Author: Natalia Nowak
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Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
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Namecheap Ends Handshake TLD Support as Web3 Domain Projects Retreat
Namecheap halted Handshake TLD registrations on June 10. HNS is down 99% from its 2021 peak. Unstoppable Domains pivoted to traditional DNS.
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Shared Hosting Has Not Raised Prices Yet. The Hardware Bill Is Coming.
Hetzner is up 30-35%. OVHcloud is up 49%. Shared hosting has not moved. The hardware replacement cycle explains the delay, not immunity from the cost.
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Lovable, Bolt, and Replit Are Generating Millions of Projects Every Week. Traditional Hosting Is Not Where They Land.
Lovable has 50 million total projects and over 1 million new ones weekly. The output is React and Node.js. PHP shared hosting is not where it lands.
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95% of New European Sites on Traditional Hosting Launch Without Embedded AI. ShareShift Maps the Gap.
ShareShift analyzed 3M+ new European domains. On traditional hosting, 95% of new sites launch without embedded AI. Wix is at 100%, OVHcloud at 0.66%.
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Patchstack Now Underpins Most Major Managed WordPress Hosts. GoDaddy Joined the Stack.
GoDaddy joined Patchstack's full-integration partner tier in April 2026. Most major managed WordPress hosting brands already use the Estonian vendor.
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Protect The Shire: WordPress Adds a 24-Hour Default Delay to Plugin Auto-Updates
WordPress.org made the 24-hour plugin auto-update delay default for every new release on June 5, 2026. Mullenweg calls it Protect The Shire.
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HTTP/2 Bomb: One Connection Crashes Web Servers. nginx Is Patched, Apache Is Not.
Single-connection HTTP/2 attack crashes web servers. nginx is patched today; Apache's fix has not reached distribution package managers.
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SiteGround Auto-Installed Its AI Plugin on 1 Million Sites. Reviewers Gave It 1.1 Stars.
SiteGround auto-installed its AI Agent plugin on 1M+ WordPress sites timed to WordPress 7.0. The plugin's rating dropped to 1.1 stars within days.
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OVHcloud Restructures Sales for a Sovereign Cloud Market That Just Got Real
OVHcloud reorganized European key accounts for a sovereign cloud market growing to $12.6 billion in 2026. Q3 results land June 25.
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Wix Cut 1,000 Jobs. Webflow Cut 140. The Website Builder Market Is Splitting.
Wix cut 1,000 jobs and Webflow 140, both naming AI. Hostinger Horizons hit 1M users, 93% first-time website owners.
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