Engineering
For those interested in the technical know-how, the engineering, technology, and tools used behind the Hostinger stage.
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The two feedback loops behind running 10+ coding tasks at once
An AI agent finished fixing a file upload bug in the Hostinger dashboard, then suggested something nobody had asked for. Going back through the session, it noticed that a reviewer…
Unauthorized access to our Phoenix server: November 2026 incident report
Updated November 10, 16:03 UTC: LiteSpeed released the fix in LiteSpeed Web Server 6.3.7 Build 9, and it’s now installed on all our shared hosting servers. We’ve updated this pos…
Manager of agents: a day in the life of an AI engineer at Hostinger
Eylül Güleryüz is a developer who doesn’t write code. She could, but she doesn’t. She’s an AI engineer on Hostinger’s WordPress team, and every week she ships fixes, gets pull …
7 new Node.js vulnerabilities, 0 things for you to do
On October 21, the Node.js project released security fixes for all supported versions (22, 24 and 26), covering 7 vulnerabilities, four of them rated high severity. We’re installi…
Hostinger deploys protections against php2shell PHP vulnerabilities
Updated October 23, 13:25 UTC: The PHP project has disclosed a third vulnerability, CVE-2026-115560. Every Hostinger hosting plan except VPS is already fully protected by the chan…
September 16, 2026 security incident: how we responded to a LiteSpeed zero-day attack
On September 16, 2026, we faced a zero-day attack targeting one of our servers in Brazil. Our security team detected an attack exploiting a previously undetected vulnerability …
Hostinger server unauthorized access case: What happened with Notepad++ and what measures we took to resolve it
What happened and what was affected? On December 1, 2025, we identified suspicious activity on one of our servers where our clients’ websites were hosted. After investigation, …
LLMs under the hood of Hostinger AI Builder: Balancing performance, speed, and cost
The large language model (LLM) race is accelerating, with new architectures, fine-tunes, and specialized systems arriving before the last ones have even settled. With such intense…
Deep dive into our October 7 email outage: Causes, fixes, and what’s next
On October 7, 2025, we faced a disruption in our email service: some users were unable to receive mail and access mailboxes due to an unexpected technical problem in our storage s…
Building a WordPress powerhouse: Utilizing Kubernetes for reliable, cloud-native scaling
For developers and engineers alike, WordPress is an excellent solution for building a versatile website that end-users can easily operate, maintain, and manage. At Hostinger, w…