Green Olive Tree, a veteran-owned managed host, has acquired ZebraHost LLC for $1.1 million, closing June 22 and nearly doubling its revenue. Struck as ZebraHost's 76-year-old founder retires, it shows the founder-succession M&A quietly consolidating hosting's small end.
The widely reported 30-37% Hetzner price increase applied to CX and CAX entry-level servers. CCX dedicated vCPU instances rose 113-173% in the EU and up to 157% in the US. CPX Intel servers in the US rose up to 204%. Full price tables inside.
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.
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.
NetApp has officially joined the Vultr Cloud Alliance, a partnership that combines expertise from various technology providers to meet the growing demand for adaptable AI and cloud services. The move has sparked discussions across the tech industry about its potential impact.
OVHcloud, a leading European cloud provider, has inaugurated its first "Local Zone" public cloud in Prague. This strategic move is set to facilitate Polish businesses in their expansion into the Czech Republic, leveraging advanced edge computing technology to deploy cloud infrastructure in just a few weeks.