GoDaddy Has 20 Million Customers and Barely Added Any. That Might Be the Strategy.

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 Delivers WordPress Sites Before First Login. Version 3.0 Adds One-Prompt Setup.

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.

Apache 2.4.67 Patches 11 CVEs. One Is RCE. One Hits Shared Hosting.

Apache 2.4.67, released May 4, patches 11 CVEs including a CVSS 8.8 HTTP/2 remote code execution flaw and a shared hosting privilege escalation that lets customers read each other's files.

DigitalOcean Launches Inference Engine. $120 Million in AI Revenue Is Already Behind It.

DigitalOcean launched Inference Engine on April 28 with four AI pricing tiers, Blackwell Ultra hardware in Richmond, and $120M in AI annualized revenue growing 150% year-over-year.

NameSilo’s 2025 Results: Eight Years of Growth, Back in Profit.

NameSilo posted $65.5M revenue in 2025, up 18.5%, EBITDA up 84%, swung to profit, and its parent is now acquiring robotics firms with domain cash flows.

OpenAI Ends Azure Exclusivity. AWS and Google Cloud Are Now in Play.

Microsoft and OpenAI ended their seven-year Azure exclusivity on April 27, 2026, allowing OpenAI to distribute all products across AWS, Google Cloud, and any other provider, while Azure retains first-launch rights and Microsoft stops paying revenue share to OpenAI.

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.

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.

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.

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.