Google Cloud incorrectly suspended Railway's account on May 19, 2026. Eight hours offline, despite AWS and Railway Metal workloads running throughout.
Author: Natalia Nowak
Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
Plesk 18.0.77 brings accessibility compliance, new SSL tooling, and APS Catalog removal. Pricing is up 26 percent since January. AI Copilot has no ship date.
AdminBolt is currently the only self-hosted control panel to ship a working in-panel AI assistant, with WhatsApp as a mobile extension.
iomart's revenue grew 25% and its EBITDA fell 24%. The gap between those two numbers explains the structural problem facing mid-market hosting in 2026.
A FunnelKit vulnerability is being actively exploited to steal card data from WooCommerce checkouts. Every customer who paid on a compromised store is affected. Patch to 3.15.0.3 now.
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
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.
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.