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Hosting Is the Next Layer AI Will Transform – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
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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Industry reports
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.
Interviews
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.
Mergers and acquisitions
CyberFolks and Shoper Agree to Merge Into a Single Listed Entity Valued at €1 Billion
CyberFolks will absorb Shoper through a share exchange at 0.2281 CyberFolks shares per Shoper share, forming a single Warsaw-listed entity valued at €1 billion. The merged group holds Shoper, PrestaShop, MailerLite, and Sylius, covering most of the e-commerce stack across Europe.
Interviews
Vibe Coding Rebuilt Our Entire Stack – Munir, Founder of aeServer.com
Munir, Founder of aeServer.com, on using vibe coding to automate domain registrations and rebuild their customer-facing stack, the new wave of online businesses in the Middle East, and whether Domain Days Dubai is happening this October.
Industry reports
More Revenue. Less Profit. What iomart’s FY2026 Reveals About Mid-Market Hosting.
iomart closed FY2026 with a profit warning, a CFO departure, and a credit facility expiring in June 2027. Its H1 numbers (revenue up 25%, EBITDA down 24%, net debt at £109.6m) make visible a squeeze that Rackspace, OVHcloud, and UKCloud have each encountered in their own way.
Security
A Ransomware Group’s Backend Was Leaked Because Their Hosting Provider Got Hacked First.
On May 2, hosting provider 4VPS disclosed a breach of its billing systems. Two days later, The Gentlemen ransomware group's backend appeared for sale online. Check Point Research confirmed the dataset included victim lists, ransom negotiations, and internal communications from one of 2026's most active ransomware operations.
Security
Skynethosting Took Its Entire cPanel Fleet Offline on May 1. Two Weeks Later, Some Are Still Down.
Skynethosting took its entire cPanel fleet offline on May 1 in response to CVE-2026-41940, and as of May 14 some customer servers had been down for nearly two weeks, with one reseller publicly reporting a 30 percent client loss during the outage.
Industry reports
The Cheap VPS Era Is Over. AI Hardware Demand Repriced the Market.
Hetzner, OVHcloud, Netcup, Scaleway, and IONOS raised VPS prices up to 49% in spring 2026, citing AI-driven memory shortages. Contabo launched better specs at lower prices instead. US hyperscalers posted record growth. The article maps both markets and explains which strategies survive through 2027.
Stock reports
GoDaddy Has 20 Million Customers and Barely Added Any. That Might Be the Strategy.
GoDaddy's Q1 2026 results show 13,000 net customer additions on a base of 20.4 million, with ARPU growing 9% to $246, Applications and Commerce expanding 12%, and free cash flow up 15% to $473.6 million. The numbers describe a platform that has stepped back from subscriber growth and is monetizing its existing base through AI upsells, raising a pointed question for every hosting provider watching: when the dominant SMB platform stops competing for new customers, who fills the gap and at what cost.
Security
Four Tiers of OpenClaw Hosting. Three Have a Security Problem.
The market for running OpenClaw splits cleanly into providers that have made it accessible and providers that have made it secure, and those are currently different products at different price points.
Industry reports
Anthropic Just Became a Hosting Provider. Four Infrastructure Stocks Fell the Same Week
Claude Managed Agents bundles sandboxed execution, credential vaulting, session checkpointing, and observability into a single API at $0.08 per session-hour plus token costs. For task-based agent workloads running minutes to hours on demand, Anthropic is now priced directly against hosting providers. For persistent, always-on agents, a dedicated VPS still costs less and runs any model. The stock reaction on April 10 reflected the market's view that the competitive pressure is real even if the migration will not be immediate.
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 frictionless from this point on. And then you show them a security upsell. Suddenly, doubt creeps in. Not because the product changed, but
Expert's Voice
Is the hosting industry stuck in the past? The problem of legacy security
The hosting industry has gone through a major transformation in recent years. Infrastructure is faster, tools are more mature, and automation keeps improving. AI is also starting to reshape how services are built and managed.
Industry reports
Why AI will not replace support – and why that is good news
For the past two years, the same prediction has been repeated across tech media. AI will replace customer support. Chatbots will answer everything. Support teams will shrink or disappear. It sounds convincing in theory. In practice, companies that actually run AI in production are discovering something very different.
Industry reports
AI in Customer Support at Scale – How Hosting.com Handles One Million Conversations a Month
When people talk about AI in customer support, they usually imagine a chatbot answering simple questions. But in reality, the most interesting implementations go much deeper than that. A good example is Hosting.com - a global hosting company with more than 900 employees and around a million support conversations every month.
CloudFest
CloudFest 2026 grows bigger as organizers announce the new “CloudFest Village”
CloudFest, one of the largest events focused on internet infrastructure, will return in 2026 with a larger footprint and new areas for attendees. The organizers say the event will welcome more than 10,000 participants and introduce a new space called CloudFest Village, designed to add more room for sessions, networking, and community activities. The new
Expert's Voice
The 3 Waves of WordPress AI: Why “Vibe Coding” Will Destroy Your Support Team
Hosting has a simple job description: keep websites online, fast, and fixable. “Fixable” is the part most AI demos conveniently skip. A site can look impressive in a screen recording and still be a nightmare the moment a real customer opens a ticket that starts with, “Something broke - can you help?”
Expert's Voice
The “Hello, world” churn nobody budgets for
If you run a hosting business, you already know this story, even if you’ve never named it. A customer buys a plan, logs into WordPress, clicks around for a minute… and then you see the ticket. “Please cancel.” When you check their site, it’s still the default post. Nothing built, nothing launched, nothing connected to a real goal.
CloudFest
CloudFest 2026: 10 Speakers that you can’t afford to miss
CloudFest 2026 will take place between March 23 and 26 at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. This year's theme - “The Sustainability of Everything” isn't just about green energy. It's about whether the hosting industry's business models, security measures and margins can survive what's coming in the next few years. If you haven't registered yet, you
Other
Is PrestaShop’s February 2026 security alert linked to over 21 million records allegedly leaked from the Addons Marketplace?
A community-led forensic investigation links the attacks to a reported breach of 21 million records from PrestaShop's own Addons Marketplace. PrestaShop has not confirmed or denied the connection, only issued a security alert on February 12, 2026, notifying merchants that a digital skimmer is actively replacing payment buttons on checkout pages with fraudulent duplicates. When