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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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 »
Fast Speeds, Low Latency: The 10 Best Big Cities for Online Gamers Ranked

The 10 Best Big Cities for Online Gamers
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/24/2026
A genuinely good online gaming experience is about so much more than simply having an internet connection. The technical details matter just as much: Latency affects... read more »
Namecheap’s Outage Shows How One Data Center Can Disrupt an Entire Hosting Platform

Namecheap Outage Shows the Risk of Data Center Dependence
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/24/2026
Namecheap took more than 5,000 servers offline on August 13 after a cooling system failure at RadiusDC’s Phoenix facility put the equipment at risk of overheating... read more »
Hostinger Adds 3,000+ Servers Across Three Global Markets

Hostinger Adds 3,000+ Servers Across Three Global Markets
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/20/2026
Hostinger recently secured more than 3,000 servers across Düsseldorf, Germany; Paris, France; and Asheville, North Carolina. That’s a lot of servers, so we went... read more »
Your Code Now Syncs to SpaceX. The Data Terms Don't Exist.

Your Code Now Syncs to SpaceX. The Data Terms Don't Exist.
By: Ryan Frankel • 8/19/2026
Somewhere this week, an agency owner will open a client’s security questionnaire and hit a standard question that they can’t answer: Is our source code being used to... read more »
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 »