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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
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The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
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Ranked by domains on their nameservers, GoDaddy leads with 73.1 million. Ranked by hosting attribution it falls to 3.5 million, but that column records whose address space a site is served from. We resolved a sample of GoDaddy's domains: 89% land in blocks registered to Amazon.
IONOS Is Cutting 12% of Its Workforce Five Weeks After Raising Its Revenue Outlook.
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IONOS will reduce headcount from about 3,800 to about 3,350, spending around EUR 35 million once to save up to EUR 30 million a year from 2027. IONOS says the savings will be reinvested, including in AI product development and cloud, and its 2026 adjusted EBITDA forecast is unchanged.
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Dasabo Gave Customers Ten Days to Upload an ID. Refusal Means Termination and No Refund.
A VPS provider gave customers ten days to upload an ID and a live photo or lose their services, with no refund under clause 14.1 of its terms. Dasabo puts the demand only on flagged accounts. Customers on two forums and Trustpilot describe it reaching people who had only paid.
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The Hypervisor Escape Comes to VMware: CVE-2026-47876 May Let a Guest VM Run Code on the ESX Host
CVE-2026-47876, rated 9.3, may let a guest VM with a VMXNET3 adapter escape to the VMware ESX host. Two vCenter flaws rated 9.8 shipped in the same advisory, and one is already being exploited in the wild.
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Leaseweb’s VPS Increase Falls Hardest on the Cheapest Plans
Leaseweb raises VPS prices on August 1, but not evenly: the cheapest US plan nearly doubles while premium tiers rise far less and some mid-range plans hold. It is less a broad memory tax than a deliberate reset of its cheapest plans, and it lands hardest on the price-sensitive buyers who chose cheap in the first place.
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2,930 of 2,931 Exposed MySQL Databases Were Already Marked by Ransomware. The Playbook Is Six Years Old.
A 2026 study found 2,930 of 2,931 exposed MySQL databases were marked by ransomware. One in four organizations still exposes MySQL, and honeypots get hit within 30 seconds. The PLEASE_READ_ME playbook from 2020 still works because the databases are not being broken into. They are being left open.
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Hostinger’s Kodee: 91% VPS Resolution, 69% Reality. Here Is What the Data Actually Shows.
Hostinger's AI agent Kodee now executes commands directly on customer VPS servers. Retention rose from 66% to 70%, only 7% of conversations require a human, and new orders grew roughly fourfold. While AI apps churn 30% faster than non-AI, hosting may be the exception.
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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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Shared Hosting Has Not Raised Prices Yet. The Hardware Bill Is Coming.
AI infrastructure competes with traditional hosting for the same DRAM. VPS and dedicated servers have repriced. Shared hosting adjusts last - with 3-5 year hardware cycles, the bill arrives at renewal. Two cost vectors are already building.
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Put Every VPS Provider on Notice
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta's May 27 shareholder meeting that a cloud business is "definitely on the table" if the company's 2026 $125 to $145 billion CapEx build produces excess GPU capacity. The mid-market VPS segment faces both pricing and AI-native positioning pressure.
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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.
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Expert’s Voice: Cloud hosting VS Traditional VPS Hosting: How to save $450k/month
Choosing the right hosting can drastically cut costs and avoid unexpected bills. Cloud hosting offers pay-as-you-go flexibility and automatic scaling, while VPS hosting provides fixed resources and predictable pricing. Here's what you
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NameHero introduces new VPS hosting solutions for resellers
CloudShield is designed specifically to meet the evolving needs of Managed Service Providers (MSPs), resellers, and web hosts, offering a cloud hosting solution with enhanced features that aim to improve performance, security, and scalability.
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Understanding cPanel’s rising costs 2019-2024
A significant increase in the prices of cPanel packages in the years 2019-2024 by up to 50%. We check the Internet archives, looking under every rock to determine how much the prices of individual packages have increased over the last 5 years.