OpenClaw has 138 documented security advisories and a market fractured into four tiers, ranging from $3.85 managed VPS to NVIDIA's NemoClaw enterprise stack and Cloudflare's ephemeral-container proof-of-concept.

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents on April 8 as a hosted runtime for agent sandboxing, checkpointing, and credential management at $0.08 per session-hour. Two days later, infrastructure stocks fell 11 to 18 percent.

There’s a moment in the hosting sales flow where everything can quietly fall apart. The customer has picked a plan, they’re ready to buy, and...

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.

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.

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.

CloudFest, one of the largest events focused on internet infrastructure, will return in 2026 with a larger footprint and new areas for attendees. The organizers...

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?”

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.

CloudFest 2026 will take place between March 23 and 26 at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany.  This year’s theme – “The Sustainability of Everything” isn’t just...