Lillian Castro

Senior Editor
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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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 »
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 »
41% of Web Hosts Are Now Losing Customers to Wix and Shopify

41% of Web Hosts Are Now Losing Customers to Wix and Shopify
By: Ryan Frankel • 5/20/2026
A small business owner spends a weekend fighting a WordPress plugin upgrade that breaks her checkout page, a memory error she can’t diagnose, and a phishing email... read more »
The Best and Worst Small Cities for Tech Job Seekers

The Best and Worst Small Cities for Tech Job Seekers
By: Lynn Cadet • 5/19/2026
The tech industry has seen major job-market shakeups in the last few years, with mass layoffs rocking top companies, including Meta and Amazon. Yet despite the... read more »
This Surprising Industry Is The Reason Why Hosting Prices Keep Climbing

This Surprising Industry Is Why Hosting Prices Keep Climbing
By: Ryan Frankel • 5/19/2026
For the past two years, rising hosting costs have typically been attributed to “AI hardware costs,” including expensive GPUs, higher power contracts, and increased... 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 »
Why Are Small Hosts Quietly Ditching cPanel in 2026?

Why Are Small Hosts Quietly Ditching cPanel in 2026?
By: Ryan Frankel • 5/18/2026
Imagine a Tier-2 reseller managing a few hundred shared hosting accounts on a cPanel Pro license. The cost of that license increased 15% on Jan. 1, 2026, and the... read more »
AWS's $200 Billion Year Is Quietly Squeezing Out Tier-2 Hosts

AWS's $200B Year Is Quietly Squeezing Out Tier-2 Hosts
By: Ryan Frankel • 5/18/2026
A single AWS campus in New Carlisle, Indiana, that stretches across 30 buildings on 1,200 acres now qualifies for 2.2 gigawatts of electricity — enough to power... read more »