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 17, 2026
When Ransomware Spills the Milk
Coca-Cola's Fairlife production shutdown serves as a cold reminder that digital security is now a physical supply chain requirement.
Read more→ - Jul 17, 2026
Cloudways, MCP, and the Automated Keys to the Kingdom
Cloudways is letting AI agents pull the levers on hosting infrastructure, a move that either solves DevOps scaling or creates a whole new category of security headaches.
Read more→ - Jul 16, 2026
Shopping is Moving Fast, and Discovery Needs to Keep Up
Whatnot’s acquisition of Shaped shows that in the world of live commerce, if you can't recommend the right product in milliseconds, you've already lost the sale.
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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: WordPress Pre-Auth RCE and Infrastructure Concentration Risk
Critical WordPress Core RCE
- CVE-2026-63030: A high-severity pre-authentication Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability affects default WordPress installations [3][5].
- Attack Vector: Attackers chain a REST batch processing bug with SQL injection to achieve code execution via a single anonymous HTTP request [1][3].
- Action Required: Immediate update to WordPress 7.0.2 is necessary as public Proof-of-Concept (PoC) code is available and mass exploitation is imminent [3][5].
WordPress Plugin Ecosystem Risks
- WP Ghost (CVE-2025-26909): A critical flaw in this plugin puts over 200,000 sites at risk of remote takeover [1].
- Volume of Disclosures: 267 new vulnerabilities were disclosed last week across 222 plugins and 6 themes [2].
- Fluent Forms: Recent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in popular plugins like Fluent Forms continue to erode trust in the third-party ecosystem [6].
Infrastructure and Hosting Threats
- Hosting Service Breaches: Several Australian organizations have been impacted by a security breach at HVD.HOST [9].
- Stark Industries Investigation: Authorities are investigating Stark Industries, a hosting provider allegedly linked to Russian cyber operations [7].
- Ransomware Logistics: U.S. authorities are targeting "bulletproof" hosting networks that provide the backbone for ransomware groups causing millions in losses [8].
Supply Chain & Concentration Risk
- Ecosystem Vulnerability: The Almerys breach highlights "concentration risk," where the failure of a single major infrastructure provider creates a massive blind spot and systemic risk for all downstream clients [10].
- Critical Plugin Impact: A vulnerability in a single high-reach plugin can now grant attackers full control over entire hosting environments [4].
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.