Author: Łukasz Nowak
87 articles
Nearly two decades in IT. A decade in web hosting - and still in the trenches. Writing about the infrastructure that runs the internet from the inside.
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ICANN Published 1,615 gTLD Applications. The Hosting Strings Were Taken in 2012, and This Round’s Fight Is Over .agent.
ICANN's 2026 gTLD list is out: 1,615 applications, 891 in contention, 13 bids for .agent and one for .vps. Strings can change until October 21.
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The DNS Root Changes Its Key on Sunday. A Resolver That Still Trusts Only the Old One Stops Resolving Everything.
From October 11 the root is signed only by KSK-2024. A validating resolver trusting just the old key fails every lookup within two days. Two dig queries tell.
Security
Vercel Paid $50,000 for a KVM Escape That Has No CVE and No Patch. Every VPS Host Is Waiting for the Write-Up.
Vercel paid $50,000 for a guest-to-host-root KVM escape found in its Firecracker sandbox. No CVE, kernel range or patch is public, and every VPS fleet runs KVM.
Pricing updates
OVHcloud Unbundled the IP and the Disk. Hetzner Took Its Cheapest Line Off Sale. The Memory Bill Has Reached the Price List.
OVHcloud now bills the disk and the IPv4 separately, up to 21.9 percent more; Hetzner's cheapest cloud line is not for sale. Memory reached the price list.
Pricing updates
cPanel Will Raise Prices Again in 2027. The Licence Has Doubled Since 2019 and Is No Longer the Expensive Part of the Server.
WebPros has emailed partners that cPanel prices rise in 2027, figures to follow. The licence has doubled since 2019 and is now the smaller part of the bill.
Industry reports
team.blue Added 600,000 Customers and Still Rounds to 3.3 Million. The Report Says Nothing About the Ones Who Left.
team.blue's 2025 report shows €866M ARR and 600,000 new customers, yet a total still rounded to 3.3 million, in a foreword by a CEO on his way out.
Software reviews
EmDash 1.0 Is Stable. Its Sandboxed Plugins Cannot Touch the Database, and That Is the Whole Pitch.
EmDash 1.0 is stable: marketplace plugins run in isolated Workers with declared capabilities, authors own their registry entries, hosts need Node or Workers.
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Dasabo Gave Customers Ten Days to Upload an ID. Refusal Means Termination and No Refund.
Dasabo told customers to pass a Stripe identity check within ten days or lose their accounts. Refusal forfeits any money already paid.
Software reviews
cPanel AI Is Generally Available. Meridian Is in the License.
cPanel AI is generally available. The interface and assistant come with the license, while the Nova builder is partner-only and sold by the credit.
Industry reports
Newfold Names Sachin Puri CEO From October 1. Sharon Rowlands Stays as Executive Chair.
Sachin Puri will become CEO of Newfold Digital on October 1, while Sharon Rowlands moves to executive chair. He takes over a group serving around 6 million customers after leading both Bluehost Group and Network Solutions Group.
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