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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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Cloudways Just Handed AI Agents the Admin Panel, and the Locks Are Racing to Catch Up
Cloudways' MCP server now exposes 244 tools, letting an AI agent run security scans, deployments, and billing on your hosting by chat. It is part of a wave, from DigitalOcean to cPanel, and its role-based scoped tokens stand out in a category where research finds many MCP servers insecure.
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The Balance Sheet Behind Your Renewal Invoice: Who Owns the Hosting Industry, and What It Owes
Your renewal invoice has a balance sheet behind it. We mapped hosting's private-equity owners, their debt, and the 2028 maturity wall against our own Renewal Multiplier Index: the most leveraged operator restructured in December, the tooling layer is reportedly funding sponsor dividends, and the debt-free cohort is quietly taking the customers.
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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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European Hosting Is Still Cheap. But Only If You Buy the Right Tier.
After three Hetzner price increases and OVHcloud raising VPS prices up to 67%, European shared vCPU hosting remains 60-75% cheaper than US providers. But dedicated vCPU instances have reached price parity with DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode. The choice is no longer about cost alone.
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DigitalOcean announces new spaces object storage in London
DigitalOcean has launched its Spaces Object Storage in the London data center (LON1). This makes it easier for users in the UK and Europe to store their data locally, improving speed and access for their customers.