Most companies spend their first year trying to find product-market fit. OpusDNS spent its first seven months finding an acquisition target instead, and the choice says something about where the founders think the domain industry needs to go. Read all
German organizations have a complicated relationship with American cloud providers. The technology is useful, often essential, but the legal exposure that comes with storing sensitive data on infrastructure subject to US jurisdiction has made procurement decisions genuinely difficult, particularly in regulated industries and the public sector. Thales and Google Cloud are attempting to solve that problem with a structure that separates the technology from the control. Read all
Dutch financial crime investigators arrested two men and seized 800 servers last week in a case that cuts through several layers of corporate structure before arriving at what authorities describe as direct support for Russian interference operations across Europe. Read all
Choosing where to run infrastructure in Europe has become a more deliberate decision than it was five years ago. Data sovereignty requirements, latency expectations, and growing unease about hyperscaler lock-in have pushed enterprises to think harder about which providers they actually trust with regional workloads. NetActuate‘s expanded Amsterdam presence lands directly in that conversation. Read all
Investors in CoreWeave and Nebius did not need to read the fine print to react. Within Tuesday morning’s first few hours of trading, both stocks dropped 4.5% after Blackstone and Google announced a joint venture to build a new AI infrastructure company powered by Google’s Tensor Processing Units. Read all
Twenty years is a long time to run anything, let alone a hosting company in a market that has consolidated aggressively around a handful of giants. hosting.de GmbH has reached that mark, and rather than coasting on the milestone, the Aachen-based provider is using it to overhaul how the company looks and, more importantly, how its products feel to use. Read all
Something worth paying attention to happened in cloud infrastructure this week. OpenTelemetry, the open source framework for collecting traces, metrics, and logs from distributed systems, graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation on May 21. The graduation itself is a maturity designation, but the more interesting story is what the three largest cloud providers are quietly doing around it. Read all
Anyone who has spent time researching web hosting providers knows how the comparison site game typically works. A website ranks ten providers, eight of them happen to be affiliate partners, and the “independent” scores correlate suspiciously well with commission rates. Jaouad Tijani built EuroHosting.org because he found that problem particularly pronounced in the European market. Read all
Most hosting affiliate programs work the same way. An agency refers a client, collects a flat fee, and that is the end of the relationship. InMotion Hosting is trying something different with its newly launched Agency Partner Program, and the structure is worth understanding if managing client hosting is a real part of your business. Read all
VMware has released a tech preview of ESX running on Arm architecture, and the timing is hard to separate from everything else happening around the company right now. Read all
Railway, a cloud deployment platform, went offline for roughly eight hours on May 19 after Google Cloud suspended its production account through an automated process. What makes the incident worth examining is not the suspension itself, which Google reversed within seven minutes of receiving an emergency support ticket. It is what stayed broken long after account access returned. Read all
A new web hosting provider called Devoster has entered the market out of Birmingham, and its pitch is less about feature lists and more about a specific frustration that website owners have been voicing for years: hosting infrastructure that cannot keep up with how modern websites actually behave. Read all
For businesses serving customers across Asia, latency has always been the quiet cost nobody budgets for properly. Pages load a fraction slower. APIs take an extra beat. Transactions stall in ways that are hard to trace back to a root cause until someone finally checks where the servers actually are. Read all
