{"id":1466,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583462-how-to-change-the-password-of-your-hosting-plan-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:01:15","slug":"1583462-how-to-change-the-password-of-your-hosting-plan-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583462-how-to-change-the-password-of-your-hosting-plan-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the password of your hosting plan in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Your hosting password is used to connect to your hosting via FTP or SSH.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-change-your-hosting-password\">Change your hosting password<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">This password can be quickly changed through your website&rsquo;s <b>hPanel<\/b> by accessing <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> <\/b>&rarr; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6627955-how-to-use-the-hosting-dashboard-in-hostinger\/\"><b>Dashboard<\/b><\/a>, searching for <b>Change password <\/b>on<b> <\/b>the left sidebar, and clicking on it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">&#8203;<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/81f73139-c092-4462-9c3e-e33a59e5d78e.jpg\" alt=\"Hostinger dashboard menu with Change Password option highlighted\" width=\"250\" data-media-id=\"5180\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Enter a new strong password or generate it by clicking on the wand icon, confirm it and click <b>Submit<\/b>:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1184\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-17.png 1184w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-17-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-17-1024x324.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-17-768x243.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1184px) 100vw, 1184px\" \/><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it, your password is updated.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Changing the password of your hosting plan will also change your <b>default FTP<\/b> password. If you want to change the password of addon domains or additional FTP accounts, you can do this from the <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5634574-how-to-change-your-ftp-password-on-hostinger-hpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTP Accounts<\/a><\/b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/5634574-how-to-change-your-ftp-password-on-hpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you have SSH access, the SSH password is the same as the FTP password of your main domain. You can change this setting by creating an <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6440760-how-to-change-an-ssh-password-on-hostinger-hpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SSH-only password<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">FTP and SSH are not available for websites created with <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ai-builder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hostinger AI Builder<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">To change the password of your<b> Hostinger account<\/b>, go to the <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583257-how-to-change-your-hostinger-account-password\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Account Information<\/a> <\/b>section.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the FTP and SSH password of your hosting plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accounts"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583462-how-to-change-the-password-of-your-hosting-plan-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1583462-como-cambiar-la-contrasena-del-hosting-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583462-comment-changer-le-mot-de-passe-de-votre-hebergement-at-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583462-cara-mengubah-password-hosting-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583462-como-alterar-a-senha-do-seu-plano-de-hospedagem-na-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1583462-----hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17506,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/17506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}