Hostinger

What is Hostinger?

Hostinger is a private Lithuanian web hosting company headquartered in Vilnius. It sells web hosting, website building, domain, and email services to approximately 4.6 million customers in more than 150 countries.

Who owns Hostinger?

Hostinger is majority owned by its founders and employees. Investment entity ConHostinger holds approximately 31 percent, acquired in 2021. It is not owned by a larger tech conglomerate.

Is Hostinger a public company?

No. Hostinger is privately held and has not announced IPO plans. It is one of the largest independent hosting companies operating without public listing.

When was Hostinger founded?

The company was founded in 2004 in Kaunas, Lithuania as Hosting Media and renamed itself Hostinger in 2011.

What is Hostinger's revenue?

Hostinger reported revenue of €275.4 million in 2025, up 51 percent year over year, marking its fourth consecutive year of growth above 50 percent. Pre-tax profit at the operating entity was approximately €36.3 million.

Is Hostinger a Lithuanian company?

Yes. Hostinger is headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, and was founded in Kaunas in 2004. It is one of the most internationally scaled companies in the Lithuanian technology sector.

Hostinger was founded in 2004 in Kaunas, Lithuania as Hosting Media, a local web hosting business. Arnas Stuopelis joined the company in 2011, the year it renamed itself Hostinger, and led it as CEO for more than a decade through its transformation into a global operator.

Early expansion came through adjacent brands. In 2007 Hosting Media launched 000webhost, a free hosting service that functioned as a funnel for paid conversion. In 2008 it launched Hosting24, a cPanel-based brand with data centers in the United States and United Kingdom. International subsidiaries followed: Niagahoster in Indonesia in 2013 and Weblink in Brazil in 2014, targeting high-growth markets underserved by Western incumbents.

The 2010s brought scale through localization: rather than selling a single global product, Hostinger built country-specific brands and pricing for emerging markets where Western hosting was expensive. In 2019 it launched Zyro, a drag-and-drop website builder that later became Hostinger Website Builder, expanding beyond hosting into the website creation market occupied by Wix and Squarespace.

In 2021 the investment entity ConHostinger acquired a roughly 31 percent stake, the only significant outside ownership in a company otherwise built on founder and employee equity. That year Hostinger also co-founded Unicorns Lithuania, the country's startup association.

Leadership transitioned in 2023 when Daugirdas Jankus became CEO, with Stuopelis moving to Chairman of the Board. In 2024 the company shut down 000webhost, ending the free hosting funnel that had operated since 2007. Through 2024 and 2025 the company repositioned around AI: revenue grew 65 percent in 2024 to €182.4 million, then 51 percent in 2025 to €275.4 million, driven by platform-wide AI agent integration and an expanding customer base that reached 4.6 million.

Hostinger publishes sustainability commitments covering data center energy efficiency and carbon impact, operating within the standard sustainability expectations of European cloud infrastructure providers. Its green data center practices focus on server efficiency and renewable energy sourcing for operations, though it does not hold B Corp or equivalent independent certifications.

Hostinger has appeared on the Financial Times FT 1000 list of Europe's fastest-growing companies for six consecutive years and ranked second in the 2026 FT and Statista Long-term Growth Champions report for Europe. It co-founded Unicorns Lithuania and is consistently ranked among Lithuania's most significant technology companies.

No major regulatory action or verified scandal is on record. Like all mass-market hosting providers, Hostinger's infrastructure is periodically abused by malicious actors hosting phishing and spam content, a category-wide problem it addresses through standard abuse-response processes. No enforcement action or material data breach is documented.