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Wix Puts Its Full Site Builder, Hosting Included, Inside Gemini

Ryan Frankel

By: Ryan Frankel

Ryan Frankel

Ryan Frankel, CTO and Contributing Expert

Ryan began developing websites in the late '90s and has personally tested just about every web host and cloud platform worth trying on the market today. With a masters degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida, he leverages his extensive knowledge of hardware, software, and their engineering relationship to inform HostingAdvice readers of the technical implications of their hosting choices. Ryan's subject matter expertise includes, but is not limited to, WordPress, cloud infrastructure management, product UI/UX design, and popular web development languages such as JavaScript and PHP.

Jordan Sprogis

Editor: Jordan Sprogis

Jordan Sprogis

Jordan Sprogis, Contributing Expert

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.

Cristian Lopez

Reviewer: Cristian Lopez

Cristian Lopez

Cristian Lopez, News Manager

Cristian Lopez uses his Business Marketing background from the University of Illinois at Chicago to create comfortable environments for customers, clients, and colleagues to share their thoughts and ideas openly. From interviewing tech leaders to conducting UX market research projects, Cristian knows the importance of storytelling — a key variable for innovation and inspiration. His goal at HostingAdvice is to wow readers on the ever-evolving nature of the tech industry and bring his audience the most reliable and exciting content on all things hosting.

Wix Puts Its Full Site Builder, Hosting Included, Inside Gemini

For much of this year, investors basically wrote Wix a eulogy. If anyone could ask their chatbot for a website, then why would they need a website builder? After all, shares... Read More »

Can GoDaddy's Flat Rate Beat Your Next Serverless Invoice?

Can GoDaddy's Flat Rate Beat Your Next Serverless Invoice?

Picture the solo entrepreneur who built a working application in Cursor on a Tuesday afternoon. The code runs. The client demo was a success. But then comes the... Read More »

OVHcloud Raises Server Prices by Up to 87% as Memory Costs Climb

OVHcloud Prices Are Going Up 87% as Memory Costs Climb

OVHcloud recently announced that it’s raising prices on some of its servers, with certain hardware generations jumping by as much as 87%. It’s another casualty... Read More »

WordPress 7.1 Polished the Editor. It Also Let the Agents In.

WordPress 7.1 Polished the Editor. It Also Let the Agents In.

When WordPress 7.1 launched on August 19 with a keynote at WordCamp U.S. in Phoenix, the applause was for everything you would expect: a cleaner editor, finally... Read More »

OpenAI's AI Agent Took 17,600 Actions on Its Own. Should Hosts Care?

AI Agent Security: Why OpenAI's 17,600 Actions Matter to Hosts

This summer has been eventful for the internet, to say the least. Cyberattackers went after U.S. water systems. OpenAI watched one of its own AI agents escape... Read More »

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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

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... Read More »

Hostinger Adds 3,000+ Servers Across Three Global Markets

Hostinger Adds 3,000+ Servers Across Three Global Markets

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 »

Your Code Now Syncs to SpaceX. The Data Terms Don't Exist.

Your Code Now Syncs to SpaceX. The Data Terms Don't Exist.

Somewhere this week, an agency owner will open a client’s security questionnaire and hit a standard question that they can’t answer: Is our source code being... 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?

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... Read More »

WP Engine Frees Its AI Search to Chase the Agent-Ready Web

WP Engine Frees Its AI Search to Chase the Agent-Ready Web

For 13 months, one of the best reasons to pay for WP Engine hosting was a search bar. Then on August 11, the company gave it away for free. Smart Search AI, the... Read More »

Chromium Was Built for Humans. Cloudflare's New Browser Isn't.

Cloudflare's New Browser Is Built for AI Agents

The question no one had ever considered until agents started doing the browsing was: Why does software need to scroll at 60 frames per second? The reason is... Read More »

Vercel Gave Hosts an AI Builder API. What Can They Do with It?

Vercel Gave Hosts an AI Builder API. What Can They Do with It?

Site builders and hosting providers have faced the same awkward arithmetic for the past 24 months: Spend a few quarters of engineering work to build one or let... 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

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... Read More »