If you’ve been a HostDango customer for a while, you may have noticed some things look different. Here’s what’s been going on — written the way we’d explain it if you asked us directly.
The Site Got a Full Rebuild
The old HostDango.com was showing its age. We rebuilt it from scratch in April 2026 — same company, same people, cleaner design. Faster load times, better mobile experience, and copy that actually explains what we do instead of recycling hosting industry boilerplate.
No features were removed. Nothing moved behind a paywall. It’s the same hosting, same support, same pricing structure — just a site that doesn’t look like it was designed in 2014.
What changed in the rebuild
Customer Servers Were Overhauled
This spring we did the most significant infrastructure upgrade HostDango has seen in years. The operating systems, control panels, database servers, PHP stacks, firewalls, and web server security were all updated or replaced. If your site got measurably faster or you noticed fewer issues in March and April without doing anything yourself, this is why.
The foundation: much of our infrastructure was running CentOS 7, which reached end-of-life in June 2024 — meaning no further security patches. We migrated to AlmaLinux 10.x, a modern RHEL-compatible OS with long-term support. cPanel was updated from v110 to 134.0, and the default PHP moved from 7.4 to 8.3 — significantly faster and actively supported, whereas PHP 7.4 has been end-of-life since December 2022. MySQL 5.7 was replaced with MariaDB 10.11, with the database buffer pool increased from 128MB to 4GB.
On the security side: the firewall was upgraded from CSF to Imunify360, which adds real-time malware scanning and proactive threat detection on top of traditional firewall rules. ModSecurity with the OWASP Core Rule Set is now active in blocking mode — stopping SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and remote file inclusion attacks before they reach your site. PHP hardening was applied across all PHP versions: error output to browsers is disabled, remote file inclusion is off, and session handling is hardened against fixation attacks.
Aurora — spring 2026 infrastructure upgrade
The longer version of the performance work is in this post if you want the technical details.
BlogDango Launched!
You’re reading it. We’ve been meaning to start a blog for longer than we’d like to admit. The goal is simple: write the things we wish someone had written down for our customers before they had to call us.
No SEO filler. No listicles written by AI and published at volume. Just useful posts on hosting, WordPress, email, and running a small business online — written by one of the team members who manages the servers and answers the support tickets.
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What’s Coming Next
Posts in the queue
If there’s something you’ve always wanted explained and never found a straight answer for, send it our way. The best posts come from real questions.
The Bottom Line
Same company. Better infrastructure. New blog. If you’ve been with us for years — thank you. If you’re new — welcome. Either way, if something’s not working or you have a question, please. Reach out. We’d all love to help you solve whatever we can help you solve.