Category: Industry reports

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.

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%.