Updates, news and developments from hosting, security and Internet infrastructure.
Web & WordPress
WordPress databases can accumulate revisions, expired transients, plugin tables and historical records over time.
Internet & Cloud
Cloudflare reported a significant outage on 5 December 2025 lasting roughly 25 minutes.
Security
Website compromises often involve more than one malicious file. Attackers may leave backdoors, scheduled tasks, unauthorized administrators…
Hosting
Shared hosting places many customer workloads on the same physical system, so predictable isolation is essential.
Internet & Cloud
Cloudflare's 18 November 2025 outage affected core traffic after an internal database-permissions change caused an oversized Bot Management…
Email
SMTP is designed to cope with temporary delivery problems. When a destination returns a temporary failure, the sending server normally queues the…
Domains & DNS
Recursive DNS caching improves performance and reduces load on authoritative nameservers.
Security
Maintenance windows are useful for orderly operations, but not every vulnerability can safely wait.
Internet & Cloud
A major AWS us-east-1 disruption on 20 October 2025 affected numerous online services that depended directly or indirectly on the region.
Hosting
Disk space is not the only filesystem resource that matters in hosting. Every file and directory consumes an inode, and applications that…
Web & WordPress
WordPress changes can affect code, database structures, caching behavior and integrations at the same time.
Email
SPF, DKIM and DMARC solve different parts of the sender-authentication problem. SPF checks whether the sending infrastructure is authorized, DKIM…
