Hosting
Automated certificate issuance is now expected rather than sold, and paid certificates occupy a narrower niche.
Free automated certificate authorities made issuance a background task. Any host still charging for basic TLS is charging for something the ecosystem gives away.
Organisation-validated certificates for institutions that need identity attested in the certificate itself, and warranty terms some sectors require.
Local capacity keeps growing, and the practical effect for businesses is shorter round trips and simpler compliance.
The obligations are lighter than most owners fear, but they are not zero, and a few of them touch your hosting directly.
West African connectivity depends on a small number of submarine cables. When one is damaged, the effects are immediate and the re…
A visible number of companies have moved workloads back from public cloud. The reasoning is more nuanced than "cloud is expensive"…
Major platforms now offer passkeys by default, and the underlying idea removes the attack that causes most account compromises.
Encryption is no longer the main threat. Increasingly, attackers copy data and threaten publication.
