Hosting.com

Hosting.com (formerly known as World Host Group) is a global domain name registrant and hosting service provider established in 2025, the company is headquartered in the United Kingdom, the company has a workforce of approximately 800.

History

World Host Group was founded in 2019 in London, UK as a hosting provider. Since its inception, the company has provided paid hosting service, email hosting, etc. In 2020 when the entire world went into a massive lockdown, they started Providing reseller hosting packages worldwide marking a period of significant growth.

After that, World Host Group started acquiring and partnering across the globe with prominent local hosting providers to expand their business within a very short time.

On 2025, World Host Group acquired A2 Hosting and rebranded as hosting.com minimizing both previous name. The domain 'hosting.com' was initially unavailable; however, the CEO of hosting.com, Seb De Lemos, acquired the domain for around $2 Million.

Major acquisitions (2023–2025)

Hosting.com has expanded its portfolio of hosting brands and services through a series of acquisitions and partnerships in multiple regions.

In August 2023, the company also acquired HostingRaja, an Indian hosting provider offering shared and cloud hosting services to customers across India.

In October 2023, the company acquired DotEasy, a Canadian web hosting provider offering shared hosting and domain services.

Later that year, in December 2023, hosting.com acquired WebHostPython, a hosting provider known for infrastructure designed for Python-based web applications.

In January 2024, hosting.com acquired LuxHosting Group, a European hosting group that includes the brands Hosting.co.uk, MonsterHost, and LuxHosting.

In September 2024, the company expanded its presence in the United Kingdom by acquiring Nimbus Hosting, a managed hosting provider focused on web development agencies.

A major acquisition followed in January 2025, when World Host Group acquired A2 Hosting, a long-established web hosting provider founded in the United States. Following the acquisition, plans were announced to rebrand the business under the hosting.com name. World Host Group rebranded as hosting.com in May 2025.

In April 2025, the company acquired FastComet, a hosting provider with customers in multiple international markets, as part of its broader expansion strategy.

On 14 January 2026, hosting.com also announced a partnership with EyHost, a hosting provider in Bangladesh. The partnership was formally introduced during a launch event held at the Hotel Sheraton in Dhaka, marking the company’s entry into the Bangladesh market.

Services

Shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and email hosting are the Hosting.com offers five primary types of web hosting. Its shared, cloud, and managed WordPress solutions are powered by Rocket.net (A sister company which merged with hosting.com in 2025.)

Hosting.com provides other services including website migration, email hosting, domain name registration and transfer, and AI website building.

Hosting.com makes use of a global network of more than forty high-performance data centers with AMD EPYC CPUs, Samsung NVMe storage, and Anycast DNS. With the help of the FastComet acquisition, its infrastructure now offers 15 worldwide points of presence in ten major cities. Among them hosting.com owns 6 data centers.

Community engagement

The company participates in the broader WordPress open-source ecosystem, sponsoring and supporting community initiatives and events such as WordCamps, which are volunteer-organized conferences for WordPress users and developers. WordPress itself is an open-source content management system maintained by a global community of contributors. Hosting.com encourages and supports its staff to contribute development, design, and community contribution back to the WordPress open-source project.

Acquisitions and partners

Over time, since 2020, Hosting.com has acquired and partnered with a lot of businesses which were focusing on the web hosting industry from different areas of the world.

  • Rocket.net
  • A2 Hosting
  • CirrusHosting
  • CloakHosting
  • ColombiaHosting
  • DedicatedNow
  • DollarHost
  • DomainZ
  • HostForWeb
  • LuxHosting
  • SuEmpresa
  • VPSCheap
  • VeronaHost
  • Stablepoint
  • HostMDS
  • Nimbus Hosting
  • MochaHost
  • Hosting.co.uk
  • FastComet
  • Doteasy
  • HostingRaja
  • WebHostingBuzz
  • RadiantEdge
  • WebCentral.au
  • Webhost Python
  • MonsterHost
  • SpidyHost
  • EyHost
  • Verpex