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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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Akamai Up 26%, Cloudflare Down 16%. Q1 Earnings Show Where AI Value Lives.
On May 7, Akamai signed a $1.8 billion, seven-year AI compute contract and surged 26% in after-hours trading. Cloudflare beat Q1 estimates with $639.8M in revenue, raised full-year guidance, and fell roughly 16% after announcing 1,100 layoffs and Q2 guidance that missed analyst consensus. Alongside Q1 results from GoDaddy, DigitalOcean, Verisign, and Tucows, the divergence reveals a clear 2026 pattern: contracted AI compute is valued over platform positioning.
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DigitalOcean Launches Inference Engine. $120 Million in AI Revenue Is Already Behind It.
DigitalOcean's Inference Engine gives developers and businesses four ways to run AI inference workloads, from serverless to dedicated GPU capacity. The April 28 launch is backed by $120M in AI ARR growing 150%, a Richmond data center built for AI alone, and production deployments at Character.ai, Hippocratic AI, and LawVo.
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Copilot Q&A: How Cloudways Built an AI That Diagnoses Infrastructure Issues in Minutes
Ayaz Ahmed Khan of DigitalOcean explains how Cloudways Copilot reduces infrastructure troubleshooting from 30-40 minutes to 5-6 minutes, what the preview period taught the team, and where automated diagnosis still falls short.
Industry reports
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.
Industry reports
Introducing Cloudways Autonomous – auto scales WordPress Hosting
Cloudways Autonomous stands as a hosting platform built upon Kubernetes (GKE) infrastructure, which automatically scales in response to website traffic fluctuations, obviating the need for human intervention. Its advanced load-balancing capabilities ensure applications remain accessible online, irrespective of demand levels.
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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.