Delivering fast, secure, and reliable hosting for your websites – be it an online shop, a blog, or a business showcase – is at the heart of everything we do. We invest heavily to ensure we live up to it, and the latest example is the 800 server purchase from our long-term partners Dell Technologies and AMD. This is our biggest investment in servers to date. Reliable and Innovative Technologies for All “We work hard every day to deliver the best experience to our customers. I am excited that a year of record growth is followed by a record investment in hardware. This will enable us to continue ..read more

You can succeed in both competitive swimming and a goal-driven IT company if you have motivation and self-discipline. At least that’s what Simonas Bilis – Rio 2016 Summer and Tokyo 2020 Olympics participant and current holder of several national records – thinks.  Continue reading to learn more about his professional path and further explore the parallel between setting records in the swimming track and at Hostinger. Childhood in the Swimming Pool Simonas and swimming go way back. His grandmother and aunt were both swimming coaches, and his mom was doing water aerobics. So, it’s not surpr ..read more

Give your customers in the US and Southern Canada an even better experience and faster speed by choosing our newly launched data center location in Boston, Massachusetts. That means you can now pick from three data centers in the US, depending on where your audience is. The logic is simple: the closer the server is to the visitors, the faster the website loads. The Golden Trio: Fast, Reliable, and Green For an online business, whether it’s a side hustle, a mom-and-pop store, or simply a portfolio page, a reliable and available website is vital. To ensure this, we invest in state-of-the-art ser ..read more

WordPress 6.5 “Regina” is finally here! After a week-long delay, the new version brought new features and other improvements to all WordPress users worldwide. Since the release of the beta version back in February, there have been some changes to the features, including the number of Gutenberg versions that have merged.  Rest assured, the WordPress Core Team has worked hard to deliver a stable WordPress update. I was involved in the release as a Documentation co-lead, and I’m excited to guide you through the update and show you the changes we made. What Have Changed Since the First Beta V ..read more

From our foundation as a company back in 2004, a prospective employee’s cultural fit has always been one of the key criterias on which we’ve based recruitment decisions. Now, we want to look beyond simply ‘fitting our culture’ and ‘good enough’. Now, we’re raising the bar.  However, hiring talented and experienced people is easier said than done. That’s why we adopted the Bar Raiser approach to how we recruit staff in January 2023. Following the Highest Standards   “At Hostinger, we do not simply fill seats with warm bodies. We seek to hire the best for Hostinger’s success. We can be ..read more

As spring is coming to Taiwan, people from around the world gathered in Taipei for the biggest WordPress event in the region. WordCamp Asia 2024, taking place from March 7-9, kicked off the series of WordPress flagship events. 1,320 people from over 60 countries traveled to Taipei to attend insightful talks and exchange their thoughts on WordPress. This year, Hostinger participated as a Jade Mountain sponsor. Not only that, our team members also made contributions to the WordPress project. For instance, I had the opportunity to be a Contributor Day table lead during the event. Read on as I rec ..read more

With around 60 thousand free plugins and well over 20 thousand themes, WordPress is one of the most flexible content management systems in the world. But there is a downside to having a wide choice: incompatible plugins can cause websites to crash or slow down. This is where our latest development comes in: WordPress Compatibility Checker. Available for all our Managed WordPress hosting clients, this tool is a valuable ally for website owners and developers alike. It identifies and addresses compatibility issues between PHP and WordPress versions, plugins, and themes. This means you will alway ..read more

Exciting news – WordPress 6.5 is just around the corner! This upcoming WordPress version is currently in beta testing and is set for release on March 26. This update will merge Gutenberg versions 16.8 to 17.7 and hundreds of Core Trac tickets. More importantly, some of the new features will pave the way for the Gutenberg phase three project, which will allow users to collaborate in real-time within the WordPress editor. Curious about what’s new? Keep on reading to learn more about the upcoming features of WordPress 6.5 and how to test it out before the official release. New Features in WordP ..read more

Maggie Cabrera is a JavaScript engineer at Automattic. She’s been working with WordPress for a long time, but has only been contributing to the open-source project since 2020. She mainly contributes to Themes and Core teams. She was one of the release leads of WordPress 6.4, 2023’s final major release and an underrepresented gender-led one. Maggie led the Default Theme team, orchestrating the creation of the versatile Twenty Twenty-Four theme. Maggie’s WordPress journey is evidence that a hobby can turn into a profession if done consistently. Read on to see how Maggie’s curiosity and love for ..read more

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