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Most of Hostinger’s Hardest Support Cases No Longer Transfer to a Human. The Human Coaches the AI Instead.
Hostinger has merged its support assistant Kodee with its marketing and SEO agents into Hostinger Agent. The bigger change is behind it: on the one conversation in ten the AI cannot settle alone, a specialist advises it instead of taking over, and hard-case resolution rose from 41 to 72 percent.
Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.
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Automattic's board has put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, with chief financial officer Mark Davies as interim chief executive. The change stops at the commercial company: no change has been announced to his leadership of the WordPress project or to his control of WordPress.org.
Non-Developers Are Building Whole Websites With AI. 20i’s Survey Says Only 31.5% Get a Developer’s Review.
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A survey of 600 US non-developers who use AI to write code found 16.3 percent building entire websites, 61 percent testing the results themselves and 31.5 percent having a developer review the code. Separate laboratory testing puts the flaw rate near half.
WHMCS Has an Unauthenticated RCE. The Fix Exists Only for 9.0.8 and 8.13.7.
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Two WHMCS advisories on September 3: an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw affecting every build since 8.0, and a 2CheckOut gateway flaw exposing client data in versions from 4.5. Both are fixed in 9.0.8 and 8.13.7, and nothing older gets a patch.
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Cloudflare Reached FedRAMP High Without Building a Separate Government Cloud
Cloudflare reached FedRAMP High without a separate gov cloud: one network, U.S.-only processing, 22 agencies on board. One catch: it brands the milestone Class D, a certification FedRAMP's roadmap only pilots next fiscal year. The Pentagon's IL4 is the next target.
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When 64GB of RAM Costs €3,000: The Shortage Behind Hostinger’s Biggest Server Order
Server costs up 5-6x, components up to 8x, lead times at 30 weeks: Hostinger explains its largest hardware order in our Q&A. COO Aivaras Šimkus on €3,000 RAM, scaling from 5 to 7 million customers, and why certainty is now the main advantage.
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Leaseweb’s VPS Increase Falls Hardest on the Cheapest Plans
Leaseweb raises VPS prices on August 1, but not evenly: the cheapest US plan nearly doubles while premium tiers rise far less and some mid-range plans hold. It is less a broad memory tax than a deliberate reset of its cheapest plans, and it lands hardest on the price-sensitive buyers who chose cheap in the first place.
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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.
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August 2 Is Still Real: What the AI Act’s Big Date Means for Hosting After the Omnibus
The Digital Omnibus moved the AI Act's high-risk obligations to December 2027, and much of the industry heard "delay." But August 2, 2026 still activates Commission fines up to 3% of turnover for GPAI providers and transparency duties for new AI systems. Where hosts sit, step by step.
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An AWS Region Has Been Offline for Months, and the Cloud’s Address Is No Longer a Technicality
The war between the US and Iran has kept an entire AWS cloud region offline for months, something ordinary outages never do. Why losing one region can take an unprepared business down, and what real disaster recovery requires.
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A 16-Year-Old KVM Escape, and OVHcloud’s Week-Long Patch Across a Million VMs
A 16-year-old flaw in KVM let a customer with admin access escape their virtual server and seize the host on both Intel and AMD. OVHcloud built a fix and rebooted around a million VMs in a week to deploy it, and the campaign shows the quiet choice every host makes between your consent and your safety.
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UK Financial Regulators Now Oversee AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle
The UK's three financial regulators are now overseeing the cloud giants. From July 13, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle are designated critical third parties, a recognition that regulated finance runs on a handful of clouds and one outage could ripple across it. It mirrors the EU's DORA.
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UpCloud’s Founder Becomes CEO After a 15-Month Outside Hire
UpCloud has named founder Joel Pihlajamaa as chief executive, ending Arno Schäfer's roughly 15-month tenure and putting the Helsinki cloud provider under founder-led leadership. The company frames it as a natural evolution and a signal that its sovereign, engineering-led strategy stays the course.