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The Senate wants to end the exemption by January 1, 2027; the House wants to keep it through 2035 with clean energy conditions; and neither side moved before the legislature left Richmond without a budget for the first time in recent memory. Elimination would cost a major hyperscaler $265 million to $700 million in new annual tax obligations in the market that holds approximately 4 gigawatts of operational data center capacity, the largest concentration in the world.

The ICO fined NHS IT services provider Advanced Computer Software Group £3.07 million in March 2025 for MFA gaps that enabled a ransomware attack. France's CNIL fined Mobius Solutions €1 million in December 2025 for retaining Deezer customer data after contract termination. Both are data processors. GDPR enforcement is no longer limited to controllers. Managed hosting companies processing EU customer data are now directly in scope.

CloudFest Americas and i2Coalition announced a formal partnership on April 9, making i2Coalition the Official Conference Partner of CloudFest Americas in North America and naming i2Coalition Executive Director Christian Dawson as Chief Evangelist of the event.

Full-year 2025 .com domain data shows GoDaddy registering 7.9 million new domains but finishing with roughly 1 million fewer under management than it started with. Namecheap gained approximately 1.9 million, the largest gain of any registrar.

The AI deployment cycle runs 12 to 18 months. The transformer procurement cycle now runs 2.5 to 5 years. A campus announced in 2025 cannot be operational in 2026 or 2027 unless its transformers were on order before the announcement. Wood Mackenzie projects a 30 percent supply deficit for power transformers this year, with demand in 2026 running 21 percent above 2024 levels.

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.

The Sedo sale process asks a buyer to separate two assets bundled under one roof: a durable domain aftermarket platform with 650-plus registrar partners worldwide, and a parking and monetization operation that lost its primary revenue source when Google removed parked domains from its Search Partner Network in February 2026. How a buyer values those two things, and what their priorities imply for the SedoMLS partner network, is the question registrars and hosting companies with domain aftermarket exposure are now watching.

New gTLDs now represent 12.4% of all registrations after 29.9% year-over-year growth, .ai median resale prices have doubled since 2021, and a new gTLD application window opens in April. The 2026 report gives hosting resellers three concrete things to act on.

This post covers what a lean team actually does to keep diverse workloads running reliably: from automated offsite backups with Acronis and Docker Swarm scaling for QA environments to AI-driven anomaly detection and incident response. The argument is that operational excellence does not require a large engineering department, but it does require building systems that scale without adding headcount.

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.

PDG's latest acquisition of 210 MW across Mumbai and Hyderabad nearly doubles its planned India capacity and brings its total commitment to $2.5 billion since 2022. The business case rests on hyperscaler demand absorbing 1 GW of AI-ready wholesale capacity, and the hosting companies positioned for that outcome are the ones already in managed cloud and migration services, not shared hosting.

DRAM contract prices more than doubled in Q1 2026, and a small but growing number of hosting operators have responded by deploying gaming consoles from the 1980s and 1990s as production web servers, citing a 2010 US Air Force supercomputer as their proof of concept.

Cloudflare's 2026 Threat Report describes attackers who log in rather than break in, using stolen session tokens that bypass MFA entirely. On World Backup Day, the question worth asking is not whether you have a backup, but whether the attacker who logged into your environment three weeks ago has already found it.

Last week alone, three separate Senate actions targeted data center electricity use - a reporting demand to the EIA, a construction moratorium bill, and an off-grid sourcing requirement for large facilities. The EU made reporting mandatory in 2023 and is now consulting on efficiency ratings and minimum performance standards, while the US is still debating whether to collect the data.

The European Commission confirmed attackers accessed its AWS-hosted Europa.eu infrastructure and took data. AWS says its platform was not the issue, the customer account configuration was.

IONOS posted its highest EBITDA margin since going public (36.8%), doubled its net customer additions, and guided for 37-38% margins in 2026. CEO Achim Weiss said on the earnings call that AI will account for 50% of incremental revenue in 2026, rising to 80% by 2028. The stock trades around €24-25 against analyst consensus of roughly €35. The article examines what is actually in the AI stack, what the 3,300 Momentum orders mean for the hosting industry, and the December 2026 debt maturity that analysts are watching.

team.blue completed 11 SaaS acquisitions in 2025. Storyclash, Windsor.ai, and Saleskit are already done in the first quarter of 2026.

The NIS2 Directive is no longer a future compliance problem for hosting providers - it is reshaping products, processes, and pricing right now.

There’s a moment in the hosting sales flow where everything can quietly fall apart. The customer has picked a plan, they’re ready to buy, and mentally they’re already there. It should be

Hosting.com is the first traditional hosting company to launch a product explicitly branded for AI-generated code. The platform, launched March 24, targets both developers using Cursor and Windsurf and non-technical users through a natural language app builder.