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Hosting Is the Next Layer AI Will Transform – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
Hetzner Has Now Raised Prices Three Times in 2026. This One Is Different.
Hetzner announced its third price move of 2026 on May 27, effective June 15. New orders only, portfolio standardised into -1/-2/-3 tiers, and a new Limited tier introduces hardware segmentation as a structural market shift. Other European hosts will face pressure to follow.
Cloudflare Called It AI Restructuring. Every Hosting Company Faces the Same Decision.
Cloudflare cut 1,100 employees (20% of headcount) on a $639.8M record revenue day and used a "builders, sellers, measurers" framework that maps directly onto hosting operations. Billing, support triage, and compliance are where AI closed the gap. The advantage goes to who acts first.
WordCamp Europe 2026: A Hosting Industry Guide to the Schedule
WordCamp Europe 2026 opens June 4 in Kraków with Contributor Day plus two conference days. The Inside WordPress 7.0 panel anchors Friday. Hosting-specific sessions cover stress testing, secure hosting, DDoS, and CERN's 800-site migration. Over a dozen hosting companies sponsor.
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Hosting Is the Next Layer AI Will Transform – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
Vito Peleg of Atarim on why he reads AI as the biggest opportunity hosting has had in fifteen years, how today's vibe coders mirror the server-in-the-bedroom generation that built today's hosting market, and why reactive agencies feel like a tax while proactive ones win.
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Traditional Hosting Is Disappearing – Berend, CEO of Realtime Register
At Hosts Del Mar, Berend, CEO of Realtime Register, explains why the traditional hosting model is being reversed by AI-first website builders, how Realtime Register is expanding from a domains-only wholesale registrar to a broader vendor stack for HSPs and MSPs, and why commercial and business skills will matter more than the build in the next wave of hosting.
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The Old Way to Sell Security in Hosting Just Broke – Oliver Sild, CEO of Patchstack
At Hosts Del Mar, Oliver Sild, CEO of Patchstack, explains why the twenty-year-old hosting security model of selling cleanups after the breach no longer works, why hackers got frontier AI first, and why proactive vulnerability protection has changed the math for hosts.
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Vibe Coding Rebuilt Our Entire Stack – Munir, Founder of aeServer.com
Munir, Founder of aeServer.com, on using vibe coding to automate domain registrations and rebuild their customer-facing stack, the new wave of online businesses in the Middle East, and whether Domain Days Dubai is happening this October.
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More Malware in Q1 Than All of Last Year – Patrick, CRO of Monarx
At Hosts Del Mar, Patrick, CRO of Monarx, explains why malware volume is growing 10x year over year, why traditional signature-based detection is losing ground, and how competing hosts are sharing threat intelligence with each other despite being direct competitors.
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The Last Two Weeks Changed Hosting – Seb de Lemos, CEO of hosting.com
The hosting industry just had a rough two weeks. cPanel, Linux, Apache, and a very clear lesson about the real risks of "semi-managed." On why the grey area between managed and unmanaged is no longer a theoretical problem: hosting.com CEO Seb de Lemos and co-founder Darren Lingham.
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GatorClaw Q&A: Security Architecture, Acknowledged Gaps, and What’s Next
GatorClaw runs AI agents on a persistent VPS for SMBs. Bluehost's Sean Dundon answered ten written questions about governance, prompt injection, credential handling, and how the product compares to Hostinger, DigitalOcean, and OneClaw. Two gaps were acknowledged directly.
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Copilot Q&A: How Cloudways Built an AI That Diagnoses Infrastructure Issues in Minutes
Ayaz Ahmed Khan of DigitalOcean explains how Cloudways Copilot reduces infrastructure troubleshooting from 30-40 minutes to 5-6 minutes, what the preview period taught the team, and where automated diagnosis still falls short.
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What Web Hosts Can Learn From Agencies
Schwartz, who has worked with WiredTree, Rackspace, SiteGround, Cloudways, Pressable, BigScoots, and Rocket.net across two decades of agency work, now splits client workloads across multiple providers by type rather than consolidating to one. His team built an internal MCP server connecting hosting APIs, WordPress, and project management tools directly, and he expects API quality to become a more significant selection factor as agencies build similar integrations.
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A Look Behind the Scenes of WordPress Global Expansion
From Industry Veteran to Global Expansion Lead WordPress is no longer ignoring global expansion efforts. It is no longer a future agenda item; rather, it is a current, actionable step motivated by people who know how to make a service work. One of the key figures behind this effort is James Grierson, whose decades-long career
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The Inflection Point of WordPress
Conversation With Jesse Friedman of Automattic and WP Cloud The WordPress ecosystem is always evolving, but right now the pace of change feels faster than ever. Nowhere was that more obvious than at State of the Word, This event has grown beyond a community event for developers and site builders. Today, it’s a strategic gathering
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Shared Hosting Tips in Greece
Europe's mature shared hosting markets offer valuable insights. In Greece, Enartia's Marianna Siouti explained their market experience.
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Shared Hosting Tips in Lithuania
Every market is different, but also the experiences of different companies in the same market can be different. And learning those different experiences can be fundamental for the growth of your company, whether it’s shared hosting or another industry.
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Founder Spotlight: Raquel Manriquez
Raquel is the founder of WonderlandCurious, a tech event consultancy dedicated to creating innovative, people-first experiences. With over a decade of leadership and contribution in the WordPress ecosystem, she brings deep community roots and real-world business perspective to everything she builds. In 2010, Raquel founded Mode Effect, a WooCommerce-focused agency she led and successfully exited
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Shared Hosting Tips in Morocco
Hostoweb.com, founded in 2006, is a Moroccan hosting company with its own data center and international presence. Created Morocco's first data center in 2009, later ranked top nationally. One of fewer than 50 African data centers. Launched low-cost VPS platform in 2016. We met CEO Mehdi Tazi to understand Morocco's shared hosting market.
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Exclusive interview with Bluehost CEO
In the hosting industry, real strategic shifts are rare. Most providers talk about innovation, but only a few make moves that genuinely change their long-term trajectory. The decision by Bluehost to migrate its entire platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is one of those moments. It’s a signal to the market that even the biggest players
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Why Secure Hosting Alliance Matters for the Industry with David Snead & Brett Dunst (DreamHost)
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
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Shared Hosting Tips in Thailand
We have now reached the beautiful Thailand. The country has a population of around 70 million people and around 30,000 temples, which comes up to about 3 domains per single temple! But let’s talk about hosting now.
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How Cloudways is challenging traditional hosting providers – exclusive interview with Fatih Mehtap
After WordCamp Europe, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the most strategic minds in cloud hosting today - Fatih Mehtap, Vice President of Marketing at Cloudways and DigitalOcean. With over two decades of experience at companies like Amazon, Oracle, Dell, and the fast-scaling influencer platform Vamp, Fatih brings a rare mix of
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Once in Hosting, always in Hosting – how industry veterans created JetHost.com
We had the pleasure of speaking with the team behind JetHost — experienced hosting professionals who previously built SuperHosting.bg into the leading provider in Bulgaria and the Balkans. In this conversation, they share why they returned to the hosting industry, how they approach growth through acquisitions, and what they believe modern customers really expect from