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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 »

The Cloud Was Supposed to Be Cheaper; Now Hosts Are Buying Again

The Cloud Was Supposed to Be Cheaper; Now Hosts Are Buying Again

The perception of cloud computing is changing to the point where many hosting providers are beginning to wonder whether renting infrastructure still pays off in... Read More »

Hosts Talked Bots, Bills, and Breaking Up with Hyperscalers at CloudFest Miami 2025

Hosts Talked Bots, Bills, and Breaking Up with Hyperscalers at CloudFest Miami 2025

What started at 700 presale signups ended up doubling by opening day for CloudFest Miami 2025. When doors opened at the Ice Palace Film Studios, providers from... Read More »

Cloudflare Suffers Major Outage, No Definitive Cause Identified

Cloudflare Suffers Major Outage, No Definitive Cause Identified

A massive portion of the internet ran into trouble early Tuesday morning when Cloudflare-backed services began displaying a “500 Internal Server Error” code. X... Read More »

Vultr’s New Cloud Compute Plans Promise up to 77% Better Price-Performance — A New Option for Hosts Priced Out of Hyperscalers

Vultr’s New Cloud Compute Plans Promise 77% Better Price-Performance

Cloud computing company Vultr says its new VX1 Cloud Compute plans perform at the enterprise level but only cost what small-to-midsize plans do. The new tier... Read More »

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Humans and Agents: How Hosts and Content Creators Can Serve the Web’s Two Audiences

Humans and Agents: How Hosts Can Serve the Web’s Two Audiences

For more than 20 years, making sure your website gets found meant you had to have amazing SEO: Owners knew they were writing for humans but also had to rank for... Read More »

WP Engine Says Automattic Never Transferred the WordPress Trademark to Its Nonprofit in 2010

WPE Claims Automattic Never Transferred the WordPress Trademark

When WP Engine opened a lawsuit against Automattic in 2024, everyone probably expected a long fight about trademark law. But in what some people call the... Read More »

When the Cloud Falters, Where Do You Go? To the Edge

When the Cloud Falters, Where Do You Go? To the Edge

When AWS’s US-East-1 region came to a halt earlier this month, thousands of services froze with it. Barely a week later, Microsoft Azure followed suit, causing... Read More »

Nations Seek Security in the Same Few Clouds

Nations Seek Security in the Same Few Clouds

Last week, American hyperscaler AWS signed a memorandum with Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) to strengthen the country’s digital security. This comes a... Read More »

WordCamp Canada 2025 Put People Back at the Center of WordPress

WordCamp Canada 2025 Put People Back at the Center of WordPress

Held at Carleton University’s Richcraft Hall, this year’s WordCamp Canada took over Ottawa Oct. 15-17. The location, a Green Globe-certified venue that looks... Read More »

Big Money, Fragile Grid? Vietnam’s $1.3B Data Center Gamble

Big Money, Fragile Grid? Vietnam’s $1.3B Data Center Gamble

Samsung C&T and CMC Corporation, two of East Asia’s conglomerates, are teaming up to build a $1.3 billion facility in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Why Vietnam is... Read More »

The Next Frontier for Hosting Providers? It May Be Outer Space

The Next Frontier for Hosting Providers? It May Be Outer Space

Imagine offering your clients hosting services not in a warehouse somewhere in Virginia, but aboard an orbiting satellite. It sounds like science fiction — but... Read More »

As cPanel Raises Prices Again, Hosts Say Enough Is Enough

As cPanel Raises Prices Again, Hosts Say Enough Is Enough

Web hosting platform cPanel announced its new pricing for 2026. Pricing will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2026, for existing licenses, and Dec. 16, 2025, for new... Read More »