How We Recovered a Hacked WordPress Server in Under Two Hours
A real incident-response walkthrough: how we contained a compromised WordPress server, removed the malware, found the entry point and hardened it — all in under two hours.
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Notes from the terminal — server management, security and reliability, written by the engineers who do the work.
CentOS 7 Is Dead: Our Real-World Migration to Rocky Linux
CentOS 7 reached end of life and stopped receiving security patches. Here is the exact playbook we use to migrate production servers to Rocky Linux with minimal downtime.
ReadHow We Cut a Client’s Cloud Server Bill by 60% Without Downtime
Over-provisioned cloud servers quietly drain budgets. Here is how we right-sized a client's infrastructure and cut their monthly bill by 60% with no loss of performance.
ReadDiagnosing High Load Average on Linux: A Troubleshooting War Story
A server with a load average of 40 and no obvious CPU hog. Here is the step-by-step process we used to find the real cause — and the Linux commands that got us there.
ReadYour Backups Are Probably Broken — Here’s How We Test Restores
Most backups fail silently and nobody notices until a restore is needed. Here is how we verify backups actually work — because an untested backup is just a hope.
ReadThe SSH Hardening Checklist We Apply to Every Server
SSH is the front door to your server and the most attacked. Here is the practical, no-nonsense SSH hardening checklist we apply to every Linux server we manage.
ReadSurviving a DDoS: How We Kept an E-commerce Site Online During an Attack
A targeted DDoS hit a client during their busiest sales week. Here is how we absorbed the attack, kept the store online and lost zero revenue.
ReadFrom Weekly Outages to 99.99% Uptime: A Monitoring Case Study
A client was suffering weekly outages and only finding out from angry customers. Here is how proactive monitoring took them to 99.99% uptime in three months.
ReadHow We Caught and Killed a Cryptominer on a Production Server
A server running hot at 100% CPU around the clock turned out to be mining cryptocurrency for someone else. Here is how we found the miner, removed it and closed the hole.
ReadZero-Downtime MySQL Upgrades: Our Step-by-Step Approach
Database upgrades make people nervous for good reason. Here is the careful, rehearsed process we use to upgrade MySQL and MariaDB in production with little or no downtime.
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