TL;DR – Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting) has rolled out Monarx security across its full global server fleet. Hosting.com runs infrastructure serving more than 3 million websites across 40+ locations and this deployment covers all of them, not a subset or premium tier.

What Monarx does

Monarx is a cybersecurity company focused entirely on securing one of the internet’s most vulnerable and often overlooked layers: web hosting environments.

We wrote more about the mission and value of their offering in 2025, in an exclusive interview with Patric Rosati from Monarx. If you will not have chance to read the whole conversation, here is the main takeaway:

According to Monarx’s announcement, what Hosting.com decided to choose them because of: 

  • automated & lightweight website protection,
  • advanced threat protection specifically tailored for WordPress,
  • real-time AI powered threat detection,
  • enterprise solution built for global scale and long-term growth.

Why Hosting.com made this move

At Hosting.com’s scale, security tools must meet three conditions at the same time:

  • minimal performance impact, 
  • centralized operation across many regions, 
  • no extra setup for customers.

According to the company announcement, Monarx met these requirements. The security layer is lightweight, automated, and built to operate across a large, distributed infrastructure.

From an operational point of view, this shifts security from a customer responsibility to a platform responsibility.

What changed for Hosting.com customers

Instead of relying on periodic scans or add-on plugins, Monarx is now embedded at the server level. Protection runs continuously and reacts in real time. The system is designed to detect threats as they happen, not after files are already compromised.

For customers, the change is mostly invisible:

  • no new plugins to install,
  • no scans to configure,
  • no separate security product to manage.

Malware and active threats are handled at the hosting layer. This reduces the risk of site suspension, cleanup delays, and unexpected downtime caused by infections spreading across servers.

Why this might matter for other hosting providers

This announcement is less about one vendor partnership and more about direction:

  • security is moving deeper into the hosting stack,
  • real-time protection is replacing scheduled scanning,
  • platform-level security reduces support load and incident response costs.

For large hosting providers, this approach also standardizes security quality across the entire customer base, rather than leaving it dependent on individual customer choices.

In short, Hosting.com is treating security as core infrastructure, not an optional feature. That decision aligns with how large hosting platforms are starting to compete: on reliability, trust, and operational simplicity rather than add-ons.