Category: Industry reports

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.

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

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.

Bluehost's AI Confidence report: 34% of SMBs say their website matters more since AI, not less. Only 13% optimize for AI search.

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

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.

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

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