Category: Industry reports

team.blue completed 11 SaaS acquisitions in 2025. Storyclash, Windsor.ai, and Saleskit are already done in the first quarter of 2026.

The NIS2 Directive is no longer a future compliance problem for hosting providers - it is reshaping products, processes, and pricing right now.

Hosting.com is the first traditional hosting company to launch a product explicitly branded for AI-generated code. The platform, launched March 24, targets both developers using Cursor and Windsurf and non-technical users through a natural language app builder. It runs on Cloudflare Enterprise across 330+ PoPs with Monarx server security and WAF.

Server DRAM prices surged over 100% in Q1 2026 as AI demand consumed fabrication capacity. Then Iranian drones hit Qatar's Ras Laffan facility in March, taking 33% of global helium supply offline - and helium is irreplaceable in chip manufacturing.

WordPress.com opened write access to its MCP server on March 20, letting AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT create posts, manage comments, and organize content on any paid site. The update adds 19 operations across six content types - and signals a shift in how site management works that hosting providers cannot afford to ignore.

China leads in absolute size, but Vietnam's 24.5% CAGR and Indonesia's infrastructure surge are rewriting the growth playbook. A data-driven breakdown of where the region's hosting revenue is - and where it is heading.

From a $4.5 billion hyperscale campus in Indonesia to Google's new Bangkok region, early 2026 has seen an unprecedented wave of infrastructure investment across Asia-Pacific. Here is what is driving it - and what it means for the hosting industry.

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.