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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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Freenom Is Back, and No Longer Free. The Free-Domain Registry Behind Years of Phishing.
Freenom gave away millions of domains and became the internet's biggest source of phishing, until Meta sued and it promised to quit. Now, per Domain Incite, it is back, running .tk, .cf and .gq again from €8.22 a year. What changed is what fueled the abuse: the domains are no longer free.
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A Once-a-Decade WordPress Core Flaw, and the Gap Between Patched and Safe
A critical flaw in WordPress core, the first of its kind in nearly a decade, triggered a rare forced update to millions of sites. Within 72 hours it was mass exploitation, because forced updates never reach everyone. Why patched and safe are not the same thing.
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A Critical Nginx Flaw and Who Is Actually Exposed
F5 patched CVE-2026-42533, a heap-overflow flaw in Nginx rated 9.2 that has sat in the code since 2011. It is unauthenticated and remote, but only triggers under a specific regex-map configuration, so not every server is exposed. With a proof-of-concept exploit due in early August, here is who actually needs to patch.
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An Unauthenticated Path to Code Execution in WordPress Core, Already Being Exploited
A flaw in the heart of WordPress lets a complete stranger seize a site without ever logging in, and the attacks began the day it was disclosed. Millions of sites run the vulnerable code, and the only real protection is an update most owners assume already happened.
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Cloudways Just Handed AI Agents the Admin Panel, and the Locks Are Racing to Catch Up
Cloudways' MCP server now exposes 244 tools, letting an AI agent run security scans, deployments, and billing on your hosting by chat. It is part of a wave, from DigitalOcean to cPanel, and its role-based scoped tokens stand out in a category where research finds many MCP servers insecure.
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Januscape and Bad Epoll: Two Linux Flaws That Let One Customer Take Over the Whole Server
Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) lets a guest VM escape to the host and take over co-tenants; Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets any unprivileged user reach root with a near-perfect exploit. Both are patched upstream and in AlmaLinux, and for both the only fix is a new kernel and a reboot.
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Three Unauthenticated File Flaws in a Week, and One Root Cause: Validation by Shortcut
Between July 7 and 9, three serious unauthenticated flaws surfaced in file-handling code: an RCE in Blocksy Companion Pro, arbitrary file deletion in Frontend File Manager, and an SSRF in Monsta FTP. Different codebases, one root cause, and a blast radius that lands on the hosting provider.
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Hostinger Turns On Patchstack npm Scanning for Node.js Apps by Default
Hostinger has built Patchstack's vulnerability intelligence into its Node.js hosting, scanning npm dependencies by default. It targets the unmonitored supply-chain risk of apps shipped fast with AI help, and fits Patchstack's push to embed its security inside large hosts rather than as an upsell.
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An Attacker Sent a Ransom Email From Blesta’s Own Servers
An extortion email demanding Blesta pay up passed SPF, DKIM and DMARC from Blesta's own servers, pointing to a real compromise. Blesta has not confirmed one.
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The File Nobody Watches: llms.txt Is the Hosting Industry’s Newest Attack Surface
110 hosting-industry domains publish an llms.txt that AI agents read verbatim, and a single edit can feed customers a rogue download or an attacker's phone number. Zero of the 110 are signed or monitored. Every piece of the attack is already proven; nobody is guarding the file.
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MariaDB Patches CVSS 10.0 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Galera Cluster Feature
MariaDB patched a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-49261) on May 27, disclosed publicly on June 11. The vulnerability is in wsrep_notify_cmd, a Galera Cluster feature. Standalone MariaDB is not at risk. Two additional CVSS 8.0 CVEs were fixed in the same update.
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Protect The Shire: WordPress Adds a 24-Hour Default Delay to Plugin Auto-Updates
Matt Mullenweg announced Protect The Shire on June 5, 2026: a 24-hour default delay before every WordPress plugin release reaches auto-updates. The infrastructure has existed as opt-in since August 2025. The shift cites AI-accelerated supply chain risk after Mythos and Essential Plugins.
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HTTP/2 Bomb: One Connection Crashes Web Servers. nginx Is Patched, Apache Is Not.
Single-connection HTTP/2 attack crashes web servers. nginx is patched today; Apache's fix has not reached distribution package managers.
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A Database Allegedly From Home.pl Is Being Advertised on a Cybercrime Forum.
A dataset allegedly from Home.pl, Poland's largest hosting provider, is being advertised on a cybercrime forum. We analyze the schema and what it means for 300,000+ customers.
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The Exploit Record: How Government Networks Keep Getting Breached
CVE-2026-41940 was exploited as a zero-day for 68 days before a patch existed. CISA was breached via Ivanti vulnerabilities it had just ordered patched. Volt Typhoon had 5-year US infrastructure access. The case-by-case record of how government networks keep getting owned.
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CVE-2026-48172: LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Root Privilege Escalation, CVSS 10.0, Actively Exploited
CVE-2026-48172 in LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin (2.3-2.4.4) lets any authenticated cPanel user run arbitrary scripts as root. CVSS 10.0, actively exploited, on the CISA KEV list. Patch to WHM Plugin 5.3.1.0 / cPanel Plugin 2.4.7 immediately.
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FunnelKit Plugin Flaw Actively Exploited to Skim Credit Cards From WooCommerce Checkout Pages
Every customer who checked out on a WooCommerce store running an unpatched FunnelKit plugin may have had their card number, CVV, and billing address stolen. The attack is active across more than 40,000 sites. Patch to version 3.15.0.3, released May 14, 2026, and assess breach notification obligations.
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A Ransomware Group’s Backend Was Leaked Because Their Hosting Provider Got Hacked First.
On May 2, hosting provider 4VPS disclosed a breach of its billing systems. Two days later, The Gentlemen ransomware group's backend appeared for sale online. Check Point Research confirmed the dataset included victim lists, ransom negotiations, and internal communications from one of 2026's most active ransomware operations.
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Skynethosting Took Its Entire cPanel Fleet Offline on May 1. Two Weeks Later, Some Are Still Down.
Skynethosting took its entire cPanel fleet offline on May 1 in response to CVE-2026-41940, and as of May 14 some customer servers had been down for nearly two weeks, with one reseller publicly reporting a 30 percent client loss during the outage.
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Fragnesia: A New Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation That Emerged From Prior Kernel Patches
William Bowling of V12 Security disclosed Fragnesia on May 13, 2026, a Linux kernel privilege escalation that allows an unprivileged local attacker to reach root by corrupting the kernel page cache through the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem.