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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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CyberFolks and Shoper Agree to Merge Into a Single Listed Entity Valued at €1 Billion
CyberFolks will absorb Shoper through a share exchange at 0.2281 CyberFolks shares per Shoper share, forming a single Warsaw-listed entity valued at €1 billion. The merged group holds Shoper, PrestaShop, MailerLite, and Sylius, covering most of the e-commerce stack across Europe.
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OpusDNS Acquires fruits.co, Adding Domain Monetization to Its Wholesale Registrar Platform
OpusDNS acquired fruits.co, combining wholesale domain registration with EU-VAT-compliant aftermarket sales. Built by Hexonet and InterNetX veterans, OpusDNS positions against legacy registrar infrastructure with a 12-month integration roadmap that will test the consolidation thesis.
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your.online Acquires Sansec, Adding E-Commerce Security to a 60-Acquisition Group
your.online has acquired Sansec, a Magento and WooCommerce security company, marking the Dutch hosting group's first move into specialist e-commerce security tooling.
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HOSTAFRICA Acquires Zanode, Its Second South African Deal in Nine Days
HOSTAFRICA announced the acquisition of Zanode on May 14, 2026, nine days after acquiring Evoweb's hosting division, adding a South African git-driven deployment platform to its African hosting portfolio.
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EvoWeb Splits Its Business in Two. HostAfrica Gets the Hosting Half.
HostAfrica has acquired the hosting division of South African provider EvoWeb, the latest in a series of deals across Africa since 2016. EvoWeb retains its web design and WordPress development practice.
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HostPapa Acquires Hostwinds, Adding Seattle and Amsterdam Infrastructure in Its Second Acquisition This Month
HostPapa acquired Hostwinds on April 29, adding self-owned data centers in Seattle and Amsterdam and a developer and reseller customer base to its portfolio, twelve days after acquiring Tailor Made Servers in Dallas.
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Axxess Acquires Absolute Hosting to Grow Its Hosting Revenues in South Africa
South African ISP Axxess acquired Absolute Hosting as part of a deliberate 2026 strategy to grow hosting revenues, with founder Jade Benson remaining managing director and the company continuing to operate independently under its own brand.
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Your.Cloud Buys Cloud Geeni. Fourth UK Deal in the Roll-Up.
Your.Cloud's acquisition of Cloud Geeni is the Dutch MSP consolidator's fourth UK deal, adding an ISO 27001-certified managed service provider with a 16-year proprietary private cloud platform and a customer base spanning legal, manufacturing, and financial services. Cloud Geeni retains its brand, team, and management under Your.Cloud's decentralized model, which has become the group's primary tool for attracting owner-operated MSPs across Europe.
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HostPapa Acquires Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas Dedicated Server Provider Operating Since 2003.
HostPapa acquired Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas dedicated server provider operating since 2003, adding its customer base to the ColoCrossing brand as part of an acquisition run that has included more than 17 deals since 2020.
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IONOS Is Selling Sedo. The Pricing Problem Is Separating Two Very Different Assets.
The Sedo sale process asks a buyer to separate two assets bundled under one roof: a durable domain aftermarket platform with 650-plus registrar partners worldwide, and a parking and monetization operation that lost its primary revenue source when Google removed parked domains from its Search Partner Network in February 2026. How a buyer values those two things, and what their priorities imply for the SedoMLS partner network, is the question registrars and hosting companies with domain aftermarket exposure are now watching.
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$2.5 Billion Later, PDG Targets 1 GW in India. The Hosting Market Will Feel It.
PDG's latest acquisition of 210 MW across Mumbai and Hyderabad nearly doubles its planned India capacity and brings its total commitment to $2.5 billion since 2022. The business case rests on hyperscaler demand absorbing 1 GW of AI-ready wholesale capacity, and the hosting companies positioned for that outcome are the ones already in managed cloud and migration services, not shared hosting.
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team.blue buys Czech lead generation company Saleskit
European digital services group team.blue has announced the acquisition of the Czech B2B sales platform Saleskit. The company shared the news in a post published on its official LinkedIn profile.
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PlanetHoster strengthens its presence in Europe with the acquisition of Digital Forest
PlanetHoster has acquired Digital Forest, a French hosting provider founded in 2020 and focused on eco-responsible infrastructure. The transaction was announced on February 11, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of the deal, Simon Cardon, founder of Digital Forest, has been appointed CEO Europe at PlanetHoster. Eco-responsible addition to PlanetHoster’s portfolio Digital Forest
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Shellrent joins Your.Online — third acquisition in 2026
Your.Online has completed another acquisition with the addition of Shellrent, an Italian provider of domains, hosting, cloud VPS, and server solutions. The deal was signed in February, making this the third acquisition of the year — and it is only February. Shellrent was founded in 2006 and is based in Vicenza. The company serves businesses
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UK2 Group has joined Your.Online
TL;DR - this adds another established UK hosting platform to the group. No product changes were announced. The deal fits Your.Online’s ongoing UK consolidation pattern. What actually happened On 2 February 2026, Your.Online announced that UK2 Group will join the group. UK2 Group was founded in 1998 and operates several hosting brands, including UK2, Midphase,
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team.blue acquires Windsor.ai, adds another SaaS to its growing portfolio
TL;DR - team.blue has acquired Windsor.ai, a Swiss-based marketing data integration and attribution platform. Even with significant customer growth over recent years, Windsor.ai remains “small”, relative to team.blue’s scale. This deal is not about short-term revenue contribution, only strengthening the portfolio of SaaS tools acquired by team.blue in recent years - this time with a
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Your.Online portfolio expands again with the addition of Dtch. Digitals
TL;DR - Your.Online portfolio now includes also Dtch. Digitals, an award-winning, AI-first digital agency from the Netherlands. The announcement emphasizes continued autonomy, though the exact deal structure was not publicly disclosed.Dtch. Digitals retains full operational independence while gaining access to shared playbooks, peer collaboration, and long-term strategic headroom.For Your.Online, the move fits a broader positioning
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11:11 Systems Acquires Ntirety
The acquisition of Ntirety by 11:11 Systems, announced in January 2026, is not an isolated transaction. It is another clear indication that the VMware services market is entering a phase of accelerated consolidation following structural changes introduced after Broadcom acquired VMware.
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Com Laude + Markmonitor: A Quiet Deal
At first glance, the acquisition of Markmonitor by Com Laude looks like another solid but unremarkable consolidation in the domain space. Look closer, though, and it becomes clear that this is one of those transactions that says more about where the industry is going than about who bought whom. On January 12, 2026, Com Laude
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team.blue announces Macaly acquisition
team.blue has publicly announced the acquisition of Macaly, an AI-driven web application builder, sharing the news first through its official LinkedIn channel. The move marks another step in the group’s steady expansion beyond traditional hosting services and into AI-assisted website and application creation.