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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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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.
Mergers and acquisitions
OpusDNS Acquires fruits.co, Adding Domain Monetization to Its Wholesale Registrar Platform
OpusDNS acquired fruits.co, combining wholesale domain registration with EU-VAT-compliant aftermarket sales. Built by Hexonet and InterNetX veterans, OpusDNS positions against legacy registrar infrastructure with a 12-month integration roadmap that will test the consolidation thesis.
Mergers and acquisitions
HOSTAFRICA Acquires Zanode, Its Second South African Deal in Nine Days
HOSTAFRICA announced the acquisition of Zanode on May 14, 2026, nine days after acquiring Evoweb's hosting division, adding a South African git-driven deployment platform to its African hosting portfolio.
Mergers and acquisitions
EvoWeb Splits Its Business in Two. HostAfrica Gets the Hosting Half.
HostAfrica has acquired the hosting division of South African provider EvoWeb, the latest in a series of deals across Africa since 2016. EvoWeb retains its web design and WordPress development practice.
Stock reports
NameSilo’s 2025 Results: Eight Years of Growth, Back in Profit.
NameSilo Technologies reported its best financial year on record in 2025: revenue up 18.5% to $65.5M, EBITDA up 84%, zero debt, 6.26 million domains under management. The parent company is deploying cash flows into industrial robotics, not hosting adjacencies. That tells you something about where this business is headed.
Mergers and acquisitions
HostPapa Acquires Hostwinds, Adding Seattle and Amsterdam Infrastructure in Its Second Acquisition This Month
HostPapa acquired Hostwinds on April 29, adding self-owned data centers in Seattle and Amsterdam and a developer and reseller customer base to its portfolio, twelve days after acquiring Tailor Made Servers in Dallas.
Mergers and acquisitions
Your.Cloud Buys Cloud Geeni. Fourth UK Deal in the Roll-Up.
Your.Cloud's acquisition of Cloud Geeni is the Dutch MSP consolidator's fourth UK deal, adding an ISO 27001-certified managed service provider with a 16-year proprietary private cloud platform and a customer base spanning legal, manufacturing, and financial services. Cloud Geeni retains its brand, team, and management under Your.Cloud's decentralized model, which has become the group's primary tool for attracting owner-operated MSPs across Europe.
Mergers and acquisitions
HostPapa Acquires Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas Dedicated Server Provider Operating Since 2003.
HostPapa acquired Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas dedicated server provider operating since 2003, adding its customer base to the ColoCrossing brand as part of an acquisition run that has included more than 17 deals since 2020.
Mergers and acquisitions
PlanetHoster strengthens its presence in Europe with the acquisition of Digital Forest
PlanetHoster has acquired Digital Forest, a French hosting provider founded in 2020 and focused on eco-responsible infrastructure. The transaction was announced on February 11, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of the deal, Simon Cardon, founder of Digital Forest, has been appointed CEO Europe at PlanetHoster. Eco-responsible addition to PlanetHoster’s portfolio Digital Forest
Mergers and acquisitions
UK2 Group has joined Your.Online
TL;DR - this adds another established UK hosting platform to the group. No product changes were announced. The deal fits Your.Online’s ongoing UK consolidation pattern. What actually happened On 2 February 2026, Your.Online announced that UK2 Group will join the group. UK2 Group was founded in 1998 and operates several hosting brands, including UK2, Midphase,
Mergers and acquisitions
Your.Online portfolio expands again with the addition of Dtch. Digitals
TL;DR - Your.Online portfolio now includes also Dtch. Digitals, an award-winning, AI-first digital agency from the Netherlands. The announcement emphasizes continued autonomy, though the exact deal structure was not publicly disclosed.Dtch. Digitals retains full operational independence while gaining access to shared playbooks, peer collaboration, and long-term strategic headroom.For Your.Online, the move fits a broader positioning
Industry reports
Acquired to be shut down: How WP Engine absorbed Big Bite for its know-how
TL;DR - WP Engine’s acquisition of Big Bite, a newsroom-focused WordPress agency, matters not because it “changes the market.” It is part of a long-term trend observed for over a decade: hosting companies increasingly acquire SaaS tools, software, services, and agencies to cover the entire customer lifecycle in their offering. This time, however, WP Engine
Mergers and acquisitions
Your.online strengthens its DACH footprint with acquisition of high-performance host ecomDATA
The European hosting market continues to consolidate, and your.online has just taken another decisive step. The group announced the acquisition of ecomDATA GmbH, a high-performance hosting provider operating out of Germany and Austria. The transaction expands your.online’s presence in the DACH region - a market known for its demanding technical standards, deep local competition, and
CVC acquires majority stake in Namecheap for $1.5 billion
CVC Capital Partners has announced an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Namecheap, one of the largest independent domain registrars and hosting providers. The deal values the company at around $1.5 billion, including debt. The transaction is at the announcement stage and will be subject to regulatory approvals before closing. Richard Kirkendall, founder and
Mergers and acquisitions
Group.one expands its reach in Finland with Wepardi acquisition
Group.one, a rapidly expanding European web services company, has taken another significant step in the Finnish market by acquiring Wepardi’s web hosting and domain business. This move strengthens Group.one's foothold in Finland, following previous acquisitions such as Telia Finland's web hosting business earlier this year. The acquisition of Wepardi underscores Group.one’s strategy of consolidating smaller
Guest post: Who are Private Equity hosting rollups – and what are their playbooks?
The readers of this blog will be familiar with businesses like team.blue, group.one, Miss Group, IONOS, WebPros and others. They all have one thing in common: Private Equity (PE) ownership. When it comes to technology buyouts, PE firms tend to steer clear of businesses with SME exposure. It is not surprising. ACVs are low. Churn
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