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AI Agents Now Run Hosting Operations, Not Just Content. Pressable’s June Update Is the Tell.
by Natalia Nowak · 1 Jul 2026
Pressable, an Automattic hosting lab, expanded its MCP integration in June so AI agents can run caching, backups, SSL, WP-CLI and bulk operations across a WordPress portfolio. With Rocket.net shipping a native MCP server too, the hosting control panel is becoming an interface built for agents.
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The Hosting Industry Runs on Subscription Billing. Visa Made That More Expensive.
by Natalia Nowak · 1 Jul 2026
Hosting runs on recurring billing but rarely counts the cost of collecting it. A quarter after Visa's April 2026 VAMP change cut the "excessive disputes" threshold from 220 to 150bps, the exposure is live, and GoDaddy's 10-K spells it out: reserves, higher fees, and settlement losses.
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Google’s TPUs Get a Blackstone-Funded Cloud of Their Own
by Natalia Nowak · 30 Jun 2026
Google and Blackstone are standing up a separate US company, majority-owned by Blackstone, to build data centers and sell Google's TPU chips as merchant compute beyond Google Cloud. Blackstone is committing $5 billion in equity toward 500 MW by 2027, and late-June hires for a COO and CTO show the venture being built from the ground up at pace.
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Europe’s Hosts Bundle Email to Keep Customers. One in Four Mailboxes Has No SPF.
by Natalia Nowak · 30 Jun 2026
ShareShift's State of Email 2026 scanned 56.3M European domains and found three in four run an active mailbox, a powerful retention lever. But 1 in 4 mailboxes has no SPF record. Strato attaches mail to 94% of new domains and configures SPF on 6%, while IONOS, All-Inkl and OVH bundle and protect.
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AI Website Builders Are Now Part of Provisioning. A GoDaddy Outage Just Showed Why.
by Natalia Nowak · 29 Jun 2026
A minor late-June GoDaddy Airo incident disrupted its free, AI-driven site-creation step. With AI builders now bundled into the plans at GoDaddy, Hostinger, Wix, and IONOS, their uptime has become an activation and revenue metric rather than a feature flag.
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2,930 of 2,931 Exposed MySQL Databases Were Already Marked by Ransomware. The Playbook Is Six Years Old.
by Natalia Nowak · 29 Jun 2026
A 2026 study found 2,930 of 2,931 exposed MySQL databases were marked by ransomware. One in four organizations still exposes MySQL, and honeypots get hit within 30 seconds. The PLEASE_READ_ME playbook from 2020 still works because the databases are not being broken into. They are being left open.
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