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Set Up ClamAV & rkhunter on Your VPS to Catch Malware Early
If you're on shared cPanel hosting, malware scanning is baked in — ImunifyAV quietly checks your files in the background. On a bare VPS, there's no such thing …
Set Up a Cloudflare Tunnel to Hide Your VPS Origin IP
If your VPS sits behind Cloudflare's orange cloud, you'd think the origin server's real IP is hidden. It usually isn't. Old DNS records, mail server logs, SSL …
Set Up Nginx FastCGI Cache for WordPress (No Plugin)
You've already installed a caching plugin on your WordPress site, tuned OPcache, maybe even moved to PHP 8.3 — and pages still take 700ms to a full second to l…
Fix PostgreSQL "Peer Authentication Failed" on Your VPS
If you've just installed PostgreSQL on a fresh VPS and tried to log in the way you'd expect, you've probably already hit this wall: psql: error: connection to …
Monitor VPS Bandwidth Usage With vnstat Before Overages
If your VPS plan comes with a monthly bandwidth allowance, you've probably had that moment: an invoice email mentions an overage charge, or your provider throt…
MySQL Binary Logs Filling Your VPS Disk? Safe Cleanup
You check disk usage on your VPS and /var/lib/mysql is somehow 40GB. Your actual databases add up to maybe 3GB. The rest? A long trail of files named mysql-bin…
Set Up MySQL/MariaDB Master-Replica Replication on a VPS
If your VPS is running one MySQL or MariaDB instance and everything lives on it — live traffic, nightly backups, that one analytics script someone runs a…
VPS IP Blacklisted? How to Check & Delist It (Spamhaus)
Your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records are all correctly set up, your mail server logs look clean, and yet every third email from your VPS bounces with something li…
SELinux Blocking Your Site on AlmaLinux/Rocky VPS? Here's the Fix
If you've moved from cPanel shared hosting to a bare AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux VPS and your website suddenly throws 403 Forbidden or 502 Bad Gateway errors — ev…
Forgot Your MySQL Root Password on a VPS? Here's the Fix
Locked out of MySQL as root is one of those problems that feels bigger than it is. You've forgotten the password, someone changed it and left, or a fresh resto…