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We’re proud to welcome @ultahost as a Gold Sponsor of WebhostingToday.

Founded in 2018, UltaHost provides shared, WordPress, VPS, VDS, dedicated and reseller hosting across 20+ data centers globally.

The company combines a broad hosting portfolio with a strong managed layer, including migration, SSL, DDoS protection and malware scanning in its VPS plans. Its WordPress offering also includes UltaPress, with AI-assisted design tools and one-click migration.

Support from companies like UltaHost helps us continue our work across the hosting industry.

We’re looking forward to working with the UltaHost team.

#WebHosting #VPS

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202 new hosting and cloud jobs this week, with AI infrastructure, compute and platform growth standing out.

Our top picks:
🔹 @vercel - Product Manager, Compute
🔹 @GoDaddy - Director, Developer Platform Marketing & Growth
🔹 @Vultr - Manager, Production SRE
🔹 @Rackspace - Technical Evangelist, AI Infrastructure & GPU Technologies

See all jobs:
https://t.co/TXqfGBEis8

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A WordPress flaw patched in 7.1.2 can reach code execution on some hosting environments, but not others.

CVE-2026-87902 was probed within hours of the fix. CrowdSec later counted 322,000+ matching requests in five days.

What decides the outcome? Theme structure and host configuration.

https://t.co/D2HvcIobXt

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Automattic licenses the WordPress trademark commercially. But a federal judge ruled it cannot assert these trademark claims in its own right.

The claims survive, and the ruling does not invalidate licensing demands.

https://t.co/VGUgY1L14g

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176 new jobs just landed on our job board. 🚀
Our top picks:

🔹 @Cloudflare - VP, Trust & Safety
🔹 @vercel - Engineering Manager
🔹 @backblaze - Principal Product Manager
🔹 @Hostinger - Partnerships Manager, France

Explore all jobs:
https://t.co/ot8Gewu6Gi

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@NewfoldDigital’s next CEO already runs some of its biggest hosting brands.

Sachin Puri takes over on October 1. He currently leads the Bluehost Group and Network Solutions Group, covering brands including Bluehost, HostGator and Network Solutions.

Sharon Rowlands moves to Executive Chair.

https://t.co/Gh00X4MdPb

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New podcast episode S3E12 is live. 🎙️

@konradkeck talks with Suhaib Zaheer about where managed hosting is heading as AI reshapes how apps are built and operated.

Invisible hosting, @Cloudways Copilot, AI agents, Node.js/Next.js and what managed hosting looks like next.

▶️ https://t.co/97jZa7GXy3

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@ICANN confirms 1,616 applications are moving forward in the 2026 gTLD round.

Reveal Day is expected by October 14 - and that’s when we’ll see where the real contention sits.

Private auctions are gone this time.

https://t.co/WOwoXIr9vg

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👉 Will AI make hosting invisible?

I had the pleasure of talking with @suhaib__zaheer , SVP & GM of Managed Hosting at @digitalocean and GM of @Cloudways, about future of the industry.

It is especially interesting because Cloudways became famous for managed WordPress hosting. Now both parts of that positioning are being challenged at the same time:
- AI builders are creating a new generation of projects outside WordPress
- AI is starting to take over much of the work that made hosting “managed” in the first place.

That raises a bigger question for Cloudways and managed hosting in general. If AI can monitor, diagnose, fix problems and operate infrastructure in the background, what are customers actually paying a premium for? and that's what I asked Suhaib directly :)

In this episode:
🔹What happens when AI does the managing
🔹Why hosters may be chasing the wrong AI opportunity
🔹Why Cloudways needs to think beyond WordPress
🔹Hosting without tickets, manual fixes or dashboards
🔹How AI agents may replace the traditional hosting interface
🔹... and MUCH more!

Watch the full episode on @WebhostingToday and YouTube, or listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
#webhosting #cloudhosting #wordpress #ai #hostingindustry

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Three major SaaS outages in four days. None blamed an attack.

🔹GitHub: cleanup job.
🔹Salesforce: requests stalled on a legacy login service.
🔹SharePoint: configuration change.

Different systems, similar failure shape: shared dependencies, broad blast radius.

https://t.co/vyBYhnyIc9

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158 hosting & cloud jobs landed on our board this week. Our top picks:

🔹 @Cloudflare - Senior Engineering Director, Security Products (Austin / NY / Lisbon / London)
🔹 @Rackspace - VP, Hyperscalers (US, remote)
🔹 @Vultr - Principal TPM, Networking (US, remote, $145k–$195k)
🔹 @vercel - Director, Solutions Architects (Berlin / London)
🔹 @GoDaddy - Director, Commerce Growth (US, remote, $142k–$278k)

Explore all jobs: https://t.co/TXqfGBEis8

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Updated LiteSpeed 6.3.7 after Monday’s critical cPanel advisory? Check again.

Security builds 0, 1 and 2 shipped in six days without changing the version number. Same-version builds trigger no notification.

👉 Check /usr/local/lsws/BUILD.

https://t.co/iMCtfKDyim

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CVE-2026-87886 in Acronis’ cPanel & WHM backup plugin was exploited in “limited, targeted attacks.”

🔹 CVSS 7.8
🔹 Now on CISA’s KEV list
🔹 Fixed in 1.9.3 HF3

The exploitation assessment is based on a single customer report.

https://t.co/uSoLVnbWVI

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Most of hosting M&A happens before the announcement.

In H1 2026, we tracked 30 public deals. Over the past 12 months, we have also worked on 30+ M&A transactions and active processes.

The public count shows the outcome. Not the pipeline behind it.

Full breakdown:
https://t.co/vvleBugT09

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In our Market Insights comparison, @GoDaddy ranks first by DNS footprint and fourth by IP attribution.

We checked 108 .com domains on its nameservers: 96 (89%) resolved to Amazon-registered IP blocks. Just two resolved to GoDaddy blocks.

Why the gap? 👇https://t.co/cA2BR1gyxZ

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163 new hosting & cloud jobs this week. Our top picks:

🔹 @vercel - Strategic Partnerships Lead (Austin / SF / NYC)
🔹 @GoDaddy - Director, Corporate Development (US, up to $278k)
🔹 @wasabi_cloud - Senior Alliance Manager, AI Infrastructure (US, OTE $170k–$210k)
🔹 @Scaleway - Product Manager, AI Inference (Paris)
🔹 @Cloudflare - Senior PM, Email Security (Austin / London / Lisbon)

Full list: https://t.co/TXqfGBEis8

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IONOS is cutting about 450 roles, roughly 12% of its workforce, just five weeks after raising its 2026 revenue growth forecast.

IONOS says the savings will be reinvested, including in AI product development and further cloud expansion.

https://t.co/NDscMjizN7

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Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) has been put on paid leave by Automattic’s board, but he still leads the WordPress project, remains on Automattic’s board and retains his role at the WordPress Foundation.

The board still hasn’t said why he was put on leave.

https://t.co/UHHKl0geAE

#WordPress #Automattic