Jordan Sprogis

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Jordan Sprogis
About the Author

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.

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AI Data Centers Are Spreading Beyond the Usual Tech Hubs. Should Hosting Providers Follow?

AI Data Centers Are Spreading. Should Hosts Follow?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/28/2026
Northern Virginia and Texas have long been major data center markets, but AI infrastructure is officially doing what we all suspected it would eventually do: spread... read more »
Can You Block AI Training and Still Rank on Google?

Can You Block AI Training and Still Rank on Google?
By: Ryan Frankel • 9/24/2026
A week ago, a post made it to the top of r/Cloudflare with a title guaranteed to make a lot of site owners spit out their coffee: “PSA: CloudFlare Now Defaults To... read more »
Data Center Roundup: Power Problems, Tight Capacity, and New Places to Build

Data Center Expansion Is Running Into a Power Problem
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/22/2026
Data centers are popping up everywhere, but finding enough power to run them is becoming a bit of a headache. Texas is putting new permits on hold, Northern Virginia... read more »
Some Customer Data Might Be Permanently Lost in AWS’ Middle East Disruption

Some Customer Data Might Be Permanently Lost in AWS’ Middle East Disruption
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/21/2026
Back in March, I covered AWS’ outage in the Bahrain thanks to drone missile strikes. When that happened, AWS told customers to move their workloads out of the... read more »
Newfold Digital Partners With DigiCert to Manage SSL for 6M Customers

Newfold Digital Partners With DigiCert to Manage SSL for 6M Customers
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/17/2026
Newfold Digital is officially putting its SSL/TLS certificate operation in DigiCert’s hands. The web-hosting giant announced on September 10 that DigiCert will now... read more »
AI Traffic Is Booming. Turns Out Nearly Half of It Goes to One Platform

Take a Guess: One Platform Takes Nearly Half of AI Traffic
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/16/2026
A new analysis from OneLittleWeb looked at more than 9,500 AI tools and found something that will shock absolutely no one: Nearly half of those visits went to a... read more »
The Best U.S. Cities for Affordable, Connected Living

The Best U.S. Cities for Affordable, Connected Living
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/15/2026
Finding a good place to live usually means weighing a lot of priorities. How much will housing cost? Are there enough jobs? What’s the quality of life like? And can... read more »
Plugin Updates Now Get Screened, and a Backdoor Exposed the Missing Piece

Plugin Updates Now Get Screened, and a Backdoor Exposed the Missing Piece
By: Ryan Frankel • 9/15/2026
On July 28, someone added a backdoor to a plugin for WordPress, which is used on roughly 20,000 sites. None of it was ever distributed through the update API. In an... read more »
A Critical WHMCS RCE Just Got Patched. Did You Update?

A Critical WHMCS RCE Just Got Patched. Did You Update?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/9/2026
Hosting providers have yet another thing to check on their servers: WHMCS just patched a critical remote-code-execution vulnerability affecting versions 8.0 and... read more »
Cloudflare Built a WordPress Rival. Then It Bet Its Own Blog on It.

Cloudflare Built a WordPress Rival. Then It Bet Its Own Blog on It.
By: Ryan Frankel • 9/8/2026
Ask any WordPress administrator what August was like, and you’re likely to hear some version of the same routine: read a CVE write-up, patch a plugin, and wait for... read more »
Organic Search Is Changing. Hosts Need to Help Clients Understand What It Means

Organic Search Is Changing. Hosts Need to Help Clients Understand What It Means
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/7/2026
Everyone knows that AI is changing the way people search the web. Many of us have done our fair share of asking a chatbot for recommendations, explanations... read more »
The Best Small U.S. Cities for Starting an Online Side Hustle

The Best Small U.S. Cities for Starting an Online Side Hustle
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/3/2026
These days, starting an online side hustle can be as simple as opening a laptop. Whether you’re freelancing, selling products online, creating content, consulting... read more »
90% of Devs Use AI Agents Weekly. So Why Is Copilot Losing?

90% of Devs Use AI Agents Weekly. So Why Is Copilot Losing?
By: Ryan Frankel • 9/3/2026
Nine in 10 professional developers now use an AI coding agent at work at least once per week, and 68% do so every day, according to results of the AI agent study... read more »
Wix Used to Just Build Websites. Now It's Teaching Agents How to Run the Entire Business.

Wix Used to Build Sites. Now It's Teaching Agents How to Run the Entire Business
By: Ryan Frankel • 9/2/2026
Every morning, before the owner of a small taxi company has had time for his first cup of coffee, a team meets to discuss the business. It reviews what happened the... read more »
More Than Half of Americans Have Abandoned an Online Purchase Over Password Problems

More Than Half of Americans Have Abandoned an Online Purchase Over Password Problems
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/1/2026
Online shopping is supposed to be easy: Find what you want, add it to your cart, enter your payment information, and you’re done. But there’s one surprisingly simple... read more »
AI Agents Escaped Their Sandboxes. Now Hosting Providers Have a Bigger Problem

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agents Are a Bigger Problem for Hosting Providers
By: Jordan Sprogis • 9/1/2026
As a refresher for Part One, here’s the TL;DR: In July, OpenAI put its AI models through a cybersecurity test inside what was supposed to be a restricted testing... read more »
Wix Puts Its Full Site Builder, Hosting Included, Inside Gemini

Wix Puts Its Full Site Builder, Hosting Included, Inside Gemini
By: Ryan Frankel • 8/31/2026
For much of this year, investors basically wrote Wix a eulogy. If anyone could ask their chatbot for a website, then why would they need a website builder? After... read more »
OVHcloud Raises Server Prices by Up to 87% as Memory Costs Climb

OVHcloud Prices Are Going Up 87% as Memory Costs Climb
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/27/2026
OVHcloud recently announced that it’s raising prices on some of its servers, with certain hardware generations jumping by as much as 87%. It’s another casualty in... read more »
WordPress 7.1 Polished the Editor. It Also Let the Agents In.

WordPress 7.1 Polished the Editor. It Also Let the Agents In.
By: Ryan Frankel • 8/26/2026
When WordPress 7.1 launched on August 19 with a keynote at WordCamp U.S. in Phoenix, the applause was for everything you would expect: a cleaner editor, finally... read more »
OpenAI's AI Agent Took 17,600 Actions on Its Own. Should Hosts Care?

AI Agent Security: Why OpenAI's 17,600 Actions Matter to Hosts
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/25/2026
This summer has been eventful for the internet, to say the least. Cyberattackers went after U.S. water systems. OpenAI watched one of its own AI agents escape into... read more »