BalticNOG moves from Vilnius to Riga for its second edition. On paper it is a network operators meeting. Read the sponsor list and the topics and it is a hosting infrastructure event, from IPv4 leasing to BGP hijacks to peering.
Our data across 115 countries: Cloudflare appears in every top eight, GoDaddy in 49. But 375 providers appear in total, 284 of them in a single country, and in five markets the national leader leads by under one point.
More than 1,600 applications arrived before ICANN's window closed, but the bigger change is the rulebook. Private resolution of contention sets is now prohibited, and unlike its 2012 predecessor the Guidebook says nothing about where the auction money goes.
Storms knocked out the chillers at RadiusDC's Phoenix site on August 13, and at least four providers went offline behind that failure. The operator's only detailed account appeared on a tenant's status page, and no reason-for-outage report has followed.
CVE-2026-47876, rated 9.3, may let a guest VM with a VMXNET3 adapter escape to the VMware ESX host. Two vCenter flaws rated 9.8 shipped in the same advisory, and one is already being exploited in the wild.
Since cPanel moved to per-account pricing in 2019 and raised it most years since, the control panel has become a cost decision. Some hosts run their own panel, others license one of a widening set of independents, though the shift is directional rather than a measured stampede.
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