Author: Natalia Nowak

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

Security
A 16-Year-Old KVM Escape, and OVHcloud’s Week-Long Patch Across a Million VMs
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
CVE-2026-53359 let a rented VM seize its host. OVHcloud rebooted around a million VMs in a week to patch it, on its own schedule, not yours.
Industry reports
H1 2026: The Six Months That Repriced Hosting
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Jul 2026 · 11 min read
Every layer of hosting got a new price, owner or regulator in H1 2026. Our half-year of instruments, synthesized: growth by invoice, not by customer.
Security
A Critical Nginx Flaw and Who Is Actually Exposed
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
F5 patched a critical Nginx flaw (CVSS 9.2) latent since 2011. It only hits specific regex-map configs, and a proof-of-concept exploit is due in early August.
Industry reports
Cloudways Just Handed AI Agents the Admin Panel, and the Locks Are Racing to Catch Up
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Cloudways now lets AI agents run almost your whole hosting account by chat. Its role-based tokens are a rare guardrail in a category where MCP security lags.
Software reviews
We Asked Six Hosting AI Assistants to Name a Better Rival. Not One Would.
by Natalia Nowak · 16 Jul 2026 · 10 min read
We put the same three hard questions to six hosting AI assistants. Asked to name a better rival with no list, not one would, and one assistant just quit the chat.
Industry reports
GoDaddy Opens Its Domain API to AI Agents, With Guardrails Built In
by Natalia Nowak · 16 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
GoDaddy opened its domain API to AI agents, but unlike the first wave, it writes a recorded consent step and scoped spending into the purchase itself.
M&A
Green Olive Tree Acquires ZebraHost for $1.1 Million, Nearly Doubling in Size
by Natalia Nowak · 15 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Green Olive Tree acquired ZebraHost for $1.1 million, nearly doubling its revenue, in a founder-retirement deal that shows how small-host consolidation works.
Security
Roundcube’s Zero-Click Webmail XSS, and How Fast It Reached cPanel
by Natalia Nowak · 15 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Roundcube's zero-click webmail XSS (CVSS 7.2) was patched July 5 and shipped in cPanel 134.0.45 on July 14. Here is what shared hosts should check.
Security
A US Sanction, a Montenegrin Domain, and Why Every t.me Link Went Dark
by Natalia Nowak · 14 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Every t.me link broke worldwide after the .me registry suspended Telegram's domain, a takedown whose trail leads to a US sanction and an American-run ccTLD.
M&A
The Balance Sheet Behind Your Renewal Invoice: Who Owns the Hosting Industry, and What It Owes
by Natalia Nowak · 13 Jul 2026 · 14 min read
We mapped the hosting industry's owners and debt against our renewal-price index: the operators machines cannot price are the ones with liens on the renewal premium.
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