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HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE
Before the Press Release: Hosting M&A
Many of the owners who ask what their hosting business is worth have not decided to sell. Some want a number before they think about anything else. Some want to know whether a serious buyer exists for a company like theirs, and treat the answer as information rather than a commitment. Some already intend to [鈥
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WEB DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES
Elementor MCP Beta: Claude, Codex and Cursor
A beta that opened on September 15 lets AI tools connect to a WordPress site and build pages as native, editable Elementor structures rather than returning raw code. Elementor, which runs on more than ten million WordPress sites, names Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex and Cursor, and leaves the list open to anything else that speaks [鈥
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WAREHOUSING AND INVENTORY SYSTEMS
WooCommerce Plugin Still Under Attack
A critical flaw in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture, a paid WooCommerce extension from Rymera Web Co that Wordfence estimates runs on about 6,000 sites, was disclosed on February 20, with version 2.0.3.2 named as the fix. Attackers are still trying. Wordfence reported on September 14 that its firewall has blocked more than 100,000 attempts to exploit the [鈥
WHOLESALE SUITE
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CLOUD COMPUTING AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
What Hosting Market Share Counts
Domain counts are one of the industry鈥檚 default measures of market share. They are among the easiest numbers to measure from the outside, which is one reason they get quoted so often. Our own Market Insights platform produces those counts too. It puts GoDaddy first, with 73.1 million domains on its nameservers, ahead of Cloudflare on [鈥
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TALENT ACQUISITION AND RECRUITING
Why Unfinished Sites Cost Hosts
For eighteen years, every client who hired me had already bought hosting from somebody else. They鈥檇 buy a domain and hosting, usually a builder or a theme on top, sit with it for a few weeks, get nowhere, and go looking for someone to do it for them. That鈥檚 when they found me. The host [鈥