Built by hosts, for hosts.

In 2019 we were running iTechtics — a WordPress publication and a tiny shared-hosting business on the side. Two products, two stacks. The publication ran on WordPress + WooCommerce and felt like a single coherent app. The hosting business ran on a separate billing portal bolted to the marketing site by a fragile SSO bridge. Two logins. Two themes. Two bills.

The breaking point was a Friday outage. A customer couldn’t reach support because the bridge between billing and the WP site had quietly drifted out of sync — their account existed in one system and not the other. We spent the weekend fixing it by hand. The problem wasn’t the billing app. The problem was that we had a billing app at all.

So we asked: what if hosting management lived inside WordPress? One database. One login. WooCommerce already does subscriptions, payments, taxes, and a customer account area. WHM already does provisioning. The piece missing was the glue — and the glue could be a plugin, not a parallel application.

The first version of HostKit shipped in 2020 to about a dozen friends running small hosting shops in Pakistan and India. By 2022 it was running real businesses. Today it powers 2,400+ subscriptions across 7 countries, and we still ship every two weeks.

We’re a team of four. We answer our own support email. We don’t take VC money. We charge a fair price — $49 a year or $149 once — and we keep the source open under GPLv2 because that’s what we’d want if we were buying it.

If you’re a host trying to run a real business on WordPress, we built this for you. If you find a bug, you can read the code that caused it. If you want a feature, the person reading your message is the same person who’ll write it.