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 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→ - Jul 24, 2026
When Safety Filters Become a Feature for the Bad Guys
AI guardrails are supposed to stop malicious actors, but they are currently making life difficult for the white-hat researchers we actually rely on.
Read more→ - Jul 24, 2026
When Automation Becomes the Adversary: The GitHub Actions Hack
Attackers are now using GitHub's own infrastructure to hunt down unpatched cPanel servers, proving once again that your automation tools can just as easily be used against you.
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.
Threat Brief: WP2Shell/Core Exploitation and Critical Auth Bypass
Critical WordPress Core Exploitation
A critical vulnerability chain, designated WP2Shell, is being actively exploited in the wild [3]. Tracked as CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137, it allows anonymous attackers to compromise default WordPress installations via a single REST API request [9]. These flaws reportedly enable remote code execution and full site takeover without requiring third-party plugins [5, 8, 9].
Authentication Bypass (9.8/10 Severity)
A critical vulnerability disclosed on July 17 allows unauthorized users to log in as administrators without a password [4]. Rated 9.8/10 on the CVSS scale, this flaw grants attackers instant full control over affected sites [4]. Infrastructure teams should ensure all managed instances are patched against this core-level threat [2].
Plugin Vulnerabilities: Breeze Cache & Everest Forms
- Breeze Cache: CVE-2026-3844 affects all versions up to 2.4.4, necessitating immediate updates [7].
- Everest Forms: Active exploitation is reported for CVE-2026-3300, targeting the popular form builder plugin [8].
High Volume Vulnerability Environment
Reporting indicates a massive spike in ecosystem threats, with between 75 and 267 new vulnerabilities disclosed within a single week [1, 2, 6]. This includes 68 validated plugin vulnerabilities [1]. Security teams are advised to scan environments immediately, as recent incidents have already forced some organizations to migrate hosting providers to mitigate risk [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.