{"id":93,"date":"2026-09-14T02:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T00:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webquickster.com\/research\/?p=93"},"modified":"2026-09-14T22:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:29:20","slug":"webquickster-vs-hostinger-vs-siteground-eu-hosting-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webquickster.com\/research\/webquickster-vs-hostinger-vs-siteground-eu-hosting-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"WebQuickster vs Hostinger vs SiteGround: EU WordPress Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- WebQuickster BASIC vs Hostinger Premium vs SiteGround StartUp -->\n<!-- Updated 12 September 2026. All prices in EUR, excluding VAT. 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The introductory prices are close, so the figure that decides it is what you pay from year two onwards, and there WebQuickster BASIC is <strong>\u20ac6.10 a month<\/strong> against <strong>\u20ac9.99<\/strong> at Hostinger and <strong>\u20ac15.99<\/strong> at SiteGround. On top of that: <strong>2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM allocated to your account<\/strong>, <strong>512 MB PHP memory<\/strong>, <strong>daily backups kept for the whole contract period<\/strong> and <strong>servers in Germany only<\/strong>. Every figure below comes from the providers&#8217; own pricing pages.\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h2>Price and terms<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"wq-table-wrap\">\n    <table>\n      <thead>\n        <tr>\n          <th><\/th>\n          <th class=\"wq-own\">WebQuickster BASIC<\/th>\n          <th>Hostinger Premium<\/th>\n          <th>SiteGround StartUp<\/th>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Introductory price<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><strong>\u20ac1.30\/month<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>\u20ac2.99\/month<\/td>\n          <td>\u20ac2.99\/month<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Term you have to prepay<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>12 months<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-warn\">48 months<\/td>\n          <td>12 months<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Paid up front<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>\u20ac15.60<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-warn\">\u20ac143.52<\/td>\n          <td>\u20ac35.88<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Price after the introductory term<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>\u20ac6.10\/month<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>\u20ac9.99\/month<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-warn\">\u20ac15.99\/month<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Annual cost at the regular price<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>\u20ac73<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>\u20ac120<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-warn\">\u20ac192<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Four years in total<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">~\u20ac235<\/td>\n          <td><strong>~\u20ac144<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-warn\">~\u20ac612<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Monthly billing available<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> \u20ac10.50\/month<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not on this plan<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not on this plan<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Setup fee<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>none<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> none<\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> none<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Money-back guarantee<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><strong>30 days<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>30 days<\/td>\n          <td>30 days<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Notice period<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>none<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wq-honesty\">\n    <strong>Honest note on price:<\/strong> over four years Hostinger Premium is the cheapest of the three at roughly \u20ac144, because the whole term is prepaid at the promotional rate. That is a genuine saving if you are sure you want four years and can pay it all today. WebQuickster asks for twelve months at a time, \u20ac15.60 to start and \u20ac6.10 a month after that. Compare the regular prices rather than the promotions and the order changes: \u20ac6.10, \u20ac9.99 and \u20ac15.99. Over the same four years SiteGround StartUp comes to about \u20ac612, roughly \u20ac377 more than WebQuickster BASIC.\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h2>Resources<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"wq-table-wrap\">\n    <table>\n      <thead>\n        <tr>\n          <th><\/th>\n          <th class=\"wq-own\">WebQuickster BASIC<\/th>\n          <th>Hostinger Premium<\/th>\n          <th>SiteGround StartUp<\/th>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td>CPU<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>2 vCPU allocated<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>1 CPU core<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated, &#8220;Essential&#8221;<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>RAM<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><strong>2 GB allocated<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>2 GB<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Resource model<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>isolated per account with cgroups<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>shared<\/td>\n          <td>account isolation, LXC<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>PHP memory<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>512 MB<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated, 40 PHP workers<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Maximum size per database<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>no limit<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-warn\">3 GB<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>File count limit<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>none<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-warn\">400,000 inodes<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Monthly traffic<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">5 GB, soft limit<\/td>\n          <td>unlimited, under their fair use policy<\/td>\n          <td>unmetered, guidance ~10,000 visits\/month<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>PHP versions<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">PHP-FPM 8.3<\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> version management<\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> 7.4 to 8.6<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wq-honesty\">\n    <strong>What &#8220;Essential&#8221; actually means:<\/strong> that is SiteGround&#8217;s own label for the resources on StartUp. Their feature list gives no figure for RAM or CPU on any plan, only &#8220;Essential&#8221;, &#8220;Premium&#8221; and &#8220;Geeky&#8221;, together with a note that StartUp suits around 10,000 visits a month. Hostinger does publish numbers, and on Premium that is one CPU core with 2 GB RAM. WebQuickster BASIC allocates 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM to your account through Linux cgroups, so both cores stay yours whatever the neighbours are doing.\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h2>What is included<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"wq-table-wrap\">\n    <table>\n      <thead>\n        <tr>\n          <th><\/th>\n          <th class=\"wq-own\">WebQuickster BASIC<\/th>\n          <th>Hostinger Premium<\/th>\n          <th>SiteGround StartUp<\/th>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Websites<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">1 plus staging<\/td>\n          <td><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>1<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Storage<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">10 GB SSD<\/td>\n          <td><strong>20 GB SSD<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>10 GB<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Backup frequency<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>daily<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-bad\">\u2717 weekly<\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> daily<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Backup retention<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>the whole contract period<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Mailboxes<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>3, with no time limit<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-warn\">2 per website, free for 1 year<\/td>\n          <td>included<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Storage per mailbox<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>no limit<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Does email use the web space?<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>no, separate mail servers<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Domain<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">from \u20ac6.60\/year, same price every year<\/td>\n          <td>free for 1 year<\/td>\n          <td>free for 1 year<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Free SSL<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> Let&#8217;s Encrypt<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Free CDN<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> Cloudflare<\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n      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class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>8+ types with theme and plugins<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-bad\">\u2717<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-bad\">\u2717<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Step-by-step start guide<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>in the dashboard, downloadable for your AI<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>tutorials and knowledge base<\/td>\n          <td>tutorials and knowledge base<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>AI tools<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">AI support in the start guide<\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Control panel<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>our own, built around WordPress<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>hPanel<\/td>\n          <td>Site Tools<\/td>\n       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Two details are worth checking before you decide: the backups on Premium are weekly rather than daily, and the mailboxes and the domain are free for the first year rather than permanently. WebQuickster BASIC is built for one site done properly, with daily backups kept for the whole period, three mailboxes that do not expire, and the staging copy included. If you need more than one site, STANDARD gives two with 30 GB.\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h2>Developer tools<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"wq-table-wrap\">\n    <table>\n      <thead>\n        <tr>\n          <th><\/th>\n          <th class=\"wq-own\">WebQuickster BASIC<\/th>\n          <th>Hostinger Premium<\/th>\n          <th>SiteGround StartUp<\/th>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td>SSH access<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> on every plan<\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>WP-CLI preinstalled<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>SFTP<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n          <td><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Database size cap<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>MySQL, no limit<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>10 databases, 3 GB each<\/td>\n          <td>unlimited MySQL databases<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Full access to wp-config<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>nothing locked<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Server-side cache<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">Nginx with FastCGI cache<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated<\/td>\n          <td>SuperCacher, HTTP\/2<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Built only for WordPress<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>the entire platform<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>general hosting, WordPress as one option<\/td>\n          <td>general hosting with WordPress tooling<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h2>Location, data and support<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"wq-table-wrap\">\n    <table>\n      <thead>\n        <tr>\n          <th><\/th>\n          <th class=\"wq-own\">WebQuickster<\/th>\n          <th>Hostinger<\/th>\n          <th>SiteGround<\/th>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Server locations<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>Germany only, Hetzner<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>global data centres<\/td>\n          <td>servers on four continents<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Data stays inside the EU<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>always<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td>depends on the data centre you pick<\/td>\n          <td>depends on the data centre you pick<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Data centre certification<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>ISO\/IEC 27001:2022 and BSI C5 Type 2<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated on the pricing page<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not stated on the feature page<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Data processing agreement (GDPR Art. 28)<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>published, based on the EU standard clauses<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">on request<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">on request<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Support channel<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">ticket in the control panel, checked every hour<\/td>\n          <td>24\/7 chat and tickets<\/td>\n          <td>24\/7 chat, phone and tickets<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Scandinavian languages<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\"><span class=\"wq-good\">\u2713<\/span> <strong>DA, SV, NO<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not offered<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-na\">not offered<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Other languages<\/td>\n          <td class=\"wq-own\">EN, DE, FR<\/td>\n          <td>many<\/td>\n          <td>English-dominant<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h2>Bottom line<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"wq-bottom-line\">\n    <div class=\"wq-bl-card wq-bl-own\">\n      <h3>Choose WebQuickster if&#8230;<\/h3>\n      <ul>\n        <li>You care what the price is in year two: \u20ac6.10 a month, not \u20ac9.99 or \u20ac15.99<\/li>\n        <li>You would rather not prepay four years to get the good rate<\/li>\n        <li>You want 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM allocated to your account, stated in writing<\/li>\n        <li>You want daily backups kept for the whole contract period<\/li>\n        <li>You want mailboxes that do not expire after the first year<\/li>\n        <li>You want 512 MB PHP memory and a database with no size cap<\/li>        \n      <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"wq-bl-card\">\n      <h3>Choose Hostinger if&#8230;<\/h3>\n      <ul>\n        <li>You need three websites on one account<\/li>\n        <li>You want 20 GB rather than 10 GB<\/li>\n        <li>You can prepay 48 months and want the lowest four-year total<\/li>\n        <li>You want 24\/7 chat support<\/li>\n        <li>You want their AI builder and Node.js support<\/li>\n        <li>Weekly backups are enough for your site<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"wq-bl-card\">\n      <h3>Choose SiteGround if&#8230;<\/h3>\n      <ul>\n        <li>You want a well-known brand with 24\/7 phone support<\/li>\n        <li>You want a choice of PHP versions from 7.4 to 8.6<\/li>\n        <li>You want unlimited MySQL databases on an entry plan<\/li>\n        <li>You can absorb \u20ac15.99 a month from year two<\/li>\n        <li>You want the option of servers outside Europe<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h2>Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"wq-faq\">\n\n    <details>\n      <summary>What do these plans really cost once the promotion ends?<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"wq-faq-body\">\n        <p>WebQuickster BASIC goes from \u20ac1.30 to \u20ac6.10 a month, so \u20ac73 a year. Hostinger Premium goes from \u20ac2.99 to \u20ac9.99, so \u20ac120 a year. SiteGround StartUp goes from \u20ac2.99 to \u20ac15.99, so \u20ac192 a year.<\/p>\n        <p>The promotions are also structured differently. WebQuickster and SiteGround charge twelve months at a time, \u20ac15.60 and \u20ac35.88 respectively. Hostinger&#8217;s \u20ac2.99 requires prepaying all 48 months, \u20ac143.52 in a single payment, which does give them the lowest four-year total. All figures exclude VAT.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n    <details>\n      <summary>What does &#8220;Essential&#8221; server resources mean?<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"wq-faq-body\">\n        <p>It is SiteGround&#8217;s own label for the StartUp plan. Their feature list gives no figure for RAM or CPU on any of the three plans, only &#8220;Essential&#8221;, &#8220;Premium&#8221; and &#8220;Geeky&#8221;, plus a note that StartUp suits around 10,000 visits a month.<\/p>\n        <p>WebQuickster states the numbers: BASIC gets 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM, bound to your account with Linux cgroups. Hostinger publishes numbers too, and Premium is one CPU core with 2 GB RAM. The figure matters when several visitors arrive at once and pages cannot be served from cache.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n    <details>\n      <summary>Is 10 GB enough for a WordPress site?<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"wq-faq-body\">\n        <p>For most single sites, yes. A company site or a blog with a few hundred images typically sits between 1 and 5 GB, and WordPress itself with a theme and twenty plugins stays under 1 GB. A shop with a large product catalogue is the case that outgrows it.<\/p>\n        <p>The 10 GB covers the site and its staging copy. Email is on separate mail servers, so mailboxes never eat into it. If you need more room or a second site, STANDARD gives two sites and 30 GB, PLUS three sites and 50 GB.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n    <details>\n      <summary>Why does backup frequency matter?<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"wq-faq-body\">\n        <p>A weekly backup means that in the worst case you lose six days of work: posts, orders, comments, form submissions. For a site you update occasionally that may be fine. For one that takes orders it is not.<\/p>\n        <p>Hostinger Premium includes weekly backups, with daily backups starting on their Unlimited plan. WebQuickster BASIC and SiteGround StartUp both back up daily. WebQuickster additionally keeps every daily snapshot for the whole contract period, encrypted and outside the customer environment, so you can restore a single file or the whole site from any day.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n    <details>\n      <summary>What happens to my email and domain after the first year?<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"wq-faq-body\">\n        <p>This is worth reading the small print on. Hostinger and SiteGround both include the domain free for the first year, and Hostinger&#8217;s two mailboxes per website are free for one year as well. After that both renew at the regular price.<\/p>\n        <p>WebQuickster includes three mailboxes on BASIC with no expiry date and no storage quota per mailbox, and they sit on separate mail servers rather than on your web space. The domain is charged from the start, from \u20ac6.60 a year for a .de, at the same price every year.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n    <details>\n      <summary>Do I need a staging environment?<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"wq-faq-body\">\n        <p>Staging is a copy of the whole site where you can update WordPress, themes and plugins without risk. If it works, you push the changes live. If something breaks, it breaks on the copy.<\/p>\n        <p>All three include it at this level, which was not the case a year ago. At WebQuickster it is push and pull from the dashboard, and the staging copy is covered by the same 10 GB and the same daily backups.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n    <details>\n      <summary>Does it matter that WebQuickster only has servers in Germany?<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"wq-faq-body\">\n        <p>It is deliberate. The servers are at Hetzner in Nuremberg and Falkenstein, certified to ISO\/IEC 27001:2022 and BSI C5 Type 2, and your data never leaves the EU. The Article 28 data processing agreement is published on the site and also concluded with Hetzner as a sub-processor, which is what a European business needs on file.<\/p>\n        <p>Hostinger and SiteGround both run global data centre networks, so where your data sits depends on the location you choose at signup. If you specifically want to serve visitors outside Europe, that flexibility counts in their favour.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n    <details>\n      <summary>How does support work without 24\/7 chat?<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"wq-faq-body\">\n        <p>You open a ticket in the control panel and get an answer in English, German, French, Danish, Swedish or Norwegian. Tickets are checked every hour, including in the evening, and the reply normally comes quickly, at most within 24 hours.<\/p>\n        <p>Hostinger offers 24\/7 chat and SiteGround adds 24\/7 phone. If you want someone on the line at three in the morning, they are the better fit.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n    <details>\n      <summary>What does auto-setup by site type do?<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"wq-faq-body\">\n        <p>You choose what the site is going to be: blog, online shop, business site, news site, education, community, real estate and more. WebQuickster then installs WordPress, the Blocksy theme and the plugins that type of site needs, including WooCommerce for a shop.<\/p>\n        <p>You start from a tidy setup instead of an empty WordPress where you have to guess which twenty plugins belong there. The start guide stays in the control panel and can be printed or downloaded as a file for your own AI assistant. Neither Hostinger nor SiteGround offers an equivalent.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wq-cta\">\n    <h3>Ready for entry-level WordPress hosting that stays cheap in year two?<\/h3>\n    <p>WebQuickster BASIC &#8230; \u20ac1.30\/month for the first year, then \u20ac6.10\/month, excluding VAT. One website plus staging, 10 GB SSD, 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM allocated, 512 MB PHP memory, daily backups kept for the whole period, free SSL, free CDN and three mailboxes. No setup fee, no notice period and a 30-day money-back guarantee.<\/p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/webquickster.com\" class=\"wq-btn\">See WebQuickster plans<\/a>\n    <p class=\"wq-note\">Prices and specifications checked on 12 September 2026 against the providers&#8217; own pricing and feature pages. All figures in EUR excluding VAT. Promotional prices are time limited and tied to the prepaid term shown; specifications may change. 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