Engineering
For those interested in the technical know-how, the engineering, technology, and tools used behind the Hostinger stage.
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LLMs under the hood of Hostinger Horizons: 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…
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…
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 …
Hostinger Joins Yahoo!, CERN, and Bloomberg by Creating Scalable Hosting With CephFS
Ceph, a free-software storage platform that's scalable to the exabyte level, became a hot topic this year. It is now Ceph so stable that it's used by some of the largest companies …
First-Class Citizen IPv6
We are participating in the push towards the new (actually quite old) IP protocol (IPv6) – that's why our internal infrastructure has been running on IPv6-only communication since …
Why Phishing and Fraud Affect Your Website Rankings and How Hostinger Prevents These Risks
At Hostinger, we understand that your website's hosting environment matters. Hosting a site on a server or IP address that's associated with fraudsters may lead to it ranking lower…
Announcing mod_reset for Apache 2.x
In the previous post we wrote about the new project Awex. With that in mind, we are happy to announce a custom module for Apache 2.x named mod_reset. What is mod_reset? mod_reset…
The Cost of Infrastructure Automation
This year we have started using automation for everything as much as we could, including network automation, server provisioning, and application deployments. Every part has its o…