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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Worked On 545 Articles To Date
GoDaddy’s Been the Daddy of Domains for 29 Years. Here’s What It Knows About Your Next Client

The Daddy of Domains Knows Your Next Client
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/19/2026
Walton Goggins has a theory about daddies. “What makes a daddy?” he asks. “Maybe it’s just being the very best at what you do.” If you ask GoDaddy, it’s been doing... read more »
From Zoos to Geothermal Drilling: The Obstacles Facing Data Centers in June 2026

The Weirdest Data Center Fight's Happening Right Now
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/18/2026
For the past few years, the data center industry’s biggest obstacle was supposed to be whether there was enough demand to go all in on AI. Could developers build... read more »
What WordPress Agencies Want Most From Hosting Providers in 2026

WordPress Agencies Have a Hosting Wishlist. Are You Prepared?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/17/2026
In today’s new digital era, WordPress agencies are acting as a hosting provider…just at a different level. They’re the ones managing hosting, maintenance, security... read more »
OpenAI Just Got Served a Subpoena. Should Website Owners Using ChatGPT APIs Be Concerned?

OpenAI’s Subpoena: What Website Owners Need to Know
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/16/2026
It turns out that embedding a chatbot which tells users anything they want to hear comes with more legal problems than some hosting providers may have realized. Last... read more »
WordPress Adds AI Plugin Reviews, Slowing Auto-Updates by 24 Hours

WordPress Adds AI Plugin Reviews, 24-Hour Delay to Auto-Updates
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/11/2026
In April, remote attackers managed to gain access to more than 20,000 WordPress sites. The breach was traced to malicious code that was hidden inside 31 plugins... read more »
Apple's Foundation Models Framework Is Free, But Web Hosting Providers Should Read the Fine Print

Apple Says the Cloud Is Optional; Hosting Providers Should Read the Fine Print
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/10/2026
iPhone chips have apparently gotten so powerful that they can now run small AI models directly on the phone. To that, Apple says the cloud is now optional. The... read more »
SMBs Are Losing Two Full Workdays a Week to Admin Work, and Web Hosts Are Partly to Blame

SMBs Spend 2 Days Per Week on Admin. Can Hosts Help?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/10/2026
Did you know that nearly 1 in 4 small business owners (SBOs) are spending 16 or more hours a week on administrative tasks? That’s two entire workdays gone every... read more »
The Hidden Risk in Enterprise Modernization Isn't the Software

This is Why Modernization's Biggest Risk Isn't the Software
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/8/2026
Think about the last time you built a Jenga tower. Maybe it was at your kid’s birthday party or a night out at the brewery with some colleagues. Maybe you haven’t... read more »
Does Every Hosting Company Want to Be a Website Builder? We Asked Hosting Executives What They Think

Here’s Why Hosting and Builders Are Becoming the Same Business
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/4/2026
For those who remember the 1990s and early 2000s, building your own website was not that common — it usually marveled responses like, “Wow, how’d you do that?” and... read more »
Most Website Traffic Is Now Bots; Here's What Hosting Providers Are Doing About It

What Are Hosts Doing About Bot Traffic?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/3/2026
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... read more »
Hosts Aren't Asking Whether to Leave cPanel Anymore; They're Asking What to Replace It With

Where Are Hosts Going After cPanel?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/3/2026
“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
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/2/2026
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
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/2/2026
Wix CEO and co-founder Avishai Abrahami posted a message to X on May 28 and sent it to all 5,277 employees simultaneously. The company will be cutting about 20% of... read more »
Google Says People Love AI Mode, but Some Are Heading to DuckDuckGo Instead

Why DuckDuckGo Is Suddenly Everywhere Right Now
By: Jordan Sprogis • 6/1/2026
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 by... read more »
Agentic AI Is Everywhere Right Now, and Almost Nobody Is Actually Running It

Agentic AI Is Here. Is Anyone Using It?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/28/2026
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 »
Server Refresh Cycles Face New Pressure as Hardware Costs and Supply Delays Rise

Do You Actually Have to Replace Your Servers So Often?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/27/2026
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 from... read more »
Are AI Agents Showing Us Email’s Biggest Infrastructure Problem?

Showdown Time — AI Agents vs. Email Infrastructure
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/26/2026
The International Data Corporation (IDC) expects more than 1 billion AI agents will be actively deployed across enterprise workflows by 2029, performing more than... 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
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/25/2026
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 »
Dunkin' Promised 1 Million Free Coffees This Morning, But Its App Said Otherwise

How Dunkin' Broke Its Own App Today
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/19/2026
For the past couple of days, mega-coffee chain Dunkin’ has been teasing a promo code that promised the first 1 million rewards members in the U.S. a free coffee on... read more »
WordPress 7.0 Dropping RTC Is Actually Saving Hosts a Server-Load of Headaches

The WordPress RTC Delay Actually Spares Hosts
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/18/2026
WordPress 7.0 is heading into release week without the one feature that helped delay it in the first place. The final release is still scheduled for May 20, but... read more »