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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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Security
Januscape and Bad Epoll: Two Linux Flaws That Let One Customer Take Over the Whole Server
Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) lets a guest VM escape to the host and take over co-tenants; Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets any unprivileged user reach root with a near-perfect exploit. Both are patched upstream and in AlmaLinux, and for both the only fix is a new kernel and a reboot.
Security
Flippa Promoted the Plugin Portfolio Sale as a Success Story. It Was a Supply Chain Attack.
Flippa celebrated the six-figure sale of the Essential Plugin portfolio; eight months later the buyer activated a backdoor across 20,000+ WordPress sites using Googlebot cloaking and a C2 routed through an Ethereum smart contract.
Expert's Voice
How to Sell Security in Hosting (Without Scaring Your Customers)
There’s a moment in the hosting sales flow where everything can quietly fall apart. The customer has picked a plan, they’re ready to buy, and mentally they’re already there. It should be
Industry reports
Critical Grafana Enterprise SCIM Flaw Hits Hosting Providers: Why Staying Updated Matters
Grafana has released a set of emergency security patches after discovering a critical vulnerability in its Enterprise editions. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-41115, carries the maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and affects environments where the SCIM feature is enabled and used for automated user provisioning.
Industry reports
CentralNic Reseller Announces Auth-Code Rotation After Suspicious Activity
A recent message from CentralNic Reseller addressed to its customers reveals that the company has observed “activity outside our operational systems that we are investigating” and is taking precautionary measures. The announcement states that while there is no confirmed impact on operational systems or customer data, the reseller will rotate all domain authorisation (auth) codes across its platform