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Jordan Sprogis

By: Jordan Sprogis

Jordan Sprogis

Jordan Sprogis, Contributing Expert

Jordan Sprogis is a creative writer and tech researcher who has been working on online content for the better part of a decade. She holds a bachelor's degree in professional writing from Western Connecticut State University and has devoted much of her career to crafting content for various web verticals, including CyberSpyder and The Echo. Since joining HostingAdvice, Jordan has combined her storytelling ability with her fascination for advancements in technology to pen over 500 articles geared toward industry pros and newcomers alike.

Lillian Castro

Editor: Lillian Castro

Lillian Castro

Lillian Castro, Senior Editor

Lillian Castro brings more than 30 years of editing and journalism experience to our team. She has written and edited for major news organizations, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the New York Times, and she previously served as an adjunct instructor at the University of Florida. Today, she edits HostingAdvice content for clarity, accuracy, and reader engagement.

Cristian Lopez

Reviewer: Cristian Lopez

Cristian Lopez

Cristian Lopez, News Manager

Cristian Lopez uses his Business Marketing background from the University of Illinois at Chicago to create comfortable environments for customers, clients, and colleagues to share their thoughts and ideas openly. From interviewing tech leaders to conducting UX market research projects, Cristian knows the importance of storytelling — a key variable for innovation and inspiration. His goal at HostingAdvice is to wow readers on the ever-evolving nature of the tech industry and bring his audience the most reliable and exciting content on all things hosting.

Your Website Is Majority Bot Traffic Now — Here's What Hosts Are Doing About It

Some time in 2024, the internet underwent a metamorphosis where bots — which were once just blockable nuisances — began generating more than 50% of all global web traffic. To... Read More »

Hosts Aren't Asking Whether to Leave cPanel Anymore; They're Asking Where to Go Next

Where Are Hosts Going After cPanel?

“Pricing update that will take effect on…” For many hosting providers, that’s all they need to read. They already know that the rest of the message is just... Read More »

Good News: Data Center Outages Are Down. Bad News: Ask Again Next Year

Good News: Data Center Outages Are Down. Bad News: Ask Again Next Year

When Uptime Institute’s 2026 Data Center Outage Analysis dropped a couple weeks ago, it had what looked like silver linings for the web hosting and data... Read More »

Let's Break Down Wix's Reasons For Laying Off 20% of its Workforce

Let's Break Down Why Wix Is Laying Off 1,000 People

On May 28, Wix CEO and co-founder Avishai Abrahami posted a message to X and sent it to all 5,277 employees simutaneously. The company will be cutting about 20%... Read More »

Google Says People Love AI Mode, but Some Are Heading to DuckDuckGo Instead

Why DuckDuckGo Is Suddenly Everywhere Right Now

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-first search engine, just reported that its AI-free search engine jumped nearly 28%. It also reported that U.S. app installs increased... Read More »

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Can SpaceX Rocket Tech Cool AI Racks Without a Drop of Water?

Can SpaceX Rocket Tech Cool AI Racks Without a Drop of Water?

A 23-person startup in Signal Hill, California, has spent the past two years developing a cooling system for a data center based on a rotating compressor that... Read More »

Agentic AI Is Everywhere Right Now, and Almost Nobody Is Actually Running It

Agentic AI Is Here. Is Anyone Using It?

In the span of four weeks in April, four major IT management vendors launched what they’re each calling agentic AI platforms. Kyndryl went first on April 2... Read More »

How Machnet Closes the Bare-Metal Gap on Commodity Cloud VMs

How Machnet Closes the Bare-Metal Gap on Commodity Cloud VMs

Every conversation about low-latency workloads ends the same way. The customer asks for predictable performance, the sales rep leads the customer to bare metal... Read More »

Server Refresh Cycles Face New Pressure as Hardware Costs and Supply Delays Rise

Do You Actually Have to Replace Your Servers So Often?

Has anyone priced a server lately? The landscape is…depressing. Memory prices have doubled — in some cases quadrupled — over the past six months. Server orders... Read More »

Apache HTTP/2 Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Every Site on a Server

Apache HTTP/2 Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Every Site on a Server

Imagine a shared hosting box humming along on a Tuesday morning. Hundreds of WordPress sites are each isolated in their own PHP-CGI sandbox and separated from... Read More »

Are AI Agents Showing Us Email’s Biggest Infrastructure Problem?

Showdown Time — AI Agents vs. Email Infrastructure

The International Data Corporation (IDC) expects more than 1 billion AI agents will be actively deployed across enterprise workflows by 2029, performing more... Read More »

Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5-Cyber Show How Fast Vulnerability Discovery Is Changing

Read This Before Using Claude Mythos or OpenAI Cyber

Palo Alto Networks usually doesn’t find much in its monthly security sweeps — fewer than five CVEs on average, in fact. But when it put frontier models from... Read More »

41% of Web Hosts Are Now Losing Customers to Wix and Shopify

41% of Web Hosts Are Now Losing Customers to Wix and Shopify

A small business owner spends a weekend fighting a WordPress plugin upgrade that breaks her checkout page, a memory error she can’t diagnose, and a phishing... Read More »