We started HostIt Fast because we were sick of bad hosting.

Not dramatically slow hosting. The quietly-frustrating kind — cPanel interfaces that hadn't aged well, support tickets that took days, and infrastructure that worked until it suddenly didn't.

In 2020, Arjun and Lena were running a software agency handling infrastructure for a dozen client teams. Every month brought the same pain: sluggish dashboards, opaque billing, and zero visibility into what was actually happening with their sites.

They started building internal tooling to fix the pain points. Automated deployments. Proper observability. A dashboard that didn't require a tutorial. Their clients started asking if they could buy access to the tooling itself.

HostIt Fast launched publicly in January 2021 with 80 paying customers from day one. By mid-2022, they had crossed 5,000 teams. The core philosophy hasn't changed: infrastructure should get out of your way.

Our mission

Remove the infrastructure tax that slows down small and mid-sized teams. The overhead of managing servers, debugging deployments, and worrying about uptime is real cost that compounds. We exist to eliminate it.

Our vision

A world where every developer — whether they're building a side project at midnight or managing a Series-B product — has access to the same quality of infrastructure. Not enterprise infrastructure made cheaper. Genuinely great infrastructure, accessible by design.

5
Years operating
12K+
Teams worldwide
99.99%
Uptime delivered
5
Global data centers

The people behind the product

A small team with deep experience. We've worked at AWS, Stripe, Cloudflare, and Linear — and we brought the best parts of those cultures here.

Arjun Mehta

Co-founder & CEO

Former infrastructure lead at Stripe. Built and sold two SaaS products before 30.

Lena Fischer

Co-founder & CTO

Systems programmer. Designed the distributed storage layer that powers our NVMe clusters.

David Okafor

VP of Engineering

12 years in cloud infra at AWS and Cloudflare. Runs the reliability and observability teams.

Simone Park

Head of Design

Design systems lead. Previously at Linear and Vercel. Obsesses over the space between pixels.

Come build with us

We're a remote-first team that ships fast and thinks carefully. We're hiring across engineering, design, and support.