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Hosting Is the Next Layer AI Will Transform – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
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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Mergers and acquisitions
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.
Industry reports
PrestaShop Announced a Formal Layoff Process Eight Weeks After Cyber_Folks Completed Its Acquisition
A PSE is the opening of a statutory process, not an immediate termination event: French law requires works council consultation and regulatory approval before any positions can be eliminated, a process that typically takes several months. For hosting providers with European e-commerce customers, the question is whether PrestaShop's module marketplace and partner support infrastructure remain intact while the restructuring runs.
Mergers and acquisitions
Polish hosting group Cyber_Folks acquires PrestaShop
The acquisition of PrestaShop by the cyber_Folks Group, executed together with Sylius, marks one of the most consequential shifts in the global e-commerce technology stack in recent years. PrestaShop, with more than 230,000 active stores and €22B in GMV, has long been a foundational engine for online retail across Europe, LATAM, Africa and emerging markets.