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Hosting Is the Next Layer AI Will Transform – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
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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WP Engine Counsel Seeks WordPress Foundation Dissolution as WordCamp Europe Opens
WP Engine pursues the dissolution of the WordPress Foundation while framing the broader lawsuit as defensive. The June 4 hearing falls on WordCamp Europe Contributor Day in Kraków, where 14 hosting companies including two Automattic brands sponsor the event and WP Engine does not.
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WordPress and AI Tools: How to Use Automation Without Compromising User Privacy
AI tools for content generation, support, and analytics are now standard across WordPress sites. For hosting providers, this creates a new category of privacy risk: personal data that once stayed within a single database is now moving through external APIs and third-party platforms. This article covers which tools your clients are likely using, how AI affects the controller-processor distinction, and how to help customers stay compliant.
Software reviews
WordPress 7.0 Ships. PHP 7.4 Required. AI Built In. Real-Time Collaboration Delayed.
WordPress 7.0 ships May 20, 2026 with a built-in AI Client supporting Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, a raised PHP minimum of 7.4, and DataViews replacing the admin screens. Real-time collaboration was cut on May 8 due to race conditions, server load, and fuzz testing failures.
Industry reports
How Web Hosts Can Compete in a Saturated Market with Bundled WordPress Support Services?
The hosting market is saturated and price wars are eroding margins. Discover how bundling WordPress support services helps providers build deeper customer relationships and compete on value, not cost.
Security
FunnelKit Plugin Flaw Actively Exploited to Skim Credit Cards From WooCommerce Checkout Pages
Every customer who checked out on a WooCommerce store running an unpatched FunnelKit plugin may have had their card number, CVV, and billing address stolen. The attack is active across more than 40,000 sites. Patch to version 3.15.0.3, released May 14, 2026, and assess breach notification obligations.
Partners
WordPress Privacy Compliance: GDPR, CCPA, and Global Privacy Rules Simplified
GDPR, CCPA, and more than 130 national privacy laws affect every WordPress site you host. From cookie consent to data residency and processor contracts, hosting providers carry more compliance weight than most realize.
Software reviews
Extendify Delivers WordPress Sites Before First Login. Version 3.0 Adds One-Prompt Setup.
Extendify addresses the blank WordPress install problem that drives early hosting churn. AutoLaunch lets hosting providers create a finished site during their own signup flow, version 3.0 adds one-prompt website creation, and the AI Agent keeps customers managing their site from within WordPress rather than opening a support ticket.
Industry reports
Mullenweg Calls WordPress “Mediocre Crap” and Overrules Core Committers on 7.0
Matt Mullenweg called WordPress development "boring or mediocre crap," then overruled core committers to add Akismet to the WordPress 7.0 Connectors screen, weeks before the May 20 release.
Software reviews
Automattic’s New CLI Agent Builds WordPress Sites From a Text Prompt
Automattic launched Studio Code in public beta, a CLI agent built on Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 that builds, configures, and publishes WordPress sites from natural language commands, running on top of MCP write capabilities launched in March 2026.
Events
WordCamp Europe 2026, Kraków: Why the Hosting Industry Shows Up
WordCamp Europe is where WordPress platform decisions get made in public before they reach the market. The 2026 edition runs June 4-6 in Kraków, two weeks after WordPress 7.0 ships. For hosting providers, being in the room matters more this year than most.
Industry reports
WordPress 7.0 Has a New Confirmed release date: Here Is the Revised Plan
The WordPress 7.0 core team published its revised schedule with the development branch closed to 7.1 commits until 7.0 ships and all backports requiring sign-off from two core committers. For hosting providers, the PHP 7.4 minimum requirement is the immediate action item: any environment still running PHP 7.2 or 7.3 as a default will create friction for customers at upgrade time, and the May window is closing.
Security
Flippa Promoted the Plugin Portfolio Sale as a Success Story. It Was a Supply Chain Attack.
Flippa celebrated the six-figure sale of the Essential Plugin portfolio; eight months later the buyer activated a backdoor across 20,000+ WordPress sites using Googlebot cloaking and a C2 routed through an Ethereum smart contract.
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WordPress 7.0 Is Delayed. Here Is What Hosting Companies Need to Do Before the Release Date Is Confirmed.
WordPress 7.0 missed its April 9 release date and a new schedule will be announced by April 22. Hosting companies have a narrow window to prepare before the release date is confirmed.
Software reviews
Cloudflare Just Released a WordPress Competitor. It Is Not April Fools.
At v0.1.0, EmDash is a developer preview with no plugin ecosystem and reported performance issues, not a production platform. But it comes from a company with the infrastructure and developer reach to make it matter over a longer horizon than the current release suggests.
Industry reports
WordPress.com Gives AI Agents Write Access to Your Site: What Hosting Providers Need to Understand
WordPress.com opened write access to its MCP server on March 20, letting AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT create posts, manage comments, and organize content on any paid site. The update adds 19 operations across six content types - and signals a shift in how site management works that hosting providers cannot afford to ignore.
Software reviews
my.WordPress.net: WordPress Runs in Your Browser Now. No Server Required.
WordPress.org launched my.WordPress.net - a fully functional WordPress instance running entirely in the browser via WebAssembly. No server, no signup, no cost. It includes a built-in AI assistant and positions WordPress as a zero-friction personal workspace.
Events
WordCamp Asia 2026: Mumbai, April 9–11, and a Live WordPress 7.0 Release
The fourth edition of WordCamp Asia runs April 9-11 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. Over 3,000 attendees, 50+ speakers, three conference tracks, and a live WordPress 7.0 release on Contributor Day. With Hostinger, Bluehost, Kinsta, and Google among the sponsors, this is where the WordPress hosting business shows up.
Software reviews
WordPress 7.0 Ships AI Connectors: Infrastructure, Not Features
WordPress 7.0 introduces AI Connectors - a centralized system for connecting plugins to OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude - alongside real-time collaborative editing and an admin redesign. The release ships infrastructure, not features: AI capabilities come via plugins, not core.
Events
WordCamp Europe 2026 Is in Kraków This June – and If You Work in Hosting, You Should Be There
WordCamp Europe 2026 takes place June 4–6 at ICE Kraków in Poland, and for hosting companies it is the most important WordPress event of the year. With AI Connectors in core, new server requirements for collaborative editing, and a security process under scrutiny, the decisions made in Kraków will directly shape how hosting providers support WordPress at scale.
Events
PressConf 2026 : The Business of WordPress
After CloudFest: Don’t Miss PressConf 2026 CloudFest draws the top global players in hosting and infrastructure. Big announcements and back-to-back meetings keep the industry’s leaders center stage. After a much-needed post-CloudFest reset, the following week shifts gears with an event focused on the modern WordPress economy and the evolving product and hosting ecosystems. PressConf begins