Author: Natalia Nowak

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

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Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.
by Natalia Nowak · 10 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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.
by Natalia Nowak · 9 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
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.
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Most of Hostinger’s Hardest Support Cases No Longer Transfer to a Human. The Human Coaches the AI Instead.
by Natalia Nowak · 9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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.
by Natalia Nowak · 9 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
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.
by Natalia Nowak · 8 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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.
by Natalia Nowak · 8 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
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.
by Natalia Nowak · 7 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 7 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
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.
by Natalia Nowak · 4 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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.
Partners
1,000+ Junk Emails a Day, Brought Under Control by One DNS Change
by Natalia Nowak · 4 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
NameHero's HeroicGuard filters mail before the mailbox provider sees it. One MX change, unlimited mailboxes per domain, from $2.96 a month.
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