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Introduction If you haven’t heard about RackNerd, they’re a low cost provider that general can be used for non-production workloads. Some people us them for development servers, testing or for non-mission critical applications or tools internally for their teams. If you’re looking to self-host Uptime Kuma for instance, these would…

Introduction On October 28th 2024 Cyberpanel posted the following on their Facebook page. Hello everyone! We’ve recently made some important security updates which you can read in our blog. It is highly recommended to upgrade CyberPanel as soon as possible -> Unfortunately there was no blog post. Until today (October…

Introduction When you’re stuck with a technical issue, asking for help in an online community can be a game-changer. If you don’t document your problem clearly, you’re not just slowing yourself down; you’re also making it harder for others to help you. Whether it’s troubleshooting a stubborn plugin or figuring…

Introduction The following article will cover the limitations and issues with Cleantalk. Cleantalk is a WordPress plugin that uses their own API to determine if a submissions is legitimate or spam. It covers the following actions. Comments WooCommerce Orders Bookings Registrations Contact Emails WooCommerce Subscriptions Checks the existing comments and…

Introduction The following article was created to send to clients that might be having issues with swap on their servers running WordPress. What is Linux Swap Space? Linux swap is a space on a hard drive or SSD that is used as virtual memory when the physical RAM is fully…

Introduction There was a post on Facebook that was brought to my attention. The user was seeing a high cpu load on his server from a process that wasn’t a normal process name, it was concluded that their server had been hacked and was now either attack other websites or…

Understanding Netdata Alarms Before silencing an alarm, it’s crucial to understand how Netdata alarms work. Netdata provides a set of predefined alarms and allows users to customize or create new ones. Each alarm is defined in a .conf file located in the health.d directory of your Netdata installation, typically found…

Notice This is a live document and as such it will be updated from time to time Introduction Caveats Implement log rotation for error_log Limitations Integrations No Netdata Intergration, I plan to make a guide soon. There isn’t a native NewRelic integration, I plan to make a guide soon. No…

Introduction If you’re using Cloudflare’s WAF, then you’ve probably got a good amount of rules already setup or maybe just one. The following article provides a number of common Cloudflare WAF (Web Application Firewall) rules that you can use on your site. Please Read Before you Deploy Any WAF Rules…

Accessing Backups Directly You can access your backups directly by either visiting your storage providers website, logging in and browsing the storage bucket. You can also use ExpanDrive and mount the bucket as a drive in your operating system in either Windows or macOS. Folder Naming Scheme There is a…