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hostinger-agent-skills vs zeabur-agent-skills
Both of these register domains and both manage DNS, so the choice is not which one is the registrar — it is what else has to happen in the same session. Take hostinger-agent-skills when an agent will edit a zone you cannot afford to break: it is the only one of the two with a validate-before-apply call, zone snapshots and a restore, and the only one that also reaches shared hosting, WordPress and an AI site builder. Take zeabur-agent-skills when the job is an application rather than an account — deploy, redeploy, read logs, exec into the service, then bind it to a domain the same CLI just bought. One measured tiebreaker: 25 of Zeabur’s 31 loadable skills quote the words a user would actually type, against 0 of Hostinger’s 8, and a skill that never triggers does nothing however well it is written.
Pick hostinger-agent-skills
An agent will touch a DNS zone carrying production email or a live site, or the job also needs shared hosting, a WordPress install, a free subdomain, or a site generated from a prompt. Hostinger is the only side of this pair with a way back from a bad write.
Pick zeabur-agent-skills
The job is a codebase, not an account: push it to a URL, redeploy it, read the deployment logs, exec into the running service, and bind it to a domain the same CLI registered and will auto-renew.
Side by side
How they differ
| hostinger-agent-skills | zeabur-agent-skills | |
|---|---|---|
| Registers domains | Yes — availability check, purchase, WHOIS contact profiles | Yes — nine TLDs: .com .net .org .io .dev .app .co .me .xyz |
| After the purchase | Transfer lock, privacy protection, forwarding, nameserver delegation | Renewal, auto-renew, the ICANN verification window that suspends an unverified domain |
| DNS records | 10 types including ALIAS and SOA; one PUT rewrites the zone, MX priority inline in the content string | 8 types; one create/update/delete per record, with --ttl, --priority and a proxy-through-Cloudflare flag |
| Recovering a bad DNS edit | Validate as a dry run, zone snapshots, restore, reset-to-defaults that can whitelist MX and TXT | Nothing — no validate, no snapshot, no restore. You re-create the record from memory |
| Interface | REST plus a bearer token throughout, with Python, TypeScript and PHP snippets beside the curl | CLI first (npx zeabur@latest, never bare zeabur), falling back to bearer-token curl against its GraphQL API where the CLI has no command yet |
| What else is in the bundle | Shared hosting, WordPress installs, VPS with Docker Compose, billing, ecommerce stores, email marketing, the Horizons AI site builder | Container deploy and redeploy, deployment logs, service exec, templates, env vars, rented servers, Kubernetes node pools |
| Will the skill fire | 0 of 8 descriptions quote a user utterance — all are "API for… Use when…" | 25 of 31 quote real phrasing ("buy domain", "add DNS record"), and several carry negative routing ("NOT for…") |
| Maintenance signal | 4 commits, newest 2026-06-16; dns and vps still dated 2026-03-20 — and those dates match git, so they are honest | 182 commits, newest 2026-09-06; no freshness field on any skill, so you cannot tell what is stale |
| Cross-agent support | Codex named once in README prose, with no manifest behind it | A Codex plugin manifest, an AGENTS.md, and CI that fails if the Codex mirror drifts |
| Packaging | 8 skills, MIT in a LICENSE file | 32 directories but 31 load — zeabur-template-deploy ships skill.md in lowercase, so the installer cannot see it. MIT declared in the manifest and README, no LICENSE file |
Registers domains
- hostinger-agent-skills
- Yes — availability check, purchase, WHOIS contact profiles
- zeabur-agent-skills
- Yes — nine TLDs: .com .net .org .io .dev .app .co .me .xyz
After the purchase
- hostinger-agent-skills
- Transfer lock, privacy protection, forwarding, nameserver delegation
- zeabur-agent-skills
- Renewal, auto-renew, the ICANN verification window that suspends an unverified domain
DNS records
- hostinger-agent-skills
- 10 types including ALIAS and SOA; one PUT rewrites the zone, MX priority inline in the content string
- zeabur-agent-skills
- 8 types; one create/update/delete per record, with --ttl, --priority and a proxy-through-Cloudflare flag
Recovering a bad DNS edit
- hostinger-agent-skills
- Validate as a dry run, zone snapshots, restore, reset-to-defaults that can whitelist MX and TXT
- zeabur-agent-skills
- Nothing — no validate, no snapshot, no restore. You re-create the record from memory
Interface
- hostinger-agent-skills
- REST plus a bearer token throughout, with Python, TypeScript and PHP snippets beside the curl
- zeabur-agent-skills
- CLI first (npx zeabur@latest, never bare zeabur), falling back to bearer-token curl against its GraphQL API where the CLI has no command yet
What else is in the bundle
- hostinger-agent-skills
- Shared hosting, WordPress installs, VPS with Docker Compose, billing, ecommerce stores, email marketing, the Horizons AI site builder
- zeabur-agent-skills
- Container deploy and redeploy, deployment logs, service exec, templates, env vars, rented servers, Kubernetes node pools
Will the skill fire
- hostinger-agent-skills
- 0 of 8 descriptions quote a user utterance — all are "API for… Use when…"
- zeabur-agent-skills
- 25 of 31 quote real phrasing ("buy domain", "add DNS record"), and several carry negative routing ("NOT for…")
Maintenance signal
- hostinger-agent-skills
- 4 commits, newest 2026-06-16; dns and vps still dated 2026-03-20 — and those dates match git, so they are honest
- zeabur-agent-skills
- 182 commits, newest 2026-09-06; no freshness field on any skill, so you cannot tell what is stale
Cross-agent support
- hostinger-agent-skills
- Codex named once in README prose, with no manifest behind it
- zeabur-agent-skills
- A Codex plugin manifest, an AGENTS.md, and CI that fails if the Codex mirror drifts
Packaging
- hostinger-agent-skills
- 8 skills, MIT in a LICENSE file
- zeabur-agent-skills
- 32 directories but 31 load — zeabur-template-deploy ships skill.md in lowercase, so the installer cannot see it. MIT declared in the manifest and README, no LICENSE file
Open hostinger-agent-skills or zeabur-agent-skills for the composite score, license, and exact install commands, or browse the full Web Hosting & Deploys category.
Verdict
The bottom line
Running both is the coherent answer more often than picking one, because they are account-scoped rather than competing: hold the domain and the zone on Hostinger where a mistake is recoverable, deploy the application on Zeabur, and point one at the other with a single A or CNAME record. What neither does is take a domain registered at a third company — Zeabur’s DNS skill manages Zeabur-registered domains only, and Hostinger’s reaches zones Hostinger hosts. Neither can transfer a domain in either, because that needs an authorization code only the losing registrar issues to the human owner. And neither enforces a guardrail: Zeabur is the only one that tells the agent to quote a price and get an explicit yes, and even that covers server rental and cluster scaling rather than the domain purchase. Both sets of rails are prose in a markdown file, so the real gate on a money-spending action is your own harness, not the skill.
FAQ
Common questions
Which one should I use to buy a domain with an agent?
Either — both document a real purchase, not just an availability check. Zeabur is fewer moves if you are also deploying there, since search, purchase and the service binding are one CLI. Hostinger is the better choice if you will keep managing the name afterwards, because it covers transfer locks, WHOIS privacy and forwarding that Zeabur does not, and its nine-TLD limit does not apply.
Can Zeabur’s skills manage DNS for a domain I registered somewhere else?
No. zeabur-domain-dns manages zones for Zeabur-registered domains only and tells you to configure DNS at your own registrar otherwise. Hostinger has the same shape of limit in the other direction — it reaches zones Hostinger hosts. Neither is a general-purpose DNS client.
Is one safer to let an agent run unattended?
Neither is safe unattended, but they fail differently and that difference matters. Hostinger gives you recovery: validate before applying, snapshot before a bulk change, restore afterwards. Zeabur gives you a confirmation habit — its server-rental and cluster-scaling skills state that a bare "ok" is not consent — but has no DNS rollback at all, and its domain purchase carries no such warning. If the zone is live, prefer the one that can put it back.
Do these work with Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI?
Both install through the skills CLI, which writes a universal .agents/skills/ folder several clients read, and both were installed that way on 2026-09-17. Beyond that the evidence differs sharply: Zeabur ships a Codex plugin manifest, an AGENTS.md and a CI check that the Codex mirror has not drifted, while Hostinger mentions Codex once in README prose with nothing behind it. Neither documents Cursor or Gemini CLI, so this site lists neither for them.
Is hostinger-agent-skills still being maintained?
It is close to dormant — 4 commits in total, the newest on 2026-06-16, with the dns and vps skills still carrying last_updated: 2026-03-20. The redeeming detail is that those dates are accurate rather than decorative: each matches the file’s real last change. Zeabur is the opposite trade, 182 commits and a merge as recent as 2026-09-06, but no freshness metadata on any skill, so staleness there is invisible rather than disclosed.
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