If you cancel Hostinger and come back later, your site is usually not kept forever. Hostinger says that when a hosting service is terminated or a refund is processed, the associated data is permanently deleted, and if a plan expires or is canceled due to non-payment, it can only be restored within 30 days; after that, it is permanently deleted and you’d need a new plan and a fresh setup.

What usually happens

  • If you simply turn off auto-renewal, the plan stays active until the end of the billing period, then it expires.
  • If the service is canceled or refunded, Hostinger says the data tied to that service is erased.
  • If the plan expired less than 30 days ago, you may still be able to renew or restore it.
  • If it has been more than 30 days, Hostinger says it cannot be renewed or restored, so you would need to buy a new plan and rebuild or migrate your site.

If you subscribe again later

  • You can often buy hosting again, but it may not bring back the old website automatically.
  • Domains are separate from hosting, so your domain registration does not automatically disappear when hosting is canceled, but you may need to reconnect it to the new plan.
  • Email and website files may also need to be restored manually unless you kept backups.

Best move before canceling

  • Download a full backup of your website files, databases, and email first.
  • Check whether you’re only disabling auto-renewal or requesting an actual refund/cancellation, because those can have different results.
  • If you think you may return soon, keeping the plan active until you’re sure is safer than canceling outright.

Simple example

If you stop auto-renewal today and your plan expires next month, then come back two weeks later, you may still be able to restore it. If you come back after 40 days, Hostinger says the old plan is no longer recoverable, so you would need a new subscription and a site restore from your own backup.

TL;DR: You can usually subscribe again later, but after cancellation or expiry your old site is not guaranteed to still exist, and after 30 days it may be gone for good.