Author: Natalia Nowak

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

Industry reports
Telegram Applies for .gram After a Sanctions Listing Took Down t.me
by Natalia Nowak · 19 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Telegram has applied for .gram, five weeks after a sanctions listing took t.me offline. Another applicant wants the same string.
Industry reports
my.host Expands Into Europe From a Market With No Dominant Provider
by Natalia Nowak · 19 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
my.host is expanding beyond the Netherlands, out of a home market where the largest provider holds just 12.6 percent.
Events
BalticNOG 2026: What the Baltic Network Operators Meeting in Riga Means for Hosting Providers
by Natalia Nowak · 18 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
The second BalticNOG runs September 23 and 24 in Riga. Its organizer is an IPv4 leasing marketplace, and sponsors include Hostinger, Cherry Servers and DE-CIX.
Industry reports
Cloudflare Is in Every Market We Track. It Leads Fewer Than Half of Them.
by Natalia Nowak · 18 Aug 2026 · 11 min read
Cloudflare is in the top eight in all 115 markets we track, yet leads only 46, and a narrow-footprint provider comes first in 43.
Industry reports
ICANN Banned the Private Deals That Ended Most 2012 gTLD Contests
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
ICANN's 2026 gTLD round bans the private settlements that ended many 2012 contests, so a losing bid now costs about $147,550.
Industry reports
A Chiller Failure in Phoenix Took Down Namecheap, Liquid Web and phoenixNAP.
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A chiller failure in Phoenix took down Namecheap, Liquid Web and phoenixNAP, and the operator of the building explained it only on a tenant's status page.
Security
The Hypervisor Escape Comes to VMware: CVE-2026-47876 May Let a Guest VM Run Code on the ESX Host
by Natalia Nowak · 14 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A critical VMware flaw may let a guest VM run code on the ESX host, and Broadcom ships no workaround for it.
Industry reports
The Field of cPanel Alternatives Keeps Widening. A Brand-New One Comes From Inside cPanel’s Ecosystem.
by Natalia Nowak · 14 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
cPanel's per-account pricing keeps rising, and a real field of alternatives has grown around it, from hosts running their own panel to free independents.
Industry reports
Web3 Naming Bids for the DNS Root, and ICANN Names Its Price
by Natalia Nowak · 13 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
ICANN says Web3 naming can enter the DNS root, under a strict same-name, same-owner rule. ENS incorporated and is chasing .ens rather than .eth.
Security
WordPress 7.0.4 Fixes a PNG That Runs Code. The Flaw Was Almost 10 Years Old.
by Natalia Nowak · 13 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
WordPress 7.0.4 fixes a flaw where an image hiding PostScript runs code on the server. It needs an author account, and multi-author sites should hurry.
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