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2 🇮🇩 Indonesia +10.3%
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5 🇱🇻 Latvia +6.3%
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7 🇪🇪 Estonia +4.9%
8 🇨🇴 Colombia +4.5%
9 🇲🇾 Malaysia +4.4%
10 🇸🇮 Slovenia +4.3%
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2webnic.cc+51.4%
1ns.de−7.9%
3strato.de+0.7%
4wix.com+1.1%
5ionos.com+1.5%
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BalticNOG 2026: What the Baltic Network Operators Meeting in Riga Means for Hosting Providers
by Natalia Nowak · 18 Aug 2026
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.
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Cloudflare Is in Every Market We Track. It Leads Fewer Than Half of Them.
by Natalia Nowak · 18 Aug 2026
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.
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ICANN Banned the Private Deals That Ended Most 2012 gTLD Contests
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Aug 2026
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.
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A Chiller Failure in Phoenix Took Down Namecheap, Liquid Web and phoenixNAP.
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Aug 2026
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.
Security
The Hypervisor Escape Comes to VMware: CVE-2026-47876 May Let a Guest VM Run Code on the ESX Host
by Natalia Nowak · 14 Aug 2026
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.
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The Field of cPanel Alternatives Keeps Widening. A Brand-New One Comes From Inside cPanel’s Ecosystem.
by Natalia Nowak · 14 Aug 2026
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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