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A PSE is the opening of a statutory process, not an immediate termination event: French law requires works council consultation and regulatory approval before any positions can be eliminated, a process that typically takes several months. For hosting providers with European e-commerce customers, the question is whether PrestaShop's module marketplace and partner support infrastructure remain intact while the restructuring runs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Server DRAM prices surged over 100% in Q1 2026 as AI demand consumed fabrication capacity. Then Iranian drones hit Qatar's Ras Laffan facility on March 2, taking 33% of global helium supply offline - and helium is irreplaceable in chip manufacturing. Hetzner is raising prices 30-50%. OVHcloud warns of 15-300% component cost increases. SK Group's chairman says the shortage could last until 2030. For hosting providers, this is not a temporary spike. It is a structural shift in what it costs to run servers, and the next round of price increases has not even arrived yet.

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.

China leads in absolute size, but Vietnam's 24.5% CAGR and Indonesia's infrastructure surge are rewriting the growth playbook. A data-driven breakdown of where the region's hosting revenue is - and where it is heading.

From a $4.5 billion hyperscale campus in Indonesia to Google's new Bangkok region, early 2026 has seen an unprecedented wave of infrastructure investment across Asia-Pacific. Here is what is driving it - and what it means for the hosting industry.

A new survey of 500 US web designers finds 76% fear AI's impact on their industry - but 78.6% still feel properly compensated. For hosting companies, the real story is not designer anxiety but what happens when AI tools replace the channel that has driven hosting sales for two decades. Hostinger Horizons, Extendify, and other AI site builders are already filling that gap - and the hosting companies integrating them are the ones positioned to grow.

At least 11 U.S. states have filed bills to temporarily ban data center construction, while others are rolling back billions in tax incentives. A state-by-state breakdown of every moratorium bill and incentive rollback in 2026.

The .org domain registry will increase its wholesale price starting June 1, 2026, a move that will likely ripple through registrar and hosting pricing in the coming weeks. Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates the .org extension, is raising the wholesale price from $9.93 to $11 per domain per year.

DreamHost's new Remixer AI builder generates full websites from a text prompt and publishes them directly to hosted domains — no CMS, no lock-in, starting at $1.99/mo.

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.

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

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.