Princeton Digital Group has put $2.5 billion into India since 2022 and is now targeting 1 GW of capacity there. That capital is building for hyperscalers, and hyperscaler expansion changes the hosting market below it.
Author: Łukasz Nowak
Nearly two decades in IT. A decade in web hosting - and still in the trenches. Writing about the infrastructure that runs the internet from the inside.
DRAM contract prices more than doubled in Q1 2026, and a small but growing number of hosting operators have responded by deploying gaming consoles from the 1980s and 1990s as production web servers, citing a 2010 US Air Force supercomputer as their proof of concept.
The 3-2-1 backup rule was designed for hardware failure and accidental deletion, not for an attacker who has your credentials and can authenticate to your backup console before triggering ransomware.
Three separate US Senate actions in 48 hours last week targeted data center energy consumption while the EU, which made reporting mandatory in 2023, is already moving to efficiency ratings and minimum performance standards.
The European Commission confirmed attackers accessed its AWS-hosted Europa.eu infrastructure and took data. AWS says its platform was not the issue, the customer account configuration was.
IONOS posted its highest EBITDA margin since going public (36.8%), doubled its net customer additions, and guided for 37-38% margins in 2026. CEO Achim Weiss said on the earnings call that AI will account for 50% of incremental revenue in 2026, rising to 80% by 2028.
team.blue completed 11 SaaS acquisitions in 2025. Storyclash, Windsor.ai, and Saleskit are already done in the first quarter of 2026.
IONOS killed WHOIS privacy for all TLDs. Hetzner now requires ID verification for new customers. Plesk shipped a NIS2 compliance mode. The NIS2 Directive is no longer a future compliance problem for hosting providers - it is reshaping products, processes, and pricing right now.
Hosting.com is the first traditional hosting company to launch a product explicitly branded for AI-generated code. The platform, launched March 24, targets both developers using Cursor and Windsurf and non-technical users through a natural language app builder. It runs on Cloudflare Enterprise across 330+ PoPs with Monarx server security and WAF.
Server DRAM prices surged over 100% in Q1 2026 as AI demand consumed fabrication capacity. Then Iranian drones hit Qatar's Ras Laffan facility in March, taking 33% of global helium supply offline - and helium is irreplaceable in chip manufacturing.