What actually broke, why, and how it got fixed. Notes from the trenches of web hosting and network operations.

Your "Deny from all" is doing nothing: LiteSpeed, AIOWPS and the 5G blacklist

A WordPress site kept serving requests despite a Deny from all rule. Tracing LiteSpeed's handling of AIOWPS's legacy blacklist revealed the conflict and a rewrite rule restored the intended restriction.

WordPress 7 has outgrown PHP's default OPcache limits. Here's how we fixed it across a cPanel and CloudLinux fleet

Random WordPress outages led us to an exhausted OPcache buffer and PHP defaults that haven't kept pace. Here's how we investigated and raised the limits across our cPanel and CloudLinux fleet.

Fixing the AlmaLinux 9 dnf upgrade conflict on OpenVZ 7 containers (initscripts vs network-scripts)

An AlmaLinux 9 upgrade hits a dependency conflict on OpenVZ 7—and the suggested fix can break networking. Here's how to update the matching packages together and keep your container connected.

Debugging a WP Toolkit scan failure: "Invalid field: auto_update"

WP Toolkit rejected the auto_update field despite current WordPress and WP-CLI versions. The culprit was a forgotten package overriding modern commands with old code. Here's how we tracked it down.