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.
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.
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.
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.