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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
Natalia Nowak · 29 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
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cPanel Patches a Root Escalation That Starts From an Ordinary Hosting Account
by Natalia Nowak · 24 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
cPanel patched a privilege escalation running from an ordinary hosting account to root, plus a WP Toolkit flaw reaching other accounts' databases. Three builds shipped September 22, no severity score is published, and one researcher is credited on four root-level flaws across cPanel and Plesk.
Software reviews
Ask nginx Which Config It Is Running. Not Every Build Will Answer.
by Natalia Nowak · 23 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
nginx can now be asked which configuration it is actually running, a question that had no answer before 1.31.5, and a reload now returns an HTTP status code with the logs attached. The Control API came out of the paid NGINX Plus release, and it ships with no authentication of its own.
Security
WordPress 7.1.1 Fixes a Comment-Form XSS. The Payload Passes the Sanitizer.
by Natalia Nowak · 22 Sep 2026 · 10 min read
WordPress 7.1.1 fixes CVE-2026-93485, a stored XSS delivered through the ordinary comment form by an anonymous visitor and missed by wp_kses. Two of the other ten fixes came from Anthropic, and three in ten sites run a version 6 branch reached only by a backport.
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Three LiteSpeed Security Builds in Six Days: Check Which One Your Servers Run
by Natalia Nowak · 18 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
A cPanel advisory of September 14 covers a LiteSpeed Enterprise flaw that lets a hosting account past CageFS to root. LiteSpeed has since shipped 6.3.7 three times in six days, each build with a security change, and a server patched on the day of the advisory is no longer on the latest one.
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cPanel Patches a Root-Level Flaw in Domain Parking: One Customer Account With Domain Permissions Was Enough
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
cPanel patched CVE-2026-65643: an account holder able to add parked or addon domains could create arbitrary files and reach root, taking every site on the server. All supported versions were affected. No CVE record, no CVSS and no exploitation status published so far.
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Namecheap’s Second Hosting Outage This Month Hits 78 Shared Servers
by Natalia Nowak · 27 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
Namecheap's second hosting outage in 13 days hit 78 shared servers on August 26 and was resolved after two hours and twenty minutes of status updates. Unlike the Phoenix cooling failure, this one ended with no cause given.
Security
InMotion Rolls Out Monarx ThreatShield Inside the PHP Engine Across Its Fleet
by Natalia Nowak · 26 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
InMotion is switching on Monarx ThreatShield fleet-wide, blocking attacks inside the PHP runtime rather than filtering requests in front of it. Its own July incident report, with two sites taken over in under half a minute each, documents the problem this product class targets.
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Plesk Patches Three Flaws That Start From an Ordinary Customer Account
by Natalia Nowak · 26 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Plesk's August 25 advisories cover three flaws reachable from an ordinary customer account: arbitrary file reads, cross-tenant database access, and root through two extensions. The extension fixes ship separately, and administrators report the Migrator update is not arriving.
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GoDaddy Launches Node.js Hosting, and Publishes the Rules Apps Must Follow
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
GoDaddy's Node.js Hosting runs applications as persistent processes on plans that already exist, at a flat price. Its published deploy contract sets the limits that decide fit: outbound traffic on ports 80 and 443 only, no external databases, and no outbound SMTP.
Security
Forminator’s 9.8 Flaw, and Eleven More Fixes in Nineteen Days
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Forminator's file upload flaw scores 9.8 and needs no authentication, but it takes a form with both an upload and a select field, and the default .htaccess meant to stop execution does nothing on NGINX. The changelog records twelve security releases in nineteen days.
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Two of cPanel’s Three New Flaws Cross the Line Between Accounts
by Natalia Nowak · 29 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
cPanel patched three vulnerabilities on July 29, across every supported branch. Two matter most on shared servers: an unauthenticated request-smuggling bug that can alter other users' responses, and a database flaw that lets an ordinary account reach admin rights and possibly the host itself.
Pricing updates
The Renewal Multiplier Index: What Hosting Costs After the Intro Price
by Natalia Nowak · 29 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
First edition of our quarterly index, measured July 29: SiteGround renews at up to 5.3x, the price-lock club at 1.0x, and GoDaddy, HostGator, and Namecheap mid-band at 1.7–3.7x. At every provider with a full plan range, the entry plan renews at a higher multiple than the top plan.
Industry reports
Shared Hosting Has Not Raised Prices Yet. The Hardware Bill Is Coming.
by Natalia Nowak · 11 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
AI infrastructure competes with traditional hosting for the same DRAM. VPS and dedicated servers have repriced. Shared hosting adjusts last - with 3-5 year hardware cycles, the bill arrives at renewal. Two cost vectors are already building.
Shared hosting in 2025 – a year of stress tests, signals and structural change
by Damian Andruszkiewicz · 10 Feb 2026 · 4 min read
TL;DR - if 2024 was about post‑COVID normalization, 2025 was about pressure - on margins, positioning, and on the long‑term credibility of the traditional shared hosting model.  Growth didn’t collapse, but cracks
Industry reports
DreamHost is giving away free WordPress websites. And no, this isn’t a joke.
by Kamil Kołosowski · 9 Jul 2025 · 4 min read
Imagine signing up for web hosting and having someone build your website for free. No fuss, no page builders, no AI involved. You just sit down, fill out a form, and the DreamHost team takes care of the rest. From scratch. By hand. And it looks good. Sounds absurd? Yet it’s real - this is an actual offer.
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Shared hosting tips in Indonesia
by Borcov Filip · 25 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Indonesia is one of the fastest-growing digital markets in the world, driven by a large population, increasing internet penetration, and a dynamic business environment. With a rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses must navigate language preferences, diverse payment systems, customer service expectations, and regulatory changes to succeed.
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