The gap in hosting has never been infrastructure. It has been ownership - who is responsible for the full stack once a system goes live. Servebolt and Crowd Favorite are closing that gap together.

HostPapa acquired Hostwinds on April 29, adding self-owned data centers in Seattle and Amsterdam and a developer and reseller customer base to its portfolio, twelve days after acquiring Tailor Made Servers in Dallas.

cPanel disclosed a critical authentication bypass on April 28 affecting nearly all versions of cPanel and WHM, with active exploits confirmed in the wild before the patch was released, forcing hosting.com, Namecheap, KnownHost, HostPapa, and InMotion Hosting to take cPanel access offline globally.

South African ISP Axxess acquired Absolute Hosting as part of a deliberate 2026 strategy to grow hosting revenues, with founder Jade Benson remaining managing director and the company continuing to operate independently under its own brand.

WordCamp Europe 2026 runs June 4-6 in Kraków. Over 3,000 attendees, Matt Mullenweg closing keynote, and the first major community gathering after WordPress 7.0 ships.

Bluehost's VP of Product Management answers ten direct questions about GatorClaw's security architecture, including two acknowledged gaps and the roadmap for ephemeral execution.

Ayaz Ahmed Khan of DigitalOcean explains how Cloudways Copilot reduces infrastructure troubleshooting from 30-40 minutes to 5-6 minutes, what the preview period taught the team, and where automated diagnosis still falls short.

HostPapa acquired Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas dedicated server provider operating since 2003, adding its customer base to the ColoCrossing brand as part of an acquisition run that has included 17 deals since 2020.

Flippa celebrated the six-figure sale of the Essential Plugin portfolio; eight months later the buyer activated a backdoor across 20,000+ WordPress sites using Googlebot cloaking and a C2 routed through an Ethereum smart contract.

WP Engine's survey of 214 agencies finds the AI gap between leaders and laggards is already three times wide on client services, while one in six agencies says their clients are not asking for AI at all.