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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…
Locked Out of cPanel After Losing Your 2FA Device? Here's the Fix
You set up two-factor authentication on your cPanel or WHM account like a responsible admin. Then you got a new phone, or the authenticator app got wiped durin…
Delegate a Subdomain to a Different DNS Provider With NS Records
You run everything else on SkyServer, but one subdomain needs to live somewhere else — maybe app.yourdomain.com points at a SaaS platform, or shop.yourdomain.c…
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…
Stop Scrapers & Bots Hammering Your VPS With Nginx Rate Limiting
If your VPS load average spikes every few hours for no obvious reason, and when you finally check the access log it's page after page of the same handful of IP…
AI Bots Hammering Your Server? Block GPTBot & Co Safely
If your bandwidth graph in cPanel has been climbing for no obvious reason — no traffic spike in Google Analytics, no viral post, nothing — the culprit these da…
Fix WordPress xmlrpc.php Attacks: Disable It Safely
If you've ever opened your access logs and seen a wall of POST /xmlrpc.php requests hitting your site every few seconds, you're not imagining things. xmlrpc.ph…