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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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Mergers and acquisitions
$2.5 Billion Later, PDG Targets 1 GW in India. The Hosting Market Will Feel It.
PDG's latest acquisition of 210 MW across Mumbai and Hyderabad nearly doubles its planned India capacity and brings its total commitment to $2.5 billion since 2022. The business case rests on hyperscaler demand absorbing 1 GW of AI-ready wholesale capacity, and the hosting companies positioned for that outcome are the ones already in managed cloud and migration services, not shared hosting.
Industry reports
Asia’s Data Center Boom: Inside the Billions Reshaping the Region’s Hosting Infrastructure in 2026
From a $4.5 billion hyperscale campus in Indonesia to Google's new Bangkok region, early 2026 has seen an unprecedented wave of infrastructure investment across Asia-Pacific. Here is what is driving it - and what it means for the hosting industry.
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.
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DreamHost expands with a new data center
DreamHost, a company known for hosting and domain services, has opened its first data center outside the United States. The new facility in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is set to improve website speed and reliability for many users.
Industry reports
SharedGrid announces new data centre in Ashburn
SharedGrid has recently announced on LinkedIn the launch of their new data centre located in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This expansion marks a significant step for the company, enhancing their hosting capabilities and offering clients more robust and efficient services.
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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.