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Latest Interviews news, updates and analysis from the web hosting industry — 30 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
Industry reports #airo#arpu
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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The One-Click Website Was Never Real. AI Does Not Change That – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
Vito Peleg of Atarim argues the agency panic about AI is ahead of the data: DIY activation rates have not moved, and people who left WordPress for Lovable came back in three months. The agencies that shorten delivery and lean into AI will run mega operations; the ones that resist will be replaced.
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Copilot Q&A, Part Two: The AI Finds the Problem. You Decide Whether to Fix It.
Ayaz Ahmed Khan on what Copilot adoption looks like in practice: nearly 400 preview customers, diagnosis time down from 30-60 minutes to minutes, a deliberate human-in-the-loop design, and why AI diagnostics became a paid add-on rather than a bundled feature.
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Elementor on Hosting: Your Stack, Your Choice – Gabriella Laster, Product Marketing Director at Elementor
Gabriella Laster of Elementor on why Elementor Hosting is an option not a lock-in, how the Abilities API turns Angie into a control layer for any WordPress plugin, and why she calls AI-only web building a black box.
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We All Need to Start Building More, and Faster – Artur Grabowski, Co-Founder at Extendify
At WordCamp Europe 2026 in Kraków, Artur Grabowski from Extendify says many plugins and hosts are still doing the same thing they did two years ago. That is not enough. The industry needs to build more, and faster.
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Some Hosts Are Losing a Lot of Sites – Lasse Hall, CEO of Servebolt
At Hosts Del Mar, Lasse Hall, CEO of Servebolt, on why PE consolidation does not worry him with 350,000 hosting companies globally, why some hosts are losing a lot of sites to AI-driven competitors, and why the next two to three years change hosting drastically.
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Stop Selling Hosting, Start Selling the Outcome – Jesse Friedman, Head of WP Cloud at Automattic
At Hosts Del Mar, Jesse Friedman, Head of WP Cloud at Automattic, on why hosting companies should stop selling hosting, how the Abilities API will let AI agents live inside WordPress, and why turnkey hosting for registrars keeps domains on the open web.
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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
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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
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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