Author: Natalia Nowak
265 articles
Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
Security
Four Tiers of OpenClaw Hosting. Three Have a Security Problem.
OpenClaw has 138 documented security advisories and a market fractured into four tiers, ranging from $3.85 managed VPS to NVIDIA's NemoClaw enterprise stack and Cloudflare's ephemeral-container proof-of-concept.
Events
WordCamp Europe 2026, Kraków: Why the Hosting Industry Shows Up
WordCamp Europe 2026 runs June 4-6 in Kraków. Over 3,000 attendees, Matt Mullenweg closing keynote, and the first major community gathering after WordPress 7.0 ships.
Interviews
GatorClaw Q&A: Security Architecture, Acknowledged Gaps, and What’s Next
Bluehost's VP of Product Management answers ten direct questions about GatorClaw's security architecture, including two acknowledged gaps and the roadmap for ephemeral execution.
Events
Google Cloud Next ’26: What Actually Changed
Google's Cloud Next '26 in Las Vegas produced 260 announcements. For infrastructure buyers, the TPU 8i's 80% better price-performance for inference and Axion N4A's 2x advantage over x86 are the numbers that matter.
Events
WP Engine’s DE{CODE} 2026: Agenda Overview
WP Engine's DE{CODE} 2026 runs May 6 as a free virtual event, with separate broadcasts for EMEA (10 AM BST) and the US (11 AM EDT). Sessions cover WordPress 7.0, bot management, ACF, and headless architecture.
M&A
Your.Cloud Buys Cloud Geeni. Fourth UK Deal in the Roll-Up.
Your.Cloud acquired Cloud Geeni, a UK managed service provider with 30 years of IT expertise, in its fourth UK acquisition, bringing its European portfolio to 40+ companies and more than 25,000 customers.
Industry reports
WordPress 7.0 Has a New Confirmed release date: Here Is the Revised Plan
WordPress 7.0 is now scheduled. The core team published a revised plan on April 22 after a delay caused by unresolved issues in the real-time collaboration feature.
Industry reports
Cloudflare Built a Tool That Scores Sites on AI Readiness. Only 4% Pass.
The industry has spent a year building tools to block AI crawlers. Cloudflare's new readiness score asks the opposite question: is your site ready to work with agents? Only 4% of the top 200,000 domains are.
Industry reports
AI Agents Can Now Register Domains. No Human Required.
Cloudflare's Registrar API, in beta since April 15, lets AI agents register domains without human approval. Domain registration is becoming an automated infrastructure step.
Other
Cloudflare Agents Week: Every Announcement – Day by Day
Cloudflare's Agents Week, April 12-17, 2026, produced more than 20 announcements spanning compute, storage, networking, browser, email, voice, and developer tooling. The week followed Anthropic's April 8 managed agent launch and an 11 percent Cloudflare stock decline two days later.
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