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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Hosting Customers Shop on Price. So Why Don't They Stay for It?

Hosting Customers Shop on Price. So Why Don't They Stay for It?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/18/2026
Web hosting has a bit of a problem: Everyone is fast, everyone is reliable, and apparently everyone is secure, too. So when every host sounds the same, what is a... read more »
WP Engine Frees Its AI Search to Chase the Agent-Ready Web

WP Engine Frees Its AI Search to Chase the Agent-Ready Web
By: Ryan Frankel • 8/17/2026
For 13 months, one of the best reasons to pay for WP Engine hosting was a search bar. Then on August 11, the company gave it away for free. Smart Search AI, the... read more »
Chromium Was Built for Humans. Cloudflare's New Browser Isn't.

Cloudflare's New Browser Is Built for AI Agents
By: Ryan Frankel • 8/13/2026
The question no one had ever considered until agents started doing the browsing was: Why does software need to scroll at 60 frames per second? The reason is because... read more »
Vercel Gave Hosts an AI Builder API. What Can They Do with It?

Vercel Gave Hosts an AI Builder API. What Can They Do with It?
By: Ryan Frankel • 8/12/2026
Site builders and hosting providers have faced the same awkward arithmetic for the past 24 months: Spend a few quarters of engineering work to build one or let your... read more »
Wix Launches an AI Agent Team That Hosting Providers Can Offer to SMBs

Wix Launches an AI Agent Team That Hosting Providers Can Offer to SMBs
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/11/2026
On August 11, Wix released something that’s unlike anything else it’s ever flagshipped: Symphony, a multi-agent AI platform that acts like a full-time team for SMBs... read more »
Is Claude Recommending Your Site? Cloudflare Now Shows You

Is Claude Recommending Your Site? Cloudflare Now Shows You
By: Ryan Frankel • 8/10/2026
Ask any site owner about what happened to organic traffic this year, and you’ll hear variations on the same story: It dropped, rankings barely moved, and no one... read more »
WooCommerce 11 Is Finally Here, and It Wants to Make Big Stores Less Annoying to Host

WooCommerce 11 Is Here, and It Wants to Make Big Stores Less Annoying to Host
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/6/2026
Managed WordPress providers don’t always get a lot of love. When their customers use major platforms and plugins like WooCommerce, they get the blame when something... read more »
Water System Cyberattacks Show a Weak Spot Hosts Already Know

Water System Cyberattacks Show a Weak Spot Hosts Already Know
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/5/2026
“Water tower hacked” probably wasn’t the box anyone expected to check off on this year’s bingo card, but here we are. It started in June when hackers claiming ties... read more »
Kinsta Survey: Customers Want AI Support, But Not at the Cost of Human Help

Kinsta Survey: Customers Want AI Support, But Not at the Cost of Human Help
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/3/2026
There are plenty of things AI is already good at — summarizing information, explaining a complicated term, and answering the kind of support question that’s been... read more »
.web Is Finally Coming. Will It Be Priced Like .com?

.web Is Finally Coming. Will It Be Priced Like .com?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/30/2026
It may have taken $135 million and 10 years of disputes, but the .web generic top-level domain (gTLD) is finally part of the internet. Last week, domain registry... read more »
Dead Games Could Become a New Market for Game Hosts

The Demand's There, The Infrastructure's There. So Why Are Games Still Dying?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/28/2026
Every year, more video games disappear: A study from a few years ago found that 87% of classic video games released in the U.S. are no longer commercially available... read more »
Bulletproof Hosting Is Changing What’s Expected of Hosting Providers

Is Bulletproof Hosting Changing What It Means to Be a Hosting Provider?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/27/2026
When Dutch authorities recently seized more than 800 servers connected to the network behind the EU-sanctioned Stark Industries (no, not that one — but a... read more »
AI Is Driving RAM Prices Up — Here's What Hosting Providers Need to Know

AI Is Driving RAM Prices Up — Here's What Hosting Providers Need to Know
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/22/2026
Octave Klaba, the founder of OVHcloud — Europe’s largest hosting provider — recently shared publicly that his company is now paying 6x more for RAM than it did a... read more »
New York's Data Center Moratorium Is Actually Good News (For Some)

New York's Data Center Moratorium Is Actually Good News (For Some)
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/21/2026
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on July 14 which would pause permits for some new data centers New York State. New York’s Department of Environmental... read more »
Pentagon Pauses CMMC Phase 2: What Hosting Providers Need to Know Now

If You Host Defense Contractors, You May Be Closer to CMMC Than You Think
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/20/2026
UPDATE — July 22: Since this article was published, the U.S. Department of War has suspended the planned November 10 rollout of CMMC Phase II while it conducts a... read more »
Are You Migration-Curious? Sheetz Shows What Leaving VMware Actually Looks Like

Sheetz Shows What Leaving VMware Actually Looks Like
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/16/2026
When VMware was acquired by Broadcom in 2023 and licensing prices began soaring, some thought a mass exodus would occur. What we’ve actually seen is a slow trickle... read more »
Tomorrow: Why Domain Registrars Are Fighting India’s WHOIS Ruling (And How to Follow the Hearing)

Why Are Domain Registrars Fighting India’s WHOIS Ruling?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/15/2026
Three domain companies have asked India’s court to reconsider a recent ruling that they say could change their role as registrars. In December, the High Court of... read more »
Is Managing AI Agents the Next Chapter of Managed Hosting?

Is Managing AI Agents the Next Chapter of Managed Hosting?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/14/2026
Every few years, managed hosting providers get another job responsibility whether or not they asked for it. (Hint: They usually didn’t.) Keeping servers online was... read more »
Automattic Now Owns the Most Obvious Domain in Web Hosting — Why?

Why Does Automattic Now Own the Most Iconic Domain in Web Hosting?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/13/2026
Go to WebHosting.com right now and you’ll see two things: the words “coming soon” and an Automattic logo. That’s the whole announcement — no press release, no... read more »
The East Coast Heat Wave Stress-Tested Web Hosting, and It Held Up

Last Week’s Heat Wave Was a Stress Test for Web Hosting
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/9/2026
Although the East Coast is finally feeling some relief this week, last week was a trip to Hell itself. Meteorologists warned the heat wave was coming for days, but... read more »