WooCommerce Became Agent-Addressable

WooCommerce 10.9 ships canonical abilities AI agents can call across 4.3M self-hosted stores. The deployment burden lands on hosting providers.

Google Cloud’s Delhi POP Failure

A June 9 fire at a Delhi third-party POP degraded Google Cloud across three cities. Compute stayed up. Here’s why the network didn’t.

WordPress Adds AI Plugin Reviews, Slowing Auto-Updates by 24 Hours

OpenAI & Oracle to offer models on OCI Marketplace

Oracle cloud users will be able to charge eligible OpenAI model and Codex usage to existing Universal Credits within weeks.

Namecheap Exits Handshake TLDs

Namecheap halted Handshake TLD registrations on June 10. HNS is down 99% from 2021. Unstoppable Domains pivoted to DNS.

Global wire harness market set to hit USD $173.9bn

Electrified vehicles, factory automation and renewable projects are expected to lift demand for organised wiring assemblies to USD $173.9 billion by 2036.

Shared Hosting’s Hardware Bill Is Coming

VPS prices rose 36-49% in spring 2026. Shared hosting has not moved yet. Two cost vectors are building. Here is what renewal prices already show.

Data centre generator market set for steady growth

Backup power demand is set to lift spending as operators add generators to shield data centres from outages and grid instability.

AMD touts EPYC rack throughput for agentic AI systems

AMD says data centre operators could fit more CPU work into a 100 kW rack as agentic AI systems strain orchestration and database layers.

How data centres make the FIFA World Cup possible

Broadcasters are using hybrid data-centre and cloud setups to stream 2026's expanded tournament live with lower latency and compliance risks.

AI drives data centre power demand surge in Australia

Australia's grid faces earlier strain as AI-optimised servers are forecast to drive 37.7% growth in data centre electricity use in 2026.

QuiX Quantum installs control unit for photonic computer

Real-time control remains the bottleneck for scalable photonic quantum machines, and this unit is built to act within 150 nanoseconds.

Lotus Microsystems launches AI data centre power module

AI server operators could cut heat and power losses as Lotus Microsystems' module targets denser racks and faster load response.

Apple's Foundation Models Framework Is Free... And Web Hosting Providers Should Read the Fine Print

Schneider Electric & Kraken to speed grid connections

Utilities could connect data centres and industrial sites sooner as the companies' software aims to ease congestion without major grid upgrades.

SMBs Are Losing Two Full Workdays a Week to Admin Work, and Web Hosts Are Partly to Blame

Skeleton launches GrapheneUPS to steady AI data centres

Tighter grid rules are pushing AI data centres towards site-level power smoothing, as Skeleton's system aims to cut connection sizes and protect uptime.

Interview with Co-Founder of Extendify

Artur Grabowski from Extendify on why WordPress plugins and hosting companies doing the same thing as two years ago will not survive the AI shift.

Record semiconductor equipment billings rise 14% on AI

Investment in chipmaking tools hit a record USD $36.55 billion in the first quarter as AI demand kept factories expanding.

Vibe Coding and the Hosting Gap

Lovable has $400M ARR, 50M projects. Vercel sees 30% AI deployments. React/Node.js doesn’t run on PHP hosting.