Author: Natalia Nowak
179 articles
Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
Security
Nearly Two-Thirds of All-in-One WP Migration Installs Remain Unpatched Two Weeks Later
Only 35 percent of All-in-One WP Migration installs run the 7.110 fix. About 3.2 million sites are on a vulnerable version as the exploit chain goes public.
Industry reports
Parked Domains Distort Hosting Rankings. So Do Corporate Registrars.
In 35 of 115 national markets, at least one of the eight largest providers by our count is a parking service or a corporate registrar, not a hosting company.
Security
Attacks on the Elementor Pro Flaw Began the Day It Was Disclosed
Exploit attempts against the Elementor Pro file upload flaw began the day it was disclosed, and one firewall alone blocked over 190,000 of them.
Interviews
BalticNOG Interview: The Hosting Industry Is the Missing Voice in the Room
BalticNOG chairman Paulius Judickas on the 220-attendee debut, why the event must not become a vendor showcase, and the hosting firms missing from the room.
Security
A High-Severity Patch for Five Million WordPress Sites Was Labeled as a Text Fix
High-severity fixes for All-in-One WP Migration and Gravity Forms shipped August 20. One changelog called it a text fix, the other used a stock phrase.
M&A
DigitalOcean’s Market Cap Is Now Higher Than GoDaddy’s. What Five Public Multiples Say About Hosting Valuations.
Five public hosting, cloud and domain companies trade between 8x and 40x EBITDA. The spread shows what buyers pay for: growth, cash conversion, stickiness.
Security
An Attacker Hijacked Hetzner IP Space and Poisoned a Virtualizor Update
An attacker hijacked routes to Softaculous servers for two nights, got a valid TLS certificate, and delivered a malicious update to some Virtualizor installs.
Other
Proton’s Frankfurt Outage Report: 20 Minutes to Critical, and Hardware Too Scarce to Sacrifice
Proton's Frankfurt cooling failed and the room hit 51.9C within half an hour. The postmortem explains why saving scarce hardware beat a faster recovery.
Pricing updates
Verisign Lifts .net Wholesale From $10.91 to $12.00, Effective March 1, 2027
Verisign raises .net wholesale from $10.91 to $12.00 on March 1, 2027, taking nearly the full 10% annual step its ICANN contract allows.
Security
cPanel Patches a Root-Level Flaw in Domain Parking: One Customer Account With Domain Permissions Was Enough
A cPanel customer able to add parked domains could gain root on the whole server. CVE-2026-65643 affects all supported versions; patches are out.
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