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The Tech Industry's News Team

“Our news team has decades of experience interviewing the industry's leading innovators and reporting on the latest trends in web hosting.”

– Cristian Lopez, News Manager

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 »

AI Is Redefining Hosting And Some Providers May Not Survive, Experts Say

If AI Builds the Website, What’s Left for Hosting Providers?

For most of the internet’s history, web hosting was a pretty unglamorous proposition: You paid for disk space and uptime, you got disk space and uptime... Read More »

Why This Shark Tank Star Wants to Build a Massive Data Center on U.S. Military Land

Why This Shark Tank Star Wants to Build a Data Center Campus on U.S. Military Land

This time, it’s not Google or Amazon: The developer behind what may be the most power-thirsty data center campus approved in the U.S. is Kevin “Mr. Wonderful”... Read More »

What AWS’s 10-Year Anthropic Deal Signals for the Future of Hosting

AWS Secures 10-Year Anthropic Deal

Amazon just announced it will invest up to $25 billion more into Anthropic, bringing its total stake in the company to $33 billion. At the same time, Anthropic... Read More »

AI Became Mission-Critical Fast; Now It Needs Redundancy to Survive

Expert Warns: AI Needs a Backup Plan Yesterday

There was a time when AI was something companies were experimenting with and showing off with genuine excitement: a demo here, a chatbot there. But it looks... Read More »

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The AI Race Is Creating Winners and Losers; Hosting Providers Are in the Middle

AI Is Creating Winners & Losers, and Hosts Are Playing Catch-Up

Agencies that specialize in web development, design, and marketing say that AI is changing the way they deliver websites to their clients. The problem is that... Read More »

Pennsylvania Just Made Data Centers Report What They're Using

Pennsylvania Just Made Data Centers Report What They're Using

The era of unreported data center energy usage may be coming to an end. Well, in Pennsylvania, at least. The Pennsylvania House passed two bipartisan bills on... Read More »

Why Is Traffic From Mexico and Brazil a Security Threat Right Now?

Why Is Traffic From Mexico and Brazil a Security Threat Right Now?

More than 50% of all network-layer DDoS attacks apparently now come from just two countries. According to Gcore’s latest report, Mexico and Brazil are the... Read More »

It's Almost Impossible to Escape cPanel and Plesk Pricing, Even With Alternatives

It's Almost Impossible to Escape cPanel and Plesk Pricing

When cPanel and Plesk raised their prices as expected at the beginning of the year, a lot of providers and developers began exploring other options. A... Read More »

Why the Texas Data Center Boom Is Beginning to Crack

Why the Texas Data Center Boom Is Beginning to Crack

The Lone Star State is known for a lot of things — barbeque, football, and vast skylines with some of the most beautiful sunsets in the country. It’s also known... Read More »

Three Things Companies Still Get Wrong About DDoS in 2026

3 Things Companies Still Get Wrong About DDoS in 2026

A recent report by Gcore shows DDoS attacks have more than doubled in just one year, jumping from 512,000 at the end of 2024 to 1.3 million by the end of 2025... Read More »

Big Tech Promised Not to Raise Power Costs. Now? Well, It’s Complicated

Big Tech Promised Not to Raise Power Costs. Now, It’s Complicated

When seven of the world’s biggest tech companies gathered at the White House to sign the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, they committed to covering the costs of... Read More »

Your Website Traffic Isn’t What You Think. Here’s What’s Really Happening

Your “Website Traffic” Is Not People Anymore

A guy who runs a paranormal blog — ghost stories, unexplained sightings — suddenly noticed something surprising: More than half of his site traffic was suddenly... Read More »