Author: Natalia Nowak

116 articles
Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.

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Verisign Finally Won .web. Unlike .com, No One Caps Its Price.
by Natalia Nowak · 24 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
Verisign spent a decade and $135 million to win .web. Unlike its government-capped .com, it can price the new domain however it wants.
Security
A Malware Campaign Is Using GitHub Actions to Hunt Unpatched cPanel Servers
by Natalia Nowak · 24 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
A new campaign uses GitHub's own build servers to hunt cPanel and WHM servers still exposed to CVE-2026-41940, and steal their secrets.
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August 2 Is Still Real: What the AI Act’s Big Date Means for Hosting After the Omnibus
by Natalia Nowak · 23 Jul 2026 · 10 min read
The omnibus delayed the AI Act's high-risk regime, not August 2. GPAI fines and transparency duties still arrive on schedule. Hosting's map of who owes what.
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An AWS Region Has Been Offline for Months, and the Cloud’s Address Is No Longer a Technicality
by Natalia Nowak · 23 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
Drone strikes and fire have kept an AWS cloud region offline for months. The cloud has a physical address, and choosing a region carries real risk.
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A Government ID for Every .ru Domain, and a Warning for Every Country Code
by Natalia Nowak · 22 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
From September 1, every .ru owner must prove their identity to the Russian government or lose the domain. A reminder that a country code answers to its government.
Security
A Once-a-Decade WordPress Core Flaw, and the Gap Between Patched and Safe
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
WordPress did the rare thing and forced a core security fix to millions of sites. Within 72 hours the break-ins started anyway. The gap is the story.
Security
A 16-Year-Old KVM Escape, and OVHcloud’s Week-Long Patch Across a Million VMs
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
CVE-2026-53359 let a rented VM seize its host. OVHcloud rebooted around a million VMs in a week to patch it, on its own schedule, not yours.
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H1 2026: The Six Months That Repriced Hosting
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Jul 2026 · 11 min read
Every layer of hosting got a new price, owner or regulator in H1 2026. Our half-year of instruments, synthesized: growth by invoice, not by customer.
Security
A Critical Nginx Flaw and Who Is Actually Exposed
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
F5 patched a critical Nginx flaw (CVSS 9.2) latent since 2011. It only hits specific regex-map configs, and a proof-of-concept exploit is due in early August.
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Cloudways Just Handed AI Agents the Admin Panel, and the Locks Are Racing to Catch Up
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Cloudways now lets AI agents run almost your whole hosting account by chat. Its role-based tokens are a rare guardrail in a category where MCP security lags.
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