How to Build and Deploy Any Website to a Hostinger VPS Server

This is the complete recipe for going from "empty laptop" to "my own website, live on the internet, that I can update myself" — using Claude Code, GitHub, and a Hostinger VPS (a computer you rent from Hostinger that runs your site). It assumes you know nothing yet. Every piece of jargon is explained the first time it shows up, including things like "what is a terminal."

This guide is specifically for Hostinger's VPS hosting — not shared hosting, not another provider's VPS. Some steps (like the hPanel dashboard and the free default domain) are Hostinger-specific and won't look the same elsewhere. It uses yourdomain.com as a stand-in example everywhere a real domain would go, and your-project-name as a stand-in for whatever you actually call your site. Follow it for any website you build, any time you start a new one, as long as it's hosted on a Hostinger VPS.

• Part 0 explains terminals, PowerShell, and Git Bash — read this first if you've never typed a command into a computer before.
• Parts A–C you only ever do once per laptop / once per VPS.
• Part D you repeat for every new website you start.
• Part F is the loop you'll use forever, for every change to any site.