Author: Natalia Nowak

Contabo reached 500,000 VPS on June 16 - the same quarter Scaleway, Hetzner, and OVH raised prices across their cloud portfolios.

Hetzner's CCX and CPX cloud servers rose 113-204% in 2026. The 30-37% headline applied only to entry-level shared vCPU tiers.

We asked six AI website builder assistants for an apple pie recipe. Two answered, two refused, and two could not process the question at all.

Blacknight, Ireland's largest independent web host, has joined Your.Online's European group while keeping its brand and leadership unchanged.

CVE-2026-49261 scores CVSS 10.0 and allows unauthenticated RCE in MariaDB Galera Cluster deployments. Standalone installations are not affected. Patches shipped May 27.

Automattic's Desktop Mode plugin turns /wp-admin into a windowed desktop OS. Built in three days during an internal sprint, it is already live on wordpress.org.

WooCommerce 10.9 gives AI agents a standard interface to 4.3 million stores. Unlike Shopify, nobody flips the default. That role belongs to the hosting provider.

A Delhi data center fire isolated a Google Cloud POP on June 9, degrading connectivity across three Indian cities. The compute never went down.

Namecheap halted Handshake TLD registrations on June 10. HNS is down 99% from its 2021 peak. Unstoppable Domains pivoted to traditional DNS.

Hetzner is up 30-35%. OVHcloud is up 49%. Shared hosting has not moved. The hardware replacement cycle explains the delay, not immunity from the cost.