Web Hosting News & Industry Updates
Breaking news, M&A deals, pricing moves, security alerts and in-depth analysis for the web hosting industry — 643 articles across 14 categories.
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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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Industry reports
How Web Hosts Can Compete in a Saturated Market with Bundled WordPress Support Services?
The hosting market is saturated and price wars are eroding margins. Discover how bundling WordPress support services helps providers build deeper customer relationships and compete on value, not cost.
Software reviews
AdminBolt Ships a Dashboard AI Assistant and WhatsApp Hosting Controls
AdminBolt is currently the only self-hosted control panel to ship a working in-panel AI assistant, with WhatsApp as a mobile extension.
Interviews
Vibe Coding Rebuilt Our Entire Stack – Munir, Founder of aeServer.com
Munir, Founder of aeServer.com, on using vibe coding to automate domain registrations and rebuild their customer-facing stack, the new wave of online businesses in the Middle East, and whether Domain Days Dubai is happening this October.
Industry reports
More Revenue. Less Profit. What iomart’s FY2026 Reveals About Mid-Market Hosting.
iomart closed FY2026 with a profit warning, a CFO departure, and a credit facility expiring in June 2027. Its H1 numbers (revenue up 25%, EBITDA down 24%, net debt at £109.6m) make visible a squeeze that Rackspace, OVHcloud, and UKCloud have each encountered in their own way.
Security
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.
Security
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.
Security
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.
M&A
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.
Security
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.
Interviews
More Malware in Q1 Than All of Last Year – Patrick, CRO of Monarx
At Hosts Del Mar, Patrick, CRO of Monarx, explains why malware volume is growing 10x year over year, why traditional signature-based detection is losing ground, and how competing hosts are sharing threat intelligence with each other despite being direct competitors.
Security
Nginx Just Patched old Rewrite Module Flaw. RCE Was Possible With a Single HTTP Request.
A flaw sitting in nginx since 2008 was patched on May 13, 2026. CVSS 9.2, unauthenticated, and present in the default rewrite module.
M&A
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.
Security
cPanel Patched Five More CVEs. One Fix Is Already Reported Incomplete.
cPanel's May 13 patch covers five new CVEs, but security researcher Shubham Shah reported within hours that the fix for CVE-2026-29205 is incomplete and all cPanel instances remain exploitable until a working patch lands.
Security
Three cPanel Patches and DirtyFrag Fixes in One Day. Here Is Where Things Stand.
On May 8, cPanel closed three new vulnerabilities and Linux distributions shipped DirtyFrag kernel fixes. Two weeks of disclosures left providers with three separate patch tracks. Here is the complete status and the confirmations every shared hosting customer should request.
Security
A Compromised Server Is the Beginning. Here Is What Breach Law Requires Next.
Change Healthcare's $3.1 billion in breach costs is the new normal of what a serious compromise sets in motion: parallel notification clocks across GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and HIPAA; personal liability for CISOs and boards; and a cyber insurance market with conditions that can deny coverage at the worst moment.
Industry reports
The Cheap VPS Era Is Over. AI Hardware Demand Repriced the Market.
Hetzner, OVHcloud, Netcup, Scaleway, and IONOS raised VPS prices up to 49% in spring 2026, citing AI-driven memory shortages. Contabo launched better specs at lower prices instead. US hyperscalers posted record growth. The article maps both markets and explains which strategies survive through 2027.
Interviews
The Last Two Weeks Changed Hosting – Seb de Lemos, CEO of hosting.com
The hosting industry just had a rough two weeks. cPanel, Linux, Apache, and a very clear lesson about the real risks of "semi-managed." On why the grey area between managed and unmanaged is no longer a theoretical problem: hosting.com CEO Seb de Lemos and co-founder Darren Lingham.
Partners
WordPress Privacy Compliance: GDPR, CCPA, and Global Privacy Rules Simplified
GDPR, CCPA, and more than 130 national privacy laws affect every WordPress site you host. From cookie consent to data residency and processor contracts, hosting providers carry more compliance weight than most realize.
Other
DENIC’s New Infrastructure Took .de Offline. The Fix Came From Cloudflare.
On May 5, a defect in DENIC's newly deployed signing infrastructure made Amazon.de, DHL, Bahn.de, and hundreds of thousands of other .de domains unreachable for three hours. Servers were running. Monitoring showed green. The fix came from Cloudflare, not DENIC.
Industry reports
GoDaddy Joins a Second AI Agent Identity Consortium. DNS Is the Foundation.
GoDaddy is now at the center of two AI agent identity initiatives: a Cloudflare product partnership and a 30-company HOL standards consortium. DNS is becoming the address book for AI agents, and the registrar is positioned to be the gatekeeper.