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 5, 2026
Efficiency Over Hype: The River Way to Scale
Watching River secure $120M for electric two-wheelers in India reminds me that a solid product often beats a crowded roadmap.
Read more→ - Aug 4, 2026
Buying Better Eyes: Why AI Labs are Funding Human Taste
Design Arena's recent $7.9 million raise proves that while compute is cheap, knowing what actually looks good remains a premium human commodity in the age of generative models.
Read more→ - Aug 4, 2026
Hardware Hoarding and the 3,000-Server Gamble
Hostinger just placed their largest hardware order ever, signaling a shift from just-in-time infrastructure to a survivalist mindset in a volatile market.
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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: Critical Kadence Account Takeover and Mass Plugin Patch Wave
Critical: Kadence Memberships Account Takeover (CVE-2026-9273)
Published today, August 5, 2026, a critical password reset link poisoning vulnerability has been identified in Kadence Memberships (formerly Restrict Content) versions up to 4.0.0 [2, 8]. The flaw resides in a legacy lost-password handler that fails to validate the rc_redirect parameter. An unauthenticated attacker can craft malicious links that leak password reset keys to an external server, allowing for full takeover of administrator accounts [2]. Action: Immediate update to version 4.0.1+ is required for all hosted sites using this plugin.
Infrastructure Alert: 9.9M Installs Impacted by Patch Surge
New data from the "Protect the Shire" initiative reveals a massive coordinated security push, with 81 vulnerabilities patched across 79 distinct plugins in the last 48 hours [1]. These plugins represent a combined install base of approximately 9.9 million sites. Hosting providers should anticipate high volumes of automated updates and monitor for regression issues across diverse plugin environments [1].
Newly Disclosed Plugin Vulnerabilities
Several medium-to-high severity flaws were documented today affecting popular extensions:
- Multi Uploader for Gravity Forms (CVE-2026-5581): Vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary media deletion in versions up to 1.1.8, allowing attackers to disrupt site content [6].
- Simple Yearly Archive (CVE-2026-7441): Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the
posttypeattribute, enabling persistent malicious script injection [3].
Core Security Status
As of the week ending August 4, 2026, no new vulnerabilities have been reported in WordPress Core [5]. Security teams should shift focus from core hardening to the significant volume of third-party plugin exploits identified in today's cycle.
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.