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Thirty Deals in Six Months: The H1 2026 Hosting Consolidation Map, and the Two Clocks Driving What Sells Next
H1 2026 produced a US$1B Polish hosting-commerce merger, a $450M registrar champion, serial buyers closing two deals apiece within a fortnight, and a $40B data-centre record, while Google's AdSense shutdown forced Sedo and Team Internet to market. The map, the multiples, and the debt walls pushed to 2028-2029.
GoDaddy Q2 2026: More Revenue From the Same Customers
Industry reports #airo#arpu
GoDaddy's Q2 2026: revenue up 6.6%, EPS up 30%, customers up by just 22,000. ARPU, upsell and an $851.8 million buyback are doing the work, and the segment split shows domains and hosting growing slowest of all.
The Hosting Price Squeeze, Part 3: The Playbook
Expert's Voice #control-panel#pricing
In the final part of the series, BrandForge CEO Michiel Grotenhuis turns to the practical question: what do you actually do about rising hosting costs? He borrows from streaming, SaaS, and retail, shares what the community is doing, and argues for reducing dependence on any single vendor.
The Renewal Multiplier Index: What Hosting Costs After the Intro Price
Pricing updates #bluehost#hostinger
First edition of our quarterly index, measured July 29: SiteGround renews at up to 5.3x, the price-lock club at 1.0x, and GoDaddy, HostGator, and Namecheap mid-band at 1.7–3.7x. At every provider with a full plan range, the entry plan renews at a higher multiple than the top plan.
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How to Sell Security in Hosting (Without Scaring Your Customers)
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
Expert's Voice
Is the hosting industry stuck in the past? The problem of legacy security
The hosting industry has gone through a major transformation in recent years. Infrastructure is faster, tools are more mature, and automation keeps improving. AI is also starting to reshape how services are built and managed.
Industry reports
Why AI will not replace support – and why that is good news
For the past two years, the same prediction has been repeated across tech media. AI will replace customer support. Chatbots will answer everything. Support teams will shrink or disappear. It sounds convincing in theory. In practice, companies that actually run AI in production are discovering something very different.
Industry reports
AI in Customer Support at Scale – How Hosting.com Handles One Million Conversations a Month
When people talk about AI in customer support, they usually imagine a chatbot answering simple questions. But in reality, the most interesting implementations go much deeper than that. A good example is Hosting.com - a global hosting company with more than 900 employees and around a million support conversations every month.
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CloudFest 2026 grows bigger as organizers announce the new “CloudFest Village”
CloudFest, one of the largest events focused on internet infrastructure, will return in 2026 with a larger footprint and new areas for attendees. The organizers say the event will welcome more than
Expert's Voice
The 3 Waves of WordPress AI: Why “Vibe Coding” Will Destroy Your Support Team
Hosting has a simple job description: keep websites online, fast, and fixable. “Fixable” is the part most AI demos conveniently skip. A site can look impressive in a screen recording and still be a nightmare the moment a real customer opens a ticket that starts with, “Something broke - can you help?”
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The “Hello, world” churn nobody budgets for
If you run a hosting business, you already know this story, even if you’ve never named it. A customer buys a plan, logs into WordPress, clicks around for a minute… and then you see the ticket. “Please cancel.” When you check their site, it’s still the default post. Nothing built, nothing launched, nothing connected to a real goal.
CloudFest
CloudFest 2026: 10 Speakers that you can’t afford to miss
CloudFest 2026 will take place between March 23 and 26 at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. This year's theme - “The Sustainability of Everything” isn't just about green energy. It's about whether the
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Is PrestaShop’s February 2026 security alert linked to over 21 million records allegedly leaked from the Addons Marketplace?
A community-led forensic investigation links the attacks to a reported breach of 21 million records from PrestaShop's own Addons Marketplace. PrestaShop has not confirmed or denied the connection, only issued a security
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GoDaddy declares 21 million customers “business users” overnight – strips consumer protections, overhauls arbitration, and locks down dispute rights
On February 2, 2026, GoDaddy published a revised Universal Terms of Service Agreement (UTOS) that fundamentally changed the legal relationship between the company and its more than 21 million customers. The update
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Hostinger reports 51% revenue growth in 2025, reaches €275.4 million
TL;DR - Hostinger reported €275.4 million in revenue for 2025, up 51% year over year. This is the fourth consecutive year in which the company recorded more than 50% annual revenue growth.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) updated its contract terms, allowing server price changes until shipment
In early February 2026 HPE sent letters to partners, changing contract terms for server and GreenLake orders.HPE cited rising memory prices and supply constraints as reasons for the update. What changed For
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Is Webuzo any alternative to cPanel? See what hosting pros think about it in February 2026
A recent discussion on WebHostingTalk - “I need feedback on Webuzo” - triggered an interesting exchange among hosting operators testing Webuzo as a potential alternative to cPanel. Reading through the thread and
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What hosting providers are saying about cPanel in early 2026
A recent thread on WebHostingTalk - “A personal and honest perspective on cPanel - beyond pricing complaints” - triggered a long discussion among hosting operators about cPanel’s direction in 2026. Reading through
Expert's Voice
Why Hosting Companies Are Expanding into SaaS, E-commerce, and Ecosystems
For years, the value proposition was simple: rent space on the internet, keep it online, keep it fast, keep it safe. And that still matters - immensely. But it’s no longer where most of the value is captured. In 2026, the most ambitious hosting companies are no longer competing primarily on CPUs, storage, or even performance benchmarks. They’re competing on something much messier and far more powerful: the customer’s workflow.
Shared hosting in 2025 – a year of stress tests, signals and structural change
TL;DR - if 2024 was about post‑COVID normalization, 2025 was about pressure - on margins, positioning, and on the long‑term credibility of the traditional shared hosting model. Growth didn’t collapse, but cracks
Webhosting.today January 2026 Security Update
We’re excited to launch the first-ever Monthly Security Update on WebHosting.Today, we couldn’t be more pleased to do it alongside three of the most respected names in hosting and WordPress security, Blackwall
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Shellrent joins Your.Online — third acquisition in 2026
Your.Online has completed another acquisition with the addition of Shellrent, an Italian provider of domains, hosting, cloud VPS, and server solutions. The deal was signed in February, making this the third acquisition
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Have you paid for your open source last year? team.blue did
TL;DR - PHP runs most of the web, and WordPress alone powers over 40% of it. The PHP Foundation’s annual budget is under $1 million and team.blue just became their Gold Sponsor,
4.67 million new .com domains registered in 2025 according to new Namecheap’s domain insights
TL;DR - in the newest Namecheap Domain Insights & Trends Report included registrations comparison of 2024 vs 2025, with trends and signals for 2026. The dataset is based on Namecheap’s proprietary registration
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