The ZAP Pumpkin Hunt 2026: up to 70% off your new server

🎃 The ZAP Pumpkin Hunt 2026: up to 70% off your new server Halloween is here, and 24 pumpkins are hiding across ZAP-Hosting.com. Every pumpkin holds a voucher code for the first billing period of a new game server, VPS or TeamSpeak server. The hunt runs until Monday, 2 November, 10:00 CET.🎃 Pumpkin 50% common 🔥 Glowing Pumpkin 60% rare 👑 Golden Pumpkin 70% very rare, only 3 The discounts apply to game servers, VPS and TeamSpeak servers and music bots. The voucher page tells you what your code is for. How it works Browse our product pages on ZAP-Hosting.com and look out for the 🎃 in the text. Click the pumpkin. You will land on a page with your voucher code. Enter the code at checkout and save on the first billing period. Tips for the hunt The 50% pumpkins are easy to spot. For 60% and 70% you need to scroll further down. Some pages hide more than one pumpkin....

Critical PHP vulnerabilities: patched less than 30 minutes after the release

🛡️ Critical PHP vulnerabilities: patched less than 30 minutes after the releaseWebsite and customer panel after 14 minutes, webspace servers after 27 minutes: how we responded to the PHP updates of 21 October.When vulnerabilities surface, response time matters! ⚡️ On 21 October 2026, the PHP project released security updates for two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). Under certain conditions, they could let an attacker remotely run their own code on a web server that uses PHP. This is not a ZAP-Hosting issue: PHP powers a large part of the web, so the vulnerabilities affect websites and web servers across the entire hosting industry.🔎 What we knowType: remote code execution, meaning foreign code can be run on the server through a crafted request. Fixed in: PHP 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12. No fix: PHP 8.1 and older no longer receive ...

Lifetime Behind a Paywall? Our Honest Answer

🔓 Lifetime Behind a Paywall? Our Honest AnswerWhy does a Lifetime server need a ZapX Pass? What the Pass pays for, what it really costs, and why we still recommend the move.Ever since we started offering Lifetime customers the move to ZapX, one question keeps coming up, in tickets, on Reddit and on Discord: “I paid for my server once. Why should I now pay for a Pass every month?”It's a fair question, and it deserves a clear answer instead of marketing speak. Here it is.Prefer watching? This video explains everything in under 4 minutes:📌 In shortYou're not renting your Lifetime server all over again. It stays paid for. The ZapX Pass starts at €4.99 per 30 days and covers your entire account, not a single server. The Pass pays for what's new and costs money every single day: AI, app, Backups, integrations. The old Customer Panel is no longer being developed. ...

RuneScape: Dragonwilds leaves Early Access – version 1.0 with crossplay is here

🐉🔥 RuneScape: Dragonwilds leaves Early Access – version 1.0 with crossplay is hereNew platforms, cross-platform play, and your own server – ready for Ashenfall.RuneScape: Dragonwilds, the open-world survival crafting game set in the RuneScape universe, is now available as the full version 1.0 release – in addition to PC, it's now also available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2. Team up with up to three other players to explore the forgotten continent of Ashenfall, gather resources, build your base, and challenge the mighty Dragon Queens.Dragonwilds is best enjoyed on your own dedicated server, where you can keep playing together over time. At ZAP-Hosting, your RuneScape: Dragonwilds server is set up instantly, protected against DDoS attacks, easy to manage through the web interface, and comes with free FTP access.🎮 Crossplay: Play together on PC, PlaySt...

New at ZAP-Hosting: Alchemy Factory Servers

🧪⚗️ New at ZAP-Hosting: Alchemy Factory ServersBuild your own alchemy factory – now ready to go with your own server.Alchemy Factory is a cooperative factory-building and automation game set in a medieval alchemy world: you construct factories, automate the production of magical potions and ingredients using conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices, and build a thriving trading empire together with your friends.You can now rent your own Alchemy Factory server at ZAP-Hosting – perfect for building your alchemy workshop together, uninterrupted and with no waiting time.🚀 Your Alchemy Factory server – ready to play instantlyInstead of fixed player slots, you flexibly choose the RAM package that fits the size of your factory. On top of that: NVMe SSD performance for fast loading times, free FTP access for world backups, an easy-to-use web interface with configuration editor a...