Lillian Castro

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Lillian Castro
About the Author

Lillian Castro brings more than 30 years of editing and journalism experience to our team. She has written and edited for major news organizations, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the New York Times, and she previously served as an adjunct instructor at the University of Florida. Today, she edits HostingAdvice content for clarity, accuracy, and reader engagement.

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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... And 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. At WWDC —... read more »
More Than 80% of Americans Have Never Considered Owning Their Own Domain Name

More Than 80% of Americans Have Never Considered Owning Their Own Domain Name
By: Lynn Cadet • 6/10/2026
Thanks to social media, anyone can have an online presence, whether you’re a daring acrobat or a cat that plays the piano unusually well. But before the cute and... 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 are spending 16 or more hours a week on administrative tasks? That’s two entire workdays gone every week. The... 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 Affordable Cities for Tech Startups

Most Affordable Cities for Tech Startups
By: Lynn Cadet • 6/4/2026
As inflation continues to reshape the economy, it’s also changing where and how entrepreneurs launch and do business. While coastal tech hubs have long been the top... 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 »
39% of People Would Support a Local Data Center if it Brought More Jobs

39% of People Would Support a Local Data Center if it Brought More Jobs
By: Lynn Cadet • 6/1/2026
As talks around data centers and AI heat up in the U.S., the average American is also speaking out about these megacomplexes of power, with some even taking to the... 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 »
Can SpaceX Rocket Tech Cool AI Racks Without a Drop of Water?

Can SpaceX Rocket Tech Cool AI Racks Without a Drop of Water?
By: Ryan Frankel • 6/1/2026
A 23-person startup in Signal Hill, California, has spent the past two years developing a cooling system for a data center based on a rotating compressor that spins... 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 »
How Machnet Closes the Bare-Metal Gap on Commodity Cloud VMs

How Machnet Closes the Bare-Metal Gap on Commodity Cloud VMs
By: Ryan Frankel • 5/27/2026
Every conversation about low-latency workloads ends the same way. The customer asks for predictable performance, the sales rep leads the customer to bare metal, and... 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 »
Apache HTTP/2 Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Every Site on a Server

Apache HTTP/2 Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Every Site on a Server
By: Ryan Frankel • 5/26/2026
Imagine a shared hosting box humming along on a Tuesday morning. Hundreds of WordPress sites are each isolated in their own PHP-CGI sandbox and separated from each... 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 »