Author: Natalia Nowak
229 articles
Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
Partners
NameHero’s Always-On AI Agent Hosting Comes With Six App Options
NameHero's AI Agent Hosting puts one of six apps, from OpenClaw to Claude Code, on an always-on VPS from $6.49 a month.
M&A
Nextcloud Takes Its First Outside Investor. Armira Growth Joins as a Minority Shareholder.
Nextcloud has taken on Armira Growth as a minority shareholder, its first outside investor in ten years. The founders keep the majority.
Other
WP Engine v. Automattic: Judge Leans Against Sanctions Over Mullenweg’s Messages
A judge called Mullenweg's X post on disappearing messages "admittedly problematic" but is inclined to deny WP Engine's sanctions bid.
Other
InMotion Hosting Seeks a President and COO. Co-Founder Todd Robinson to Become CEO.
InMotion Hosting is recruiting a president and COO to run the company from 2027, as founding president Todd Robinson prepares to move to CEO.
Software reviews
GoDaddy Rebuilt Its Domain Appraisal With an LLM. The Cap Rose to $1 Million.
GoDaddy rebuilt its GoValue domain appraisal around an LLM and raised the cap from $25,000 to $1 million.
Industry reports
Automattic Applied for 16 TLDs, Including .matt. Eleven Face Rivals.
Automattic applied for 16 new TLDs, including .wordpress and .matt. Eleven are contested, some by Hostinger, Aruba and Squarespace.
Pricing updates
Plesk, WHMCS and cPanel Cost Up to 20 Percent More in 2027
Plesk, WHMCS and cPanel all cost more in 2027, by up to 20 percent. cPanel moves first, on December 16, 2026.
Security
Attackers Target Ninja Forms and a WooCommerce Plugin to Hide a WordPress Admin
Attackers are targeting Ninja Forms and WPC Product Bundles with a payload built to hide its own WordPress admin and outlast plugin removal.
Industry reports
Cloudflare’s BEACON Measures the iPhone Traffic That Google’s CrUX Leaves Out
Cloudflare's BEACON puts daily real-user speed data from 10,000 large sites on BigQuery, iPhone traffic included. No site is named.
Partners
HostGator Records More Than 51 Million Proactive Security Actions in Brazil Using Monarx Technology
HostGator and Monarx recorded more than 51 million proactive security actions in Brazil between March and August 2026.
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