Why I Use Hostinger To Host Boofkay.com
When I used Wix, I didn’t know I needed a web host.
A host for what?
That’s one of the benefits of an all-in-one website builder. A lot of the stuff you don’t know exists is being handled for you behind the scenes.
Then I moved to WordPress.
And suddenly I started learning about all the things that apparently have to exist before a website can exist.
Hosting.
Domains.
Databases.
Backups.
Security.
Plugins.
SSL certificates.
DNS.
Things I had never thought about because I never had to.
That’s when the house analogy started making a lot more sense.
Building A Website Is A Lot Like Building A House
Actually, the more I learn about websites, the less I think this is even an analogy.
It feels like the electronic equivalent.
If you want to build a house, you need land.
You need an address.
You need a foundation.
You need plans.
Permits.
Codes.
A frame.
Electricity.
Plumbing.
Then you finally build the house and realize you still have to furnish it, protect it, maintain it and fix things when they break.
Building a self-hosted WordPress website has felt surprisingly similar.
WordPress gives me the foundation for the website.
Elementor helps me build the pages.
Blocksy gives me a framework to work within.
But before any of that can really happen, the website needs somewhere to live.
That’s where Hostinger comes in.
Hostinger Is The Land
The easiest way I understand hosting now is this:
If Boofkay.com is the house, Hostinger is the land it sits on.
There are plenty of hosting companies.
A lot of real estate, you could say.
When I started looking around, I compared a few options based on price, recommendations and what seemed appropriate for the kind of website I was building.
Hostinger kept coming up as an affordable option.
And then there was another thing I liked.
The name.
Hostinger.
It tells you what it does in one word.
Host.
Hosting.
Hostinger.
That’s what I’m talking about.
If you’ve followed any of my marketing journey, you already know how much I like simplicity.
Less is more.
A web page should be able to explain itself quickly.
A business should be able to explain what it does in a sentence.
And somehow these guys managed to get most of the way there with one word.
I Still Don’t Completely Know What They’re Doing
Here’s the funny part.
I still don’t completely understand everything Hostinger is doing behind the scenes.
And right now, I’m okay with that.
I know Boofkay.com is there.
I know I can access what I need.
I know the website is being backed up.
I know I haven’t had any real problems with the hosting.
And when I do need to go into Hostinger, the interface is straightforward enough that I can usually find what I’m looking for.
That’s enough for where I am right now.
If I decided tomorrow that I wanted to become a professional web developer and start building websites for clients every day, I’d absolutely need to understand hosting at a much deeper level.
But that isn’t my primary job.
I’m an advertiser.
I need enough knowledge to understand the machine, operate it and get the job done.
I don’t necessarily need to manufacture every part inside the machine.
Imagine What A Team Could Do
This entire process has also made me think about something else.
I’m learning advertising.
Web design.
Copywriting.
Video.
SEO.
Email marketing.
Hosting.
Automation.
Social media.
And all the other little pieces that somehow connect together.
I can do enough of each one to move Boofkay forward.
But I always have this thought in the back of my head:
Imagine what a team could do.
One person who really understands hosting and infrastructure.
One person who lives inside web development.
One person obsessed with video.
One person focused on advertising.
One person focused on copy.
One person focused on SEO.
Everybody working on the same marketing machine.
That’s exciting to me.
Learning enough about each piece helps me understand how the pieces can eventually work together.
Their Website Makes Complicated Stuff Feel Less Complicated
Another thing I like about Hostinger is their own website and dashboard.
Hosting is not naturally exciting information.
To the casual eye, a lot of it can look confusing.
Servers.
Databases.
Domains.
Security.
Performance.
Backups.
Technical settings everywhere.
But Hostinger packages a lot of that information in a way that feels relatively easy to navigate.
That matters to somebody like me.
I don’t want to become a server administrator just because I wanted to publish an article.
I want to find what I need, do what I need to do and get back to creating.
Be Careful With The Candy Store
Hostinger also offers additional tools and AI features that can help businesses create websites and content.
Some of them look useful.
Some of them may eventually make sense for me.
But I’ve learned to be careful.
Building a modern website can start to feel like walking through a candy store with a credit card.
Everybody has another tool.
Another plugin.
Another AI assistant.
Another upgrade.
Another subscription.
And a lot of them do similar things wrapped in slightly different packages.
Five dollars here.
Ten dollars there.
Twenty dollars a month somewhere else.
Suddenly your website has a cable bill.
I’ve become much more selective about which tools actually solve a problem I currently have and which ones simply look interesting.
Just because something exists doesn’t mean I need it.
At least not yet.
Would I Choose Hostinger Again?
Based on my experience so far?
Yes.
I use Hostinger to host Boofkay.com.
It has been easy enough to use.
The price made sense for me.
I haven’t had any problems.
And most importantly, I don’t spend much time thinking about it.
That may sound like a strange compliment for a technology company.
I don’t think it is.
The hosting isn’t supposed to be the star of the show.
It’s supposed to keep the show running.
Right now, Hostinger does that for me.
And that’s exactly what I need.
Learn More About Hostinger
If you’re thinking about using Hostinger for a WordPress website, these are a few good places to start.
Hostinger — How To Launch A WordPress Site A beginner-friendly guide to launching a WordPress website with Hostinger, from setting up hosting to getting the site online
How To Back Up A WordPress Site A practical guide to backing up a WordPress website using Hostinger’s dashboard, plugins, WP-CLI or a manual backup method. Hostinger also explains how its automatic backups work.
Hostinger WordPress Tutorials A collection of Hostinger guides covering WordPress setup, performance, security, troubleshooting and everyday website management.
