Web Hosting News & Industry Updates
Breaking news, M&A deals, pricing moves, security alerts and in-depth analysis for the web hosting industry — 812 articles across 14 categories.
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Software reviews
A Vercel for Africa? HOSTAFRICA’s HCode Runs in South Africa
HOSTAFRICA launched HCode on November 5 as its answer to platforms like Vercel, with prices in local currencies across six African countries. The apps run in South Africa. HCode, a rebranded version of the Zanode platform HOSTAFRICA bought in May, starts at R50, or about $3, a month.
Monarx Reviewed 65 Hosts: 10 of 12 Large Hosting Brands Sell Website Security Add-Ons
Partners #cybersecurity#monarx
Monarx's review of 65 hosting providers finds 37 including advanced website protection at no extra cost, 31 selling a separate security product and 18 doing both. Mass-market brands lean toward add-ons, while managed WordPress hosts mostly build protection into the plan.
Who Owns Europe’s Largest Hosting Markets: IONOS Controls the Leader in Germany, Poland and Spain
Industry reports #domains#europe
The four largest Swiss-owned hosts hold 39.8% of .ch domains, while the UK has one British-owned operator among its eight largest. We matched the leading operators in Europe's eight largest domain markets with their owners, and IONOS owns the leader in three of them.
DreamHost Confirms File Manager Breach. FTP/SFTP and Some Webmail Credentials Were Exposed
Security #cybersecurity#dreamhost
A security breach prompted DreamHost's October 23 File Manager shutdown and password resets. An attacker exploited third-party software behind the tool and could access FTP/SFTP credentials of users who signed in, plus some webmail logins. Well under 10% of email and FTP/SFTP accounts were affected.
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We Tested Six Website Builder AIs With an Apple Pie Recipe. Not All of Them Are Actually AI.
We asked six AI website builder assistants for an apple pie recipe. The results split into three categories: capable and unconstrained, capable and properly constrained, and not really AI at all. The last group is the most surprising.
Interviews
Elementor on Hosting: Your Stack, Your Choice – Gabriella Laster, Product Marketing Director at Elementor
Gabriella Laster of Elementor on why Elementor Hosting is an option not a lock-in, how the Abilities API turns Angie into a control layer for any WordPress plugin, and why she calls AI-only web building a black box.
Industry reports
Is Cloudflare silently killing the web hosting industry?
Cloudflare is not trying to become another host. It is building the layer where new projects are deployed, secured and managed: domains, DNS, deployment, security, storage, compute and AI workflows. In that world, traditional hosting may no longer be needed.
Pricing updates
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.
Other
Hostinger Promotes Its Product and Technology Chief to CEO as AI Becomes the Business
Hostinger promoted product and technology chief Giedrius Zakaitis to CEO, with Daugirdas Jankus moving to strategic initiatives.
M&A
Ireland’s Largest Independent Host Joins a Fast-Growing European Roll-Up
Blacknight, the Carlow-based host founded in 2003 by Michele Neylon and Paul Kelly, has joined Your.Online. The companies say nothing changes day to day: same brand, same leadership, same Irish data centers, just access to a larger group's capital and resources.
Security
MariaDB Patches CVSS 10.0 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Galera Cluster Feature
MariaDB patched a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-49261) on May 27, disclosed publicly on June 11. The vulnerability is in wsrep_notify_cmd, a Galera Cluster feature. Standalone MariaDB is not at risk. Two additional CVSS 8.0 CVEs were fixed in the same update.
Other
Automattic Turns the WordPress Admin Into a Desktop Software
Automattic's Desktop Mode turns /wp-admin into a desktop OS: resizable windows, a dock, virtual desktops, and AI search. Built in three days during Radical Speed Month, it signals the same UX rethink behind WordPress 7.0 and WooCommerce 10.9.
Industry reports
WooCommerce 10.9 Ships Agent Abilities. The Hard Part Now Belongs to the Hosts.
WooCommerce 10.9 (stable June 23) ships canonical, MCP-exposable abilities for products and orders across 4.3M live stores. Shopify flipped agentic storefronts on for 5.6M merchants; WooCommerce has no central switch, making agent access the hosting industry's next managed-service battleground.
Other
Why a Battery Room Fire in Delhi Disrupted Google Cloud Across Three Indian Cities
A 200 sq ft battery room fire in Delhi disrupted Google Cloud across three cities on June 9. Compute stayed operational. The failure was in a third-party network POP, not a region. It reveals how hyperscalers build network presence in growth markets before owning the infrastructure.
Other
Namecheap Ends Handshake TLD Support as Web3 Domain Projects Retreat
Namecheap pulled Handshake TLD support on June 10, five months after selling its Namebase marketplace. HNS trades at $0.005, down from $0.85 in 2021. Unstoppable Domains says blockchain names were "part of the crypto craze" that never crossed into mainstream usage.
Industry reports
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.
Interviews
We All Need to Start Building More, and Faster – Artur Grabowski, Co-Founder at Extendify
At WordCamp Europe 2026 in Kraków, Artur Grabowski from Extendify says many plugins and hosts are still doing the same thing they did two years ago. That is not enough. The industry needs to build more, and faster.
Industry reports
Lovable, Bolt, and Replit Are Generating Millions of Projects Every Week. Traditional Hosting Is Not Where They Land.
Lovable has 50 million total projects and over 1 million new ones weekly. The output is React and Node.js. PHP shared hosting is not where it lands.
Expert's Voice
What Indian Hosting Customers Are Teaching the Global Hosting Industry
India crossed 950 million internet users in 2025. Indian hosting customers are forcing the industry to rethink what "good hosting" means: simplicity, transparency, bundled support, AI-assisted onboarding, and a focus on business outcomes over infrastructure specs.
Industry reports
95% of New European Sites on Traditional Hosting Launch Without Embedded AI. ShareShift Maps the Gap.
A ShareShift.io analysis of over 3 million new European domains shows that 95% of new sites on traditional hosting infrastructure launch without embedded AI, while Wix reaches 100% and GoDaddy 26%. The gap reflects business model, not technology.
Interviews
Some Hosts Are Losing a Lot of Sites – Lasse Hall, CEO of Servebolt
At Hosts Del Mar, Lasse Hall, CEO of Servebolt, on why PE consolidation does not worry him with 350,000 hosting companies globally, why some hosts are losing a lot of sites to AI-driven competitors, and why the next two to three years change hosting drastically.
Industry reports
Patchstack Now Underpins Most Major Managed WordPress Hosts. GoDaddy Joined the Stack.
Patchstack became the default WordPress vulnerability intelligence and virtual patching layer for managed hosting. GoDaddy joined as a full-integration partner in April 2026; WP Engine, Cloudways, Hostinger, Nexcess, Pantheon and most other major hosts already use Patchstack threat intelligence.
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Protect The Shire: WordPress Adds a 24-Hour Default Delay to Plugin Auto-Updates
Matt Mullenweg announced Protect The Shire on June 5, 2026: a 24-hour default delay before every WordPress plugin release reaches auto-updates. The infrastructure has existed as opt-in since August 2025. The shift cites AI-accelerated supply chain risk after Mythos and Essential Plugins.
Industry reports
ICANN Meets June 8. One Proposal Could Force Registrars to Investigate Every Customer Tied to a Single Abuse Report.
ICANN is debating a rule that would require registrars to investigate every domain from a customer when one is flagged for abuse. Seville (June 8-11) is where that debate begins in earnest. The gTLD window closes August 12.