guys I’m following a course on Udemy. They use Hostinger as a hosting platform. Has any of you been using it as well?
I have just subscribed but can’t get the setup finished. the app is unresponsive when I click on Setup button. Is Hostinger even trustworthy?
When I go to VPS tab it required my to buy KVM although I’m already subscribed… This is very frustrating.
Hey @bestbubbledev !
If your Udemy course had you subscribe to a Shared Hosting or Cloud Hosting plan (which are very common for courses), you will not have access to a VPS instance.
I think you are confused…
About this, yea used it one decade ago, when I was affiliated(and made some tutorials)… but regularlyI use decent VPS 
Cheers!
Turns out I’ve purchased regular web hosting. Got refunded and re-purchased proper VPS KVM.
Why Hostinger not decent? I was thinking others would be harder to use? Would love to play with Google or AWS but their infrastructure kinda scare me a LOT 
Yep… as I assumed.
Most “issues” or compications on this forum when ias about the DNS/VPS the word “Hostjnger” is there lol…(is good for the price, 26$ or so, for 8GB and you can use that 8GB constantly 24/7)…
Aws is a bit different(and not hard as you think, once mastered the basics of an EC2 , all other VPS over the CLI is just… fun!), more expensive but I have some others things that leverage some of the work if you know that your app will scale.
And the price it uses “credits” , and if your instance is not on(my use case outbound calls batches 2h /day), I pay for service, so credits are accumulating and I can use them as “extra” if there is spike in resources consumption, and not paying extra resources… is tricky the monetization system indeed 
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They have as well dashboard, or CLi.
Cheers!!!
Hostinger is definitely trustworthy and very popular, but their UI can be a bit confusing for beginners. Here are a few things to check that should solve your frustration:
Unresponsive ‘Setup’ Button: This is usually a browser cache issue or an ad-blocker interfering with their panel. Try opening the Hostinger dashboard in an Incognito/Private window or try a different browser (like Edge or Firefox). This almost always fixes the ‘unresponsive button’ problem.
VPS vs. Web Hosting (The KVM issue): Check your invoice. Most people accidentally buy ‘Premium/Business Web Hosting’ (Shared Hosting) which is for websites. For n8n, you specifically need a VPS (KVM) .
If you bought ‘Web Hosting’, it won’t show up in the VPS tab.
If you did buy a VPS, you must complete the initial ‘Setup’ (choosing an OS like Ubuntu) before the KVM becomes active.
Udemy Course Context: Most courses recommend using Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 on a VPS to run n8n via Docker. If you accidentally bought Shared Hosting, you might want to ask Hostinger support to ‘upgrade’ or ‘migrate’ that credit to a VPS plan instead.
Don’t worry, once you get past this initial setup, Hostinger is actually quite stable for running n8n!
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