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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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Security
Fragnesia: A New Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation That Emerged From Prior Kernel Patches
William Bowling of V12 Security disclosed Fragnesia on May 13, 2026, a Linux kernel privilege escalation that allows an unprivileged local attacker to reach root by corrupting the kernel page cache through the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem.
Security
Three cPanel Patches and DirtyFrag Fixes in One Day. Here Is Where Things Stand.
On May 8, cPanel closed three new vulnerabilities and Linux distributions shipped DirtyFrag kernel fixes. Two weeks of disclosures left providers with three separate patch tracks. Here is the complete status and the confirmations every shared hosting customer should request.
Security
Copy Fail: Any Local User Can Get Root on Nearly Every Linux System Since 2017
Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a Linux kernel privilege escalation giving any unprivileged local user root access, affecting virtually all distributions since 2017, with shared hosting and multi-tenant environments at highest risk.
Industry reports
Linux Foundation launches FAIR, open source WordPress repository project
The Linux Foundation has just announced something big for WordPress users and developers - the FAIR Package Manager project. This new tool promises to change the way plugins and themes are shared and updated, making the WordPress ecosystem more stable, secure, and open.
Software reviews
Seamless migration ahead: CloudLinux launches stable ELevate
CloudLinux has recently announced a significant update in their migration tool arsenal — the stable release of ELevate. The journey to this stable version has been a meticulous one, with its foundation laid on November 15, 2023, when CloudLinux released the Release Candidate 2 version. Today, we're diving into what makes this stable release a game-changer for users and hosting providers alike.
Software reviews
Comparison of BitNinja and Imunify360 – which is better in 2024
In a digital world where more than 450,000 new malware programs are detected every day, choosing the right protection for a server is crucial for security. In the competitive server security market, BitNinja and Imunify360 are the two leading players. Both platforms offer a wide range of security features, but which one is better for your needs?