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 14, 2026
The Second Act and the AI Fear of Missing Out
Watching tech’s old guard dive back into the trenches proves that the only thing more addictive than success is the fear of being left behind by AI.
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The Arbitrary Math of the Renewal Multiplier
When renewal bills jump 500% while costs stay flat, we aren't talking about inflation anymore; we are talking about the debt obligations of the private equity firms owning your data.
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The serverHold button is the loudest sound in the DNS
When the .me registry hit the manual override on Telegram’s short links, it reminded the entire industry who really holds the keys to the kingdom.
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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 —FounderAtlas Digital Summit
Private gatherings for hosting leaders, AI infrastructure innovators, and the builders of the agentic web.
- 2026 —FounderConf64
The Conference Operating System for Business Development and Field Marketing Teams.
- 2026 —Co-FounderSuperDeploy
The advanced migration engine for AI applications. Seamlessly transition your codebase to independent, production-grade infrastructure in minutes.
- 2024 —Business Development & Partnerships ManagerJetBackup
Backup and disaster recovery for the hosting ecosystem.
- 2023 —Chief Marketing Officer, Founding TeamDomain Days Dubai
MENA’s domain and digital asset conference.
- 2025 – 2026Director of Business Developmentwebhosting.today
Contract · Business development and partnerships for the hosting publisher.
- 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, 10,000,000+ downloads.
- 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 Briefing: 250+ WP Vulnerabilities & Infrastructure Auth Risks
Critical Infrastructure Alerts
- Hostinger Breach: A major security incident impacted 14 million customers after unauthorized access to internal systems was detected [4].
- cPanel Auth Bypass: An emergency security update has been issued for a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting VPS and Dedicated systems [9].
- Automated Patching: WHM servers (versions 110 and 136) now default to applying major security releases within one hour to mitigate active threats [8, 10].
WordPress Ecosystem Trends
- High Volume of Disclosures: 250 new vulnerabilities were tracked between June 29 and July 5, 2026, impacting 181 plugins and 41 themes [2, 3].
- Active Exploitation: The ACSC has issued a critical alert regarding malicious actors actively exploiting known CMS and plugin vulnerabilities to compromise sites [6].
Notable Plugin Vulnerabilities
- WP Easy Pay (<= 4.5.0): Contains a missing authorization flaw in the
wpep_draft_confirmAJAX action, allowing Subscriber-level users to modify arbitrary post statuses [1].
Mitigation Recommendations
- Scan & Audit: Use tools like WHM Security Advisor to identify and resolve server-side configuration issues [7].
- Infrastructure Monitoring: Teams should monitor real-time status pages for service interruptions that may signal broader incidents [5].
- Update Strategy: Prioritize patching for the 222 plugins/themes identified in recent disclosures to reduce the attack surface against CMS hacking campaigns [3, 6].
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.
A small digital label putting out industrial house, progressive house, and dubstep. A different kind of open protocol.
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.