Cloud providers talk a lot about resilience. Redundancy, failover, business continuity. The language is everywhere in marketing materials and sales conversations. What happened to IBM Cloud‘s AMS3 datacenter on Thursday morning, however, tells a rather different story, and the communication breakdown surrounding it is arguably more troubling than the outage itself. Read all
For a long time, the cloud industry had one answer to almost every infrastructure question: centralize it. Move the data inward, park the compute in a hyperscale region, and let applications absorb whatever latency the distance created. That approach worked reasonably well when most workloads were transactional. It starts breaking down the moment AI enters the picture seriously. Read all
Losing a website you have built and operated for years is painful enough. Losing it because a competitor filed a trademark complaint that nobody bothered to verify first is something else entirely. That is the situation Kenneth Gaughan, a Maryland man, now finds himself navigating through the courts after both InMotion Hosting and DreamHost canceled his hosting accounts late last year following complaints submitted by a rival operating a similar domain. Read all
Africa’s web hosting market has been quietly shifting for a while now, and the latest deal adds another data point worth sitting with. HOSTAFRICA has picked up the hosting division of Evoweb, a South African business that first opened its doors back in 2008 under the name Web Guru. The company refreshed its identity as Evoweb in January 2025, and within months of that rebrand, its hosting arm has moved to a new owner that is thinking well beyond South Africa’s borders. Read all
Web hosting has never been the first place small businesses look when thinking about their environmental impact. Supply chains, packaging, and energy consumption in physical operations have traditionally dominated those conversations, while the servers keeping a company’s website online sat quietly outside the picture. That is shifting noticeably heading into 2026, and Hosted.com‘s examination of the trend finds something more substantive than a passing interest in eco-credentials. Read all
Hosting providers lose a significant number of customers between signup and first renewal, and the timing of that churn traces back to a specific moment: when a new customer logs in for the first time and finds a blank WordPress installation waiting for them. Extendify has spent its product development addressing that exact gap, and its version 3.0 release on April 14, 2026 takes the approach further than any previous iteration. Read all
Not every business unit belongs in every company forever. Sometimes a service line that genuinely works for customers still ends up on the wrong side of a strategic boundary, and the honest move is finding it a better home. That is essentially what happened between Thales and Interactive, and the outcome makes sense for both sides. Read all
Google made a notable strategic shift recently, announcing plans to sell its tensor processing units directly to select customers for deployment in their own data centers. On paper, the move looked like a serious attempt to challenge Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI compute. In practice, however, the companies Google most needs to convince are not particularly interested. Read all
Running enterprise software at scale leaves very little room for guesswork. When hundreds of thousands of employees rely on a single platform every day, even short stretches of inconsistency carry consequences that ripple well beyond the IT department. That reality, more than anything else, explains why Sitecore chose to formalize and deepen its relationship with Americaneagle.com, bringing the agency’s infrastructure expertise directly into how Sitecore Managed Cloud operates. Read all
WordPress still powers more than two-fifths of the entire web. That fact is worth keeping in mind before reading what comes next, because context matters here. Nevertheless, something has shifted, and the data from web technology tracker W3Techs is specific enough to warrant honest attention. Read all
Broadcom has released VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, an update to its private cloud infrastructure platform that targets enterprises running AI workloads on their own hardware rather than public cloud. The release builds directly on VCF 9.0 and introduces several changes aimed at reducing costs and cutting the operational overhead that has historically made private cloud maintenance labor-intensive. Read all
Snowflake used its Summit 26 event to highlight growing enterprise adoption of Anthropic’s Claude inside its Cortex AI platform, and the timing carried more weight than a typical partner update. Read all
A new report from the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project is calling Canada’s cloud computing market broken, and the argument goes deeper than simply pointing at American dominance. According to the report, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft together control roughly 85 percent of the Canadian cloud market. The concern, however, is not just concentration. It is what happens when customers try to leave. Read all
