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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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.
Industry reports
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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WP Engine Counsel Seeks WordPress Foundation Dissolution as WordCamp Europe Opens
WP Engine pursues WordPress Foundation dissolution. The June 4 hearing coincides with WordCamp Europe's opening day in Kraków.
Security
The Exploit Record: How Government Networks Keep Getting Breached
A cPanel zero-day hit Guam. CISA got breached through Ivanti. Salt Typhoon accessed US wiretap systems. The case file of government breaches.
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.
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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.
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