Engineering
For those interested in the technical know-how, the engineering, technology, and tools used behind the Hostinger stage.
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Network Validation Evolution at Hostinger
A network is the most sensitive part of an infrastructure. To keep it running with less downtime, there is a need to validate its configuration before deploying new changes to th…
Improving Website Performance with LiteSpeed
At the beginning of 2019, Hostinger decided to try LiteSpeed Web Servers (LSWS) as the main web server instead of Apache. LiteSpeed is a drop-in replacement for Apache with .htacce…
SRE Daily Life: Bleeding CART
As you know, we run Hostinger.com. It's a critical component as it's like our company's greeting card. Even more, it's the main gateway for onboarding new clients and making reve…
The Hostinger Monitoring Mystery Revealed
Back when Hostinger was still a small company, only Nagios, Cacti, and Ganglia existed in the market as open-source monitoring tools. They're less known now, but Nagios and Cacti a…
MySQL Setup at Hostinger Explained
At Hostinger, we have various MySQL setups starting from the standalone replica-less instances, Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), and ProxySQL based routing, to even absolutely custom …
Meet Our New Network Infrastructure
Before we had opened our data centers in the United Kingdom and the United States, we had some problems with our infrastructure. We had no automation, no version control for router…
Hosting24 migrates to Hostinger Cloud infrastructure
Hostinger has migrated its first ever premium brand, Hosting24, to the Hostinger Cloud. The Hostinger Cloud is used to empower over 1.2 million customers around the world with its…
Scaling FTP at 000webhost.com
What is FTP? Is it still alive? Unfortunately, yes. In general FTP protocol isn’t as cool and scalable as HTTP(S) and I think it will die soon. Linux Kernel already killed it. We …
Moving Towards Full Stack Automation
In 2015 we launched Awex, the first IPv6-only project powered by Hostinger. It's fully automated, from its application deployments to network gear. Since then, we have b…
Reaching a Million Databases – 000Webhost Phenomenon
Percona Live Open Source Database Conference is an industry-leading event for the best database engineers all around the globe. It covers such topics as database architecture, desi…