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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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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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AWS Connected Its Network to Google Cloud With No Egress Fees. Azure and Oracle Are Next.
AWS Interconnect multicloud eliminates per-gigabyte transfer fees between AWS and Google Cloud VPCs in favor of flat bandwidth pricing. Azure and Oracle are next. The launch removes the cloud-to-cloud brokerage role that drove Megaport and Equinix Fabric growth.
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Google Cloud Incorrectly Suspended Railway’s Account. Eight Hours Down.
Google Cloud incorrectly suspended Railway's account on May 19, 2026, taking it offline for eight hours. AWS and Railway Metal workloads ran throughout but were unreachable: Railway's edge proxies relied on a GCP-hosted control plane API for routing, and when it failed, everything returned 404.
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OpenAI Ends Azure Exclusivity. AWS and Google Cloud Are Now in Play.
OpenAI's Azure exclusivity ended on April 27 as Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their partnership: Microsoft stops paying revenue share, retains its 27 percent equity stake, and Azure keeps first-launch rights, while OpenAI gains full multi-cloud distribution including AWS and Google Cloud. The restructuring directly resolves a legal conflict created by OpenAI's $38 billion AWS cloud contract and up to $50 billion Amazon investment, and removes the barrier that prevented enterprise customers from running OpenAI models outside Azure.
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Google Cloud Next ’26: What Actually Changed
At Cloud Next '26 in Las Vegas, Google introduced eighth-generation TPUs, a 4x-bandwidth data center network, 10 TB/s storage, and a $750 million partner fund. Production results from Citadel Securities, Deutsche Telekom, and GE Appliances show what the platform delivers at scale. Here is what hosting providers and IT buyers need to know.
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Kinsta moves sites to Oracle Cloud after 10 years with Google Cloud
TL;DR - Kinsta announced migration of WordPress sites from Google Cloud to Oracle Cloud. They stayed on Google Cloud for nearly a decade because it made sense at the time. They’re leaving