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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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Expert's Voice
Value Selling in Web Hosting
Playing the Long Game Previously, we discussed how hosting providers focus on upsell revenue opportunities and fail. This is not due to a lack of features or traffic, but rather because they move too quickly in building customer relationships. The typical hosting checkout process overwhelms customers with options such as SSL, backups, CDN, monitoring, and
Mergers and acquisitions
team.blue buys Czech lead generation company Saleskit
European digital services group team.blue has announced the acquisition of the Czech B2B sales platform Saleskit. The company shared the news in a post published on its official LinkedIn profile.
Industry reports
Why Newfold Digital’s Debt Struggles Matter to the Hosting Industry
In 2025 and early 2026, Newfold Digital, the private equity-backed company behind major hosting brands like Bluehost, HostGator, and Network Solutions, moved from being an infrastructure giant to a headline name in the corporate debt markets. What began as routine refinancing pressure evolved into something much bigger, a conversation about the durability of legacy shared hosting economics and the
Security
Webhosting.Today February 2026 Security Update
Security doesn’t stand still, and neither should the hosting industry. Welcome to the February 2026 WebHosting.Today Monthly Security Update, created in partnership with our trusted security sponsors, Monarx and Patchstack. Together, we’re delivering practical threat intelligence, real-world insights, and clear guidance for hosting providers, agencies, and WordPress professionals navigating today’s evolving risk landscape. No hype,
Industry reports
March 15 Changes SSL Forever – What Hosting Teams Need to Know
Nothing explodes on March 15 at 00:00, and existing certificates keep their original expiry dates. The change hits when you issue or reissue certificates from that point on: the maximum lifetime drops to 200 days, and the industry is already committed to shrinking it further.
CloudFest
CloudFest 2026 grows bigger as organizers announce the new “CloudFest Village”
CloudFest, one of the largest events focused on internet infrastructure, will return in 2026 with a larger footprint and new areas for attendees. The organizers say the event will welcome more than 10,000 participants and introduce a new space called CloudFest Village, designed to add more room for sessions, networking, and community activities. The new
Industry reports
Fire and power cuts at an AWS data centre in the UAE trigger a long cloud outage
A major outage hit Amazon Web Services in the United Arab Emirates after “objects” struck a data centre building, causing sparks and a fire. Local emergency crews cut power to the facility as they worked to put out the fire. What started as a problem in one Availability Zone later spread into a wider regional failure, with two zones impaired and the company warning recovery would take at least a day.
Expert's Voice
The 3 Waves of WordPress AI: Why “Vibe Coding” Will Destroy Your Support Team
Hosting has a simple job description: keep websites online, fast, and fixable. “Fixable” is the part most AI demos conveniently skip. A site can look impressive in a screen recording and still be a nightmare the moment a real customer opens a ticket that starts with, “Something broke - can you help?”
Expert's Voice
Reducing Churn with Proactive WordPress Maintenance: How Seahawk Media is Helping Hosting Providers
Customer churn has become one of the most persistent challenges for web hosting providers, particularly those serving WordPress-based websites. As competition intensifies and switching costs remain low, hosting customers are increasingly quick to move if they experience downtime, security issues, or performance degradation. Industry data consistently shows that technical issues, rather than pricing alone, are
Expert's Voice
The “Hello, world” churn nobody budgets for
If you run a hosting business, you already know this story, even if you’ve never named it. A customer buys a plan, logs into WordPress, clicks around for a minute… and then you see the ticket. “Please cancel.” When you check their site, it’s still the default post. Nothing built, nothing launched, nothing connected to a real goal.
Plus Hosting Group Initiates Strategic Evaluation of Adminbolt as Next-Generation Control Panel Across Its European Hosting Portfolio
Denver, Delaware – February 2026 Plus Hosting Grupa, a leading Croatian cloud and hosting group, has entered into a structured pilot program with Adminbolt to evaluate Adminbolt as a potential control panel solution within selected environments across the Plus Hosting Grupa portfolio. This collaboration reflects a deeper structural shift within the hosting industry, where control
Industry reports
Hetzner raises prices from April 1, 2026 – cloud increases reach up to 37%
Hetzner is raising prices across its portfolio beginning April 1, 2026, and the change doesn’t only hit new customers. The company confirms the new pricing applies to both new orders and existing products, and even orders placed before April 1 can be billed at the new rates if delivery happens after that date.
CloudFest
CloudFest 2026: 10 Speakers that you can’t afford to miss
CloudFest 2026 will take place between March 23 and 26 at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. This year's theme - “The Sustainability of Everything” isn't just about green energy. It's about whether the hosting industry's business models, security measures and margins can survive what's coming in the next few years. If you haven't registered yet, you
Other
Is PrestaShop’s February 2026 security alert linked to over 21 million records allegedly leaked from the Addons Marketplace?
A community-led forensic investigation links the attacks to a reported breach of 21 million records from PrestaShop's own Addons Marketplace. PrestaShop has not confirmed or denied the connection, only issued a security alert on February 12, 2026, notifying merchants that a digital skimmer is actively replacing payment buttons on checkout pages with fraudulent duplicates. When
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GoDaddy declares 21 million customers “business users” overnight – strips consumer protections, overhauls arbitration, and locks down dispute rights
On February 2, 2026, GoDaddy published a revised Universal Terms of Service Agreement (UTOS) that fundamentally changed the legal relationship between the company and its more than 21 million customers. The update - which took effect immediately, with no email notification - reclassifies every user as a "business customer," rewrites dispute resolution from the ground
Microsoft ends free period for expired M365 subscriptions and announces new monthly billing model
TL;DR - Microsoft will end the current renewal model starting April 1, 2026, with enforcement in the CSP channel from May 4, 2026.Until now, expired Microsoft 365 subscriptions could enter a short “free grace” period. From Q2 2026, they will automatically switch to paid monthly billing instead.This change will impact hosting providers that resell Microsoft
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Hostinger reports 51% revenue growth in 2025, reaches €275.4 million
TL;DR - Hostinger reported €275.4 million in revenue for 2025, up 51% year over year. This is the fourth consecutive year in which the company recorded more than 50% annual revenue growth. The customer base increased 35% YoY, to 4.6 million businesses and solopreneurs across more than 150 countries. Multi-year growth Since 2022, Hostinger’s revenue
Stock reports
What’s Next for Tucows After Ting? Five Strategic Paths Forward
Tucows just put up a better year on paper - $390.3m revenue and $50.6m Adjusted EBITDA in FY2025 - while still posting a $75.8m net loss. The gap is mostly financing weight and depreciation from Ting-era infrastructure: $55.3m net interest expense in FY2025 alone. Management’s answer is blunt: sell Ting, then run a simpler, more capital‑light Tucows built around Domains and Wavelo.
Other
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) updated its contract terms, allowing server price changes until shipment
In early February 2026 HPE sent letters to partners, changing contract terms for server and GreenLake orders.HPE cited rising memory prices and supply constraints as reasons for the update. What changed For most server and GreenLake orders: quote validity has been reduced from 30 days to 14 days (excluding public sector, B2B and OEM), contract
Mergers and acquisitions
PlanetHoster strengthens its presence in Europe with the acquisition of Digital Forest
PlanetHoster has acquired Digital Forest, a French hosting provider founded in 2020 and focused on eco-responsible infrastructure. The transaction was announced on February 11, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of the deal, Simon Cardon, founder of Digital Forest, has been appointed CEO Europe at PlanetHoster. Eco-responsible addition to PlanetHoster’s portfolio Digital Forest
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