25th Mar 2026
🚀 Performance & Efficiency Improvements
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 numbers of files if not carefully configured, which may increase inode usage over time.
Our updated approach focuses on ...
19th Jan 2026
Recent Firewall IP Blocks reverted to Imunify360
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) aimed at improving protection against increasing attack activity on our network. While the solution is highly effective at ...
29th Dec 2025
Important: Nameserver IP update (Action required for some customers)
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 nameservers normally (for example ns01.hkdns.host / cdns1.hkdns.co.za) and you have not manually set custom nameserver IPs, no ...
23rd Dec 2025
Important Security Update: Changes to How We Share Login Details
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 (such as usernames and passwords) via plain text email. Sending sensitive information this way poses security risks, and we ...
