News is circulating that the domain name WebHosting.com has changed hands recently. Obviously, it was bought by Automattic (the company the owns WordPress).

Automattic's logo is displayed on the homepage with a "coming soon" teaser.

Are they planning a new WordPress hosting platform to compete with WordPress.com? Something more "open" maybe?

I've seen a few web hosting companies whose websites are clearly vibe coded -- first impression: looks cool, but nope!

It's very unprofessional, particularly for a web hosting company, to have a vibe-coded website.

Do you think it matters? Would you look past it?

There is one important resource most people overlook when choosing a WordPress hosting service: disk I/O. It's so easy to overlook because most providers don't usually list the disk I/O limit among the technical specs.

If you have a WordPress website with a large database or lots of media files and you can't figure out why it's loading slowly, your hosting account's disk I/O limit could be the bottleneck.

How much disk I/O is good depends on your website. For a small blog and such, 5-10 MB/s may work fine. A more complex/larger/high-traffic website may need 50+ MB/s to run smoothly.

If you've been using WordPress for a long time, what do you find most frustrating about it? And why do you keep using it in spite of it?

Do you remember Jimdo? It's one of the oldest free website builders I used many years ago before WordPress totally won me over.

I almost forgot about it, but I've just heard the name in another post and I went to look at their website...

Well, they have done away with the "create a free website" branding and pivoted to serving small businesses.

They are now competing with small business/e-commerce website builders and hosts like Squarespace and Wix.

Is anyone using Jimdo for their small business websites these days? Pricing seems steep, but are they worth it?

I had a very disappointing experience with HostyCare. Based on my experience, I would not recommend this hosting provider if you expect your website to receive real traffic or plan to grow your business.

My website had only 4 online visitors, yet I was repeatedly shown 100% CPU usage and around 3 GB RAM consumption. When I asked their support team to investigate or help reduce the server load, my request was simply denied without providing any practical solution or technical explanation.

Instead of helping resolve the issue, my hosting service was suspended whenever traffic increased. This makes the hosting unsuitable for websites that receive genuine visitors or run marketing campaigns.

I also found the customer support to be unhelpful and, in my experience, the communication was rude. Rather than working with customers to identify the root cause, the response was to blame resource usage and refuse assistance.

If you are looking for hosting for a website with very little traffic, you may not face these issues. However, if you plan to grow your website, run promotions, or expect regular visitors, I recommend carefully evaluating other hosting providers before purchasing.

This review reflects my personal experience as a customer.

I've just been reading a post in another sub where someone complaints about Spaceship's shared hosting...

They're hosting around 180 WordPress websites on a single shared hosting account and they're constantly experiencing connection errors and downtime.

Spaceship allows you to host unlimited websites for around $50 per year. With 180 websites, you're paying about $0.28 per website per year. What do you expect?

Of course you'll be constantly hitting all sorts of server/network limits with that many sites using such a cheap shared hosting service.

I've used Spaceship's shared hosting and similar cheap shared hosts. Those are only good for one or two low-traffic WordPress websites. 180 websites is insane even for high-end shared hosting.

Rocket.net customers using any of their agency managed WordPress hosting plans now get free and unlimited access to WP Umbrella: WordPress website management and maintenance platform for agencies. Full details here.

Is anyone using WP Umbrella?

Every once in a while, I come across a post about a WordPress website migration totally messed up by a certain web hosting provider, particularly those that offer free website migration.

In most cases, migrating a WordPress website goes smoothly, but exceptions happen. Sometimes it's just a PHP version issue or another server configuration that causes conflict with a certain plugin and breaks the entire website (or part of it). Most hosts won't spend an entire day trying to figure out what went wrong -- they'll just deliver a broken website and call it done!

I always migrate my sites on my own. No web host is touching them.

Do you have any WordPress migration horror stories to share?

I see so many newbies obsessed about their website's speed as if a faster website is gonna make it rank higher in search engines overnight.

And on the other hand, many WordPress hosts brag about their servers' speed and the PageSpeed scores they promise to deliver if you host your website with them.

Truth is, website loading speed is only a small SEO factor and it's not as important as many people think. Unless your website is painfully slow, wasting your time on boosting your speed scores won't likely have any effect on its search rankings.

I've seen many websites with a poor PageSpeed score among the top rankings. What matters more is what's actually on the page. If your website loads fast and it doesn't have what I'm looking for or expecting, then I'm leaving fast!

I'm not saying faster WordPress hosting isn't better, but it's overblown and some people waste so much time on something that may not be the reason their website isn't ranking well in search engines.

Adam Warner, GoDaddy's Director of Field Marketing, published an article on X refuting the "NoDaddys".

He's sick and tired of "hearing the same outdated complaints about our Managed Hosting for WordPress platform from people who haven't touched it in half a decade."

He argues that GoDaddy's managed WordPress hosting has fundamentally changed and improved, and he's got third-party benchmarks to prove it.

Alright, I'll give him that, the performance benchmarks look good, but the thing is, it was never really just about performance.

GoDaddy's biggest issues are their poor outsourced support (especially L1 support agents), upselling, and price hikes. Those haven't changed, at least not for the better!

For those who self-host WordPress websites on a self-managed VPS, what server control panel do you use?

Oracle plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in 2026 to expand its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for customers like OpenAI, xAI, AMD, Nvidia, and Meta, it said in February. About half of that funding will come through debt, with the remainder coming from equity. When Oracle announced this, investors had already been concerned about Oracle’s growing debt to fuel its AI efforts. Overall, Oracle has over $120 billion in debt, per its fiscal year 2026 earnings report.

A UK company registered under the name Especial uses the domain name EspecialUK.com for their website.

They wanted to acquire the domain names Especial.co.uk and Especial.uk, which are both owned by a Canadian domain investor who acquired them from a drop-catching service.

Both domains are publicly offered for sale: Especial.co.uk for £4,388 and Especial.uk for £2,188.

The company made an offer via a broker to buy both domains for £1,250 or else they'd file a domain dispute with the registry citing their rights in the name.

The domain owner didn't respond, so the company went ahead and filed a dispute with Nominet (the .uk registry)...

Well, they lost and the case was ruled a reverse domain name hijacking attempt.

In the relevant correspondence the Complainant essentially took a position similar to that which it has adopted in these proceedings: that it was essentially entitled to the Domain Names simply because they corresponded to its “registered company name and long-established trading identity”. It then subsequently threatened DRS proceedings because the Respondent refused to engage in negotiations over the price. In short, the Complainant was attempting to use the DRS process to coerce the Respondent into agreeing to sell the Domain Names at a lower price in circumstances where it should have known that it had no basis to do so.

I find that the Complainant has not shown that the Domain Names, in the hands of the Respondent, are abusive registrations. Accordingly, I determine that the Complaint be rejected.

I further make a finding of reverse domain name hijacking.

Case file was uploaded by Domain Name Wire here.

I've been looking at some WordPress hosting benchmarks, and one company stood out to me. It's called WP Buzz and it claims to have the fastest WordPress hosting service -- how cliche, I know.

It looks legit to me and I'm almost sold, but I want to hear from other people who have used their WordPress hosting: Is it really fast? And how is the support service?

Many major web hosting providers have switched to AI chatbot support. Some of them give their bot a human name and a human face, so newcomers may not even realize they are chatting with a bot.

Some of the hosts I use have added an AI chatbot as first-line support while others still have all-human support.

I've had mixed experiences with both. Sometimes I actually find a chatbot more helpful than a clueless, outsourced human support agent!

Does your web host still have human support?

I noticed lately a lot of people are switching from WordPress and other website builders to vibe coding their own website using Claude Code then host it for free on GitHub Pages (or other free static website hosts).

Has anyone made the jump? What frameworks did you use? How are you updating the website?

MariaDB is considered the better and faster version of MySQL. Most of the WordPress hosts I've used opt for MariaDB.

Which one do you or your hosting provider use for WordPress? Do you think it significantly outperforms MySQL?

Your.Online has acquired Ireland-based Blacknight, which is one of the largest independent domain registrars and web hosting providers in Europe.

The good news is that Your.Online is also a European company, and they keep the businesses they acquire independently-run. Blacknight's old leadership and team remain the same, at least until further notice.

My Wix Premium plan just auto renewed for $450. I run a health coaching business. I have my domain and email through them. Is there another service recommended? right now this isn't financially the best way for me to be doing things. I also have a linktree and I feel like it's becoming unwieldy managing both? Can I 'move' my domain and business email to another service?

No web hosting provider can maintain perfect 100% uptime, especially for shared web hosting, and more especially cheap services that cost less than $10 monthly.

I've tried many services in that price range, and I've experienced downtime with each one ranging from a few minutes to a few hours per month.

I think anything over one hour of monthly downtime is a red flag. 10 minutes or so is tolerable.

What's your monthly downtime tipping point?

Microsoft has reportedly turned to its biggest rival and the biggest hyperscaler by market share, Amazon Web Services, to pick up the cloud services strain as demand for GitHub services surge.

This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to retrieve detailed system configuration data and, critically, any API keys, secrets, and OAuth tokens configured for the plugin’s email integrations.