Two decades of hosting experience

I started my first web hosting company in 2003 in Europe. What began as a curiosity about Linux servers and web design quickly became a career. By 2012, that company had grown into Hungary's second-largest domain registrar. We served over 70,000 customers and managed everything from shared hosting to clustered high-availability systems.

After the company was acquired by an investor group, I relocated to the United States, where I currently serve as Director of Quality Control at Sequentur, a managed service provider. That role gives me a broad view of enterprise infrastructure, security, and what it takes to keep systems running reliably at scale.

But hosting never left me. I kept thinking about what a modern hosting platform should look like if you started with a blank page and made every decision based on what's actually best for the customer. Not what's cheapest to license, not what's easiest to resell - what's genuinely better.

That's how Hostney was born in 2019. Every container runs with SELinux in enforcing mode. Every account is isolated in its own Podman container. Behavioral bot detection scores every visitor across 20+ signals. There's an AI assistant that actually manages your server instead of linking to documentation. And the pricing is honest - no fake “unlimited” plans where inodes quietly limit you, no hidden renewal fees, no bait-and-switch.

Hosting is not just my job. It's been my craft for over 20 years, and Hostney is the best version of everything I've learned along the way.

- Gabor Leszlauer, Founder