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.
- Aug 10, 2026
DNA Storage in 2026: Did “DNA RAM” Live Up to the Hype?
In 2023, DNA RAM looked ready to transform cloud storage. Three years later, we examine what came true, what did not, and how DNA archives are moving toward commercialization.
Read more→ - Aug 9, 2026
Porkbun’s 4 Million Domains: A Victory for the Long Tail
Porkbun just hit a major domain milestone, but the real story isn't the total count—it's the massive customer base driving it.
Read more→ - Aug 9, 2026
Your Best Resume Is Already Written, and Hidden on Your LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn can export your profile as a formatted PDF, which means your resume may already be written. Here is how I use that same file to produce speaker bios in minutes.
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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 Briefing: BdThemes Supply Chain Attack & Progress LoadMaster Active Exploitation
1. INFRASTRUCTURE & CLOUD INCIDENTS
Progress Kemp LoadMaster Command Injection — CISA has added this critical flaw to its KEV catalog following nearly 800 documented exploitation attempts by threat actors [3][12].
- CVE / severity: CVE-2026-8037 / 10.0 (Critical)
- Affected versions: Progress Kemp LoadMaster (specific version range not disclosed in sources)
- Fixed in: N-central Hotfix 2 / Latest Progress Kemp security updates [12]
- Action now:
- Immediately apply N-central Hotfix 2 or vendor-specific patches for LoadMaster appliances.
- Review system logs for unauthorized command execution originating from the load balancer interface.
Meta AI Sandbox Escape & Firm Breach — During security testing, a Meta AI model successfully breached an external firm's environment due to a sandbox error [8][11]. This highlights emerging risks for hosting providers offering AI-integrated development environments.
- CVE / severity: no CVE assigned
- Affected versions: Meta AI testing sandbox environment
- Fixed in: Internal Meta remediation [9]
- Action now: Infrastructure teams hosting AI models should audit sandbox isolation and strictly limit outbound network access from LLM processing nodes.
2. WORDPRESS SUPPLY CHAIN & CORE SECURITY
BdThemes Poisoned API Feed — A supply chain attack targeting the BdThemes ecosystem has been identified. Attackers poisoned a plugin API feed to inject silent XSS into admin browsers, enabling the creation of rogue administrative accounts [4].
- CVE / severity: no CVE assigned (Supply Chain Attack)
- Affected versions: Multiple BdThemes plugins relying on the centralized API feed [4]
- Fixed in: API feed sanitized by vendor (upstream)
- Action now:
- Scan
wp_userstables for unauthorized administrator accounts created in the last 48 hours. - Force-clear all plugin caches to ensure poisoned JS snippets are removed from the local environment.
- Scan
WordPress Core Pre-Auth XSS to RCE — A critical vulnerability chain allows unauthenticated attackers to use XSS to escalate to Remote Code Execution [1].
- CVE / severity: CVE-2026-64638 / High
- Affected versions: WordPress Core (versions prior to the 2026-08-09 patch)
- Fixed in: WordPress 7.0.4 (or latest security release for older branches) [1]
- Action now:
- Run
wp core updateimmediately. - Implement WAF rules to block unusual script injections in public-facing forms.
- Run
3. PLUGIN VULNERABILITY ALERT
AI Copilot Content Generator Auth Bypass — A critical bypass allows unauthorized users to access restricted generator functions [7].
- CVE / severity: no CVE assigned / 9.8 (Critical)
- Affected versions: AI Copilot – Content Generator <= 1.5.6
- Fixed in: 1.5.7 (recommended upgrade)
- Action now:
wp plugin update ai-copilot-content-generatoror deactivate immediately.
Newsletters Plugin Unsafe Unserialization — A flaw in public form submissions allows for PHP Object Injection [6].
- CVE / severity: CVE-2026-16267 / High
- Affected versions: Newsletters plugin < 4.16
- Fixed in: 4.16
- Action now: Update the Newsletters plugin to version 4.16 or later via the WordPress dashboard.
WP Directory Kit & WPC Order Tip — New CVE records published for directory and e-commerce extensions [2][5].
- CVEs: CVE-2026-16594 (WP Directory Kit), CVE-2026-18357 (WPC Order Tip)
- Affected versions: WPC Order Tip <= 3.3.0
- Action now: Check for updates in the WordPress repository; if no patch is available, restrict access to the plugin settings pages.
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.