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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.
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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Public Cloud is growing 16%, but it’s too small to save the quarter for OVHcloud
TL;DR: We went through OVHcloud’s Q1 revenue update press release, the January 8 revenue deck presentation, and Investor Day materials to see what’s really changing and what isn’t.Revenue is up, the plan hasn’t moved, and discipline is holding. But most of the growth comes from pricing, mix, and sweating the existing base, not from a
Expert's Voice
Shared Hosting Tips in Greece
Europe's mature shared hosting markets offer valuable insights. In Greece, Enartia's Marianna Siouti explained their market experience.
Expert's Voice
How Tailwind’s success became an AI-mediated discovery problem
On January 6, 2026, Tailwind Labs laid off approximately 75% of its engineering team, despite continued growth in adoption across SaaS products, WordPress ecosystems, and modern web stacks. According to founder Adam Wathan, commercial revenue declined by nearly 80%, while documentation traffic, previously the main entry point into the sales funnel, dropped by around 40%.
Expert's Voice
Designing Scalable Cloud Infrastructure
Real-World Lessons for Building Modern, Hybrid, and Multi-Cloud Hosting Platforms Building scalable infrastructure in the hosting industry requires a fundamentally different architectural mindset than designing traditional IT systems or cloud-native stacks. Hosting providers operate environments that must remain online while supporting thousands of customer workloads simultaneously - each with unique performance demands, lifecycle constraints, regulatory
Expert's Voice
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.
Expert's Voice
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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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
Expert's Voice
Lessons from .ART
Launched a decade ago in 2016, the .ART domain set out to build a digital community for the art world. While open to everyone, it has become a structured ecosystem for artists, galleries, museums, collectors, and creative organizations. As of this writing in 2026, .ART counts over 344,622 domain registrations and continues to expand. A
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Web Hosts Are Sitting on a Goldmine of Data.So Why Aren’t They Using It?
Before the automobile, striking oil was an inconvenience. Farmers didn’t know what to do with it. Only when the internal combustion engine was invented did oil become the world's most valuable resource. That’s where the hosting industry is with domain data. Every domain you host is a live, evolving signal. It tells you whether a
Industry reports
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.
Mergers and acquisitions
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.
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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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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.
Industry reports
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.
Mergers and acquisitions
hosting.de GmbH continues its expansion: Customers of CSO.net are taken over
The hosting.de GmbH, a leading German provider in the web‑hosting sector, is continuing its growth trajectory and is taking over the customer services of CSO.net, a respected web‑hosting company from Austria. Acquisition as a sign of progress Following the recently signed contract, hosting.de GmbH will further strengthen its market position in the DACH region by
Mergers and acquisitions
Polish hosting group Cyber_Folks acquires PrestaShop
The acquisition of PrestaShop by the cyber_Folks Group, executed together with Sylius, marks one of the most consequential shifts in the global e-commerce technology stack in recent years. PrestaShop, with more than 230,000 active stores and €22B in GMV, has long been a foundational engine for online retail across Europe, LATAM, Africa and emerging markets.