A critical security vulnerability in cPanel and WebHost Manager is drawing urgent attention across the web hosting industry, and the timeline makes it considerably more alarming than a typical software disclosure. While the flaw only recently became public knowledge, KnownHost CEO Daniel Pearson confirmed that his company found exploitation attempts stretching back to February 23, meaning hackers had months of quiet activity before anyone raised the alarm publicly. Read all
Fifteen years is a long time to build a hosting business on the strength of customer support rather than marketing volume. Hostwinds, founded in Seattle in 2010 by Peter Holden, did exactly that, earning a loyal international following across shared hosting, cloud VPS, dedicated servers, and reseller solutions by prioritizing response quality over growth speed. HostPapa completed its acquisition of Hostwinds this week, and the deal brings that customer-centric culture into a significantly larger operational structure. Read all
Cloud sovereignty has meant different things to different people for long enough that the term stopped carrying real weight. Governments reach for it when signaling political direction, while vendors attach it to products that may reduce foreign dependency or may simply rebrand existing offerings with a European flag. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, known as BSI, has had enough of that ambiguity. Read all
OpenClaw has been moving fast, and the safety infrastructure around it has been struggling to keep pace. The open source project that installs an AI agent on a local computer has attracted individuals, companies, and startups all building on top of it, but the enterprise story around secure, manageable deployment has largely remained something organizations must figure out on their own. Red Hat principal software engineer Sally O’Malley decided to change that on a weekend. Read all
Getting a web hosting company online has never been the simple part of running one. Setting up WHMCS, finding a theme that integrates properly, designing something that converts visitors into customers, and doing all of it without months of custom development work has remained a genuine friction point for smaller providers and new entrants across English-speaking markets. ThemeLooks, a WordPress theme development studio, launched three new WHMCS theme and template solutions this week specifically targeting that problem for hosting companies in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia. Read all
Infrastructure migrations have a reputation for going badly. Planned maintenance windows overrun, customers notice performance issues nobody anticipated, and the operational disruption that providers promised would be minimal turns out to be anything but. BlackBox Hosting’s migration to Everpure’s all-flash storage platform is worth examining precisely because it avoided all of that, moving thousands of customers across to entirely new storage infrastructure without a single minute of downtime for anyone on the platform. Read all
General-purpose AI coding agents have a WordPress problem. They can write code, but they cannot spin up a local WordPress environment, run WP-CLI commands, validate block markup against the actual editor, or screenshot a result to check whether it rendered correctly. Developers using those tools have had to bridge that gap manually, which defeats much of the purpose. Studio Code, now in public beta, is built specifically to close it. Read all
Something changed in how China’s cloud market grows, and the numbers from Q4 2025 offer the clearest signal yet. Omdia puts the market at $14.7 billion for the quarter, up 26 percent year on year, which sounds like a strong growth story on its own. The part worth paying closer attention to is that this marks three consecutive quarters above 20 percent, and Omdia is not calling it a recovery. The firm describes something structural, where AI has stopped sitting as a discrete workload and started pulling demand through storage, networking, databases, and enterprise services all at once. Read all
The US Department of Justice is going after Cloudera, and the allegations are damning. The data and AI platform company allegedly rigged a federal hiring program so thoroughly that American job seekers never stood a chance, literally. Read all
Acquisitions in the web hosting space follow a predictable pattern. One company buys another, customers brace for price changes, support quality quietly shifts, and the brand they trusted gradually disappears into something unrecognizable. But Axxess is consciously working to buck that trend through its acquisition of Johannesburg-based Absolute Hosting, and the exactness of that statement is noteworthy. Read all
Two rebrands landed in the HPC cloud space within days of each other, and while the companies involved differ in structure and strategy, both point toward essentially the same destination. Crunchbits officially became Synteq HPC on April 23, and AlphaTon Capital Corp dropped its name in favor of Alpha Compute Corp around the same time. Neither change is cosmetic, and both reflect a market moving faster than names built a few years ago were designed to carry. Read all
Here is something most enterprise infrastructure teams will recognize. The virtualization contract renews, the bill goes up, and someone in the room asks whether this is still the right approach. Meanwhile, AI workloads that spent last year in pilot mode are now demanding production infrastructure, and the systems underneath everything were never designed with that in mind. Hyve Managed Hosting and Red Hat are stepping into that specific moment with a managed platform built on OpenShift, and notably, they are not asking enterprises to blow up what they already have to use it. Read all
The default assumption in AI infrastructure is that growth comes before profitability, sometimes by years. Verda, a Helsinki company formerly operating as DataCrunch, ignored that assumption entirely. Founded in 2020 by Ruben Bryon, it spent its early years building a GPU cloud that actually made money, and only after proving that model works did it go out and raise $117 million to take the business global. Read all
