Web Hosting News & Industry Updates
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M&A
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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Security
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.
Security
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.
Industry reports
Mark Zuckerberg Just Put Every VPS Provider on Notice
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta's May 27 shareholder meeting that a cloud business is "definitely on the table" if the company's 2026 $125 to $145 billion CapEx build produces excess GPU capacity. The mid-market VPS segment faces both pricing and AI-native positioning pressure.
Industry reports
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.
Interviews
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.
Other
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.
Security
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.
Events
Nordic Domain Days 2026: What Stockholm Told the Hosting Industry
Nordic Domain Days 2026 wrapped May 26 in Stockholm with around 450 attendees. The 2026 gTLD round, NIS2 Article 28 enforcement, and AI-as-infrastructure were the three threads hosting providers should take home from the event.
Events
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.
Interviews
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.
Other
Dutch Authorities Dismantle Stark Industries. The Rebrand Didn’t Save It.
Dutch FIOD seized 800 servers on May 22, dismantling Stark Industries and its post-sanctions successor THE.Hosting. The bulletproof host built by brothers from Transnistria hosted NoName057, Sandworm, and the Doppelganger campaign; JA4T fingerprints proved the rebrand was the same hardware.
M&A
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.
Other
AWS Connected Its Network to Google Cloud With No Egress Fees. Azure and Oracle Are Next.
AWS Interconnect multicloud eliminates per-gigabyte transfer fees between AWS and Google Cloud VPCs in favor of flat bandwidth pricing. Azure and Oracle are next. The launch removes the cloud-to-cloud brokerage role that drove Megaport and Equinix Fabric growth.
M&A
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.
Other
20 Years of hosting.de: Aachen-Based Hosting Provider Celebrates Anniversary with New Brand Identity
Founded in 2006 as TwooIT GmbH, hosting.de marks its 20th anniversary with a refreshed brand identity. The Aachen-based provider unveils a new logo and visual design system across its product interfaces, reinforcing its commitment to German-hosted services.
Industry reports
Verisign Starts a Four-Year .com Price Cycle. The First 7% Hits in November.
Verisign's 7% .com wholesale price increase from November 2026 is the opening move of a four-year pricing cycle. If exercised in full, wholesale .com pricing would reach $13.45 by 2029, with cost pressure flowing through every registrar and hosting provider in the chain.
Interviews
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.
Software reviews
WordPress 7.0 Ships. PHP 7.4 Required. AI Built In. Real-Time Collaboration Delayed.
WordPress 7.0 ships May 20, 2026 with a built-in AI Client supporting Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, a raised PHP minimum of 7.4, and DataViews replacing the admin screens. Real-time collaboration was cut on May 8 due to race conditions, server load, and fuzz testing failures.
Other
Google Cloud Incorrectly Suspended Railway’s Account. Eight Hours Down.
Google Cloud incorrectly suspended Railway's account on May 19, 2026, taking it offline for eight hours. AWS and Railway Metal workloads ran throughout but were unreachable: Railway's edge proxies relied on a GCP-hosted control plane API for routing, and when it failed, everything returned 404.
Industry reports
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.77 Ships. Pricing Up 26 Percent. AI Copilot Extension Coming.
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.77 addresses European accessibility compliance, removes the APS Catalog, and expands TuxCare legacy PHP support. It lands four months into the 26 percent licensing price increase, with an AI Copilot extension announced for 2026 but not yet shipped.
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