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The Hosting Memo.

Every Friday morning, one email. Ranking changes from the last week, new benchmark data, ownership and corporate shake-ups, and the one host you should never buy this week.

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[01] · What's in each issue

Four sections, every Friday.

01
The score moves
Every provider whose score changed by ≥ 0.3 in the last 7 days, with a one-line reason.
02
Ownership watch
Acquisitions, rebrands, and parent-company changes that you'd otherwise miss.
03
Renewal trap of the week
One provider where the year-1 → year-2 jump is dishonest enough to call out by name.
04
Reader Q + A
One real question from a reader, answered without the affiliate spin.
[02] · Recent issues

What we sent last month.

10 May 2026

Newfold consolidates — what HostGator users should do

Bluehost's quiet repricing, HostGator's renewal jump, and why we moved iPage from 'avoid' to 'caution.'

03 May 2026

Porkbun's new TLD pricing, and the Spaceship comparison

Two indie registrars worth your time. We side-by-sided their year-1 + renewal pricing for .com / .io / .dev.

26 Apr 2026

The Cloudflare-vs-Namecheap email migration playbook

Step-by-step: moving from Namecheap Private Email to Cloudflare's new (free) email-forwarding-only tier, and when it doesn't work.

[03] · Promises

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