Hostinger
Lithuanian web hosting company
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Hostinger is a Lithuanian web hosting company headquartered in Vilnius.
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| Formerly | Hosting Media (2004–2011) |
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| Type of business | Private |
| Founded | 2004 as Hosting Media |
| Headquarters | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Chairman | Arnas Stuopelis |
| CEO | Giedrius Zakaitis [1] |
| Key people | Daugirdas Jankus, Deputy CEO Kristina Strimaitė, CMO Domantas Beržanskis, CFO Aivaras Šimkus, COO |
| Industry | Web hosting |
| Services | Web hosting, shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS, email, Minecraft hosting, Windows VPS, managed WordPress hosting, domains |
| Revenue | €275.4 million (2025)[2] |
| Employees | 1000+ (2026) |
| Subsidiaries | Hosting24 Niagahoster |
| URL | hostinger |
History
Hostinger was founded in Kaunas in 2004 as Hosting Media.[3] In 2007, Hosting Media founded a free web hosting service, 000webhost. In 2008, the company launched Hosting24, a cPanel-based web hosting brand with data centers located in Asheville, North Carolina, US, and the United Kingdom. In 2011, Arnas Stuopelis joined the company as CEO.[4] In the same year, Hosting Media renamed as Hostinger. In 2013, Hostinger launched its subsidiary Niagahoster in Indonesia. [citation needed][5] In 2014, the company launched a Brazilian subsidiary, Weblink. In 2019, Hostinger introduced a no-code, drag-and-drop website builder Zyro.[6]
In 2021, ConHostinger acquired a 31% stake in Hostinger.[7] In the same year, Hostinger joint-founded the Lithuanian unicorn association, Unicorns Lithuania.[8]
In 2023, Daugirdas Jankus became Hostinger CEO. Arnas Stuopelis continues as Chairman of the Board.[9] In 2024, 000webhost, a free web hosting brand powered by Hostinger, shut down its operations.[10]
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.[11] In 2021, Hostinger sponsored the prize for the most innovative idea in the Technorama 2021 competition[12] and rebuilt a school in Sumba, Indonesia.[13]
Reception
In 2015, a security researcher discovered a collection of 13 million leaked plaintext passwords belonging to users of 000Webhost.[14] 000Webhost addressed the breach in a Facebook post citing an exploit in an old version of PHP.[15] Security firm Netcraft reported in 2015 that 90% of Steam phishing sites they stopped were hosted by Hostinger. Netcraft reported they stopped 1,400 Steam phishing URLs in one month comprising 331 different websites, all hosted by Hostinger.[16] On the Review Signal blog in 2017, the authors accused Hostinger of manipulating review ratings via reviews by company employees.[17] In 2019, a data breach happened and according to Hostinger, it affected approximately 14 million customers.[18][19]
In 2022, Hostinger's website preview feature was exploited by criminals via phishing sites.[20] It was reported that once an account is created with Hostinger, the preview URLs are active for a maximum of 120 hours allowing phishing sites to proliferate.[21] In 2023, the Cybercrime Information Center reported that Hostinger entered the top five phishing hosts as measured by their Phishing Attack Score.[22] By April 2026 Hostinger had dropped out of the top 20.[23] The Phishing Attack Score takes into account the raw number of phishing attacks relative to the size of the Hosting Network.[24]
