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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.

hosted·ai has raised a $19 million seed round led by Creandum to build GPU virtualization software for service providers - pooling, multi-tenancy, and overcommit for GPU infrastructure. The founding team previously built OnApp (6,000+ cloud deployments, acquired by Virtuozzo) and ran UK2Group ($77M exit). Their pitch: the GPU market has a waste problem, not a scarcity problem, and the fix is the same virtualization approach that VMware brought to CPUs. For hosting companies considering GPU services, this is the software layer that could make the economics work.

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.

Hostinger distributed €11.8 million to employees through its stock option program, backed by €275.4 million in 2025 revenue (+51% YoY) and 4.6 million customers. The payout highlights a growing divide in the hosting industry: companies that share equity with employees versus PE-owned operators that optimize for investor returns.

China's amended Cybersecurity Law, Hong Kong's first critical infrastructure statute, and Singapore's expanded compliance framework have all taken effect. For hosting businesses operating in the region, the compliance cost of inaction is now measured in millions.

AI-enhanced search is reshaping search. Here's how to stay visible in both traditional and AI-powered results and convert that traffic into revenue.

High-profile breaches in South Korea, a near-universal shift toward outsourced security operations in Vietnam, and an evolving ransomware threat profile are defining the security reality for Asian hosting providers this quarter.

WordPress.org launched my.WordPress.net - a fully functional WordPress instance running entirely in the browser via WebAssembly. No server, no signup, no cost. It includes a built-in AI assistant and positions WordPress as a zero-friction personal workspace.

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.

The fourth edition of WordCamp Asia runs April 9-11 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. Over 3,000 attendees, 50+ speakers, three conference tracks, and a live WordPress 7.0 release on Contributor Day. With Hostinger, Bluehost, Kinsta, and Google among the sponsors, this is where the WordPress hosting business shows up.

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.

WordPress 7.0 introduces AI Connectors - a centralized system for connecting plugins to OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude - alongside real-time collaborative editing and an admin redesign. The release ships infrastructure, not features: AI capabilities come via plugins, not core.

The application window for new generic top-level domains opens April 30, 2026 — the first opportunity since 2012. With a $227,000 application fee, new rules banning closed generics and private contention deals, and .com prices rising again, the domain landscape is about to shift. Hosting businesses should be paying attention.

WordCamp Europe 2026 takes place June 4–6 at ICE Kraków in Poland, and for hosting companies it is the most important WordPress event of the year. With AI Connectors in core, new server requirements for collaborative editing, and a security process under scrutiny, the decisions made in Kraków will directly shape how hosting providers support WordPress at scale.

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.

In the hosting industry, the “right moment to sell” often feels like a distant point on the map: first I’ll grow, then I’ll hire, then I’ll organize processes — and only then I’ll sell the company. Except the M&A market has its own logic, and that logic is often unforgiving to plans postponed for “three

After CloudFest: Don’t Miss PressConf 2026 CloudFest draws the top global players in hosting and infrastructure. Big announcements and back-to-back meetings keep the industry’s leaders center stage. After a much-needed post-CloudFest reset, the following week shifts gears with an event focused on the modern WordPress economy and the evolving product and hosting ecosystems. PressConf begins

Web hosting providers work in a legal landscape that’s constantly evolving. These regulatory changes present compliance challenges, but there are also hidden benefits that unlock revenue opportunities overlooked by most hosting providers.

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 growth in 2025. At the same time, profitability is becoming harder to achieve. Hosting providers are caught between strong price competition and rising

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.