Hostinger Business vs Exabytes: Best Cheap Web Host

This is a straight head-to-head between the two most common “cheap” plans Malaysian B2B operators actually deploy. The headline numbers do not tell you which one survives a public holiday traffic spike on your WooCommerce storefront. Here is the full comparison, measured in actual ringgit, routing paths, and panel-level control.

Pricing, Renewal & Real MYR Costs

Hostinger Business is a classic 48-month bait: RM 8.99/month only applies at the longest term. If you buy 12 months, the promotional rate jumps to roughly RM 13.99/month. On the 48-month plan, you pay about RM 431 upfront, then face a renewal at RM 29.99/month in year five—that is RM 359.88/year for the same quota. The domain is free for the first 12 months, then billed at standard .com rates.

Exabytes quotes in ringgit directly with SST included. The Business SSD plan runs around RM 12.90/month on a 24-month cycle and renews near RM 15.90/month, which is a gentler escalation. Malaysians also get FPX, Maybank2u, and auto-pay options through local payment gateways. Exabytes runs 11.11 and Ramadan promos that stack additional months onto the term rather than raising the base price. There is no hidden requirement to commit to a half-decade payment that funds someone else’s marketing team.

When you sum the cost over three years, Hostinger Business costs around RM 395 in total for the promo period but forces a painful sixth-bit decision near your site’s second birthday. Exabytes at RM 12.90/month over 24 months totals RM 309.60 with no renewal spike. Locally, the cheaper total cost of ownership belongs to Exabytes.

Hardware, Storage & Backup Rules

Hostinger Business ships with 200 GB of NVMe storage, 3 GB of RAM quota, 3x CPU scheduler weight, unlimited email boxes, and free SSL on up to 100 websites. Daily backups are taken, and restores are handled through hPanel with a one-click recovery. The catch: hPanel is Hostinger’s proprietary control panel, not cPanel. Any client or staff familiar with cPanel-based workflows will need a retraining period.

Exabytes Business SSD plans use cPanel, LiteSpeed, and LSPHP, making all the classic plugin-level controls like OPcache, LiteSpeed Cache, and Quic.cloud available. JetBackup snapshots are retained daily with restore points held off-site. Storage quotas on Exabytes Business SSD—around 30 GB to 60 GB depending on the current plan tier—are smaller than Hostinger’s 200 GB, but the panel is familiar to every Malaysian agency and hosting reseller. If your B2B workload is a heavy WordPress media library, Hostinger’s 200 GB is the absolute win. If you run a WooCommerce catalog with dynamic SKUs and need daily bulletproof backups, Exabytes’ JetBackup workflow wins on operational convenience.

Data Centres, Latency & KL Routes

Hostinger places your site in Singapore unless you specifically choose elsewhere. From TM Unifi or Maxis Fibre in Kuala Lumpur, cross-border TTFB typically lands between 25 and 45 milliseconds. That is fine for a Google-indexed marketing site, but it punishes uncached PHP in admin panels and WooCommerce cart operations during a 2 PM sales surge.

Exabytes hosts in Cyberjaya and Penang data centres with peering through the Malaysian Internet Exchange (MYIX). A website served from the Cyberjaya node measures TTFB around 5 to 15 ms from anywhere in the Klang Valley. On a LiteSpeed server with LSCache enabled, your store’s cart page stops chasing packets across the Causeway.

Run this test yourself: deploy the same WordPress staging site on both hosts, leave caching disabled, and measure TTFB from a Utara TTDI office connection. Hostinger will deliver roughly 300–500 ms on a cold PHP page. Exabytes stays under 100 ms. That specific latency math decides the winner for any business whose customers click in Malaysia.

Support, Migration & Local Billing

Hostinger is chat-only. Most conversations happen with agents in Asia Pacific global support queues, and there is no Malaysian phone number. The knowledge base is deep, but an agent cannot do hands-on server work for a .com.my DNS tangent. You will wait hours on ticket times during maintenance weekends.

Exabytes has phone and WhatsApp business lines answered in both Bahasa Malaysia and English from their KL and Penang offices. They also run free migration assistance when you move a single cPanel account over from another host. Because the invoice comes from a Malaysian entity, the SST charge is already baked into the listed price. No Foreign Direct Investment and cross-border invoicing complexities appear. If your B2B operation needs someone to fix a DNS record or resolve an SSL SAN mismatch on a Monday morning, Exabytes answers in Malaysian hours.

Final Call: The Cheaper Workhorse

For a local Malaysian B2B site with Malaysian customers and a WooCommerce sales backend, Exabytes is the better cheap web host: 24-month pricing, local data centre, cPanel, JetBackup, and phone support. Hostinger Business only justifies itself if you operate a media-heavy, globally-facing content platform and can commit to the 48-month contract, knowing the renewal will force a migration afterward.

The table below summarises every meaningful metric from this comparison:

Your decision mechanics are simple. Measure your TTFB, calculate the three-year renewal cost, and check whether your team can operate hPanel. For most Malaysian B2B operations, Exabytes answers all three correctly.