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 27, 2026
Abstracting the Physical World: Enigma’s $70M Bet on Simple Robotics
If controlling a robot becomes as simple as moving a slider, the barrier between software and hardware finally disappears.
Read more→ - Jul 26, 2026
When the Robot Learns to Read the Room
Cognition's acquisition of Poke proves that efficiency isn't enough anymore; even coding agents need a personality if they want a seat at the table.
Read more→ - Jul 25, 2026
Verisign Gets Its New Golden Goose
After a decade of legal battles, Verisign finally secured .web—and unlike .com, the price tag is whatever they say it is.
Read more→
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.
WordPress Threat Brief: Critical Core RCE and Admin Bypass Chain
Critical WordPress Core Exploits
A pre-authentication Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability chain has been disclosed in WordPress Core, identified as CVE-2026-63030 [5, 6]. This vulnerability allows anonymous, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on a standard WordPress installation [5]. Additionally, the "wp2shell" vulnerability chain has been patched, which previously posed a significant risk to core security [2].
Authentication Bypass & Admin Takeover
A critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8/10) was disclosed on July 17 that allows attackers to bypass authentication entirely [3]. Exploitation enables unauthorized users to log in as an administrator without a password, granting instant full control over the affected site [3].
Vulnerability Landscape Trends
Fluctuating reports indicate a high volume of new disclosures in the ecosystem. While some reports tracked 75 vulnerabilities (primarily across 68 plugins) [1], others reported 138 [2] or as many as 267 new vulnerabilities discovered in recent tracking cycles [4]. Infrastructure teams should prioritize scanning for these new entries to mitigate risks [2].
Hosting & Infrastructure Incidents
A data security incident involving a web vendor has exposed the personal information of New York residents, including names, emails, and partial credit card data [9]. In response to recent security breaches, some firms are undergoing forced migrations to new hosting providers to bolster defense-in-depth posture [8].
Global Infrastructure Threats
The FBI, alongside industry partners, has seized hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, an extensive infrastructure network utilized for various malicious activities [10].
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.