Hostinger
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Type of business | Private |
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Founded | 2004 (as Hosting Media) 2011 (rebranded to Hostinger) |
Headquarters | Kaunas, Lithuania |
No. of locations | Vilnius, Lithuania Yogyakarta, Indonesia Florianópolis, Brazil |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Balys Krikščiūnas (CEO) Antanas Patašius (CTO) Domantas Beržanskis (CFO) |
Industry | Internet |
Services | Web Hosting, Shared hosting, Cloud Hosting, VPS, Email, Minecraft Hosting, Windows VPS, WordPress Hosting, Domains |
Employees | 800+ (2020) |
Subsidiaries | 000Webhost Hosting24 Niagahoster Weblink Zyro |
URL | www |
Hostinger International, Ltd is an employee-owned Web hosting provider and Internet domain registrar. Established in 2004, Hostinger now has over 29 million users, collectively with its subsidiaries in 178 countries. Hostinger is the parent company of 000Webhost, Niagahoster and Weblink.
History[]
Founded in Kaunas, Lithuania in 2004, the firm was originally named Hosting Media. In 2007, its subsidiary 000Webhost was established, providing free hosting worldwide. Hosting24, another subsidiary, was launched in 2008 in the United States, with data centres in Asheville, North Carolina and in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
In 2019 Hostinger converted its Apache HTTP servers to LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) to increase the servers' performance.[1] In mid-2020 Hostinger partnered with Google Cloud Platform.[2]
In 2021, Hostinger was listed as one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe.[3]
Subsidiaries[]
As of 2014, the company has four subsidiaries under its ownership:
- 2004 — Hostinger. It is an employee-owned Lithuanian establishment based in Kaunas. It was known as Hosting Media before it was rebranded in 2011. The company currently provides Web hosting, VPS, cloud hosting services, and domain registration.
- 2007 — 000Webhost. In 2015 the Web site was subject to a data breach of 13.5 million users, including their IP addresses, email addresses and plain-text passwords.[4]
- 2008 — Hosting24. Web site hosting platform.
- 2013 — Niagahoster. Indonesian Web hosting company, launched in 2013.
- 2014 — Weblink. Web hosting brand launched in 2014, based in Brazil.
Data centers[]
Hostinger has data centers in seven locations around the world:[citation needed]
- Brazil
- Indonesia
- Lithuania
- The Netherlands
- Singapore
- United Kingdom
- United States
References[]
- ^ "LiteSpeed Partners".
- ^ "Hostinger declared a partnership with Google Cloud platform". Cloud Host News. 28 March 2020.
- ^ "FT 1000: the fourth annual list of Europe's fastest-growing companies".
- ^ "000Webhost blames PHP exploit for breach of 13.5 million records". Computer Weekly.
- Web hosting
- Companies established in 2003
- Internet properties established in 2003