Founder · Gen X Web Hosting & NiviChat

I build the boring parts businesses run on.

I'm Vipin Singh. In 2011 I was building an eCommerce platform and lost days just choosing and configuring a server — that frustration became Gen X Web Hosting. NiviChat started the same way, watching small teams lose customers to messages nobody had time to answer. Both products exist because I hit the problem first.

Vipin Singh, Founder and CEO of Gen X Web Hosting
Vipin Singh Founder & CEO · Lucknow, India
2011
Building since
15 yrs
In web infrastructure
Lucknow
Based in India
The journey

From a hosting headache to a hosting company

Gen X Web Hosting was not a business plan. It was a workaround that other people kept asking to use.

2011

The problem, first-hand

While building an eCommerce platform, my team had to pick and configure a hosting server. What should have been a checkout turned into a week of research, mismatched specs and support tickets. We decided the process itself was the product worth fixing.

2013

Gen X Web Hosting goes live

The workaround became a product, run out of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Shared Linux and Windows hosting came first, followed by reseller plans for the agencies and freelancers who were reselling us informally anyway.

2020s

Cloud, containers and automation

The stack grew to managed cPanel and Plesk hosting, WordPress, Node.js and Python environments, Node X cloud servers, dedicated hardware, business email, SSL and managed n8n automation hosting — with a team of engineers in Lucknow behind it.

Today

NiviChat, and the second problem

Hosting customers kept describing the same gap: enquiries arriving on the website and on WhatsApp at 11 p.m., with nobody to answer them. NiviChat is the answer to that — an AI chatbot that sells, supports and books appointments in the way India actually talks. Both brands now sit under Nivi Cloud Pvt. Ltd.

Ventures

Two products, one habit

Both started as something I needed and could not buy. Both sit under Nivi Cloud Pvt. Ltd., and both are built and run from Lucknow.

Gen X Web Hosting

Founder & CEO · since 2013

Domains, shared and reseller hosting, cloud servers and dedicated hardware for Indian businesses — with free migrations, a 30-day money-back window and support that puts you through to an engineer rather than a script.

Domains cPanel & Plesk Cloud VPS Dedicated Business email n8n hosting
99.9%
Uptime SLA
24/7
Support
30 days
Money back
genxwhosting.com

NiviChat

Founder & CEO · AI chatbot platform

An AI chatbot that sells, supports and converts. Train it on your website, docs and FAQs in minutes, then let it answer on web and WhatsApp around the clock — handing over to a human the moment the conversation needs one.

WhatsApp API Shopify WooCommerce Appointments RAG pipeline Multi-LLM
2,400+
Businesses
95%
Resolution rate
1.4s
Avg. response
nivichat.in
How I work

The same three rules, both times

Different products, identical opinions about how they should behave.

Simple by default

The interesting decisions should be yours, not the setup's. If a product needs a tutorial before it does anything useful, that is a design failure, not a documentation gap.

A human at the end of it

Automation should absorb the repetitive nine tickets out of ten and hand the tenth to a person who can actually decide something. That is how NiviChat is built, and how our hosting desk has always run.

Human handoff, both products

Built here, priced for here

Made in India, for the way Indian businesses actually buy and talk — WhatsApp first, rupee pricing, and a free tier that is genuinely usable rather than a two-week trial in disguise.

Contact

Point a camera, keep my details

The QR code below carries my full contact card. Scan it with your phone's camera and it offers to add me straight to your contacts — no app, no sign-up.

Vipin Singh

Founder & CEO, Gen X Web Hosting

Office 27/1A, Gokhale Marg, 3rd Floor, Riz Building, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226001, India

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