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For a company of Newfold Digital’s size, raising another $100 million is not a sign of aggression. It is a sign of pressure. Based on the documents released this week, Newfold Digital has secured $100 million in new financing from its existing owners, Clearlake Capital Group and Siris Capital Group. The money is positioned as a recapitalization, not a new growth round.

In early December 2025, Micron announced a shockwave in the hardware world: the company is officially exiting the consumer memory business — i.e. it will stop selling RAM, SSD and other memory/storage products under its once-ubiquitous Crucial label.

The 2025 edition of State of the Word wrapped this week in San Francisco, and for the first time, the keynote synced with a major WordPress release. That’s right. WordPress 6.9 dropped live during the event, adding a dose of adrenaline that no blog post could replicate.

Grafana has released a set of emergency security patches after discovering a critical vulnerability in its Enterprise editions. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-41115, carries the maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and affects environments where the SCIM feature is enabled and used for automated user provisioning.

As part of our research into Black Week behavior in the hosting industry, we looked at INBS.software's uniform approach across ModulesGarden, EasyDCIM, MetricsCube, and PanelAlpha. Our pricing review confirmed that the current discounts match the lowest levels recorded this year, structured within a single cross-brand format.

A recent message from CentralNic Reseller addressed to its customers reveals that the company has observed “activity outside our operational systems that we are investigating” and is taking precautionary measures. The announcement states that while there is no confirmed impact on operational systems or customer data, the reseller will rotate all domain authorisation (auth) codes across its platform

A major outage at Cloudflare is currently causing widespread disruption across the internet, affecting many high-traffic platforms and online services. Users around the world are unable to load websites that depend on Cloudflare for routing, security, and content delivery. The incident begins late in the morning (UTC), when Cloudflare reports an internal service degradation. The

Most people spend more than an hour every single day just dealing with emails. Think about it - replying, sorting, deleting, searching for that one message from two weeks ago... it all adds up. And that’s the problem Hostinger wanted to solve. Instead of trying to patch up what’s already out there, they built something completely new: Hostinger Mail - a business email service created from scratch, with AI at its core.

“Most people want to have a website, but almost nobody wants to make one.” - This short sentence says a lot about where the hosting industry is today. For Dallas Kaszuba, one of the people who helped build the early internet, hosting is no longer only about servers or code - it is about helping

This was our second time at Domain Days Dubai, and honestly - it just keeps getting better. You could feel it from the moment you stepped into the venue. The buzz, the people, the energy - everything felt more polished, more dynamic, and definitely bigger than last year. This time, there were over 300 attendees,

Change is coming to the world of web hosting automation - and it’s going to affect nearly every WHMCS user. Early in 2026, specifically on January 1st, WHMCS will roll out a new pricing structure that marks one of the most significant adjustments in recent years. For many hosting providers, developers, and digital agencies, this announcement has already sparked conversations and some concern about rising operational costs and long-term sustainability.

January 1, 2026. According to industry sources and partner communications, this update will introduce an average price increase of approximately 26%, alongside a structural change in how subscriptions are billed. These updates follow Plesk’s established pattern of annual price adjustments and reflect broader changes within the WebPros group’s commercial strategy.

The Secure Hosting Alliance is gaining momentum. More and more companies are joining including big names like Hostinger and DreamHost. So we decided to take a closer look at what this initiative actually is, what it stands for and why it matters for the hosting industry. To make it simple and straight to the point

As has become tradition, cPanel has once again announced updated licensing prices — and, as usual, the hosting community’s reaction ranges from weary sighs to outright frustration. Starting January 1, 2026, new pricing will take effect, and while the increases aren’t surprising, they will certainly sting for many administrators and resellers.

Porkbun has hit a major milestone: more than 3 million domains are now under its management. For a company that entered the scene in 2015, the achievement highlights just how far it has come in less than a decade.

When you look at the hosting industry, you don’t expect much change. Most companies move slow, stick to old playbooks, and call it innovation when they add a new control panel theme. I even dedicated an entire article outlining Why Hosting Providers Are So Slow To Change? Understanding the reasons is one thing, but being

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he first day of the Domain Summit London 2025 has officially wrapped, and you can feel the energy. Industry leaders, innovators, and domain enthusiasts from around the globe have gathered at the prestigious "Business Design Center" for what is already shaping up to be an unforgettable event. As the day's sessions conclude, we're left with a wealth of new ideas and a renewed sense of community.

Exciting news for users from France with strong GDPR and privacy demands that need hosting services! Hosting.de GmbH, a leading web hosting provider based in Aachen, Germany, is expanding its cloud hosting.

For over a dozen years, it’s been one of those names that inspired a sense of security in the hosting industry: ConfigServer. For server administrators using cPanel or DirectAdmin, it has become almost synonymous with stability. The CSF firewall, exploit scanners, spam monitoring — a suite of tools that over the years has become a standard.