Hostinger says it has completed a CDN rollout across all of its web hosting plans after infrastructure changes reduced average server response times in its internal data. The provider reports a 26% average reduction, with a larger 35% improvement on older SSD-based hosting servers. HostingReviewLab has not independently reproduced those figures.
Event date: October 14, 2026
Source checked: October 19, 2026
Actual updated date: October 19, 2026
Verification status: Reported
What Happened
Hostinger announced on October 14 that its in-house content delivery network is now included across Single, Premium, Business and Cloud web hosting plans at no additional CDN charge.
According to the company, eligible existing web-hosting customers were migrated automatically when their sites used Hostinger DNS, did not already use another CDN and had not opted out. Hostinger says the CDN is enabled by default for new web-hosting customers. Sites using a separate CDN or DNS configuration may not have been included in the automatic rollout.
Why It Matters
A CDN can cache and deliver website assets closer to visitors, reduce repeated work at the origin server and absorb some traffic pressure. Extending the feature to lower-priced plans changes the included feature set for customers who previously would have needed a higher-tier plan or a separate CDN service.
However, server response time is only one part of real website performance. Theme code, database queries, uncached pages, images, third-party scripts and visitor location can still dominate page-loading and Core Web Vitals results.
What the Company Says
Hostinger reports that infrastructure-wide average response time declined from 965 milliseconds to 714 milliseconds after the rollout, a 26% change. It says SSD-based servers improved by 35%, while CDN computing-resource requirements declined by 45% to 50%.
The company attributes the changes to several engineering measures, including moving SSL certificates from RSA to ECDSA, adopting kernel TLS, improving session resumption, pooling connections and reducing repeated processing across regions.
HostingReviewLab Context
The most concrete customer-facing change is not the maximum performance claim but the wider plan availability. Customers on lower-tier web-hosting plans can now check whether the Hostinger CDN is enabled without buying a separate upgrade.
Customers comparing plans should still evaluate caching rules, geographic coverage, bypass behavior for dynamic pages, compatibility with an existing CDN and whether DNS must remain with Hostinger. Our guide to evaluating hosting speed tests explains why a single response-time figure should not be treated as a complete site-performance score.
What We Haven't Independently Verified
HostingReviewLab has not tested a representative sample of Hostinger sites before and after the rollout. We have not independently verified the reported 26% average reduction, the 35% SSD-server result, the fleet-wide resource savings or whether every eligible existing account was migrated successfully.
The reported measurements come from Hostinger's own infrastructure data and are not presented as independent benchmark results.
What Customers Should Know
- Check the CDN status in hPanel rather than assuming the rollout applies to every site.
- If another CDN is already in use, avoid enabling two overlapping configurations without reviewing DNS, caching and certificate behavior.
- Record a baseline before changing settings, then compare the same pages, locations and cache states.
- Test logged-in, checkout and other dynamic pages separately from cached public pages.
- See HostingReviewLab's Hostinger pricing analysis for plan-cost and renewal context.
Sources
- Hostinger: CDN rollout and internal performance figures — published October 14, 2026; checked October 19, 2026.