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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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 »
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 »
81% of Parents Are Concerned About Their Child's Safety While Gaming Online

81% of Parents Are Concerned About Their Child's Online Gaming Safety

By: Lynn Cadet • 8/12/2026
Gaming has become one of the most dominant pastimes among children, with over 90% of children aged 2 and over playing video games. Online gaming is more than a... read more »
Wix Launches an AI Agent Team That Hosting Providers Can Offer to SMBs

Wix Launches an AI Agent Team That Hosting Providers Can Offer to SMBs
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/11/2026
On August 11, Wix released something that’s unlike anything else it’s ever flagshipped: Symphony, a multi-agent AI platform that acts like a full-time team for SMBs... read more »
WooCommerce 11 Is Finally Here, and It Wants to Make Big Stores Less Annoying to Host

WooCommerce 11 Is Here, and It Wants to Make Big Stores Less Annoying to Host
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/6/2026
Managed WordPress providers don’t always get a lot of love. When their customers use major platforms and plugins like WooCommerce, they get the blame when something... read more »
Water System Cyberattacks Show a Weak Spot Hosts Already Know

Water System Cyberattacks Show a Weak Spot Hosts Already Know
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/5/2026
“Water tower hacked” probably wasn’t the box anyone expected to check off on this year’s bingo card, but here we are. It started in June when hackers claiming ties... read more »
Top 5 Best Cities for Content Creators, Based on Connectivity, Cost & Opportunity

Top 5 Best Cities for Content Creators
By: Lynn Cadet • 8/4/2026
Content creation has evolved a ton since the early days of the internet. What was once an industry primarily focused on blogging (or vlogging for some) has sprouted... read more »
Kinsta Survey: Customers Want AI Support, But Not at the Cost of Human Help

Kinsta Survey: Customers Want AI Support, But Not at the Cost of Human Help
By: Jordan Sprogis • 8/3/2026
There are plenty of things AI is already good at — summarizing information, explaining a complicated term, and answering the kind of support question that’s been... read more »
.web Is Finally Coming. Will It Be Priced Like .com?

.web Is Finally Coming. Will It Be Priced Like .com?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/30/2026
It may have taken $135 million and 10 years of disputes, but the .web generic top-level domain (gTLD) is finally part of the internet. Last week, domain registry... read more »
How to Set Up WordPress Multisite on Bluehost

How to Set Up WordPress Multisite on Bluehost
By: Joe Warnimont • 7/29/2026
I once built a website for a local high school that required separate WordPress dashboards for each department. That’s because the science department would need its... read more »
Dead Games Could Become a New Market for Game Hosts

The Demand's There, The Infrastructure's There. So Why Are Games Still Dying?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/28/2026
Every year, more video games disappear: A study from a few years ago found that 87% of classic video games released in the U.S. are no longer commercially available... read more »
Bulletproof Hosting Is Changing What’s Expected of Hosting Providers

Is Bulletproof Hosting Changing What It Means to Be a Hosting Provider?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/27/2026
When Dutch authorities recently seized more than 800 servers connected to the network behind the EU-sanctioned Stark Industries (no, not that one — but a... read more »
AI Is Driving RAM Prices Up — Here's What Hosting Providers Need to Know

AI Is Driving RAM Prices Up — Here's What Hosting Providers Need to Know
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/22/2026
Octave Klaba, the founder of OVHcloud — Europe’s largest hosting provider — recently shared publicly that his company is now paying 6x more for RAM than it did a... read more »
The Best and Worst Small Cities for AI Business Growth

Best and Worst Small Cities for AI Business Growth
By: Lynn Cadet • 7/21/2026
As the AI race heats up, companies are racing to see who can benefit the most from the technology the quickest. But one factor may have more say in how well a... read more »
New York's Data Center Moratorium Is Actually Good News (For Some)

New York's Data Center Moratorium Is Actually Good News (For Some)
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/21/2026
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on July 14 which would pause permits for some new data centers New York State. New York’s Department of Environmental... read more »
Pentagon Pauses CMMC Phase 2: What Hosting Providers Need to Know Now

If You Host Defense Contractors, You May Be Closer to CMMC Than You Think
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/20/2026
UPDATE — July 22: Since this article was published, the U.S. Department of War has suspended the planned November 10 rollout of CMMC Phase II while it conducts a... read more »
Are You Migration-Curious? Sheetz Shows What Leaving VMware Actually Looks Like

Sheetz Shows What Leaving VMware Actually Looks Like
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/16/2026
When VMware was acquired by Broadcom in 2023 and licensing prices began soaring, some thought a mass exodus would occur. What we’ve actually seen is a slow trickle... read more »
Tomorrow: Why Domain Registrars Are Fighting India’s WHOIS Ruling (And How to Follow the Hearing)

Why Are Domain Registrars Fighting India’s WHOIS Ruling?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/15/2026
Three domain companies have asked India’s court to reconsider a recent ruling that they say could change their role as registrars. In December, the High Court of... read more »
Is Managing AI Agents the Next Chapter of Managed Hosting?

Is Managing AI Agents the Next Chapter of Managed Hosting?
By: Jordan Sprogis • 7/14/2026
Every few years, managed hosting providers get another job responsibility whether or not they asked for it. (Hint: They usually didn’t.) Keeping servers online was... read more »