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A Vercel for Africa? HOSTAFRICA’s HCode Runs in South Africa
HOSTAFRICA launched HCode on November 5 as its answer to platforms like Vercel, with prices in local currencies across six African countries. The apps run in South Africa. HCode, a rebranded version of the Zanode platform HOSTAFRICA bought in May, starts at R50, or about $3, a month.
Monarx Reviewed 65 Hosts: 10 of 12 Large Hosting Brands Sell Website Security Add-Ons
Partners #cybersecurity#monarx
Monarx's review of 65 hosting providers finds 37 including advanced website protection at no extra cost, 31 selling a separate security product and 18 doing both. Mass-market brands lean toward add-ons, while managed WordPress hosts mostly build protection into the plan.
Who Owns Europe’s Largest Hosting Markets: IONOS Controls the Leader in Germany, Poland and Spain
Industry reports #domains#europe
The four largest Swiss-owned hosts hold 39.8% of .ch domains, while the UK has one British-owned operator among its eight largest. We matched the leading operators in Europe's eight largest domain markets with their owners, and IONOS owns the leader in three of them.
DreamHost Confirms File Manager Breach. FTP/SFTP and Some Webmail Credentials Were Exposed
Security #cybersecurity#dreamhost
A security breach prompted DreamHost's October 23 File Manager shutdown and password resets. An attacker exploited third-party software behind the tool and could access FTP/SFTP credentials of users who signed in, plus some webmail logins. Well under 10% of email and FTP/SFTP accounts were affected.
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Fourteen Ukrainian Operators Hit in Twelve Days. Moscow Says Data Centers Are the Target.
Between September 15 and 27 at least fourteen named Ukrainian operators reported damage to the facilities carrying their networks, from De Novo and MiroHost to Kyivstar's head office, and the ones that stayed up had already paid for somewhere else to run from.
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Proton’s Frankfurt Outage Report: 20 Minutes to Critical, and Hardware Too Scarce to Sacrifice
Proton's outage report is direct about what went wrong: a night-time filter change on both compressors killed the cooling, AI-era density cut the time-to-critical from hours to 20 minutes, and engineers chose to power servers down rather than lose hardware the AI boom has made hard to replace.
Pricing updates
Melbicom Prices Its Premium CDN by Zone: EUR 0.03 per GB in 55 Territories, Up to 0.15 Elsewhere
Melbicom's new CDN pairs a 39-PoP Premium network with a 12-PoP Volume lane reaching EUR 0.002 per GB. The zone map sets Premium's destination rate: 55 territories at the entry 0.03, delivery to the other 196 costs more. Cache-fill is free, the company told us; the published terms state no SLA.
Security
Researchers Found Six Major CDNs Vulnerable to New HTTP/3 Attacks. Two Deployed Mitigations.
New research turns a CDN against the site behind it by exploiting the gap between HTTP/3 at the front and HTTP/1.1 at the back. All six CDNs tested were vulnerable, only Baidu and Tencent have deployed mitigations, and every proposed fix sits at the CDN rather than at the site.
Interviews
When 64GB of RAM Costs €3,000: The Shortage Behind Hostinger’s Biggest Server Order
Server costs up 5-6x, components up to 8x, lead times at 30 weeks: Hostinger explains its largest hardware order in our Q&A. COO Aivaras Šimkus on €3,000 RAM, scaling from 5 to 7 million customers, and why certainty is now the main advantage.
Industry reports
One of the Largest Planned Data Centers Died on a Notice Technicality
QTS has withdrawn its final appeal and terminated the Prince William Digital Gateway, a 2,100-acre Northern Virginia campus. Courts voided its rezoning after the county's newspaper notices failed state and local notice rules, ending one of the largest data center projects ever planned.
Industry reports
FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Fix the Data-Center Queue
FERC's June 18 orders give six US grid operators 60 days to fix large-load interconnection, including the cost-shift fight over whether data centers or ratepayers fund grid upgrades. For hosting, the queue is the binding constraint on compute supply.
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