Cloudflare is not trying to become another host. It is building the layer where new projects are deployed, secured and managed: domains, DNS, deployment, security, storage, compute and AI workflows. In that world, traditional hosting may no longer be needed.

Lasse Hall, CEO of Servebolt, on PE consolidation, AI pulling sites from traditional hosting, and what the next chapter looks like.

Jesse Friedman, Head of WP Cloud at Automattic, on why hosting should sell outcomes and how AI agents will live inside WordPress.

Vito Peleg of Atarim on AI as hosting's biggest opportunity in fifteen years, reactive vs proactive agencies, and Atarim's autonomous future.

Berend, CEO of Realtime Register, on why traditional hosting is disappearing, how AI flipped the order, and why commercial skills now beat the build.

Oliver Sild of Patchstack on why the old "sell after the hack" model is broken, why hackers got AI first, and what 90% of websites still get wrong.

Munir, Founder of aeServer.com, on how vibe coding rebuilt their stack, why customer support is where hosting companies win, and the status of Domain Days Dubai.

At Hosts Del Mar, Patrick, CRO of Monarx, explains why malware volume is growing 10x year over year, why traditional signature-based detection is losing ground, and how competing hosts are sharing threat intelligence with each other despite being direct competitors.

The hosting industry just had a rough two weeks. cPanel, Linux, Apache, and a very clear lesson about the real risks of "semi-managed." On why the grey area between managed and unmanaged is no longer a theoretical problem: hosting.com CEO Seb de Lemos and co-founder Darren Lingham.

DirtyFrag, a Linux kernel local privilege escalation that gives any local user root access on Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, and openSUSE Tumbleweed, went fully public on May 8 after an embargo break, with no CVE assigned and no patches available for any affected distribution.