Category: Industry reports

For over a dozen years, it’s been one of those names that inspired a sense of security in the hosting industry: ConfigServer. For server administrators using cPanel or DirectAdmin, it has become almost synonymous with stability. The CSF firewall, exploit scanners, spam monitoring — a suite of tools that over the years has become a standard.

Every once in a while, the hosting industry gets a shakeup big enough to make even the most jaded execs sit up and pay attention. This is one of those moments. Rocket.net - the fast-rising managed WordPress platform that barely existed six years ago and is already making noise at the top of the market - is officially joining forces with Hosting.com

Hostinger has added Kuala Lumpur to its global network of data centers, strengthening its footprint in one of the most dynamic digital markets worldwide. The new facility is aimed at businesses and creators who serve audiences in Southeast Asia, where speed and stability can directly influence how users interact with online services.

Is AI finally ready to make hosting management less about firefighting and more about prevention? Cloudways, part of DigitalOcean, is betting on it. Today, the company…

In November 2025, Radix will move its entire portfolio of domain extensions from Team Internet, formerly known as CentralNic, to Tucows Registry. This is not a small adjustment in the background. It involves around ten million domain names across eleven TLDs, including .online, .store, .tech, .site, .fun, .host, .press, .space, .uno, .website.

We’ve officially crossed the 371-million mark in domain registrations worldwide, and no one’s entirely sure whether we should be impressed… or concerned. According to latest Domain Name Industry Brief (Q2 2025), the internet is growing in a way that’s both predictable and increasingly chaotic.

WP Engine announced the launch of its AI toolkit designed specifically for WordPress websites. The toolkit includes three core features: Smart Search AI, AI-Powered Recommendations, and a Managed Vector Database with an open-source chatbot framework.

Imagine signing up for web hosting and having someone build your website for free. No fuss, no page builders, no AI involved. You just sit down, fill out a form, and the DreamHost team takes care of the rest. From scratch. By hand. And it looks good. Sounds absurd? Yet it’s real - this is an actual offer.

In a rapidly evolving web hosting industry, a new player has emerged from a team of familiar faces. BuiltFast.com, is a hosting company founded by former…

After years of handling the .CO domain, GoDaddy has lost its role as the official registry. A new partnership, called Consórcio Equipo PuntoCo, made up of Germany’s Team Internet and Colombia’s Central Comercializadora de Internet (CCI), has won the contract to operate Colombia’s country-code top-level domain (ccTLD), .CO, for the next ten years.