacts, serve media, or grow into multi-TB monthly egress, Raff's unmetered model removes a category of bill surprise.

Feature comparison: Hostinger vs Raff

Compute

Both providers run AMD EPYC hardware with NVMe SSD storage. Raff publishes DDR5 memory; Hostinger does not specify memory generation publicly. Raff supports custom OS images including ISO upload. Hostinger generally constrains OS choice to its pre-built template catalog. Neither provider offers GPU or bare metal in this comparison class.

Raff supports instant resize within a tier line, including down-resize. Hostinger supports plan upgrades but not the same flexible down-resize workflow.

Networking

Raff includes unmetered outbound bandwidth at 3 Gbps published standard port speed, IPv4 and IPv6, reserved or floating IP-style workflows, and private cloud networks with subnets, security groups, and isolated VPC primitives. Hostinger meters transfer per plan at 1 Gbps published network speed, includes a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6, and does not publicly list private networking or VPC primitives for VPS.

DDoS protection is included on both platforms.

Storage and backups

Raff runs distributed block storage that supports on-demand snapshots, live migration between hosts, and block storage volumes attached to running VMs. The architectural tradeoff is that Raff's per-block latency on QD1 synchronous I/O is higher than local NVMe — measured in the benchmarks below. Object storage is S3-compatible and live.

Hostinger uses local NVMe per VPS — lower per-access latency and higher raw IOPS at small block sizes, but the storage is host-pinned and does not support live migration. Hostinger does not publicly list block storage volumes or S3-compatible object storage for VPS.

The backup models differ meaningfully:

• Hostinger — free weekly automated backups, daily backups as a paid upgrade, one manual snapshot per server with 20-day auto-delete
• Raff — first 3 backups free per VM, additional backups billed by GB, snapshots with no auto-delete, retention from 1 day to 100 weeks

Platform features

Both providers ship a public REST API and CLI tooling. Raff publishes a Terraform provider. Hostinger publishes API documentation but does not publish an official Terraform provider.

Hostinger's hPanel control surface includes a large catalog of one-click application and control-panel templates such as WordPress, CyberPanel, Plesk, and AI-assisted setup. Raff's dashboard provides a browser web terminal and console; Raff's template catalog is smaller and focused on standard Linux distributions and infrastructure-aligned use cases.

Managed databases and managed Kubernetes are roadmap items on Raff. Neither is publicly offered as a Hostinger VPS-line product.

Pricing, billing, and support

Both providers offer 24/7 support. Hostinger maintains a broader self-serve documentation and knowledge-base footprint, useful for templated VPS tasks. Raff publishes documentation at docs.rafftechnologies.com with API reference, CLI guide, and Terraform examples.

Money-back guarantee: Hostinger 30 days, Raff 14 days. Hostinger is the better choice on guarantee duration.

Hostinger requires upfront payment for discounted rates. Raff bills monthly with no upfront commitment requirement.

The full feature matrix:

Performance benchmarks: Raff vs Hostinger

Methodology

Tests used the original VPSBenchmarks-style methodology on comparable 2 vCPU-class test plans, with separate test windows in April 2026. Same tooling on both sides: sysbench for CPU, memory, and file I/O; fio with libaio async direct; iperf3; Geekbench 6; and a Rails web run load test.

Real-application workloads are tested via the Rails web run load test, which sends HTTP requests at controlled rates against a database-intensive Rails application running on the VPS under test. Single-run numbers vary based on host neighbor activity; relative gaps tend to be consistent within roughly ±15% across re-runs.

Results

What the results tell us

Where Raff wins: CPU, memory bandwidth, and network throughput. Raff measures 29% faster on sysbench CPU events/sec in both single-threaded and multi-threaded runs and 13-15% higher on Geekbench 6 — a consistent lead in raw compute. Memory bandwidth is where the gap widens: Raff is 2.5x faster on sysbench memory write at the default block size, which matters for memory-bound workloads such as Redis, Memcached, in-memory caches, session stores, queue workers, and API services.

Network throughput to US East destinations is dramatically higher on Raff: 3.5x faster download and 9.3x faster upload to NYC, with similar advantages to London and Los Angeles. This reflects both Raff's 3 Gbps standard port speed versus Hostinger's 1 Gbps published speed, and the absence of transfer caps that would otherwise factor into sustained-throughput cost.

Where Hostinger wins: disk IOPS at small block sizes and sequential throughput. Hostinger's local NVMe runs about 24% higher 4k IOPS in fio's async direct mode and 2.2x higher 64k IOPS. The gap is larger on synchronous buffered I/O via sysbench fileio — 2.7x faster random read at 4k, and about 50% faster sequential read and write at 128k. This is the architectural cost of Raff's distributed block storage: snapshots and live migration come at a per-access latency premium versus host-pinned local NVMe.

For HTTP services, APIs, application servers, and workloads using higher queue depths and asynchronous I/O, the disk gap is often less visible — both platforms saturate the Rails web run test at roughly the same request rate, with Raff posting fewer errors at the saturation point. For database engines that bottleneck on QD1 synchronous fsync, single-threaded log writes, or small-block random IOPS at scale, Hostinger's local NVMe is architecturally favored.

The structural difference is how storage is implemented. Raff's distributed block storage supports snapshots and live migration; Hostinger's local NVMe does not. Both are valid architectures with different tradeoff profiles. For the majority of cloud VPS workloads — HTTP services, APIs, caches, and application servers — Raff's tradeoff is often net positive. For disk-IOPS-bound database tiers, Hostinger's tradeoff is often net positive.

Caveats

Performance varies based on neighboring VM activity, region selection, and time of day. The numbers above are single-pass snapshots. One Raff Rails web run interval at 15 req/s showed elevated CPU steal consistent with a noisy-neighbor signature on that specific test window; saturation throughput and request-success rates at higher load levels were unaffected, but it illustrates that single-run latency variance is real on shared-vCPU tiers from any provider. Multi-pass refresh is planned before the next quarterly comparison update.

When you should choose Hostinger over Raff

• You need disk-IOPS-bound performance — local NVMe is faster on 4k IOPS and 64k IOPS in the benchmark data.
• You need a European, Asian, or South American region today — Hostinger lists VPS data centers across four continents; Raff currently operates from Vint Hill, Virginia.
• You need a large pre-built template catalog — Hostinger's hPanel offers application and panel templates such as WordPress, CyberPanel, Plesk, and AI-assisted setup.
• You want more RAM and disk per CPU at every tier — Hostinger KVM 2 ships 8 GB RAM / 100 GB disk versus Raff's current 2 vCPU / 4 GB plan at 4 GB / 80 GB. If your workload is RAM-bound at low vCPU counts, compare against Raff's 8 GB tier instead.
• You value a longer money-back guarantee — 30 days on Hostinger versus 14 days on Raff.
• You are comfortable paying long-term upfront — Hostinger's promotional pricing requires a long upfront commitment to reach the advertised promo rates.

When you should choose Raff over Hostinger

• Predictable monthly cost matters — Raff's current 4 GB General Purpose tier is $9.99/month no-commitment versus Hostinger KVM 2 at $24.49/month no-commitment.
• Unmetered bandwidth removes overage anxiety — no per-GB egress billing on Raff VM plans. Hostinger meters at 8-32 TB by plan.
• Memory-bound workloads benefit from faster memory write — Redis, Memcached, in-memory caches, session stores, queue workers, and API services that depend on memory bandwidth benefit from Raff's benchmark profile.
• US East network throughput matters — Raff's iperf3 results to NYC Leaseweb measured 3,635 Mbps download / 9,574 Mbps upload versus Hostinger's 1,024 / 1,034 Mbps.
• Snapshots and live migration are architecturally important — Raff's distributed block storage supports both; Hostinger's local NVMe is host-pinned.
• You want platform context backed by 10,000+ production VMs — Raff Technologies has 10,000+ VMs running today and a 4.5/5 Trustpilot rating across 14 verified reviews, with publicly registered ASN AS402429.
• You want infrastructure primitives, not hosting abstractions — Raff ships private cloud networks, reserved IPs, S3-compatible object storage, and Terraform-managed infrastructure as first-class products. Hostinger's strength is hosting-style convenience, not cloud-native primitives.

Migrating from Hostinger to Raff

1. Inventory Hostinger instances — list each VPS by region, plan, OS, attached storage, public IPs, firewall rules, and backup status. Note whether the instance uses Hostinger's hPanel-driven templates or runs vanilla Linux with manual configuration.
2. Provision matching Raff VMs. Match by CPU count, RAM, and disk. Note that Raff's current 4 GB tier is $9.99/month, while direct RAM parity with Hostinger KVM 2 uses Raff's 8 GB tier at $21.99/month. Gotcha: Hostinger snapshots auto-delete at 20 days. If you plan to use a Hostinger snapshot as the migration source, schedule the cutover within that retention window.
3. Transfer data. Application files: rsync -avz --delete --hard-links --acls over SSH. Databases: pg_dump --clean --if-exists or mysqldump --single-transaction --routines --triggers to a SQL file, then restore on the Raff side. Gotcha: Hostinger's free weekly backups are proprietary and not portable. They cannot be restored directly to Raff. Plan an rsync- or dump-based migration window rather than a backup-restore pattern.
4. Update DNS to point to the new Raff IP. Lower TTL to 300 seconds at least 24 hours before cutover to minimize propagation lag. Raff assigns a static IPv4 and optional IPv6 per VM at provisioning; record both before DNS update.
5. Verify. Smoke-test the application stack, run a representative load test, confirm backups are scheduled on the Raff side, validate firewall rules match the Hostinger configuration. If you used hPanel templates on Hostinger, expect to re-implement any panel-level automation manually on Raff using the equivalent stack.
6. Decommission the Hostinger instance after the cutover window. Cancel the Hostinger plan only after 48-72 hours of clean operation on Raff, in case rollback is needed.

For stateful workloads such as databases and file storage, plan a brief maintenance window during the DNS swap. Stateless services behind a load balancer can drain Hostinger instances gradually by adjusting weight before the final DNS switch.

About Hostinger

Hostinger International Ltd. is headquartered in Kaunas, Lithuania, and was founded in 2004. The company operates a consumer-and-prosumer hosting business covering shared hosting, domains, email, website builders, and KVM-based VPS, with a much broader product portfolio than focused cloud infrastructure providers. Read more on the official Hostinger website: hostinger.com{rel="external noopener"}.

Conclusion: Hostinger or Raff?

The comparison resolves across four measured axes:

• Cost — Raff's current 4 GB General Purpose tier is $9.99/month no-commitment versus Hostinger KVM 2 at $24.49/month no-commitment. At 8 GB RAM, Raff's current $21.99/month plan remains lower than Hostinger KVM 2 while including more vCPU and more storage.
• Performance — Raff is 29% faster on sysbench CPU events/sec, 2.5x faster on sysbench memory write, and 3.5-9.3x faster on iperf3 network throughput to US East. Hostinger is 24% faster on fio 4k IOPS and about 50% faster on sequential disk throughput.
• Storage architecture — Raff supports snapshots and live migration on distributed block storage; Hostinger's local NVMe is lower-latency at QD1 but host-pinned with no live migration.
• Geographic and template breadth — Hostinger operates VPS data centers across four continents with a large application-template catalog and a 30-day money-back guarantee; Raff is US East only with a smaller, infrastructure-aligned template set and 14-day guarantee.

If your workload is disk-IOPS-bound, you need a non-US-East region today, or you want a templated VPS workflow with hosting-style conveniences, Hostinger is the right answer. If your workload is CPU- or memory-bound, your egress matters, or you want infrastructure primitives — unmetered bandwidth, distributed storage with snapshots, private cloud networks, Terraform-managed infrastructure, and S3-compatible object storage — Raff is the wiser pick. Most production web and API workloads fall in the second category.

Verified rating: Raff Technologies is rated 4.5/5 across 14 reviews on Trustpilot, with 10,000+ production VMs running on the platform from Vint Hill, Virginia.

If you're still evaluating alternatives, the closest next reads are Raff vs DigitalOcean, Raff vs Vultr, and Raff vs OVHcloud.