A2 Hosting was purchased last January by a German hosting company. They are now rebranding to Hosting.com

Stellar, the parent company of Kadence, Solid Security, Solid Backups, and other tools, is launching Stellar Sites. Stellar Sites hosting will include access to Kadence as well as the plugins under the Stellar brand. Early access will open later this month.

A2 Hosting has been acquired by World Host Group.

This article argues that always available support is essential for hosting companies, especially for agencies. Not all options have support available at all times, especially VPS control panel providers. Note that this article did make me think of AI writers, but it seems the points are good.

Karol Król from the ThemeIsle team has conducted a hosting survey most years since 2014 and has compiled the raw data from each year into a Google Sheet.

Vladimír Smitka continues his security testing and education series related to hosting providers, this time looking at PHP configuration issues. Well worth the time to read.

Here is another installment in Vladimir Smitka’s series about security and hosting providers. An interesting read.

Elementor has started offering ecommerce hosting plans.

Along with their pitch to agencies, WP com has added a multi-site dashboard. In addition to being able to manage multiple sites, you can also see and manage your DNS records.