Author: Natalia Nowak
181 articles
Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
Security
A Ransomware Group’s Backend Was Leaked Because Their Hosting Provider Got Hacked First.
4VPS was breached on May 2. Two days later, The Gentlemen ransomware group's backend was leaked, exposing victim lists, ransom negotiations, and attack tooling
Security
Skynethosting Took Its Entire cPanel Fleet Offline on May 1. Two Weeks Later, Some Are Still Down.
Skynethosting took its entire cPanel fleet offline on May 1 in response to CVE-2026-41940, and as of May 14 some customer servers had been down for nearly two weeks, with one reseller publicly reporting a 30 percent client loss during the outage.
Security
cPanel Patched Five More CVEs. One Fix Is Already Reported Incomplete.
cPanel's May 13 patch covers five new CVEs, but security researcher Shubham Shah reported within hours that the fix for CVE-2026-29205 is incomplete and all cPanel instances remain exploitable until a working patch lands.
Security
Three cPanel Patches and DirtyFrag Fixes in One Day. Here Is Where Things Stand.
Three cPanel patches and Linux kernel fixes for DirtyFrag landed on May 8. Here is what got fixed and what to verify with your hosting provider.
Industry reports
The Cheap VPS Era Is Over. AI Hardware Demand Repriced the Market.
Six European providers raised VPS prices up to 49% in spring 2026. US hyperscalers are benefiting. The full price map and what drives the divide.
Other
DENIC’s New Infrastructure Took .de Offline. The Fix Came From Cloudflare.
On May 5, a defect in DENIC's newly deployed signing infrastructure made Amazon.de, DHL, Bahn.de, and hundreds of thousands of other .de domains unreachable for three hours. Servers were running. Monitoring showed green. The fix came from Cloudflare, not DENIC.
Industry reports
GoDaddy Joins a Second AI Agent Identity Consortium. DNS Is the Foundation.
GoDaddy is now at the center of two AI agent identity initiatives: a Cloudflare product partnership and a 30-company HOL standards consortium. DNS is becoming the address book for AI agents, and the registrar is positioned to be the gatekeeper.
Stock reports
Akamai Up 26%, Cloudflare Down 16%. Q1 Earnings Show Where AI Value Lives.
Akamai signed a $1.8B AI compute contract and surged 26% after earnings. Cloudflare beat estimates and fell roughly 16% on layoffs and a Q2 guidance miss. Same night, same market, opposite verdict on where infrastructure value lies in 2026.
Other
Two Hosting Providers Canceled a Customer’s Site Over a Trademark Complaint
InMotion Hosting and DreamHost both canceled Kenneth Gaughan's hosting for ESApet.org after a competitor filed trademark complaints, despite the DMCA's safe harbor not covering trademark claims, prompting a federal lawsuit filed May 5, 2026.
M&A
EvoWeb Splits Its Business in Two. HostAfrica Gets the Hosting Half.
HostAfrica acquires EvoWeb's hosting division. EvoWeb retains web design and WordPress services and continues to operate independently.
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