Author: Łukasz Nowak
82 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.
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.
Other
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. Nova Runs on Credits Nobody Has Priced.
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.
M&A
Norton’s Owner Has Approached GoDaddy. The Market Marked the Target Up 8.7 Percent and the Bidder Down 6.1.
The Financial Times reports that Gen Digital, owner of Norton and Avast, has approached GoDaddy. The target rose 8.7 percent, the bidder fell 6.1.
Industry reports
Brussels Will Grade Data Centres From A to G on Power and Water.
The European Commission will grade data centers of 500 kW and up from A to G on power and water use, with the first labels due by August 15, 2027.
Industry reports
Verisign Will Delete 22,000 .name Domains That Are Paid For. Two Registrants Are Fighting It.
Verisign has ICANN's permission to delete every third-level .name domain in existence, the john.smith.name form the registry launched with, along with the email forwarding service that let a registrant receive mail at [email protected].
Security
An Unauthenticated Path to Code Execution in WordPress Core, Already Being Exploited
A flaw in WordPress core hands strangers the keys to your site, no password required, and attackers are already walking through the door. It is already being exploited.
Security
Januscape and Bad Epoll: Two Linux Flaws That Let One Customer Take Over the Whole Server
Two Linux kernel flaws, patched the same week, break the multi-tenant promise: one escapes a guest VM to the host, the other hands any local user root.
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