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Latest Industry reports news, updates and analysis from the web hosting industry — 232 articles.
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Thirty Deals in Six Months: The H1 2026 Hosting Consolidation Map, and the Two Clocks Driving What Sells Next
H1 2026 produced a US$1B Polish hosting-commerce merger, a $450M registrar champion, serial buyers closing two deals apiece within a fortnight, and a $40B data-centre record, while Google's AdSense shutdown forced Sedo and Team Internet to market. The map, the multiples, and the debt walls pushed to 2028-2029.
GoDaddy Q2 2026: More Revenue From the Same Customers
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GoDaddy's Q2 2026: revenue up 6.6%, EPS up 30%, customers up by just 22,000. ARPU, upsell and an $851.8 million buyback are doing the work, and the segment split shows domains and hosting growing slowest of all.
The Hosting Price Squeeze, Part 3: The Playbook
Expert's Voice #control-panel#pricing
In the final part of the series, BrandForge CEO Michiel Grotenhuis turns to the practical question: what do you actually do about rising hosting costs? He borrows from streaming, SaaS, and retail, shares what the community is doing, and argues for reducing dependence on any single vendor.
The Renewal Multiplier Index: What Hosting Costs After the Intro Price
Pricing updates #bluehost#hostinger
First edition of our quarterly index, measured July 29: SiteGround renews at up to 5.3x, the price-lock club at 1.0x, and GoDaddy, HostGator, and Namecheap mid-band at 1.7–3.7x. At every provider with a full plan range, the entry plan renews at a higher multiple than the top plan.
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Kinsta moves sites to Oracle Cloud after 10 years with Google Cloud
TL;DR - Kinsta announced migration of WordPress sites from Google Cloud to Oracle Cloud. They stayed on Google Cloud for nearly a decade because it made sense at the time. They’re leaving
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Gandi’s 20% CAGR growth story in 2025
TL;DR - Gandi reported crossing €70M in revenue in 2025 and growth at roughly 20% CAGR. That alone isn’t unique. What is worth noting is how it’s growing: slowly, internationally, and by
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Why Ghana’s move to take back back .gh is important for domain and hosting execs
TL;DR - Ghana’s government wants full control of the .gh country-code domain. After nearly 30 years of private operation, the state is moving to nationalize it. This isn’t just a local political
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Secure hosting is a myth – real data finally exposes it
For years, “secure hosting” has been treated as a given in the hosting industry. It appears everywhere: product pages, comparison tables, sales decks. The implicit message is simple - if you host
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Team Internet Group shares 50% down YoY. Will it manage to reshape its business after a difficult year?
TL;DR - shares of Team Internet Group are down more than 50% year-on-year after a difficult 2025, mostly caused by a sharp reset in the domain monetization market. The company is now
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NameSilo crosses 6 million domains
TL;DR: NameSilo has surpassed 6 million domains under management, placing it in the top ~1% of ICANN-accredited registrars worldwide. This is not a flashy product story, but a scale and execution signal
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IONOS: How to do cross-sell on shared hosting without selling BS
TL;DR - Many companies focus their growth narratives around cloud, platforms, or AI layers on top. Against that, IONOS stands out, mainly because it never tried to reinvent shared hosting. Instead, IONOS
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DigitalOcean enters into a partnership with Character.ai
For years, DigitalOcean occupied a very clear place in the technology landscape. It was the cloud you chose when you wanted simplicity, speed, and clarity. A platform built for developers, startups, and
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Jose Ruiz Launches Vector Datacenters
A Purpose-Built Platform for the AI Era A new player is making waves in the hyperscale world, and those familiar with digital infrastructure will recognize the name. Jose Ruiz, a seasoned data
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Acquired to be shut down: How WP Engine absorbed Big Bite for its know-how
TL;DR - WP Engine’s acquisition of Big Bite, a newsroom-focused WordPress agency, matters not because it “changes the market.” It is part of a long-term trend observed for over a decade: hosting
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GoDaddy lost ~40% of its valuation over the past year
TL;DR: GoDaddy shares hit a new 52-week low in January 2026. The company beat quarterly estimates with revenue up 10.3% year over year, yet the market reaction remained negative. To understand that
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Proxmox VE and the Market Shift Shaping Virtualization
A research-driven overview of why Proxmox VE is gaining traction as organizations reassess virtualization strategies, and how WHMCS providers can translate this momentum into a structured, automated service offering using the Proxmox VE VPS & Cloud For WHMCS module by ModulesGarden.
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The Rise of Revenue-First Operations
As agencies face rising costs and tighter budgets, revenue-first operations are reshaping how growth is achieved. By prioritizing profitability, delivery efficiency, and white label partnerships such as models used by Seahawk Media agencies are scaling sustainably without increasing headcount.
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Verisign May Regain the Option to Raise .com Prices in 2026
Verisign may again be able to raise wholesale prices for .com domains in late 2026, despite earlier assumptions that such an increase would not be permitted during that year. A closer reading of the company’s contractual framework suggests that the timing of past price increases has blurred how the pricing rules actually work.
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The hosting market is entering a bot-first reality – key takeaways from WP Engine’s 2025 traffic report
WP Engine has released its 2025 Website Traffic Trends Report, based on first-party data and external sources like Google CrUX and Cloudflare. This is not another vision piece. It is a snapshot of what is already happening on production websites — at scale.
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Bluehost makes a clear move toward AI leadership
In the hosting industry, executive changes often signal more than just a new name on the org chart. This week, Bluehost made such a move by appointing Antonis Papatsaras as its new Chief Technology Officer. This is not a symbolic hire. It is a strategic one. Bluehost is openly positioning itself as an AI-first platform for small and medium-sized businesses, and this appointment confirms that direction.
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SiteGround introduces Coderick AI
SiteGround has announced a new product called Coderick AI, and this move is worth the attention of anyone involved in the hosting business. This is not just another website builder or an AI feature added to an existing control panel. SiteGround is clearly positioning itself beyond traditional hosting by offering a full build–launch–host workflow in one place.
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GoDaddy Launches ANS Marketplace
GoDaddy has unveiled the ANS Marketplace, positioning itself at the center of a fast-emerging trend: AI agents as first-class citizens of the internet. While the announcement is framed around trust and security for AI, its implications go much deeper — especially for the web hosting industry.
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Newfold Digital Takes Another $100 Million — Not a Bet on Growth, but on Time
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.
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Memory market alert: hosting industry on the brink of revolution
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.