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Announcements

26 Apr 2023
Upgrading of Server Hardware to EPYC servers with NVME Fast disks

Dear Customers, We have tried many methods in increasing the performance of our existing servers. However it seems there is no other way to increase them anymore hence we have decided to purchase newer much faster hardwa...

24 Feb 2023
Performance on all Servers increased by atleast 30%

Performance Matters. Each year we review performance of our servers and tweak and upgrade where necessary to ensure they run as fast as possible. As speed is an important factor for SEO this has become far more important...

23 Jan 2023
Price Increase 2023

We review and revise our prices to ensure we can continue to offer the high level of support and reliability you expect from us each year. With that in mind, we’ve been forced to introduce a price increase for specific p...

18 Jan 2023
Free Hosting Announcement

Dear Free Hosting Users, This is to inform you that the following limits are still in place however we have noticed large amount of abuse on the accounts and high amount of support requests from free hosting customers ma...

28 Nov 2022
Free Hosting Only - Port 25 Block

Dear Free Hosting Customers. Kindly note we have decided to block port 25 due to heavy abuse (causing blacklisting and load) on the Free Hosting Servers. On Free Hosting and to secure server as best we can we have to put...

19 Aug 2022
Payment Gateway Changes

As our offerings of Web Design has kicked off and we are offering services to far more businesses and individuals any many countries around the world we are now having to make a few changes to our payment methods to make...

27 May 2022
Hostking's shift to remote working

This is a formal notification of an internal change within Hostking. Hostking has made an internal shift to work remotely from the 28.05.2022. Employee well-being is a priority to us as an established company and they ar...

22 Apr 2022
Updated Client Area

Dear valued client We wish to inform you that the client area of Hostking has changed due to the challenging navigability of the previous layout. We took the time to restructure our new client area layout to accommodate...

11 Apr 2022
Say Goodbye to File (Inode) Limits

We are happy to announce that due to our massive infrastructure change to a new Ceph High-Availaiblity Cluster we can now offer customers no file limits for DirectAdmin servers. File Limits used to limit our customers to...

26 Nov 2021
Migration from cPanel Control Panel to DirectAdmin Control Panel

Dear Valued Clients   We would like to advise that Hostking will be migrating all Shared Hosting, Sitebuilder, Prestashop, WordPress Hosting Accounts from cPanel to DirectAdmin control Panel in coming months. Due to a si...

25 Oct 2021
New Changes October 2021

A few changes listed below to be aware of:   An affiliate payout change from 25% to 60% per sale - More information at : Affiliates Page SagePay payment method hidden until code is corrected by developers - Kindly use Pa...

18 Jun 2021
Switch to Debit Order and forget manual payments.

Paying your Hostking subscription via debit order is an easy and reliable way to make sure that you are always up to date with your payments and never get suspended or miss any important payments for domains or hosting s...

2 Jun 2021
Reseller Notice: Domain Reseller Module Upgrade

Its been quite some time that we upgraded the domains reseller registrar module with fixes and security improvements. The modules allows resellers' customers to easily register domains through the resellers website but t...

14 Apr 2021
Hostking price increase 2021

Dear Customers The web hosting industry has seen a shift in pricing structures from various providers. At the beginning of the year, cPanel increased their prices which placed an amount of strain on various web hosting c...

29 Mar 2021
Why EFT or cash payments are not a valid payment options anymore

Due to the administration invovled which is creating a huge problem EFT and Cash payments will not be accepted any more from new customers. We also recommend existing customers use our alternative payment methods like In...