Author: Natalia Nowak
229 articles
Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
Industry reports
Mark Zuckerberg Just Put Every VPS Provider on Notice
Zuckerberg at Meta's shareholder meeting: Meta cloud business is "definitely on the table". The threat to mid-market VPS providers is real.
Industry reports
Hetzner Has Now Raised Prices Three Times in 2026. This One Is Different.
Hetzner's third price move of 2026 introduces a Limited tier and splits its dedicated portfolio. The two-tier signal may spread across European hosting.
Other
Cloudflare Called It AI Restructuring. Every Hosting Company Faces the Same Decision.
Cloudflare cut 1,100 on a record revenue day and called it AI restructuring. The "builders, sellers, measurers" framework maps onto hosting ops.
Security
CVE-2026-48172: LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Root Privilege Escalation, CVSS 10.0, Actively Exploited
LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS 10.0) lets any cPanel user execute scripts as root. Actively exploited. Patch to 2.4.7 now.
Events
Nordic Domain Days 2026: What Stockholm Told the Hosting Industry
Nordic Domain Days 2026 wrapped in Stockholm. Three signals matter for hosting providers: gTLD round, NIS2 Article 28, and AI infrastructure.
Events
WordCamp Europe 2026: A Hosting Industry Guide to the Schedule
WordCamp Europe 2026 opens June 4 in Kraków. The full schedule is live. Here is what the hosting industry should track across the three days.
Interviews
Traditional Hosting Is Disappearing – Berend, CEO of Realtime Register
Berend, CEO of Realtime Register, on why traditional hosting is disappearing, how AI flipped the order, and why commercial skills now beat the build.
Other
Dutch Authorities Dismantle Stark Industries. The Rebrand Didn’t Save It.
Dutch FIOD seized 800 Stark Industries servers on May 22, dismantling the bulletproof host that rebranded to THE.Hosting to evade EU sanctions.
M&A
CyberFolks and Shoper Agree to Merge Into a Single Listed Entity Valued at €1 Billion
CyberFolks will absorb Shoper through a share exchange, forming a single Warsaw-listed entity valued at approximately €1 billion.
Other
AWS Connected Its Network to Google Cloud With No Egress Fees. Azure and Oracle Are Next.
AWS Interconnect multicloud is generally available, connecting AWS and Google Cloud VPCs at flat bandwidth rates with no per-GB transfer fees.
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