Announcements
22 October 2026 On 21 October the PHP project announced two critical security vulnerabilities in PHP. PHP is the software that runs most websites, including WordPress, WooCommerce and Joomla. The flaws could let an attac...
We've added a Rewards page to every Hostking account, and we'd like you to try it while we work out whether it's any good. There are two halves to it. CREDIT FOR THINGS YOU MAY HAVE DONE ALREADY Saving a card so your inv...
From Monday 31 August 2026, our support team is available 06:00 – 18:00 UTC (08:00 – 20:00 SAST), seven days a week. Why we changed Looking at when tickets and chats actually come in, the majority arrive within a concent...
Micro Hosting Renamed to Launch Hosting We are pleased to announce that our Micro Hosting plan has been renamed to Launch Hosting. This change is part of our ongoing efforts to make our hosting plans easier to understand...
🚀 Free Performance & Backup Upgrades Now Live We’ve rolled out major improvements across our hosting servers to enhance your website’s security, performance, and reliability — at no extra cost. ⚡ Smarter Performance...
We’re enhancing our hosting platform with AcceleratorWP, MaxCache, and optimized Apache configurations to deliver fast performance with better resource efficiency. Some advanced caching setups can generate very large num...
Dear Customer, We would like to sincerely apologise for the recent access issues experienced by some customers due to IP blocks triggered by our firewall. Over the past few days, we tested a new security layer (BitNinja)...
Dear Customer, We’d like to inform you of an update to our nameserver IP addresses as part of ongoing infrastructure improvements. ✅ Who is NOT affected - (99%) of customers If your domain is using Hostking’s nameserver...
Dear Valued Customer, As part of our ongoing commitment to keeping your account secure, we are making an important change to how login details are handled. 🔐 What’s changing? We will no longer send login credentials (su...
As part of our commitment to delivering reliable, high-quality hosting services, we would like to inform you of the annual price increase that will take effect on 1st September 2025. Due to annual cost increases from our...
The version of Exim which is the software that sends and receives email on servers has been updated to the latest version for security. However please note in doing so causes port 25 to not work for sending email. Y...
Good day There has been a few changes made with billing invoices as we have been experiencing a high volume of clients not paying there invoices by the due date given and have now been forced to put tighter measures in p...
Dear Customers, We have had to increase the sensitivity of our spam filters due to some new spam coming through, for eg: 1. The password to your Roundcube_CPanel (domains) will expire on 01/15/2025 6:00:59 AM.. 2. Your D...
We have decided to increase the website limits offered to our Advanced and Business Plan users to the following: Advanced Plans 100 Websites 100 GB Diskspace Unlimited Email Accounts Business Plans 300 Websites 250 G...
Dear Valued Client As per the email sent out on the 29th November 2024. Effective to all due domain renewal dates from the 1st of December 2024, the following domain prices and reseller prices will be adjusted as follows...