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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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