Hosting.com
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Hosting.com (formerly known as World Host Group) is a global domain name registrant and hosting service provider established in 2025, the company is headquartered in United States and employs about 300 employees.
2019 ( World Host Group)
2025 (rebranded to Hosting.com)
Official Logo of Hosting.com | |
| Formerly | World Host Group |
|---|---|
| Type of business | Private |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2001 (as A2 Hosting) 2019 ( World Host Group) 2025 (rebranded to Hosting.com) |
| Headquarters | Denver, Colorado USA |
| No. of locations | 21 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| CEO | Seb de Lemos |
| Key people | Thomas Greer, Chief Engineer Panos Kesisis, COO & Co-Founder Dom Taylor, CTO & Co-Founder David Spellenberg, CFO Ania Lesniak, CPO Ben Gabler, CPO |
| Industry | Web hosting |
| Services | Web hosting, shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS, email, Minecraft hosting, Windows VPS, managed WordPress hosting, domains, |
| Revenue |  US$130 million (2025) |
| Employees | ~400 (2026) |
| Subsidiaries | A2 Hosting Upmind Rocket.net |
| URL | hosting |
History
World Host Group was founded in 2019 in London, UK as a hosting provider. From the beginning of the company, they provide paid hosting service, email hosting, etc. On 2020 when the entire world went to massive lockdown, they started providing reseller hosting packages worldwide and that's where it went up.
After that, World Host Group started acquiring[1] and partnering across the globe with prominent local hosting providers to expand their business within very short time.
On 2025, World Host Group acquired A2 Hosting[2] and rebranded as Hosting.com minimizing both previous name. The domain 'hosting.com' wasn't available, and the CEO of hosting.com, Seb De Lemos managed to grab the domain for around $2 Million.[3][4]
Large acquisitions (2023–2025)
A2 Hosting (January 2025): A significant acquisition with plans to change its name to hosting.com.[5]
FastComet (April 2025): Noted as part of their expansion strategy.[6]
LuxHosting Group[7] (January 2024): Consists of Hosting.co.uk, MonsterHost, and LuxHosting.[8]
WebHostPython[9]: Focused on Python-based hosting (December 2023).[10]
DotEasy (October 2023): An established web host.
August 2023: HostingRaja is an Indian hosting company.[11]
Focused on the UK agency sector, Nimbus Hosting[12] (September 2024).[13]
On 14 January 2026, hosting.com partnered with EyHost from Bangladesh[14] and launched their service officially with a grand ceremony on Hotel Sheraton welcoming 1000 tech enthusiasts on the event.[15][16][17]
Services
Shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and email hosting are the five types of web hosting services offered by Hosting.com. Shared, cloud, and managed WordPress hosting services are powered by Rocket.net (A sister company which merged with hosting.com in 2025.)[18]
Hosting.com provides other services including website migration, email hosting, domain name registration and transfer, and AI website building.
Hosting.com makes use of a global network of more than forty high-performance data centers with AMD EPYC CPUs, Samsung NVMe storage, and Anycast DNS that are built for speed and dependability. With the help of the FastComet acquisition, its infrastructure now offers 15 worldwide points of presence in ten major cities.[19] Among them hosting.com owns 6 data centers.[20]
Acquisitions and partners
Over time, since 2020, Hosting.com has acquired and partnered with a lot of businesses which were focusing on the web hosting industry from different area of the world. [1]
- Rocket.net [21]
- A2 Hosting[22]
- CirrusHosting
- CloakHosting
- ColombiaHosting
- DedicatedNow
- DollarHost
- DomainZ
- HostForWeb
- LuxHosting
- SuEmpresa
- VPSCheap
- VeronaHost
- Stablepoint
- HostMDS
- Nimbus Hosting[23]
- MochaHost
- Hosting.co.uk
- FastComet[24]
- Doteasy
- HostingRaja
- WebHostingBuzz
- RadiantEdge
- WebCentral.au
- Webhost Python
- MonsterHost
- SpidyHost
- EyHost
- Verpex