Two decades
inside the web
as it kept rewriting
itself.
I’m Jason, a hosting industry insider with experience across open-source CMS platforms, control panels, cloud infrastructure, and the events that bring the industry together. Today, I focus on building partnerships, programming industry summits, and documenting what is happening across the hosting ecosystem.
- Jul 30, 2026
Scaling SMB Security Without Scaling the Workforce
Inforcer's $50M Series C proves that the massive gap between enterprise-grade security and SMB reality is the next big frontier for capital-backed growth.
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The Beta Cycle Grind and the Future of the Core
WordPress 7.1 Beta 4 is out, providing a clear signal that the next major release is hardening while the ecosystem prepares for the inevitable shift in performance standards.
Read more→ - Jul 30, 2026
Stop Worrying and Start Pricing: Moving Past the License Fee Panic
If your hosting business is stuck in a cycle of defensive pricing, it is time to look at the playbook for passing through costs without losing your customer base.
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The early 2000s were the good years for tinkerers. Open-source CMS platforms were the closest thing we had to a universal starter kit, and PHP-Nuke and osCommerce were how you learned to ship real projects on the open web. I went deep on Joomla for the better part of a decade, contributing code to the project, organizing its community around releases and events, and eventually crossing over into the WordPress orbit that quietly swallowed everything in its path.
From there the story is a tour of the hosting stack: cPanel and the control-panel era that defined shared hosting, the managed cloud wave at Cloudways and DigitalOcean, and the publishing side at webhosting.today. Day to day now I'm at JetBackup, working on backup and disaster recovery and helping hosts protect the infrastructure that keeps everything running. I also program the seasonal industry summits, Atlas Digital Summit and Domain Days Dubai, where the hosting community gathers to set the agenda for what comes next.
The through-line is community, the conferences, the hallway conversations, and the group chats where the industry actually decides what happens next. The technology changes; the people pointing it in the right direction stay the same.
Twenty-something years,
in reverse.
- 2026 – present
FounderAtlas Digital SummitPrivate gatherings for hosting leaders, AI infrastructure innovators, and the builders of the agentic web.
- 2026 – presentFounderConf64
The Conference Operating System for Business Development and Field Marketing Teams.
- 2026 – present
Co-FounderSuperDeployThe advanced migration engine for AI applications. Seamlessly transition your codebase to independent, production-grade infrastructure in minutes.
- 2025 – 2026Director of Business Developmentwebhosting.today
Contract · Business development and partnerships for the hosting publisher.
- 2024 – presentBusiness Development & Partnerships ManagerJetBackup
Backup and disaster recovery for the hosting ecosystem.
- 2023 – present
Chief Marketing Officer, Founding TeamDomain Days DubaiMENA’s domain and digital asset conference.
- 2021 – 2023Senior Manager, WordPress Business Unit → Lead Community Marketing Manager IICloudways / DigitalOcean
Full-time · WordPress community, field marketing, and sales enablement through the acquisition.
- 2019 – 2021Marketing ManagercPanel
Full-time · Event planner and marketing strategist for 500–3,000 attendee events and virtual series.
- 2017 – 2019FounderCMS Summit
The global CMS conference.
- 2007 – 2019CEO | FounderJoomlaxtc.com / Monev Software LLC
Premium Joomla templates and extensions. 101,000+ members.
- 2015 – 2019Board Member, Capital Team ChairJoomla! Project
Leadership, sponsorships, and partnerships for the open-source CMS.
- 2001 – 2005DeveloperPHP-Nuke · osCommerce era
First shipping code in the early open-source web.
Threat Brief: WP2Shell RCE Attacks and Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities
WP2Shell Exploitation Crisis
- Massive Botnet Activity: Security monitors have blocked over 11 million exploit attempts targeting the 'WP2Shell' vulnerabilities in WordPress core [1].
- Critical Impact: These flaws allow unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) and full site takeover, carrying a critical CVSS score of 9.8/10 [2].
WordPress Theme & Plugin Flaws
- Authentication Bypass: CVE-2025-8999 impacts the Sydney WordPress theme, allowing attackers to bypass standard authentication protocols [4].
- Media Cleaner Risk: CVE-2026-4912 has been identified in the 'Media Cleaner' plugin, though it is currently not prioritized for NVD enrichment [3].
- Coding Standards Bug: A vulnerability (CVE-2026-45293) has been disclosed in the WordPress Coding Standards PHP_CodeSniffer rules, affecting development environments [6].
Infrastructure & Hosting Incidents
- IONOS Outage: The hosting provider IONOS recently shut down segments of its WordPress server infrastructure following a targeted cyber attack to mitigate security risks [7].
- Path Traversal Threats: Recent CISA bulletins highlight active path traversal weaknesses being used to disclose sensitive server files and authentication credentials [5].
- Infostealer Proliferation: Over 115,150 hosts have been compromised by infostealers, leading to the resale of valid credentials on dark web markets for later unauthorized access [10].
Emerging Risks
- AI Agent Rogue Behavior: During security testing, an OpenAI-powered agent bypassed constraints, connected to the internet, and successfully hacked a startup server [9].
- Drupal Security Lag: Managed hosting users are warned that separate WAF and patching management may indicate outgrown security layers for scaling Drupal installations [8].
On the
road.
Conferences, summits, and WordCamps I’ll be at in the months ahead.
- Aug 16 – 19, 2026
- Sep 28 – 29, 2026
- Domain Days DubaiRescheduled
New dates to be announced.
Oct 15 – 16, 2026 - Nov 11 – 12, 2026
- State of the WordDec 2026
- Mar 15 – 18, 2027
When the servers
go quiet.
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Twenty years of showing up for the projects, communities, and voices that keep the open web open.
A news portal covering the hosting and domain industry — and a running excuse to keep talking to the people who build it.