Author: Natalia Nowak

Cloudflare is in the top eight in all 115 markets we track, yet leads only 46, and a narrow-footprint provider comes first in 43.

ICANN's 2026 gTLD round bans the private settlements that ended many 2012 contests, so a losing bid now costs about $147,550.

A chiller failure in Phoenix took down Namecheap, Liquid Web and phoenixNAP, and the operator of the building explained it only on a tenant's status page.

A critical VMware flaw may let a guest VM run code on the ESX host, and Broadcom ships no workaround for it.

cPanel's per-account pricing keeps rising, and a real field of alternatives has grown around it, from hosts running their own panel to free independents.

ICANN says Web3 naming can enter the DNS root, under a strict same-name, same-owner rule. ENS incorporated and is chasing .ens rather than .eth.

WordPress 7.0.4 fixes a flaw where an image hiding PostScript runs code on the server. It needs an author account, and multi-author sites should hurry.

Google's field data, broken out by host: Wix customers pass Core Web Vitals at 80%, HostGator's at 39%. A measured speed ranking for the industry.

A CVSS 10 flaw let attackers become Metabase admins without logging in. Cloud instances were patched by the vendor. Self-hosted ones were not.

GoDaddy averages 24 million domains per brand. team.blue averages 163,000. Two opposite ways to consolidate a hosting market, measured.