Category: Industry reports

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 gives AI agents a standard interface to 4.3 million stores. Unlike Shopify, nobody flips the default. That role belongs to the hosting provider.

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 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.

ShareShift analyzed 3M+ new European domains. On traditional hosting, 95% of new sites launch without embedded AI. Wix is at 100%, OVHcloud at 0.66%.

GoDaddy joined Patchstack's full-integration partner tier in April 2026. Most major managed WordPress hosting brands already use the Estonian vendor.

ICANN is debating a rule that would require registrars to investigate every domain from a customer when one is flagged for abuse. Seville (June 8-11) is where that debate begins in earnest. The gTLD window closes August 12.

OVHcloud reorganized European key accounts for a sovereign cloud market growing to $12.6 billion in 2026. Q3 results land June 25.

Zuckerberg at Meta's shareholder meeting: Meta cloud business is "definitely on the table". The threat to mid-market VPS providers is real.

Hetzner's third price move of 2026 introduces a Limited tier and splits its dedicated portfolio. The two-tier signal may spread across European hosting.