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Industry reports
OVHcloud Restructures Sales for a Sovereign Cloud Market That Just Got Real
by Natalia Nowak · 2 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
OVHcloud reorganized European key accounts for a sovereign cloud market growing to $12.6 billion in 2026. Q3 results land June 25.
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Put Every VPS Provider on Notice
by Natalia Nowak · 29 May 2026 · 3 min read
Zuckerberg at Meta's shareholder meeting: Meta cloud business is "definitely on the table". The threat to mid-market VPS providers is real.
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Hetzner Has Now Raised Prices Three Times in 2026. This One Is Different.
by Natalia Nowak · 29 May 2026 · 9 min read
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.
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Verisign Starts a Four-Year .com Price Cycle. The First 7% Hits in November.
by Natalia Nowak · 21 May 2026 · 6 min read
The November 2026 .com price hike is the first of four annual increases Verisign can take through 2029. Wholesale could reach $13.45.
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Plesk Obsidian 18.0.77 Ships. Pricing Up 26 Percent. AI Copilot Extension Coming.
by Natalia Nowak · 20 May 2026 · 4 min read
Plesk 18.0.77 brings accessibility compliance, new SSL tooling, and APS Catalog removal. Pricing is up 26 percent since January. AI Copilot has no ship date.
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How Web Hosts Can Compete in a Saturated Market with Bundled WordPress Support Services?
by Akshay Kumar · 19 May 2026 · 6 min read
The hosting market is saturated and price wars are eroding margins. Discover how bundling WordPress support services helps providers build deeper customer relationships and compete on value, not cost.
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More Revenue. Less Profit. What iomart’s FY2026 Reveals About Mid-Market Hosting.
by Natalia Nowak · 18 May 2026 · 8 min read
iomart's revenue grew 25% and its EBITDA fell 24%. The gap between those two numbers explains the structural problem facing mid-market hosting in 2026.
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The Cheap VPS Era Is Over. AI Hardware Demand Repriced the Market.
by Natalia Nowak · 12 May 2026 · 13 min read
Six European providers raised VPS prices up to 49% in spring 2026. US hyperscalers are benefiting. The full price map and what drives the divide.
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GoDaddy Joins a Second AI Agent Identity Consortium. DNS Is the Foundation.
by Natalia Nowak · 11 May 2026 · 7 min read
GoDaddy is now at the center of two AI agent identity initiatives: a Cloudflare product partnership and a 30-company HOL standards consortium. DNS is becoming the address book for AI agents, and the registrar is positioned to be the gatekeeper.
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Mullenweg Calls WordPress “Mediocre Crap” and Overrules Core Committers on 7.0
by Łukasz Nowak · 30 Apr 2026 · 3 min read
Matt Mullenweg called WordPress development "boring or mediocre crap," then overruled core committers to add Akismet to the WordPress 7.0 Connectors screen, weeks before the May 20 release.
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