The latest from Hostinger: product updates changelog (updated October 2024)

Stay current with our latest product updates, including new tools and features that make managing your websites faster and easier. We’ll update this article each month.

September updates

We launched Kodee, our AI chat assistant, which provides instant support, answers, and guidance across our main products and platforms. Want to try it? Look for Kodee’s button:

We also created an open-source demo version of Kodee, which you can try yourself. Check out our story about how we built Kodee to get all the instructions.

Web hosting & managed WordPress hosting

The trust of WordPress enthusiasts continues to grow: we now host over 4 million WordPress websites. Here’s how we improved our hosting:

• Our customers in Germany and Central Europe can now enjoy faster speed and enhanced security with our new data center in Frankfurt, the 12th in total. It features an upgraded 100 Gb/s bandwidth, ensuring your websites run smoothly even during peak hours. We’ll upgrade our other data centers to 100 Gb/s soon.

• With our content delivery network (CDN) enabled, your websites now load even faster for visitors from Africa and Australia. We launched new Points of Presence (PoP) – edge servers storing cached website files – in these regions.

Hostinger Website Builder

• Speed up the creation and expansion of your online shop by automatically generating details for up to 10 physical products. Upload product images, and our AI-Powered Product Information Generator will create suitable titles, subtitles, descriptions, and labels for each of them. 

VPS hosting

• Simplify application deployment and management across different environments with Dokploy. This free, open-source platform supports multiple programming languages and frameworks, giving you freedom to run various applications and custom builds. Easily install it on your VPS with just a few clicks using our Dokploy template.
• Quickly access community forums for help and support on operating systems, control panels, or applications – most of our VPS templates now include direct links to these forums.

Email

• Creating your first email address? Start smoothly and efficiently with our Getting Started Hub. It will guide you through the main steps, such as connecting a domain, setting up apps and devices, and sending your first message. 

Note that the content delivery network and AI-Powered Information Generator are available with Business web hosting and all cloud hosting plans. 

August updates

August was truly special: our global client base has surpassed 3 million, and the number of managed domains has reached 5 million. We’re happy to serve customers from over 150 countries, with India, Brazil, the USA, Indonesia, and France leading the way.

Read on to find out what our product teams have created and kick off your business in September.

Web hosting & managed WordPress hosting

• Save time – our WordPress AI Troubleshooter can resolve even more issues at once. Now, it applies all possible auto-fixes for the 403 Forbidden error. Besides quicker website recovery, the tool will inform you how it resolved the problem. We are working to provide similar functionality for other errors like 404 Not Found or 500 Internal Server.

• Efficiently manage your domains and avoid potential disruptions by taking timely action, such as addressing grace period statuses. The updated Websites dashboard now features clear visual indicators for domain statuses. We’re still testing the change, with a full rollout planned in the upcoming months.

Hostinger Website Builder

• Create professional product images and ensure a consistent look across your business website with AI-powered image background remover. Upload an image to the product’s page, hover over it, and click the Edit background button. Then, pick a clean, solid background color that highlights the product. 

• Quickly upload large inventories with AI-powered CSV product upload feature. Don’t worry about format compatibility – our AI analyzes and automatically adjusts the file data, saving you time. The feature is in beta, currently allowing up to 50 products per file. See it in action:

• Build your audience or promote your brand by offering free or paid digital content. Offering free eBooks, courses, or software tools lets you test the market, launch beta versions, and gather user feedback. Note that you won’t need to use a payment provider for free products. 

• Let your clients personalize their orders by adding more information in a custom field. For example, they can enter a name your bakery should write on the cake, or add a link to a file for a T-shirt print. 

Note that these updates are available with the Business Website Builder plan.

Virtual private server (VPS) hosting

Our VPS team launched two new templates that allow you to quickly and efficiently deploy a pre-configured environment, bringing the total number to 75:

• Coolify – simplify the deployment and management of applications and databases with our VPS Coolify hosting and this modern, open-source, self-hosted control panel.

• Ollama – run and fine-tune your large language models (LLMs), including Ollama, the Llama3 model, and Open WebUI, with this versatile yet lightweight platform and our VPS LLM hosting.

hPanel

• To help you get things done faster on hPanel, we’ve moved the Home, Websites, Domains, Emails, VPS, Billing, and Marketplace menus from the topbar to the left-hand sidebar on desktop and tablet. If you haven’t seen the updated menu yet, a one-time pop-up with a quick video tutorial will help you understand how the new navigation works.

• We added five new languages to the hPanel, making it accessible to an even wider international community. The new languages are Polish, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Thai, and Romanian.

Domains

• You will now get domain expiration and WHOIS contact data reminder emails directly from us. As we will be relying less on third parties, you will get a more consistent and professional user experience.