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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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AdminBolt Ships a Dashboard AI Assistant and WhatsApp Hosting Controls
AdminBolt is currently the only self-hosted control panel to ship a working in-panel AI assistant, with WhatsApp as a mobile extension.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Web Hosting Trends in 2026: Insights from the CloudLinux Industry Report
The web hosting market continues to grow, but running a hosting business is becoming more complex each year. A global survey of 446 hosting providers shows that 65% of companies reported revenue
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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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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.
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Shared Hosting Tips in Greece
Europe's mature shared hosting markets offer valuable insights. In Greece, Enartia's Marianna Siouti explained their market experience.
Expert's Voice
Shared Hosting Tips in Lithuania
Every market is different, but also the experiences of different companies in the same market can be different. And learning those different experiences can be fundamental for the growth of your company, whether it’s shared hosting or another industry.
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team.blue announces Macaly acquisition
team.blue has publicly announced the acquisition of Macaly, an AI-driven web application builder, sharing the news first through its official LinkedIn channel. The move marks another step in the group’s steady expansion beyond traditional hosting services and into AI-assisted website and application creation.
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GoDaddy Launches ANS Marketplace
GoDaddy has unveiled the ANS Marketplace, positioning itself at the center of a fast-emerging trend: AI agents as first-class citizens of the internet. While the announcement is framed around trust and security for AI, its implications go much deeper — especially for the web hosting industry.
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Shared Hosting Tips in Morocco
Hostoweb.com, founded in 2006, is a Moroccan hosting company with its own data center and international presence. Created Morocco's first data center in 2009, later ranked top nationally. One of fewer than 50 African data centers. Launched low-cost VPS platform in 2016. We met CEO Mehdi Tazi to understand Morocco's shared hosting market.
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Polish hosting group Cyber_Folks acquires PrestaShop
The acquisition of PrestaShop by the cyber_Folks Group, executed together with Sylius, marks one of the most consequential shifts in the global e-commerce technology stack in recent years. PrestaShop, with more than
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Your.online strengthens its DACH footprint with acquisition of high-performance host ecomDATA
The European hosting market continues to consolidate, and your.online has just taken another decisive step. The group announced the acquisition of ecomDATA GmbH, a high-performance hosting provider operating out of Germany and
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Shared Hosting Tips in Sweden
The Nordic people were early adopters of Internet technology, and today, Sweden and other Nordic countries have very active, yet unique digital markets.
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Transparency Over Tactics: A Closer Look at INBS.software’s Black Week Offer
As part of our research into Black Week behavior in the hosting industry, we looked at INBS.software's uniform approach across ModulesGarden, EasyDCIM, MetricsCube, and PanelAlpha. Our pricing review confirmed that the current discounts match the lowest levels recorded this year, structured within a single cross-brand format.
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Why Hostinger Wins the Web Hosting Industry?
When you look at the hosting industry, you don’t expect much change. Most companies move slow, stick to old playbooks, and call it innovation when they add a new control panel theme.
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BalticNOG – the missing piece for the Baltics
When Konrad Keck sat down with Vincentas Grinius during BalticNOG 2025 in Vilnius, the conversation quickly revealed something important: this event was not just another tech conference. It was, as Vincentas himself put it, “the last missing piece” for the region.
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Platform.sh Rebrands as Upsun: Built on Trust, Ready for the Future
Platform.sh is a cloud-native Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) purpose-built to make it easy for distributed teams to build, ship, and grow software across every major cloud. It originated in 2010 within SensioLabs, the Paris-based