Hostinger International
Hostinger is a web hosting company founded in 2004. Headquartered in Lithuania, the company has a workforce of approximately 900 employees.
Timeline of Hostinger History:
- 2004: Hostinger was founded as Hosting Media.
- 2007: Hosting Media introduced 000webhost, a free web hosting service.
- 2008: The company launched Hosting24, a cPanel-based web hosting brand, in the United States with data centers in Asheville, North Carolina, and the United Kingdom.
- 2011: Arnas Stuopelis joined as CEO. Hosting Media rebranded to Hostinger.
- 2013: Hostinger launched Niagahoster, a subsidiary in Indonesia, becoming one of the first hosting providers to offer tier-4 data centres.
- 2014: The company launched Weblink, a subsidiary in Brazil.
- 2019: Hostinger introduced Zyro, a no-code, drag-and-drop website builder aimed at small to medium-sized enterprises.
- 2023: Hostinger launched the AI Website Builder, a platform using AI to create custom websites. Daugirdas Jankus became Hostinger’s CEO, with Arnas Stuopelis continuing as Chairman of the Board.
- 2024: 000webhost, the free web hosting brand powered by Hostinger, ceased operations.
Hostinger History
Hostinger offers different types of web hosting services, including shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and email hosting. All of their services run on LiteSpeed servers and the Linux operating system, except for the Cloud Startup plan, which uses the Google Cloud Platform.
Hostinger has a custom control panel called hPanel that helps users manage their hosting. This control panel is available with all hosting plans except VPS.
In addition to hosting, Hostinger offers email hosting through Titan Email and Google Workspace, domain registration and transfer, SSL certificates, and a website builder.
Hostinger has ten data centres located in eight countries: Brazil, Indonesia, India, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
