The fastest sites aren't on the priciest hosts. They're on site builders.
Google's field data, Core Web Vitals pass rate: Wix 80.1%. HostGator 38.7%. A twofold gap.
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- GoDaddy averages ~24M domains per brand. TeamBlue: ~163K. That ~150x gap shows how different consolidation strategies can be: a few heavily loaded brands vs. large portfolios of local names. And 60% of tracked domains still sit outside the groups we track.
- 142 new hosting & cloud jobs this week. Our top picks: 🔹 Scaleway - Head of Ops, GPU Cloud (Paris) 🔹 GoDaddy - Director of Eng, Identity (US, up to $323k) 🔹 Hostinger - Partnership Director (Poland) 🔹 IONOS - Acquisition Manager (Philadelphia) 🔹 Fastly - Senior Eng Manager
- $25 and 10 hours: that’s roughly what it took an AI model to find a working WordPress exploit chain. 90 minutes after WordPress 7.0.2 shipped, exploitation attempts were already hitting @patchstackapp sensors. WordPress 7.0.3 is out now with 12 security fixes. Full breakdown
- Running a domain at scale costs about $1 a year. DENIC's accounts show it, PIR's backend contract confirms it, Verisign's cost line agrees. What registries charge for that dollar differs by roughly 10x. The difference is not technology. It is governance.
