FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Fix the Data-Center Queue

FERC gave six US grid operators 60 days to fix large-load interconnection; the queue, not the GPU, is the binding constraint on compute.

The Affiliate Funnel Built Modern Hosting. AI Search Is Dismantling It.

The review-site funnel that built Bluehost and Hostinger is collapsing under AI search. What the affiliate breakdown means for hosting CAC.

The File Nobody Watches: llms.txt Is the Hosting Industry’s Newest Attack Surface

Anyone can slip a fake support line or rogue download into a hosting firm's llms.txt, and AI agents repeat it as fact. Nothing on the domain is watching.

Europe’s Domain Market Is Splitting: Local Giants Hold the Base, Cloudflare and Namecheap Win the Flow

Cloudflare takes 18.3% of new European ccTLD registrations with a 5.5% installed base. United Internet controls 17% but 9 of 12 brands are not growing.

We Audited the AI-Crawl Posture of Hosting Companies. Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes.

We audited 736 hosting and infrastructure companies: 90% of the measurable declare no AI-crawler policy. The 58 that do reveal five strategies.

500,000 VPS: Contabo Hits a Scale Milestone in the Quarter Its Rivals Raised Prices

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

Is Cloudflare silently killing the web hosting industry?

Cloudflare is not trying to become another host. It is building the layer where new projects are deployed, secured and managed: domains, DNS, deployment, security, storage, compute and AI workflows. In that world, traditional hosting may no longer be needed.

WooCommerce 10.9 Ships Agent Abilities. The Hard Part Now Belongs to the Hosts.

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.

Shared Hosting Has Not Raised Prices Yet. The Hardware Bill Is Coming.

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.

Lovable, Bolt, and Replit Are Generating Millions of Projects Every Week. Traditional Hosting Is Not Where They Land.

Lovable has 50 million total projects and over 1 million new ones weekly. The output is React and Node.js. PHP shared hosting is not where it lands.