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Black Friday is a smaller slice of the season than you think

For all the hype Black Friday gets, the day itself brings the typical established small online store about as many orders as an ordinary day between October and December. The stor…

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Nov 03, 2026

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Hostinger weekly product updates: Week 44, 2026
Hostinger weekly product updates: Week 44, 2026

Here’s what shipped the week of October 26 to 30, 2026, across Hostinger Agent, Hostinger AI Builder, the Hostinger CLI, Hostinger dashboard, and Hostinger Ecommerce: Hostinge…

Hostinger weekly product updates: Week 43, 2026
Hostinger weekly product updates: Week 43, 2026

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Hostinger weekly product updates: Week 42, 2026
Hostinger weekly product updates: Week 42, 2026

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Second Snuggles: Rescuing plushies, restoring them, and finding them new homes
Second Snuggles: Rescuing plushies, restoring them, and finding them new homes

Mr. Big Stuff, a rainbow teddy bear, came to Second Snuggles hard and bumpy. To make him snuggly again, Amy Crank, the plushie restoration business founder, had to cut him open, a…

EME EFE ESTUDIO: The small steps behind one designer’s big leap
EME EFE ESTUDIO: The small steps behind one designer’s big leap

Manuel Ferre’s old company has asked him to come back three times, most recently with a better-paid offer. He’s said no every time. The night he quit his job as a graphic desig…

Sola Cosmetics: How a solo founder built a foot cream brand that ships across Brazil
Sola Cosmetics: How a solo founder built a foot cream brand that ships across Brazil

“It’s a deep desire I’ve had since I was a little kid. I always told people, ‘One day I’ll have my own business,’” says Fernanda Ito Toda, founder of Sola Cosmetics. After grad…

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Black Friday is a smaller slice of the season than you think
Black Friday is a smaller slice of the season than you think

For all the hype Black Friday gets, the day itself brings the typical established small online store about as many orders as an ordinary day between October and December. The stor…

Is Google still the front door to the internet?
Is Google still the front door to the internet?

For years, finding a business meant opening Google. Now people also start on TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, maps, and AI assistants, depending on their age and what they need…

Why your first 100 website visitors matter and how to get them
Why your first 100 website visitors matter and how to get them

On a web this busy, the businesses that grow aren’t the ones with the most traffic on day one. They’re the ones that learn the most from it, and your first 100 visitors are where that learning starts.

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Manager of agents: a day in the life of an AI engineer at Hostinger
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
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
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…

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The AI assistant that catches our Head of Content’s loose ends (and never sends a message)
The AI assistant that catches our Head of Content’s loose ends (and never sends a message)

Vakarė Simanaitytė, Hostinger's Head of Content, used to be her own reminder system. "I felt I had to be on standby on Slack a lot," she says, "to remember these things, follow up…

Manager of agents: a day in the life of an AI engineer at Hostinger
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 …

​​Introducing Hostinger Restore: Making technology accessible to environmental innovators
​​Introducing Hostinger Restore: Making technology accessible to environmental innovators

A lot of environmental work starts by counting species, restoring habitats, organizing volunteers, tracking waste, or teaching communities. At some point, though, you may need …

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The AI assistant that catches our Head of Content’s loose ends (and never sends a message)

Daily Life

Vakarė Simanaitytė, Hostinger's Head of Content, used to be her own reminder system. "I felt I had to be on standby on Slack a lot," she says, "to remember these things, follow up…

Nov 04, 2026

By Bruno S.

Manager of agents: a day in the life of an AI engineer at Hostinger

Engineering

Daily Life

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 …

Nov 04, 2026

By Simon L.

Black Friday is a smaller slice of the season than you think

Insights

For all the hype Black Friday gets, the day itself brings the typical established small online store about as many orders as an ordinary day between October and December. The stor…

Oct 30, 2026

By Simon L.

Is Google still the front door to the internet?

Insights

For years, finding a business meant opening Google. Now people also start on TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, maps, and AI assistants, depending on their age and what they need…

Oct 30, 2026

By Simon L.

Why your first 100 website visitors matter and how to get them

Insights

On a web this busy, the businesses that grow aren’t the ones with the most traffic on day one. They’re the ones that learn the most from it, and your first 100 visitors are where that learning starts.

Oct 30, 2026

By Karina S.

Building a startup with AI? Here’s what you can learn from our 21-Day Startup Challenge winners

Insights

A rent tracker built by a son managing his mother’s property from another city. A tool that catches AI-built websites that look finished but quietly don’t work. A study app that c…

Oct 30, 2026

By Larassatti D.

We analyzed 213 million AI email actions. Only 2.5% were sends

Insights

When people imagine an AI agent with access to their email, they usually picture it sending messages: following up with clients, contacting suppliers, negotiating deals. That’s no…

Oct 27, 2026

By Gediminas G.

PHP2Shell: What it is and why you don’t need to panic

Insights

Last updated: Oct. 27, 2026 [09:00 AM, UTC] PHP2Shell is the nickname for two security holes found in PHP. Their official names are CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVE is …

Oct 27, 2026

By Larassatti D. & Erikas V.

Sell it, then build it: a 7-step plan for one-person startups

Insights

Only 20% of the AI builders we surveyed in September 2026 said building was their biggest struggle. The rest are stuck elsewhere: 41% aren't sure how to sell their product, 28% ma…

Oct 27, 2026

By Bruno S.

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