Virginia Democrats are deadlocked over their $1.6 billion data center tax exemption, with a budget-blocking special session set for April 23.
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.
In 2025, GDPR regulators fined two data processors directly for the first time. Hosting companies processing EU customer data are now in scope.
CloudFest Americas and i2Coalition announced a formal partnership on April 9, making i2Coalition the Official Conference Partner of CloudFest Americas in North America and naming i2Coalition Executive Director Christian Dawson as Chief Evangelist of the event.
Full-year 2025 .com domain data shows GoDaddy registering 7.9 million new domains but finishing with roughly 1 million fewer under management than it started with. Namecheap gained approximately 1.9 million, the largest gain of any registrar.
Colocation vacancy in the Americas ended 2025 at 4.2 percent, near historical lows, and the supply that was supposed to relieve it is not arriving. Sightline Climate estimates 30 to 50 percent of the 2026 US data center pipeline will be delayed or canceled, with only 5 GW of the 12 to 16 GW planned actually under construction.
WordPress 7.0 missed its April 9 release date and a new schedule will be announced by April 22. Hosting companies have a narrow window to prepare before the release date is confirmed.
IONOS wants to sell Sedo by Q3 2026, but the business that made Sedo worth €312 million in revenue two years ago effectively ended when Google shut down AdSense for Domains, causing a 66% single-quarter revenue collapse in Q3 2025.
Cloudflare released EmDash on April 1, a real open-source CMS built on Workers, D1, and Astro that sandboxes plugins in isolated v8 Workers, directly targeting the plugin security model that underlies most WordPress vulnerabilities.
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.
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.