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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Your Website Is Majority Bot Traffic Now — Here's What Hosts 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 Where to Go Next

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
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% 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 »
Are Enterprises Looking at Hosting Providers to Be the Control Layer for AI?

Can Hosts Claim AI’s Control Layer?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/13/2026
It’s official: Microsoft and OpenAI’s relationship is coming to a sizzle. On April 27, Microsoft announced its third amendment to “simplify” their partnership and... read more »
Expert: AI Search Is Becoming the Gatekeeper for Client Website Visibility

AI Is Now Deciding Which Client Sites Surface First
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/13/2026
When we covered WP Engine’s AI agency data, the message was clear: Agencies are investing in tools, training staff, rewriting internal policies, and redesigning... read more »
20 Million Users Later, Starlink’s Surprisingly Normal Super Bowl Ad Looks Pretty Brilliant

It Looks Like Starlink’s Normal Ad Just Paid Off
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/12/2026
The results are in: According to industry tracker Advanced Television, Starlink just hit 20 million daily active users. The most recent 2 million customers came in... read more »
Cyware Survey: Cybersecurity Teams Want AI Tools, But Human Oversight Rules Are Lagging

Why Are AI Security Rules Falling Behind Adoption?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/12/2026
We’re not at the point where we’re letting the robots take the wheel yet, according to a recent survey. It turns out that most cybersecurity experts want AI tools in... read more »
Akamai Report: Real-Time AI Needs Faster Infrastructure. Are Hosts the Solution?

AI Inference Has a Distance Problem. Are Hosts the Fix?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/11/2026
Once a fun experiment, AI seems to have officially become a pillar in production infrastructure. The industry and its consumers have fast become dependent on... read more »
WordPress 7.0 Is Two Weeks Out. Are Managed WP Hosts Ready?

WordPress 7.0 Host Readiness Checklist
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/7/2026
Barring another delay, WordPress 7.0 is shipping out on Wednesday, May 20. The release was supposed to come out on April 9, but was returned to beta-level scope... read more »
Behind the Met Gala Livestream: The Hosting Infrastructure That Kept Vogue Prepared for 1M+ Concurrent Viewers

How Did 1M Watch the Met Gala Without Anything Crashing?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/6/2026
Behind the gowns, cameras, celebrity interviews, and old-man-Bad Bunny glam shots at the Met Gala this year was another production entirely: making sure that anyone... read more »
Nearly 9,000 Hosts Are Seeing Ransomware on Their cPanels Right Now

Nearly 9,000 Hosts Are Seeing Ransomware on Their cPanels Right Now
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/5/2026
Raise your hand if you knew attackers may have been exploiting a critical cPanel flaw since February. If you haven’t, it may be because the company only began taking... read more »
The May 11 ADA Deadline Your Healthcare Clients Might Be Ignoring

The May 11 ADA Deadline Your Healthcare Clients Might Be Ignoring
By: Jordan Sprogis • 5/5/2026
When the Department of Justice announced on April 20 that it was extending its ADA Title II web accessibility deadline, there was a sigh of relief across the web... read more »