Category: Industry reports

A new survey of 500 US web designers finds 76% fear AI's impact on their industry - but 78.6% still feel properly compensated. For hosting companies, the real story is not designer anxiety but what happens when AI tools replace the channel that has driven hosting sales for two decades.

At least 11 U.S. states have filed bills to temporarily ban data center construction, while others are rolling back billions in tax incentives. A state-by-state breakdown of every moratorium bill and incentive rollback in 2026.

The .org domain registry will increase its wholesale price starting June 1, 2026, a move that will likely ripple through registrar and hosting pricing in the coming weeks. Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates the .org extension, is raising the wholesale price from $9.93 to $11 per domain per year.

DreamHost's new Remixer AI builder generates full websites from a text prompt and publishes them directly to hosted domains — no CMS, no lock-in, starting at $1.99/mo.

For the past two years, the same prediction has been repeated across tech media. AI will replace customer support. Chatbots will answer everything. Support teams will shrink or disappear. It sounds convincing in theory. In practice, companies that actually run AI in production are discovering something very different.

The web hosting market continues to grow, but running a hosting business is becoming more complex each year. A global survey of 446 hosting providers shows…

When people talk about AI in customer support, they usually imagine a chatbot answering simple questions. But in reality, the most interesting implementations go much deeper than that. A good example is Hosting.com - a global hosting company with more than 900 employees and around a million support conversations every month.

In 2025 and early 2026, Newfold Digital, the private equity-backed company behind major hosting brands like Bluehost, HostGator, and Network Solutions, moved from being an infrastructure giant to a headline…

Nothing explodes on March 15 at 00:00, and existing certificates keep their original expiry dates. The change hits when you issue or reissue certificates from that point on: the maximum lifetime drops to 200 days, and the industry is already committed to shrinking it further.

A major outage hit Amazon Web Services in the United Arab Emirates after “objects” struck a data centre building, causing sparks and a fire. Local emergency crews cut power to the facility as they worked to put out the fire. What started as a problem in one Availability Zone later spread into a wider regional failure, with two zones.