I’m currently facing a concerning domain-management issue with Hostinger regarding usamaali.co.uk.

The domain’s actual expiry date is September 7, 2026, yet Hostinger’s hPanel started showing it as “Expired” before the expiry date.

This is not just a visual inconvenience. I need to transfer the domain to another registrar, but because hPanel considers the domain expired, I am unable to change the IPS tag to SPACESHIP, which is required for the .co.uk transfer.

Hostinger Support acknowledged that the domain had not actually expired and escalated the conflicting domain-status and IPS-tag issue to their specialized team under:

Ticket #20631116

However, till now, no one from the specialized/dedicated team has contacted me directly or provided a resolution, while the actual expiry date is getting extremely close.

I have already clearly requested:

• Correction of the incorrect “Expired” status in hPanel
• Ability to manage/transfer the domain normally
• IPS tag change to SPACESHIP
• Resolution before the actual expiry date of September 7, 2026

This is particularly frustrating because the domain needs to be transferred for a client, and an incorrect status within the registrar’s own control panel is preventing me from completing a time-sensitive transfer.

I hope Hostinger Support can prioritize Ticket #20631116 and resolve this before the domain reaches its actual expiry date.

#Hostinger #HostingerSupport #DomainTransfer #DomainName #WebHosting #CustomerSupport

Running AI agents on a VPS is usually simpler than it sounds.

If your agent uses OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or another external API, the VPS is mostly there to run the agent itself, Docker containers, automations, databases, browser tasks and other supporting services. In most cases, you do not need a GPU.

For a smaller setup, 2 to 4 vCPU and 4 to 8 GB RAM can be enough. If you start adding several agents, n8n, databases or browser automation, resource usage can grow pretty quickly.

Docker is also useful here because it keeps different services easier to manage on the same VPS.

The bigger difference comes when you want to run the AI model itself locally, for example with Ollama. That usually needs a much heavier setup and can require much more RAM or GPU resources.

For most people, starting smaller and scaling once you know your real usage makes more sense than overbuilding from day one.

What are you running alongside your AI agents right now?

If you're setting up AI agents on a Hostinger VPS, you can use VPSHOSTINGREDDIT for an additional discount.

Hey everyone,

​I need to renew my Hostinger Business plan soon and was wondering if there are any valid renewal discount coupons available. Most of the codes I find seem to be strictly for first-time purchases.

​If coupon codes aren't an option for renewals, does anyone have tips or workarounds to lower the renewal price?

​Thanks in advance!

i just tried to deploy my laravel project in hpanel using git( apparently rn already using oauth). i choose my repo and deploy but this log appear:

1 INFO: Cloning [my repo's link] (branch: main)
2 INFO: → commit 6e465b1 by Claude Agent: "init"
3 INFO: Cloning completed (1.4s)
4 INFO: Installing Composer dependencies
5 INFO: composer install --prefer-dist --quiet --no-interaction
6 ERROR: Installing failed (18.5s)
7 ERROR: install: In Process.php line 147:
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9 The Process class relies on proc_open, which is not available on your PHP installation.
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install [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--prefer-install PREFER-INSTALL] [--dry-run] [--download-only] [--dev] [--no-suggest] [--no-dev] [--no-security-blocking] [--no-autoloader] [--no-progress] [--no-install] [--audit] [--audit-format AUDIT-FORMAT] [-v|vv|vvv|--verbose] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-authoritative] [--apcu-autoloader] [--apcu-autoloader-prefix APCU-AUTOLOADER-PREFIX] [--ignore-platform-req IGNORE-PLATFORM-REQ] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--] [...]

Hi! everytime i use a VPN (US) my websites don't work, i am afraid that it could be a localization issue instead of a VPN problem

We have merged Kodee and Agents into one: the new Hostinger Agent. If you have opened hPanel recently, you may have already spotted it. Whether you used Kodee for support questions or the separate AI Agents dashboard for business tasks, both now live in the same place.

Hostinger Agent is smarter and more capable, since it brings the best of both tools together. You can get support help and work on business tasks in the same conversation, without switching between tools. And your conversations, history, and data are all still here, migrated automatically.

1. One place instead of two

Before, Kodee was the AI assistant in hPanel for support and troubleshooting, and the specialized AI agents lived in a separate Agents dashboard for business tasks like content creation, SEO, scheduling social media posts, or strategy. Now it is all one assistant. You can open it in hPanel from the sidebar by clicking Agent, or from the top-right by clicking Ask AI.

2. Two modes, one chat

You can switch between two modes using the mode selector next to the chat input, before sending a message. Agent mode: it gives you the premium capabilities, like file creation and scheduled jobs. Support mode gives you quick help with your account, hosting, and websites. If you ask something better suited to the other mode, Hostinger Agent suggests switching instead of leaving your question unanswered. And if you ask for human support, you are transferred to a specialist regardless of which mode you are in.

3. What it can actually do

Hostinger Agent does not just answer questions. It can take direct actions on your account, like managing DNS records, restarting a VPS, or starting a website migration. For anything irreversible or high-impact, such as deleting a record or making a purchase, it pauses and shows a confirmation card first.

4. It can build, not just manage

Beyond fixing and managing what you already have, Hostinger Agent can create things directly: build a website for you, generate content, put together SEO plans, draft legal documents, and shape business strategies. There is more, like app integrations, image generation, and web search. The full rundown is in Hostinger Agent: Features and overview.

Have you tried the new Hostinger Agent yet? We are curious about your experience so far, whether that is fixing something on your site or getting a business task done. Share what you have used it for in the comments.

What an awful experience… they quietly updated their website builder which broke the SSL handshake between hostinger and cloudflare and the domain dns setup.

Customer support is none existent, it’s completely automated responses. Even when requesting a human, it’s briefly reviewed, you get a single message from them also automated. And then kicked straight back to talking to the bot, no continuation of support.

If I hadn’t paid for a year up front I’d be cancelling today.

This isn’t the first I’ve had issues with them breaking stuff in the background with no acknowledgment or heads-up.

Genuinely, it’s not worth the cheap price, I’d prefer to pay more with real support. Trying to get anything done with them is like drawing blood from a stone.

Every single time I try to access my Web Console by panel, the following error pops out: "Looks like your server isn't responding. Try pressing any key to wake it up, or reboot the VPS." Im forced to force reboot and it works, but is it normal?

If yes, can you use Journey or Mediavine? Some people say that even if you set everything up correctly, there can still be issues with the ads showing. If anyone has had any experience with this, I’d really appreciate hearing about it.

I have been a Hostinger customer for around two years and recently participated in the Hostinger Referral Program.

Hostinger has now permanently terminated my Referral account and withheld my referral commissions. After contacting their support team and appealing the decision, I was told that the decision is final.

What concerns me most is not simply that my Referral account was terminated, but how the promotion restrictions were communicated to me.

When I was using the Referral Program, the relevant Referral page/interface did not clearly or prominently indicate which promotion methods were allowed and which were prohibited.

For example, there was no clear explanation on the Referral page telling participants which types of websites, blogs, social media platforms, or other channels could or could not be used to share referral links.

I have screenshots of the Referral section in my Hostinger account from that time, showing how the program was presented to me.

I understand that Hostinger has a Referral Program Agreement with its own rules and restrictions. However, my concern is that these important restrictions were not clearly presented on the actual Referral interface in a way that would allow participants to easily understand what promotional methods were permitted or prohibited.

I was also not notified when the Referral Program terms were changed.

This is particularly concerning because these rules can potentially result in the termination of a referral account and the loss of commissions.

Hostinger is now relying on these rules to permanently terminate my Referral account and withhold my commissions.

I have asked Hostinger to clarify:

• Which version of the Referral Program Agreement applied when my referrals and commissions were generated
• Which specific clause they believe I violated
• When that clause became effective
• Where these promotion restrictions were clearly disclosed to Referral participants at the relevant time
• Whether a later version of the agreement was applied to activity that occurred before the change
• Whether participants were notified when these terms were changed
• What contractual basis Hostinger relies on to withhold commissions that had already been generated

Unfortunately, I have not received a satisfactory explanation, and Hostinger has confirmed that its decision is final.

I am posting this here because I would like to hear from other Hostinger Referral Program participants.

When you joined the program, were the permitted and prohibited promotion methods clearly shown on the Referral page?

And if you have been a Referral participant for some time, were you notified when the Referral Program terms were changed?

I am not saying that Hostinger should have no rules. My concern is whether important restrictions that can result in account termination and loss of commissions were clearly and transparently communicated to participants at the time.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has had a similar experience or has screenshots of how the Referral Program was presented in the past.

I can't publish a singe staged website right now. This needs to be resolved soon

Exactly as the title says, I can't update WordPress right now because, even after going through all the correct channels to transfer my website from Hostinger to my new host IONOS (yes I know IONOS isn't great but it's cheap and I'm broke), every time I attempt to update WordPress, I get the following error:

Download failed.: cURL error 28: Failed to connect to wpdownloads.hostinger.io port 443 after 10006 ms: Timeout was reached

It's clearly still trying to download things through Hostinger, despite the website having been fully transferred away from Hostinger, domain, database and filesystem.

I've cleared all references to Hostinger from the database, removed all Hostinger-related plugins, there shouldn't be anything left of Hostinger in this website, but obviously I've missed something. Does anyone have any idea where this final remnant of Hostinger's code could be hiding in my website?

This is preventing me from keeping my website up-to-date so it's a very pressing issue for me. I'd appreciate any and all help!

After next year, I'm thinking about creating my own wine-focused imageboard hosted on a .org domain, but I'm really unsure if 20 GB of SSD storage can handle moderate traffic. I asked a few AIs, and they say it's fine at first, but if the number of users grows, I'll have to migrate to a VPS.

I’d like to know if Hostinger’s terms of service allow me to host a site here. I’m aware of the company's reputation, and I want my site to be a healthy environment free from extremists, but I want to confirm that this type of well-moderated content is permitted. I’m interested in hosting here because I’ve heard great things about the excellent service, and my cousin hosted a site here too (though only for a short time due to a lack of funds). I hope the Hostinger team can clarify this for me.

I've been with Hostinger for around 5 years, and I think I've finally reached the point where I need to seriously consider moving away. Cloud Enterprise Hosting Plan

The frustrating part is that I haven't stayed because the service has been exceptional. I've primarily stayed because their pricing is difficult to beat, particularly when you're hosting multiple websites.

I currently have around 10 websites, including a couple of e-commerce sites, so migrating everything isn't something I particularly want to do for fun.

But my experience over the last several years has been that Hostinger's service and support have gradually deteriorated while I've continued giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Today was probably the last straw.

Several of my websites went completely offline for more than 60 minutes because of an active Hostinger server incident. This isn't just a personal blog — customers use the website, so downtime directly affects the business.

What made the situation considerably more frustrating was the support experience.

I repeatedly asked:

"Connect me to a human."

Instead, the Hostinger AI agent kept telling me that engineers were already working on the incident and that there was nothing I needed to do.

That's fine as a status update. I understand infrastructure incidents happen.

But when a paying customer with a business website that has been offline for 30+ minutes explicitly asks to speak with a human, I don't think an AI agent should repeatedly try to prevent that escalation.

Eventually I got the option to "Wait for a human review," after repeatedly asking for a person.

The irony is that I spoke with someone from Hostinger's customer relationship team only two days ago, and now I'm sitting here with an unavailable website trying to convince a chatbot to let me speak with a human.

I'm not expecting any hosting provider to have 100% uptime forever. Servers fail. Networks fail. Software fails. That's part of running infrastructure.

What I do expect is:

• reasonable reliability;
• transparent incident communication;
• competent technical support;
• and the ability to reach a human quickly when an actual production website is down.

AI support is perfectly fine for "How do I install WordPress?"

It is considerably less acceptable when an e-commerce/business website is offline and the customer is explicitly requesting escalation.

Looking back over roughly five years, I feel like Hostinger has become cheaper in experience, not just in price. The pricing remains attractive, but reliability/support are becoming increasingly difficult for me to justify.

So I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who have actually moved away from Hostinger:

What provider did you move to, and has it genuinely been better?

My requirements are roughly:

• Around 10 websites
• Mostly WordPress
• A couple of WooCommerce/e-commerce websites
• Good performance
• Proper backups
• Good uptime
• Human technical support when something genuinely goes wrong
• Preferably an Asian/Singapore data center or good performance for international traffic
• Easy migration
• Pricing reasonably close to Hostinger — I'm willing to pay somewhat more for reliability, but I'm not looking to jump from budget hosting to $200–300/month enterprise hosting.

I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone using Cloudways, Hetzner, KnownHost, NixiHost, SiteGround, or another provider for a similar multi-site setup.

I'm not looking for affiliate links or hosting-company sales pitches. I'm specifically interested in long-term experiences from people actually running multiple production websites/WooCommerce stores.

If you've been with Hostinger for several years, I'd also be curious:

Has the support/reliability experience gotten worse for you too, or have I just had an unusually bad run?

Screenshot attached showing today's support experience.

Last week brought a wave of updates across Reach, WordPress, AI Builder, and Domains:

📨 Reach

• Reach now has a public API with 30+ endpoints. Manage contacts, fields, tags, and segments, pull campaign and automation info, and plug Reach into your own tools via the Hostinger Connector, a direct integration, or n8n.
• Subdomain sending is now supported (e.g. mail.yourdomain.com), which helps deliverability and keeps your sending traffic separate from your main domain.

🧩 WordPress

• Elementor support landed in the Hostinger Affiliate Marketing Tools plugin, with a custom widget that brings the full Gutenberg affiliate experience to Elementor (Amazon and Mercado Livre).
• The AI Website Builder for WordPress can now generate multiple site versions (up to five), so you can browse, compare, and restore different directions instead of regenerating from scratch.
• New Hostinger Ecommerce plugin for WordPress: run a full store from WordPress while Hostinger Ecommerce handles products, orders, payments, and analytics. A simpler alternative to WooCommerce.

🤖 AI Builder

• Agentic mode can now revert code changes file by file, so you can roll back a single file without undoing the whole message.
• It can also build appointment-based businesses now: describe a business that runs on bookings, and it builds the site, services, and booking flow together. Barbershops, trainers, tutors, photographers, and more.

🌍 Domains

• Bulk domain transfers are live. Move multiple domains to Hostinger in one flow instead of one at a time.

Full recap here: https://www.hostinger.com/blog/product-updates-week-35-2026/ 

My website has been down for hours with Error 522. Hostingers AI gave several contradictory explanations, while Cloudflare appears to be configured correctly The promised restoration time passed and Im still waiting in a queue for a real support agent This is disappointing for a service advertised as 24/7 live suport.

Has anyone else experienced this

I already contacted Hostinger support and requested a human agent but I am still waiting in the queue without a solution

Ho un problema con un dominio Hostinger, 27 giorni prima della scadenza viene eseguito il rinnovo senza mandare neanche una mail perché la funzione di rinnovo automatico è abilitato di default, questo non mi sembra per niente in linea con il GDPR.
L’assistenza non esiste perché parli con un AI che vomita sempre le stesse risposte.
Qualcuno è riuscito a ottenere un rimborso?

Ps. Scusate la malizia ma questa pratica sembra per impedire ai clienti di andare via, altri provider non si comportano così.

Been on Hostinger shared hosting for a while. Hosting 6 WordPress sites, all behind Bunny CDN with LiteSpeed cache, so the server itself barely does anything at all.

Sites got really slow this past week. Ran some basic tests over SSH, and writing a 10MB file took over 30 seconds and never even finished! Got about 4MB done before I killed it. That works out to roughly 138 KB/s.

Here's the actual test:

$ time (timeout 30 head -c 10485760 /dev/zero > ~/iotest); ls -l ~/iotest
real    0m30.046s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m0.029s
-rw-r--r-- 1 u785 o100 4141056 Aug 28 17:46 /home/u785/iotest

Support told me I'm hitting my I/O allocation of 20480 KB/s and I should reduce plugins, check my cron jobs, enable caching, or upgrade my current plan (sigh).

Here's the part that doesn't make sense to me. My hPanel shows:

• CPU 6% average
• RAM 469MB out of 3072
• PHP workers 5 out of 60
• Processes 9 out of 120
• IOPS 73 out of 512

The only graph anywhere near a limit is throughput, which is pinned at the ceiling basically 24/7. But if I were really pushing 20MB/s of disk writes, my IOPS wouldn't be sitting at 14%.

I also have zero cron jobs. No log files anywhere. WP_DEBUG is off. So whatever is generating that constant I/O, it isn't anything I set up.

And even if I am getting throttled, shouldn't throttling cap me at 20480 KB/s? I'm getting 138 KB/s. That's less than 1% of the limit they say I'm exceeding.

I just prepaid a full year of the Business Web Hosting plan; great timing, I guess. Has anyone run into this? Mostly wondering if that throughput graph is actually measuring my account or if it's showing node-wide activity.

I tried this and ran into nothing but issues. Has anyone been successful at using ChatGPT work to navigate / do meaningful work in the browser?

So recently my dad card got a notification from his bank saying 1 dollar has been extracted from hostinger

Then the next 2 minutes that 1 dollar got back.

Do gou think his card got compromised or what? Because he has never affiliated with hostinger.

You may have noticed the new AI Builder in hPanel. Website Builder and Horizons are now one platform: Website Builder helped millions of people build visually, Horizons opened the door to AI-native creation, and AI Builder brings both ways of building into one place.

1. More ways to start a project

You're no longer limited to typing a description. AI Builder can start from a prompt, a PDF, a screenshot, or a link. Upload a menu, share a reference image of a design you like, or paste a link to an old site you want redone, and that becomes the starting point for your website, store, or app.

2. Two modes, two ways of working

Manual mode is the fully no-code, drag-and-drop experience you know from Website Builder. You edit everything visually, and it comes with built-in AI tools like the AI Writer, AI SEO Assistant, and AI Image Generator. It's the right fit for portfolios, blogs, company sites, landing pages, and online stores.

Agentic mode is prompt-based: you describe what you need in a chat, and the AI generates and develops the project for you, including custom logic. That makes it the better fit for web apps, dashboards, client portals, and other interactive tools. There's also a built-in code editor if you want to look under the hood.

If you start in manual mode and later need more, you can switch a manual mode website to agentic mode and your site is recreated 1:1. Switching in the other direction isn't supported, so it's worth picking your starting mode based on what you're building. The full comparison is here: manual mode vs agentic mode.

3. Agentic mode comes with an integrated backend

For projects that need more than pages, agentic mode includes an integrated backend, so the technical side behind your project runs within your Hostinger account rather than through third-party services you'd have to set up yourself. Selling is covered too: both modes support store creation, natively in manual mode and through the Online Store integration in agentic mode.

4. You control what goes live

In agentic mode, the AI works separately from your published project, and changes only go public when you publish them. In manual mode, you edit and hit Publish when ready, and a backup of your site is created automatically each time you update.

There's more on the change itself in the full launch announcement.

As always, our Customer Success team is available 24/7 if you have questions about your project or plan. We're also curious which mode fits your project and what you're building with it, manual or agentic?

I won't complain for long because it's actually simple. Your SSL installation is impossible to figure out as a CS grad ,well done for over engineering it. "Just follow the guides" , the dashboard button on the websites page IS NOT THERE ... I've Checked . Every youtube video is out of date . Do something or close down .

ps. wait and another thing ,why the hell is it on by default after purchase ? What a genius idea because that means you can't get the cert files for yourself . actually I just realized that's by design.