Author: Natalia Nowak
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Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
Other
Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.
Automattic's board put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave and made CFO Mark Davies interim CEO. No change has been announced to his leadership of WordPress.
Security
A cPanel Account With Mail Privileges Could Reach Root. Every Supported Version Was Affected.
cPanel has patched CVE-2026-67401, a flaw rated 9.9 out of 10 that let an authenticated account with mail privileges run code as root.
Other
Most of Hostinger’s Hardest Support Cases No Longer Transfer to a Human. The Human Coaches the AI Instead.
Hostinger folded Kodee and its growth agents into Hostinger Agent. On hard cases, specialists now advise the AI, and resolution rose from 41 to 72 percent.
M&A
What Is Your Hosting Business Worth? The Smallest Deals Are Back at 2.0x.
Median private-deal multiples run from 2.0 to 5.8, split across two different earnings measures, and the smallest band is back where it was in 2023.
M&A
Team Internet Still Wants Over $160 Million for Its Domains Business. The Timeline It Set in June Has Passed.
Team Internet still expects over $160 million for its domains division and targets completion around year end, after guiding in June to an early-Q3 outcome.
Industry reports
Non-Developers Are Building Whole Websites With AI. 20i’s Survey Says Only 31.5% Get a Developer’s Review.
Half of the non-developers surveyed had little or no coding experience before AI, and only a quarter of their employers have a formal policy.
Security
A Magento Zero-Day Is Being Exploited Now. The First Known Victim Was Fully Patched.
An unpatched Magento flaw has been exploited since September 4. The first known victim had a clean patch status, and the backdoor installs outside the web root.
M&A
cyber_Folks Has Over PLN 1 Billion of M&A Capacity. Hosting Is Not the Priority
cyber_Folks puts its M&A capacity above PLN 1 billion and says it will be concentrated in e-commerce. Its hosting arm earns a 51 percent adjusted margin.
Security
WHMCS Has an Unauthenticated RCE. The Fix Exists Only for 9.0.8 and 8.13.7.
WHMCS fixed an unauthenticated RCE and a 2CheckOut data disclosure flaw in 9.0.8 and 8.13.7. Installations on 8.0 through 8.12 have no patch and must upgrade.
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