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A Critical WHMCS RCE Just Got Patched. Did You Update?

Jordan Sprogis

By: Jordan Sprogis

Lillian Castro

Editor: Lillian Castro

Cristian Lopez

Reviewer: Cristian Lopez

A Critical WHMCS RCE Just Got Patched. Did You Update?

Hosting providers have yet another thing to check on their servers: WHMCS just patched a critical remote-code-execution vulnerability affecting versions 8.0 and later. Tracked... Read More »

Cloudflare Built a WordPress Rival. Then It Bet Its Own Blog on It.

Cloudflare Built a WordPress Rival. Then It Bet Its Own Blog on It.

Ask any WordPress administrator what August was like, and you’re likely to hear some version of the same routine: read a CVE write-up, patch a plugin, and wait... Read More »

Organic Search Is Changing. Hosts Need to Help Clients Understand What It Means

Organic Search Is Changing. Hosts Need to Help Clients Understand What It Means

Everyone knows that AI is changing the way people search the web. Many of us have done our fair share of asking a chatbot for recommendations, explanations... Read More »

90% of Devs Use AI Agents Weekly. So Why Is Copilot Losing?

90% of Devs Use AI Agents Weekly. So Why Is Copilot Losing?

Nine in 10 professional developers now use an AI coding agent at work at least once per week, and 68% do so every day, according to results of the AI agent... Read More »

Wix Used to Just Build Websites. Now It's Teaching Agents How to Run the Entire Business.

Wix Used to Build Sites. Now It's Teaching Agents How to Run the Entire Business

Every morning, before the owner of a small taxi company has had time for his first cup of coffee, a team meets to discuss the business. It reviews what happened... Read More »

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AI Agents Escaped Their Sandboxes. Now Hosting Providers Have a Bigger Problem

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agents Are a Bigger Problem for Hosting Providers

As a refresher for Part One, here’s the TL;DR: In July, OpenAI put its AI models through a cybersecurity test inside what was supposed to be a restricted... Read More »

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

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?... 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 »

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 »