Hostinger

Hostinger International, Ltd is an employee-owned web hosting provider and an ICANN-accredited domain registrar. Established in 2004, the company is headquartered in Lithuania and employs more than 1,000 people. Hostinger is the parent company of 000webhost, Hosting24, Zyro, and Niagahoster.
Hostinger has been ranked among the fastest-growing companies in Europe for four consecutive years in the Financial Times' annual FT 1000 list.
History
Hostinger was founded in 2004 as Hosting Media.
In 2007, Hosting Media’s paid hosting offer was joined by a free web hosting service when the company founded 000webhost.
In 2008, the company launched Hosting24, a cPanel-based web hosting brand, in the United States. The data centers were located in Asheville, North Carolina, and the United Kingdom.
In 2011, Arnas Stuopelis joined the company as CEO. In the same year Hosting Media rebranded to Hostinger.
In 2013, Hostinger launched its subsidiary Niagahoster in Indonesia. It became one of the first hosting providers to offer tier-4 data centers.
In 2014, the company launched a Brazilian subsidiary, Weblink.
In 2019, Hostinger introduced a no-code, drag-and-drop website builder. Launched as a subsidiary under the name Zyro, the builder is supported by Hostinger’s hosting infrastructure and is aimed at small to medium-sized enterprises.
In 2023, Hostinger launched the AI Website Builder, a platform that uses artificial intelligence to generate a custom site from scratch. AI Builder automatically writes unique content, selects royalty-free stock images, and chooses a color palette and fonts that best suit the description.
In 2023, Daugirdas Jankus becomes Hostinger CEO. Arnas Stuopelis continues as Chairman of the Board.
Acquisitions
In 2019, the company partnered with LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS). It also partnered with Google Cloud Platform in 2020.
In 2021, private equity company ConHostinger acquired an approximately 31% controlling stake in Hostinger with the goal of enhancing the growth of the company. In the same year, Hostinger joint-founded the Lithuanian unicorn association, Unicorns Lithuania, and expanded its payment processing capabilities. It partnered with Credorax to provide smart acquiring services and facilitate cross-border payments. In 2022, Hostinger started accepting Cryptocurrency payments via CoinGate.
Services
Hostinger offers four types of web hosting services: shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and email hosting. All the company’s services run on LiteSpeed servers and the Linux operating system. This excludes the Cloud Startup plan, which is powered by the Google Cloud Platform.
Hostinger offers an in-house control panel for users to manage their hosting called hPanel. It is accessible on all hosting plans, except VPS.
Other Hostinger services include email hosting via Titan Email and Google Workspace, domain registration and transfer, SSL certificates and a website builder.
Hostinger has 10 data centers in eight countries around the world: Brazil, Indonesia, India, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States.
Awards
Every year since 2019, The Financial Times has been listing Hostinger as one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe. It was also named one of the fastest-growing hosting providers by Bitcatcha in 2020 and again by Cyber News in 2021.
In 2021, Hostinger was listed in Yahoo’s Hosting Market Report as one of the key players in the hosting market.
Philanthropy
Hostinger sponsors the organization Save the Children Lithuania, which began in 2020 to contribute computers and other homeschooling tools to the charity organization Mokykla Namuose.
In 2021, Hostinger sponsored the prize for the most innovative idea in the Technorama 2021 competition and rebuilt a school in Sumba, Indonesia.
References
Web hosting
Companies established in 2004
Internet properties established in 2004