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It's that time of year again - another large hosting company puts its foot in its mouth and potentially starts a wave of user leaving their service. Over the past weekend, SiteGround rolled out a new WordPress AI Plugin. Nothing wrong with that, but it's what they did next that really causes concern. In their wisdom, they decided to roll out the plugin to all of their clients (1+ million installs) and activate it on the websites by default. Let's dig into that a little. They took a...

I recently had a chance to sit down with Narek Torosyan, CEO of 10Web, and we ended up talking about something that's been on my mind for a while: where AI website builders are taking the hosting industry. It's a conversation worth sharing because there is so much at stake for decision makers. There's obviously a lot of hype around AI, and things are evolving rapidly when it comes to website building in particular (Claude Code, closed ecosystems, third-party tools and add-ons, etc), but I...

What are you big goals for 2026? What are you hoping to see in the hosting industry this year? Our biggest project will be a new location, which will hopefully be announced in a few months. We are working on streamlining usability for our customers all around - website, UX, support, reseller program etc.

Dear Hosting Discussions, I'm reaching out to gather advise regarding the deployment of a custom CDN service? Is it cheaper to use existing CDN services or is it more cost effective in the long run to start building your own local CDN?

This is my first post in this forum. Question: how many web hosting businesses fail in the first 1-2 years? By fail, I mean have no customers and go out of money. Because the web hosting market is in low demand, everyone who does need a website just goes to the big guys, which is why you need something unique in order to gain clients and earn money. But for the people who don't have ANYTHING unique, how do they have so many clients? Is it that they entered the market at the right time?

I'm a highly technically minded person so over selling bothers me because it requires that we sell more space than we have. I imagine it's because most hosting clients don't use 100% of their space. So I'm trying to wrap this around my thinking and make adjustments in the interest of being successful. I'm seeing web hosts offering 10GB of space for about $3.00. If you are starting out with a 70GB VPS you need to reserve about 10GB of that space for what the server needs leaving you 60GB of...

Hey everyone, I'm thrilled to announce the launch of our very own daily news outlet dedicated to the cloud and web hosting industry! https://hostingdiscussion.com/news/ (accessible via "Hosting News" navigation tab) We've decided to part ways with the usual boring press releases and those general, cookie-cutter hosting articles that are divided into even more boring categories. Instead, we're bringing you something fresh, fun, and truly exciting. Our aim is to create a news source that...

Just a heads up to those that have not updated their website in a few weeks/months/years - it's important to rewrite your content regularly. New things happen all the time in the industry. Tools that were once great are no longer the "top dog," and that content should be updated to show a better process. We recently rewrote content regarding Google's Disavow Tool, a tool that allows you to submit links for Google to ignore when it comes to SEO. These days, the tool is not really used much...

As we all know, after acquisition of cPanel, the board of directors are constantly pushing to prices on every year, and it seems they have stopped their innovation towards new technologies. Is this time to migrate to another control panel? But most important part, will customers who are already got used to with cPanel, accept the migration? Because, at the end the customers will use it for their daily needs. In the 2024, which are the control panels looks promising to you and why? I used...

Since the beginning of this year, I’ve read dozens of reports and interviews from industry’s top SEO experts. The below is a high-level summary of insides I’ve learned, as far as areas of SEO to consider and focus on in 2024, optimized for web hosting companies. The talking points are in no particular order of importance, as all of them are considered important enough. I thought I’d share my notes in the interest of our industry doing the right things and doing them better. AI will most...