Ten years of VapourHost: thank you
VapourHost Team 2 min read
We publicly launched VapourHost on 30 October 2016. Ten years later, the idea hasn’t changed: fast, secure hosting at honest prices, with no hidden charges and zero bluffs.
First, a thank-you to everyone who picked up one of our 10th anniversary deals. The offer ended on 6 November. If you missed it, our standard plans are on the web hosting page, with the same 30-day money-back guarantee on shared hosting.
A decade, year by year
- 2016: We went live on 30 October.
- 2017: We started this blog, introduced the Power plans for growing websites, and marked our first birthday with a giveaway of fourteen annual hosting packages.
- 2018: We registered VapourHost as a private limited company in India, switched to Razorpay so you could pay by card, UPI, netbanking or wallet, and moved our servers to LiteSpeed Enterprise.
- 2019: We retired our Tele-01 server when its drives started failing, moving every account to a new server. We were also quick to roll out PHP 7.4.
- 2020: We launched VapourHost 3.0, a redesign of the website and client area, and split our Professional plans into the Basic and Primary lines. We also said goodbye to our Mini plans.
- 2022: We upgraded to AMD servers across the board and opened our Mumbai location, bringing us to servers in four countries.
- 2026: We launched a new website, with dedicated pages for our unmanaged Cloud VPS and fully managed LoadServe servers.
Along the way, HostAdvice rated us 9.6/10 and gave us its Top 10 WordPress Hosting award.
The not-so-shiny parts
Zero bluffs cuts both ways. A major outage in January 2018 had us restoring backups onto a different server and crediting our customers, and we took measures to stop it happening again. We also raised prices in 2021 and 2023 after absorbing rising licence and running costs for as long as we could. We’d rather tell you why than pretend those things didn’t happen.
Still the same team mindset
We started as a team of tech enthusiasts, and that’s still how we work. Your website is a business asset, not just data on a disk, and support comes from system administrators and developers rather than script readers. We’ll keep upgrading the hardware and sharpening the setup, as we have since 2016.
Thank you for hosting with us, whether you joined in 2016 or last week. Here’s to the next ten.
