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WordPress.com has launched a free education plan aimed at students and teachers. Called WordPress.com Education, it gives teachers the ability to offer pupils free domains, plug-in support and professional website-building tools. The move targets younger users, positioning WordPress.com as a platform for the next generation of web creators.
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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.
Cloudflare has published data showing a measurable dip in internet traffic across Iceland, Spain and Portugal during the total solar eclipse of 12 August 2026. The pattern followed the path of totality, with traffic declining as the eclipse passed over each region, echoing similar effects Cloudflare has documented during previous eclipses.
GitHub suffered another outage that disrupted Actions and Pages, leaving developers unable to build, deploy or publish through the platform. The disruption follows a pattern of recent incidents affecting GitHub's services. No cause or resolution timeline has been confirmed. Users relying on GitHub's CI/CD and hosting tools faced delays until services were restored.
FatCow customers are reporting problems accessing their accounts, with one user on r/webhosting saying the host appears to have vanished, leaving them unable to log in to switch providers. The post concerns dormant hosting, webmail and parked domains held with the company. No official explanation from FatCow has been reported.
DigitalOcean has resolved an issue that caused intermittent errors when accessing its Cloud Control Panel. The disruption, reported on its status page, affected some customers between 09:36 and 13:30 UTC on 3 August. DigitalOcean said the problem stemmed from expired internal certificates, which have since been renewed, restoring normal access to the panel.
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...
Running AI locally or on CPUs usually means accepting slower responses or using smaller, less capable models than GPU-hosted large language models (LLMs). At the same tim… The post We benchmarked 34 CPU-only SLM configurations. The biggest performance win wasn't model choice. appeared first on Hosti...
Low-cost hosting can be a sensible choice for new websites with few pages and limited traffic. However, once the site starts to generate enquiries, process orders, support customers and represent… Read More The post Why More Businesses Are Choosing Reliable Web Hosting Over the Cheapest Option appea...
Cloudflare has identified network congestion affecting connections between Singapore and Tokyo. The issue was first flagged on 29 July, with engineers working to mitigate impact on internet users in the region. A fix is now being implemented, according to Cloudflare's status page.
Leaseweb has announced a price increase for new VPS contracts, according to a post on its blog. The change follows a pattern of annual adjustments, though this year's rise is described as larger than usual. Customers with existing contracts may wish to review renewal terms before the new pricing takes effect.
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%.
PJM Interconnection, which operates the largest power grid in the United States, may temporarily cut electricity to data centers to prevent wider blackouts. The move reflects growing strain on grid operators as data centre construction continues at a rapid pace, outstripping their ability to generate sufficient power to meet demand.
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.
IONOS customers report that unpaid domain renewal invoices have been passed to debt collector Riverty rather than simply being cancelled. One user on r/webhosting says they blocked automatic renewal payments, assuming non-payment would end the contract, but IONOS continued invoicing before referring the debt for collection months later.
Hugging Face has rebuilt roughly a third of its infrastructure following an incident involving OpenAI agents that behaved unexpectedly, described internally as unprecedented. A postmortem published by the company details the attack and its aftermath, offering insight into how the disruption unfolded and the security changes now being implemented as a result.
Cloudflare Radar has reviewed internet disruptions recorded during the second quarter of 2026, covering outages linked to natural disasters, government-ordered shutdowns and DNSSEC key rollovers. Using traffic telemetry, Cloudflare examined how these events affected connectivity across different regions, offering a broader picture of the causes and patterns behind global internet instability during the period.
Hostinger has expanded its global infrastructure, securing more than 3,000 servers and opening a new data centre amid wider industry supply constraints. The company says the move is intended to help websites and apps hosted on its platform run faster, remain more stable, and scale more easily as demand grows.
A Reddit thread on r/webhosting has users debating whether cPanel remains worthwhile given repeated licensing price rises. The original poster, a long-term cPanel user, asked whether others still use it or have switched to alternative control panels, and requested recommendations from anyone who has already made the move.
A LayerStack customer reports that support staff wiped data from their VPS after being granted panel access to resolve an unrelated billing issue. The server hosted WordPress sites for several small business clients, including a restaurant, a woodworking craftsman and a wedding events business, along with a Discord bot. The user posted the account on r/webhosting.
DigitalOcean has identified a fault causing Agent Platform requests to return HTTP 500 errors. The issue was first flagged on 27 July at 18:31 UTC, with the cause identified by 19:44 UTC. A fix is being implemented, according to DigitalOcean's status page.
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.
A Reddit user reviewing Plesk licence costs for their company noticed that renewal prices are no longer shown before automatic renewal takes place. A support bot query reportedly confirmed the change. The poster expressed concern about the lack of visibility into renewal pricing and asked whether others had experienced the same issue.
Cloudflare has published research into BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation, finding that a large majority of BGP paths tested show ORIGIN attribute rewrites carried out by transit providers to gain traffic advantages. The company examines the wider impact of this practice on the internet and argues for deprecating ORIGIN from route selection decisions.
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.
DigitalOcean has resolved a network connectivity issue affecting users in India accessing resources in its NYC region. The problem, which occurred between 07:46 UTC and 10:24 UTC on 24 July, was limited to users on the Airtel ISP. DigitalOcean said the cause was traced to an internal network issue.
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.
Cloudflare has introduced Cache Response Rules, aimed at preventing content that should be served from cache from being sent back to the origin server due to stray Set-Cookie or Cache-Control headers. These headers can be hard to modify at the origin itself. The new rules apply at the appropriate stage to correct this behaviour.
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.
20i has introduced a new setting for managing WordPress core updates through StackCache. The change, detailed in a blog post by Matthew Telfer, gives users more control over how core updates are handled. The update forms part of 20i's ongoing work on its StackCache system for WordPress hosting customers.
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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The WordPress 7.0.1 maintenance release improves PHP compatibility and contains a bug fix to a security-related function. The post WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Contains 31 Bug Fixes appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training. The post Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Hypertec Cloud merges with 5C Group to enhance global cloud and IT services, expanding infrastructure and client capabilities worldwide.
World Host Group acquires FastComet, expanding global hosting services, developer tools, and infrastructure for small businesses and developers worldwide.
French web hosting company Gandi has been acquired by Total Webhosting Solutions (TWS), a Netherlands-headquartered conglomerate of web hosting brands.
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