Author: Natalia Nowak

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

Security
An Attacker Hijacked Hetzner IP Space and Poisoned a Virtualizor Update
by Natalia Nowak · 1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 31 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
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.
Events
Atlas Digital Summit Debuts in Reykjavik: Two Days on What AI Does to the Hosting Business
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Atlas Digital Summit debuts September 28-29 in Reykjavik: an invite-only meeting where hosting leaders spend two days on what AI does to the business.
Pricing updates
Melbicom Prices Its Premium CDN by Zone: EUR 0.03 per GB in 55 Territories, Up to 0.15 Elsewhere
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
Melbicom prices Premium CDN delivery by zone: EUR 0.03 per GB in 55 of 251 territories. Denmark costs five times Sweden's rate; no SLA is published.
Industry reports
In Wix’s Report, .store Doubled and .ai Cracked the Top 10. Zone Files Rank Them 24th and 39th
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Wix's report has .store doubling and .ai in its top ten. Zone-level, they rank 24th and 39th, and .com still carries 45.6% of 347.2M resolving domains.
Events
A Month Before Riga: What the First BalticNOG Delivered in Vilnius
by Natalia Nowak · 27 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Before BalticNOG lands in Riga, a look at what Vilnius delivered: Huston on encryption, Ukraine's resilience lessons and four speakers now returning.
Industry reports
Seventeen Providers, Five Ways to Bill AI, and a Credit That Means Three Things
by Natalia Nowak · 27 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
We compared AI billing at 17 providers. One publishes examples of what a credit buys; another defines no unit and reserves charges for excessive use.
Other
Namecheap’s Second Hosting Outage This Month Hits 78 Shared Servers
by Natalia Nowak · 27 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
Technical issues hit 78 Namecheap shared servers on August 26, the second outage in 13 days. Resolved in the evening, with no cause given.
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