Author: Natalia Nowak

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

Software reviews
AdminBolt Ships a Dashboard AI Assistant and WhatsApp Hosting Controls
by Natalia Nowak · 19 May 2026 · 3 min read
AdminBolt is currently the only self-hosted control panel to ship a working in-panel AI assistant, with WhatsApp as a mobile extension.
Industry reports
More Revenue. Less Profit. What iomart’s FY2026 Reveals About Mid-Market Hosting.
by Natalia Nowak · 18 May 2026 · 8 min read
iomart's revenue grew 25% and its EBITDA fell 24%. The gap between those two numbers explains the structural problem facing mid-market hosting in 2026.
Security
FunnelKit Plugin Flaw Actively Exploited to Skim Credit Cards From WooCommerce Checkout Pages
by Natalia Nowak · 18 May 2026 · 4 min read
A FunnelKit vulnerability is being actively exploited to steal card data from WooCommerce checkouts. Every customer who paid on a compromised store is affected. Patch to 3.15.0.3 now.
Security
A Ransomware Group’s Backend Was Leaked Because Their Hosting Provider Got Hacked First.
by Natalia Nowak · 15 May 2026 · 4 min read
4VPS was breached on May 2. Two days later, The Gentlemen ransomware group's backend was leaked, exposing victim lists, ransom negotiations, and attack tooling
Security
Skynethosting Took Its Entire cPanel Fleet Offline on May 1. Two Weeks Later, Some Are Still Down.
by Natalia Nowak · 15 May 2026 · 10 min read
Skynethosting took its entire cPanel fleet offline on May 1 in response to CVE-2026-41940, and as of May 14 some customer servers had been down for nearly two weeks, with one reseller publicly reporting a 30 percent client loss during the outage.
Security
cPanel Patched Five More CVEs. One Fix Is Already Reported Incomplete.
by Natalia Nowak · 14 May 2026 · 9 min read
cPanel's May 13 patch covers five new CVEs, but security researcher Shubham Shah reported within hours that the fix for CVE-2026-29205 is incomplete and all cPanel instances remain exploitable until a working patch lands.
Security
Three cPanel Patches and DirtyFrag Fixes in One Day. Here Is Where Things Stand.
by Natalia Nowak · 13 May 2026 · 6 min read
Three cPanel patches and Linux kernel fixes for DirtyFrag landed on May 8. Here is what got fixed and what to verify with your hosting provider.
Industry reports
The Cheap VPS Era Is Over. AI Hardware Demand Repriced the Market.
by Natalia Nowak · 12 May 2026 · 13 min read
Six European providers raised VPS prices up to 49% in spring 2026. US hyperscalers are benefiting. The full price map and what drives the divide.
Other
DENIC’s New Infrastructure Took .de Offline. The Fix Came From Cloudflare.
by Natalia Nowak · 11 May 2026 · 5 min read
On May 5, a defect in DENIC's newly deployed signing infrastructure made Amazon.de, DHL, Bahn.de, and hundreds of thousands of other .de domains unreachable for three hours. Servers were running. Monitoring showed green. The fix came from Cloudflare, not DENIC.
Industry reports
GoDaddy Joins a Second AI Agent Identity Consortium. DNS Is the Foundation.
by Natalia Nowak · 11 May 2026 · 7 min read
GoDaddy is now at the center of two AI agent identity initiatives: a Cloudflare product partnership and a 30-company HOL standards consortium. DNS is becoming the address book for AI agents, and the registrar is positioned to be the gatekeeper.
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