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You Don’t Visit WebPros. You Visit the 60 Million Domains It Helps Run.
WebPros assembled cPanel, Plesk, WHMCS and a growing shelf of web tools into an operating layer for hosting companies. Its next act is to turn that installed base into one connected, AI-assisted platform.
Kinsta Wants the Boring Parts of WordPress to Stay Boring
The bootstrapped host turned WordPress maintenance into a subscription - wrapping cloud infrastructure, security, developer tools and human support into one unusually tidy control room.
Vercel
Vercel is the AI Cloud for frontend developers - a platform that makes deploying web applications as frictionless as a git push. Founded in 2015 as ZEIT by Guillermo Rauch, the Argentine-born dropout who also created Socket.IO and Next.js, Vercel grew from a side-project deployment tool into a $9.3 billion company powering websites for OpenAI, Walmart, Nike, and thousands of startups. Its open-source framework Next.js has logged over 500 million downloads in 12 months alone, and its AI tool v0 lets anyone turn a text prompt into a working web UI. Vercel is the company betting that the next billion developers won't write code at all.