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 ...
4th Aug 2025
[South African Customers Only] Important Notice: 2025 Annual Hostking Price Adjustment
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 suppliers and infrastructure partners, we are implementing a price adjustment depending on the specific hosting package you are ...
26th May 2025
Blocked SMTP authentication on port 25 and plain-text connections
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.
You will need to use Port 465 or 587 going foward preferablly with SSL
You can view more information on this issue on ...
