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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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Industry reports
Critical Grafana Enterprise SCIM Flaw Hits Hosting Providers: Why Staying Updated Matters
Grafana has released a set of emergency security patches after discovering a critical vulnerability in its Enterprise editions. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-41115, carries the maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and affects environments where the SCIM feature is enabled and used for automated user provisioning.
Industry reports
Transparency Over Tactics: A Closer Look at INBS.software’s Black Week Offer
As part of our research into Black Week behavior in the hosting industry, we looked at INBS.software's uniform approach across ModulesGarden, EasyDCIM, MetricsCube, and PanelAlpha. Our pricing review confirmed that the current discounts match the lowest levels recorded this year, structured within a single cross-brand format.
Mergers and acquisitions
Lovable’s Acquisition of Molnett Signals a New AI-Led Era in Hosting
If you’ve been tracking the hosting space in Europe, you already know Molnett has built a solid rep for secure, scalable, compliant, and dead-simple cloud infrastructure. This isn’t just about growing footprint, it’s about laying claim to the future of infrastructure in a world where AI is no longer just a feature, it’s the foundation.
Stock reports
GoDaddy delivers steady growth and a clear direction in the AI transition
GoDaddy’s third quarter 2025 results show a company that continues to balance growth, profitability, and technological transition with discipline. Total revenue reached $1.3 billion, representing a 10% year-over-year increase, while operating income rose 17% to $296.7 million. The company’s free cash flow climbed to $440.5 million, up 21% from the same period last year.
Industry reports
Hostinger Mail: When AI Meets Email, Bytes Turn Into Time Saved
Most people spend more than an hour every single day just dealing with emails. Think about it - replying, sorting, deleting, searching for that one message from two weeks ago... it all adds up. And that’s the problem Hostinger wanted to solve. Instead of trying to patch up what’s already out there, they built something completely new: Hostinger Mail - a business email service created from scratch, with AI at its core.
Industry reports
Nobody wants to build websites
“Most people want to have a website, but almost nobody wants to make one.” - This short sentence says a lot about where the hosting industry is today. For Dallas Kaszuba, one of the people who helped build the early internet, hosting is no longer only about servers or code - it is about helping
Industry reports
WHMCS 2026 price increase: stability comes at a higher cost
Change is coming to the world of web hosting automation - and it’s going to affect nearly every WHMCS user. Early in 2026, specifically on January 1st, WHMCS will roll out a new pricing structure that marks one of the most significant adjustments in recent years. For many hosting providers, developers, and digital agencies, this announcement has already sparked conversations and some concern about rising operational costs and long-term sustainability.
Industry reports
Plesk announces price and billing model changes effective January 2026
January 1, 2026. According to industry sources and partner communications, this update will introduce an average price increase of approximately 26%, alongside a structural change in how subscriptions are billed. These updates follow Plesk’s established pattern of annual price adjustments and reflect broader changes within the WebPros group’s commercial strategy.
Industry reports
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
Industry reports
New cPanel prices for 2026 released – The tradition continues
As has become tradition, cPanel has once again announced updated licensing prices — and, as usual, the hosting community’s reaction ranges from weary sighs to outright frustration. Starting January 1, 2026, new pricing will take effect, and while the increases aren’t surprising, they will certainly sting for many administrators and resellers.
Industry reports
Why Hostinger Wins the Web Hosting Industry?
When you look at the hosting industry, you don’t expect much change. Most companies move slow, stick to old playbooks, and call it innovation when they add a new control panel theme. I even dedicated an entire article outlining Why Hosting Providers Are So Slow To Change? Understanding the reasons is one thing, but being
Expert's Voice
BalticNOG – the missing piece for the Baltics
When Konrad Keck sat down with Vincentas Grinius during BalticNOG 2025 in Vilnius, the conversation quickly revealed something important: this event was not just another tech conference. It was, as Vincentas himself put it, “the last missing piece” for the region.
Expert's Voice
Platform.sh Rebrands as Upsun: Built on Trust, Ready for the Future
Platform.sh is a cloud-native Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) purpose-built to make it easy for distributed teams to build, ship, and grow software across every major cloud. It originated in 2010 within SensioLabs, the Paris-based firm behind the Symfony PHP framework, and spun out as its own independent company in 2015. With headquarters in Paris and teams in
Mergers and acquisitions
Com Laude acquires MarkMonitor
The domain management industry is changing again. Com Laude, a key player in corporate domain services, has announced it will acquire MarkMonitor from Newfold Digital. This deal, valued at around $450 million, marks a major shift in the competitive landscape. But what does this mean for the industry - and for hosting providers and corporate domain managers?
Expert's Voice
Shared Hosting Tips in Kuwait
Now it's time to talk about hosting in Kuwait. Population here is 4 plus million people. There is a lot of gas and oil in this area. You can meet two types of people. First: the ones who like oil, gas and everything that supplies them. And second: the rest of the people who come from Sri Lanka, India, etc.
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WordPress Hosting Survey 2025 – an important initiative for the hosting industry
WordPress.org has just launched another edition of the Hosting Survey – a study that aims to better understand the state of WordPress hosting in 2025. It’s a great initiative that not only highlights the diversity of approaches among hosting providers but also helps set the direction for the entire industry
CVC acquires majority stake in Namecheap for $1.5 billion
CVC Capital Partners has announced an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Namecheap, one of the largest independent domain registrars and hosting providers. The deal values the company at around $1.5 billion, including debt. The transaction is at the announcement stage and will be subject to regulatory approvals before closing. Richard Kirkendall, founder and
Mergers and acquisitions
HOSTAFRICA expands into Tanzania with acquisition of Zesha
HOSTAFRICA, one of Africa’s fastest-growing hosting providers, is stepping into the Tanzanian market with the acquisition of Zesha, a local web hosting and domain company. The deal, announced in Cape Town on August 4, 2025, marks HOSTAFRICA’s fifth national operation after South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana.
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Domain Summit London Day 2 – Key Takeaways
London, September 3, 2025 – Day Two of the Domain Summit London 2025 was another jam-packed day full of insights, practical strategies, and inspiring stories from the world of domains and hosting. The day kicked off with Filip Borcov guiding attendees through profitable A/B testing techniques for hosting and domain services, showing just how much
Expert's Voice
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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