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Hostaan's renewed look and feel is now live
We've published a comprehensive refresh of our entire service: a new website, support site, news and blog, plus Plesk, Roundcube and SOGo now sharing one unified, modern look - alongside new AI tools and a faster Hostaan plugin.
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Microsoft 365 for Business Now Available from Hostaan
Hostaan is an official partner for Microsoft solutions . You can order an M365 workspace for your business from us, with convenient invoicing and Finnish-language customer support.
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Managed Cloud 3.0 and Reseller Cloud 3.0 servers have been released
We have renewed our managed virtual server portfolio and launched the new Managed Cloud 3.0 and Reseller Cloud 3.0 server products for our customers. With this update, both product categories now offer server solutions based on either…
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Critical WordPress Vulnerability - Update Immediately
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress Core that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a WordPress server without any authentication. The vulnerability requires no plugins or special configuration – a…
Read moreWarning About Scam Messages Related to Domain Renewal
In recent weeks, we have become aware of several scam and phishing messages related to domain renewal. These messages may claim that a payment related to a customer’s domain renewal or a “renewal notification service” is becoming due.
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Our AI Phone Assistant Aada Will Now Serve Customers 24/7
We have introduced an intelligent AI assistant, Aada, to our telephone customer service. Aada is available around the clock and helps our customers resolve a wide range of service-related questions and issues quickly and intelligently.
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New Modern Hostaan Control Panel Released
We have finally launched the long-awaited new, modern, and secure control panel that replaces the old My Hostaan portal for comprehensive customer account management.
Read moreOlder PHP Versions Will Be Deprecated Later This Year
We are now enabling the latest PHP 8.5 version as the default for all new hosting subscriptions. This change will not automatically affect our existing customers for the time being, and current PHP versions will remain unchanged over the…
Read moreNotice: Linux Copy Fail vulnerability - security updates completed
A new local root privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in Linux systems, known as “Copy Fail” (CVE-2026-31431). The vulnerability affects all Linux servers installed after 2017 that have local user accounts or run user-level…
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Eemeli is the new addition to our customer support team
We recruited more staff for our support team in our Kuopio office. We are now proud to reveal that from over 200 applicants Eemeli was chosen as the best new recruit for our customer support team.
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Smart AI-Powered Hostaan Agent Now Available 24/7
We have introduced an intelligent Hostaan Agent chatbot on our website, designed to serve our customers around the clock and help efficiently resolve a wide range of questions and issues related to our services.
Read moreScam messages circulating in Hostaan’s name
We have been made aware that scam emails have been sent using Hostaan’s name. These messages have subject lines such as “Action required – Domain renewal” , and they attempt to get the recipient to click on a fraudulent link.
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Wanted: IT Service Desk Specialist
Hostaan Ltd. is one of the fastest growing WordPress hosting companies in Finland. We currently have almost 4,000 domestic WordPress customers and offer very fast and reliable WordPress hosting, email, domain registration, DNS and Managed…
Read morePrice updates - 2026
Traficom will raise .fi domain prices from January 18, 2026. Google has increased their Workspace pricing. Also other domain costs have increased for most international domain extensions.
Read moreChristmas Exceptions During Customer Support Service Hours
Our telephone and chat support has exceptions on during Christmas Holidays as follows:
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Hostaan Nextcloud is launched - Try Free for 6 Months!
Hostaan Ltd is expanding its service portfolio and entering the cloud storage market by introducing the domestically hosted Hostaan Nextcloud service.
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Shared Hosting Environment Now Up to 100% More Powerful
We utilize easily adaptable virtual server platforms to deliver our service, allowing us to quickly upgrade the capacity of our server environment to meet changing needs. We have significantly increased the performance of our shared…
Read moreNew telephone support system will be launched
In order to provide the best possible customer service, we will be implementing a new telephone support system on Wed 17th August 2025 at 10:00.
Read moreNew server monitoring page launched
We have launched a new server monitoring page, where you can check the status and uptime history of the servers in real time.
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PHP 8.4, SOGo, 2FA and other new features
In this spring newsletter, we are pleased to announce new features in our service that are available to our customers free of charge. As a cherry on the cake, we are also starting a small spring sale (found at the end of the newsletter)
Read moreWe are recruiting a Service Desk Specialist to work for our office in Kuopio
Hostaan Ltd. is one of the fastest growing WordPress hosting companies in Finland. We currently have almost 4,000 domestic WordPress customers and offer very fast and reliable WordPress hosting, email, domain registration, DNS and Managed…
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Petteri and Kaisu are new additions to our customer support team
We recruited more staff for our support team in our Kuopio office. We are now proud to reveal that from over 200 applicants Petteri and Kaisu were chosen as the best new recruits for our customer support team.
Read moreChristmas Exceptions During Customer Support Service Hours
Our telephone and chat support has exceptions on during Christmas Holidays as follows:
Read moreWe are recruiting Service Desk Specialists to work for our office in Kuopio
Hostaan Ltd. is one of the fastest growing WordPress hosting companies in Finland. We currently have almost 4,000 domestic WordPress customers and offer very fast and reliable WordPress hosting, email, domain registration, DNS and Managed…
Read moreOur services are renewed - now up to tripled disk spaces!
In order to serve our customers better, we have renewed our services. Also the genereral Finnish VAT tax rate has increased from 24 percent to 25.5 percent. You can find the related announcement here . These changes have effects on the…
Read moreVAT change in our pricing in Aug-Sep 2024
As the general Finnish VAT tax rate changes from 24 percent to 25.5 percent on September 1, 2024, this will have an impact on the invoicing our our servers as early as August.
Read moreExceptions in our customer service opening hours
During the summer, we will allocate resources more efficiently to various development and maintenance tasks, which is why we will serve our customers by phone within a slightly shorter time window, on business days from 9 am to 3 pm…
Read moreServer upgrades on Mon-Tues and Wed-Thurs nights at 11:00 pm from December 2023 to June 2024
Our server infrastructure will be upgraded from December until June 2024. Upgrades will be executed on the nights between Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00 pm. We will try to minimize the inconvenience to our…
Read moreNew fi25-28 servers are in production
We have increased our server capacity for our domestic customers by introduing new fi25-28 servers into production.
Read moreChristmas exceptions during customer support service hours
Our telephone and chat support has exceptions on during Christmas Holidays as follows:
Read moreCritical vulnerability in WordPress Gutenberg Blocks by Kadence Blocks Plugin
A very serious vulnerability has been discovered in the popular WordPress Gutenberg Blocks by Kadence Blocks plugin that allows arbitrary file upload to your WordPress installation. According to our findings, the vulnerability is very…
Read moreCritical vulnerability in Essential Addons for Elementor plugin
A very serious vulnerability has been discovered in the popular WordPress plugin Essential Addons for Elementor that allows external access to your WordPress installation. According to our findings, the vulnerability has been actively…
Read moreEmail forwarding to external mail addresses is deprecated
To fight against spam, major email service providers, such as Google Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail.com/Outlook.com, have thigtened the regulations for email delivery. This causes sending email to addresses outside of our servers no longer…
Read moreWP Dev plans renewed and WP-CLI available
We have renewed Hostaan.dev - WP development environment to better server our developers with the following improvements:
Read moreChanges to Google Workspace pricing starting May 2, 2023
Google changed their Google Workspace pricing, raising the list prices significantly in March 2023. Unfortunatelly, since we will no longer be able to offer Google products to out customers at the old price, we also need to revise the…
Read moreNew fi21-24 servers are in production
We have increased our server capacity for our domestic customers by introduing new fi21-24 servers into production.
Read moreGoogle Workspace and Smart PHP Updates
The long-awaited Google Workspace has finally arrived in our selections. We are now officially Google Partner and trough us, Google Workspace services are available to order. Also new Smart PHP Updates are here for free to use in all of…
Read moreChristmas exceptions During Customer Support Service Hours
Our telephone and chat support will be available on business days during Christmas Holidays but we will close early on Friday, December 23, 2022 and leave for Christmas at 12:00 noon. We are also normally available from Tuesday 27th to…
Read moreChanges in customer service opening hours
During the past autumn, we have hired more personnel and we are also improving the coverage of our customer support. In accordance with our service promise, from now on, our full customer support will be available on business days from 8…
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Ilkka is the newest addition to our customer support team
We recruited more staff for our support team in our Kuopio office. We are now proud to reveal that Ilkka Martikainen was chosen as the best applicant for our customer support team.
Read moreOur services were renewed: Hostaan.pro and other improvements in our plans
In order to serve our customers better, we have renewed our services. For WordPress professionals, we are introducing the new Hostaan.pro toolbox. Sitebuilder is being renewed as a Hostaan.site, and we are also introducing new service…
Read moreNew fi17-20 servers are in production
We have increased our server capacity for our domestic customers by introduing new fi17-20 servers into production.
Read moreNew fi15 and fi16 servers are in production
We have increased our server capacity for our domestic customers by introduing new fi15 and fi16 servers into production.
Read morePHP 8.0 updates and Debian 10 upgrades on servers fi1-4
PHP 8.0 update will be executed on our servers from April 4 to 8, 2022 - as well as Debian 10 operating system upgrades will affect our customer in servers fi1 to fi4 during spring and early summer of May 3 to June 21, 2022.
Read moreNew fi13 and fi14 servers are in production
We have increased our server capacity for our domestic customers by introduing new fi13 and fi14 servers into production.
Read moreChristmas exceptions During Our Telephone Service Hours
Our telephone and chat support will be closed during Christmas Holidays on December 24-28, 2021 and before the New Year on December 31. However, our staff monitors servers and orders are processed normally but possible some delay may…
Read moreAbout Log4j Zero Day Vulnerability
Apache Foundation Log4j utility zero-day exploit does not affect Hostaan servers.
Read moreNew fi11 and fi12 servers are in production
We have increased our server capacity for our domestic customers by introduing new fi11 and fi12 servers into production.
Read moreManaged Cloud, SmartWoo and other improvements in our service
Our services were renewed and we will proudly present our new products: Managed Cloud servers and WooCommerce hosting with upkeeping: SmartWoo. Also other services were renewed troughout to much better.
Read moreOur Phone Support is closed on Mon 2021-09-13
Due to staff training our telephone support is closed on Monday, September 13, 2021.
Read moreNew fi9 and fi10 servers are in production
We have increased our server capacity for our domestic customers by introduing new fi9 and fi10 servers into production.
Read moreModsecurity WAF will be deployed on our servers
We are improving the service security features and will start utilizing ModSecurity web application firewall for all our our servers with the Comodo rule set. In practise this means that we will further enhance the security of our clients…
Read moreWebsite Designing Services are now available trough our Partner Network
Our clients have often asked for a website design service. Our partner network has dozens of professionals who provide such services and create WordPress sites and WooCommerce online stores.
Read moreNew fi7 and fi8 servers are in production
We have increased our server capacity for our domestic customers by introduing new fi7 and fi8 servers into production.
Read moreAffiliate Program Available, E-Invoicing Now Possible
Affiliate program to resell our web hosting services is now available. We now also support e-invoicing for business customers.
Read moreTuomo is our newest staff member
By the turn of the year, we recruited more staff for our support team in our Kuopio office. We are now proud to reveal that Tuomo Hartikainen was chosen as the best applicant for our customer support team.
Read moreNew fi5 and fi6 servers are in production
We have increased our server capacity for our domestic customers by introduing new fi5 and fi6 servers into production.
Read moreChristmas exceptions During Our Telephone Service Hours
Our telephone and chat support will be closed during Christmas week on December 22-25, 2020 and before the New Year on December 28-31. However, our staff monitors servers and orders are processed normally but possible some delay may occure.
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Hostaan Ltd is official sponsor to WordCamp Finland 2020
This year, WordCamp Finland will be organized virtually. You can easily attend the event even from your home couch.
Read morePhone Support Not available between 13th to 14th October 2020
Our phone support is unfortunatelly not available between 13th and 14th October 2020. However, our emergency team monitors servers normally and customer support is provided via email within normal response times.
Read moreNew domain extensions
Our customers have asked about the possibility of registering more different domain extensions through us. We have now added over a hundred new domain extensions in addition to the existing ones - and these domains can be registered directly through our order system…
Read moreChristmas exceptions to our phone support hours
Our telephone customer support and chat support are closed during Christmas week 23.-27.12.2019 and on New Year's Eve and the day before it, 30.12-31.12.2019. However, our on-call fault service monitors the servers' operation at that time as well. We will also process…
Read morePhone support not Available on Independence Day
Our telephone customer support is closed on Independence Day, Friday, 6.12.2019. However, our on-call fault service monitors the servers' operation at that time as well. We will also be available by phone again from Monday 9.12 at 9:00.
Read moreOur web hosting plans have been renewed to be significantly larger
We have upgraded the features of our web hosting plans, including disk space, traffic limits, and the numbers of mailboxes and databases, to significantly larger ones. The change causes no additional costs for our customers, nor does it require…
Read moreExceptions to our phone customer service opening hours
Our telephone customer service and chat are exceptionally closed from Wednesday to Friday, 16.-18.10.2019.
Read moreNew web hosting company Hostaan Ltd is now launched
The new Finnish web hosting company Hostaan Ltd is now officially launched and started its operations today. You can read more about the background of the service in the CEO's greeting here.
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