The summer paradox in hosting

Most industries treat summer as a slow season. Hosting providers know better.

For decades, the hosting industry operated under a predictable security rhythm. A major local privilege escalation (LPE) kernel vulnerability would emerge perhaps once a year. System administrators would scan the vendor change logs, assess the threat, and schedule a patch window or server reboot when convenient.

That era is officially over.

In a matter of just a few weeks, the industry has suffered a rapid succession of root exploits — Copy fail, Dirty frag, and Fragnesia, to name a few. We are no longer dealing with isolated, seasonal security events. We are living through a continuous barrage where new critical kernel vulnerabilities are surfacing weekly. Based on what I'm seeing, the next three to six months will be extremely intense, and the overall elevated threat environment will persist for roughly a year and a half.

A purpose-built virtual assistant — trained on our own knowledge base — is changing how customers get answers.

VPS is the biggest growth opportunity in hosting right now. According to the 2026 Web Hosting Trends Report, 65% of providers reported revenue growth last year and 26% rank VPS as their top growth category. The demand is there. The customers are signing up.

A lot has shipped since the Q1 edition of CloudLinux Product Pulse. The Q2 session on April 29 at 4pm CET / 10am ET covers all of it: what's new, what it means for your hosting operations, and where the product roadmap is heading next

Here's a preview of the topics we'll cover.

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If you run CloudLinux with CageFS on a cPanel server that was upgraded to v134 or newer, you may see a false positive warning from cldiag. A fix is in progress. In the meantime, a simple workaround resolves it.

As we enter 2026, the hosting industry faces a familiar but intensifying challenge. In the 2026 Web Hosting Trends Report, produced by CloudLinux together with our partner WebPros, around 65% of hosting providers reported revenue growth in 2025. But that growth is getting harder to keep.

CloudLinux Product Pulse is a new webinar series designed to give our customers and partners an opportunity to hear directly from CloudLinux leadership and product experts the highlights of recent releases, what’s coming next in the product pipeline, and how we are enabling customers to build secure and profitable hosting businesses.

The CloudLinux gradual rollout slot 6 for the package kernel-4.18.0-553.89.1.lve was paused due to potential bug reported with this kernel.