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Most of Hostinger’s Hardest Support Cases No Longer Transfer to a Human. The Human Coaches the AI Instead.
Hostinger has merged its support assistant Kodee with its marketing and SEO agents into Hostinger Agent. The bigger change is behind it: on the one conversation in ten the AI cannot settle alone, a specialist advises it instead of taking over, and hard-case resolution rose from 41 to 72 percent.
Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.
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Automattic's board has put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, with chief financial officer Mark Davies as interim chief executive. The change stops at the commercial company: no change has been announced to his leadership of the WordPress project or to his control of WordPress.org.
Non-Developers Are Building Whole Websites With AI. 20i’s Survey Says Only 31.5% Get a Developer’s Review.
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A survey of 600 US non-developers who use AI to write code found 16.3 percent building entire websites, 61 percent testing the results themselves and 31.5 percent having a developer review the code. Separate laboratory testing puts the flaw rate near half.
WHMCS Has an Unauthenticated RCE. The Fix Exists Only for 9.0.8 and 8.13.7.
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Two WHMCS advisories on September 3: an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw affecting every build since 8.0, and a 2CheckOut gateway flaw exposing client data in versions from 4.5. Both are fixed in 9.0.8 and 8.13.7, and nothing older gets a patch.
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Verisign Lifts .net Wholesale From $10.91 to $12.00, Effective March 1, 2027
A one-line 8-K raises .net wholesale from $10.91 to $12.00 from March 1, 2027, the first increase since February 2024. With 12.5 million registrations renewing at 78.7%, the step is worth up to $13.6 million a year, and resellers have six months to reprice.
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The Hosting Price Squeeze, Part 2: Should You Actually Pass It On?
Part two of the hosting price squeeze series tackles the decision that keeps founders up at night: pass rising costs on, absorb them, or find a middle path. A segment-by-segment guide to raising prices without breaking customer trust.
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H1 2026: The Six Months That Repriced Hosting
H1 2026 synthesized from forty pieces of verified reporting: renewal spreads past 5x, RAM and storage up 50–300%, domain escalators restarted into record demand, the acquisition funnel measurably broken, $850B of leases off balance sheet, and the machine customer arriving. Growth by invoice.
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500,000 VPS: Contabo Hits a Scale Milestone in the Quarter Its Rivals Raised Prices
Contabo hit 500,000 VPS on June 16, 2026. In the same quarter, Scaleway raised serverless prices up to 100%, Hetzner raised dedicated cloud servers by up to 204%, and OVH adjusted pricing from April. Contabo added features. The timing is worth examining.
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While the Industry Raised Prices, a Few Hosts Promised Never To. Regulation Just Made That a Strategy.
A few hosts promised never to raise renewal prices, through the worst hardware inflation in a decade. New renewal laws just turned that into strategy.