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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…

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Donatas A.

Mar 02, 2023

SRE Daily Life: Bleeding CART
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…

How We Achieved 100 out of 100 on Google PageSpeed Insights
How We Achieved 100 out of 100 on Google PageSpeed Insights

Recently, our team has set a goal regarding our website’s user experience – we aimed to reach a score of 100 out of 100 on Google PageSpeed Insights and we have done it. Before we …

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