Author: Natalia Nowak

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

HostAfrica acquires EvoWeb's hosting division. EvoWeb retains web design and WordPress services and continues to operate independently.

GoDaddy added 13,000 net customers in Q1 2026 on a base of 20.4 million. ARPU grew 9% to $246, free cash flow expanded 15%, and the company is no longer competing hard for new subscribers.

Extendify's Launch AI builds a finished WordPress site before the customer's first login. AutoLaunch delivers it via the hosting provider's own signup flow. Version 3.0 reduces creation to a single prompt.