When I started NameHero back in 2015, I saw a gap in the web hosting industry. You had two choices: expensive, complicated public cloud hosting that gave you high availability and instant scalability, or cheap, discounted shared hosting plagued with lackluster customer support, downtime, and terrible performance. That gap was a runway a mile long, and we set out on a mission to fill it.
Eleven years later, we’ve bridged it. We grew explosively through the COVID-19 pandemic, deployed our proprietary private cloud on our own hardware, and built out our wholly owned datacenter in Lenexa, Kansas. In 2022 I hit my biggest professional goal: NameHero made the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America. Then we did it again in 2023. And again in 2024. Today we power hundreds of thousands of websites across the globe and have become a major player in the shared web hosting industry.
Throughout my career working online, I’ve believed in one simple formula: people ABOVE profits. Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s, said it best: “Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.” Simple, but it works.
I also live by an acronym: A.D.P.
Adapt. We have to change with the industry. In tech, if you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backwards.
Develop. Every single day we work on the newest and best features to make sure our customers have everything they need to succeed.
Progress. We can’t move forward if we’re not progressing. This is the measuring stick.
This is why today I’m officially announcing a new direction for the future of NameHero: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infrastructure.
Yes, we’re still going to offer shared, reseller, and VPS hosting for your websites.
We’re still going to offer domain name registrations.
We’re still going to offer email and gaming server hosting.
But we’re going to completely expand our AI tools, agent hosting, Docker hosting, and more. Here’s why.
If you asked me to create a website today, I wouldn’t spend a minute wrestling with a WordPress install, hunting for a theme, and stacking plugins. That sounds like pulling teeth.
I’d hand it to an AI agent. Have it build the front and back end, connect it to a Git repo, then handle the ongoing development, updates, and maintenance. The end result is a much better experience for me and my users, with none of the “working around” things to get exactly what I want.
I’m confident this is where everything is heading. Ignore the negative AI sentiment out there, look at it logically, and actually use the tech. You’ll see exactly what I mean.
For the last year, we’ve been implementing AI into our own system operations. We can now optimize, secure, and scale our private cloud in real time with minimal human intervention. And no, we’re not “replacing our jobs” with AI. That’s disinformation being spread by people who haven’t used it. Our humans are still here, directing and implementing this technology, and it’s created a bigger opportunity for everyone on the team. The mundane tasks that never produced forward progress are automated now, and our time goes into building a better future for our customers. Day-to-day work is exciting again, not boring.
The first step: AI Agent Hosting
We didn’t want to just talk about this direction. We wanted to ship it. So the first piece is already live: AI Agent Hosting.
Here’s the problem it solves. Agents and automation tools weren’t built for traditional hosting. They run jobs for hours, so request timeouts and execution limits kill them. They need memory that survives a restart, meaning context, history, and vector stores that stay on your disk instead of vanishing. And they need to run 24/7, not just when you have a terminal open on your laptop.
Our Agent Hosting gives you exactly that: an always-on environment with the app pre-installed, dedicated NVMe resources, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS under the hood. Bring your own model keys, whether that’s Anthropic, OpenAI, or a local model you run yourself. One-click installation, ready in minutes with no setup.
And because it’s NameHero, it comes with the same things everything we build comes with: our 24/7/365 SuperHero support team, a 99.9% uptime SLA, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. People ABOVE profits applies to AI infrastructure the same as it’s applied to everything else for eleven years.
This is just the first step. There’s a lot more coming, and I can’t wait to show you.
Go check it out: https://www.namehero.com/agent-hosting
Ryan Gray is the founder and CEO of NameHero, one of the fastest growing independent web hosts in the United States. Ryan has been working online since 1998 and has over two-decades experience in Internet Entrepreneurship.
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