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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.
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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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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DigitalOcean Lands Nine-Figure AI Deals as Its Backlog Jumps Tenfold
DigitalOcean, long the cloud for developers, says its preliminary Q2 backlog will top $800 million, up more than tenfold, on multiple nine-figure AI-inference commitments. Revenue growth is re-accelerating to 29 percent, and it now sells itself as an "AI-native cloud" rather than raw GPU rental.
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team.blue Reports the Climate Trade-Off of Consolidation
Europe's hosting groups have consolidated for a decade and now want science-based climate targets to match. But growth by acquisition works against it: each deal adds emissions to the total they have pledged to cut. team.blue's report documents the bind, making it the sector's test case.
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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Fix the Data-Center Queue
FERC's June 18 orders give six US grid operators 60 days to fix large-load interconnection, including the cost-shift fight over whether data centers or ratepayers fund grid upgrades. For hosting, the queue is the binding constraint on compute supply.
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Why a Battery Room Fire in Delhi Disrupted Google Cloud Across Three Indian Cities
A 200 sq ft battery room fire in Delhi disrupted Google Cloud across three cities on June 9. Compute stayed operational. The failure was in a third-party network POP, not a region. It reveals how hyperscalers build network presence in growth markets before owning the infrastructure.
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Up to Half of US Data Centers Planned for 2026 Will Not Be Built on Time. Chinese Electrical Equipment Is the Constraint No One Planned For.
The AI deployment cycle runs 12 to 18 months. The transformer procurement cycle now runs 2.5 to 5 years. A campus announced in 2025 cannot be operational in 2026 or 2027 unless its transformers were on order before the announcement. Wood Mackenzie projects a 30 percent supply deficit for power transformers this year, with demand in 2026 running 21 percent above 2024 levels.
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US Senate Takes Aim at Data Center Energy Consumption, But Europe Already Did This
Last week alone, three separate Senate actions targeted data center electricity use - a reporting demand to the EIA, a construction moratorium bill, and an off-grid sourcing requirement for large facilities. The EU made reporting mandatory in 2023 and is now consulting on efficiency ratings and minimum performance standards, while the US is still debating whether to collect the data.
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Asia-Pacific Hosting Market by the Numbers: Country-Level Growth Data for 2026
China leads in absolute size, but Vietnam's 24.5% CAGR and Indonesia's infrastructure surge are rewriting the growth playbook. A data-driven breakdown of where the region's hosting revenue is - and where it is heading.
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11 US States Want to Ban Data Centers. Here’s What Every Bill Says.
At least 11 U.S. states have filed bills to temporarily ban data center construction, while others are rolling back billions in tax incentives. A state-by-state breakdown of every moratorium bill and incentive rollback in 2026.
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InMotion hosting’s new data center
InMotion Hosting, has announced a major development with the launch of its new East Coast Data Center. Located at NTT Global Data Centers in Ashburn, VA, this next-generation facility underscores the company’s commitment to delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure, aimed at enhancing the speed, reliability, and support of their services.
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Strategic decision: Ukrainian hosting company moves servers to Poland amid growing threats
In the face of the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine, hosting company Hostpark has decided to move its server infrastructure to Poland. This move is aimed at protecting customer data and ensuring
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OVHcloud unveils $145M data center in Ontario
OVHcloud launch of a new data center in Cambridge, Ontario. This marks the company's 42nd global data center and solidifies its commitment to the Canadian market with a substantial investment of CAD 145 million.
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OVH opens its first two local zones
OVHcloud is just launching its first two Local Zones in Europe. However, plans go further and by 2026 they want to have as many as 150 Local Zones of their own. We check it out and compare it to the competitor.
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