Author: Natalia Nowak

CloudFest Americas brings the infrastructure festival to Miami on Nov 11-12, 2026, with 2,000+ attendees, five program themes, and a hosting-to-domains lineup.

Pressable's June MCP update lets AI agents run backups, SSL, WP-CLI and bulk operations across WordPress hosting, moving agents from content into infrastructure.

A quarter into Visa's April 2026 VAMP change, the "excessive disputes" threshold now sits at 150bps, a live margin cost for hosting's renewal model.

Google and Blackstone are building a separate, majority-Blackstone company to sell TPU capacity directly to outside customers. Late-June C-suite hires show how fast they are moving.

A ShareShift audit of 56.3M European domains finds 3 in 4 run mail, but 1 in 4 mailboxes has no SPF, with Strato attaching mail to 94% of domains and protecting 6%.

A minor GoDaddy Airo site-creation incident shows AI builders are now part of onboarding and provisioning, not just marketing.

Researchers found 2,930 of 2,931 exposed MySQL databases marked by ransomware. Exposing a database to the internet is now a near-guarantee of compromise.

The EU preliminarily named AWS and Azure DMA gatekeepers on June 25, its first cloud case and first without the size thresholds, citing AI lock-in.

Shared vCPU in Europe is still 60-75% cheaper than US providers. Dedicated vCPU has reached price parity. The European advantage has split.

Hostinger gave its AI agent Kodee terminal access to customer VPS. Retention rose from 66% to 70%, and only 7% of conversations need a human.