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Industry news sourced where it breaks: provider newsrooms, trade press, community boards, status pages and CVE feeds, pulled nightly and reviewed by a human editor before anything is published. Briefs link straight to the original article; we summarise, we do not republish. Analysis pieces add what only a directory of 28,000+ hosts can: reliability scores, segment and country context.
A chiller failure at the PHX-01 data centre in Phoenix caused outages on August 13, after overnight storms disturbed the facility's power feed. Namecheap, Liquid Web (including its Nexcess brand), phoenixNAP and hosting.com all traced disruptions to the site, with the storm-related power issue cited as the root cause.
CorePanel, a new control panel for RHEL-family servers, launched this summer with a free edition released on 14 July, alongside flat per-server pricing for paid tiers. It is built around its own web server. The panel comes from Pyxsoft, a company previously known for anti-piracy tools within the cPanel ecosystem.
cPanel shipped fixes for three security flaws on July 29, patching every supported branch on the same day. For anyone running a shared server, the detail that matters is not the count but the direction: two of the three let one account reach past its own boundary, the line that is supposed to keep h...
A shared-hosting plan has two prices: the introductory rate that sells it and the renewal rate that bills it for years afterward. How wide the gap runs, and at which host, has been easier to assert than to measure. So we measured it, twice: a baseline run on June 11, 2026, and this edition's on July...
Leaseweb will raise its VPS prices on 1 August, though the increase is uneven across plans. The cheapest US tier nearly doubles, from $3.50 to $6.99 a month, while premium tiers rise by far less. In some markets, mid-range plans remain unchanged. Averaged across the board, the rise works out to 20%.
HostPapa acquired two hosting companies within days of each other in late April, each reflecting a different strategic rationale, according to Web Hosting Today. The report places this alongside HOSTAFRICA's own dual acquisitions in May and the record-breaking BlackRock-led AIP purchase of Aligned, framing all three within a broader wave of hosting sector consolidation seen across H1 2026.
Freenom, the registry once known for giving away free domains and becoming a major source of phishing, has quietly returned. Domain Incite reported on 23 July that the company is again selling domains in three of its country-code extensions, this time without offering them for free.
Verisign has finally added.web to the internet's root zone, ending a dispute dating back to 2012 when it first pursued the top-level domain. The company won.web at a 2016 auction, paying $135 million. Unlike.com, pricing for.web will not be subject to caps, according to Web Hosting Today.
A malware campaign is exploiting GitHub Actions to search for cPanel servers still vulnerable to CVE-2026-41940, the critical authentication bypass patched by cPanel in an emergency fix three months earlier. Security firm Socket reported on 22 July that the operation abuses GitHub's automation platform to run its scanning infrastructure. Hosting providers are urged to confirm the patch has been applied.
The EU AI Act reaches general applicability on August 2, a date long set by its drafters, though confusion persists across Europe's hosting industry. On June 29, the Council approved the Digital Omnibus on AI, a simplification package, adding further complexity for hosting providers as they work out what compliance means in practice.
An AWS region in Bahrain has reportedly been offline for months, with a second region in the United Arab Emirates operating at reduced capacity, following the conflict between the United States and Iran. Web Hosting Today notes the episode challenges the idea that cloud infrastructure is placeless, showing that physical location and geopolitics still shape reliability, even for major providers like Amazon.
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