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Practical guides from the engineers who run the servers.
A customer can't reach cPanel, webmail or FTP. How to tell whether CSF or cPHulk blocked the address, remove that one block, and stop it coming back.
9 min read
Build in GitHub Actions, then have cPanel pull and publish the result. No FTP, no SSH keys in CI. Forgejo, Gitea and GitLab versions included.
14 min read
What a stolen WHMCS client login gives an attacker, what WHMCS's built-in 2FA covers, and how email codes, authenticator apps and passkeys compare.
11 min read
What Bluehost's renewal really costs, why the included backup is not the copy to leave with, and the three 60-day rules that can hold your domain.
4 min read
Fresh-install qualification, adopting existing VPS infrastructure, provider API diagnostics, and the ionCube build behind the first release candidate.
7 min read
We rent our hardware from certified operators and say so. What owning a building would and would not do for your server, and where the money goes instead.
7 min read
What a five-person team's Forgejo instance needs on a small KVM VPS: quarterly upgrades, what a real backup contains, and the runner trade-off.
8 min read
Why legitimate customers get blocked by CSF, LFD and cPHulk, why the usual fixes weaken the server, and what a safe self-service unblock has to do.
12 min read
Provider discovery, VPS inventory, capacity mapping, resource management, monitoring and rDNS, shown in screenshots of a working development build.
6 min read
Deploying a Node app on the Enhance control panel: the settings that matter, automatic versus manual mode, and the four things that catch people afterward.
11 min read
Running Nextcloud on a KVM VPS with dedicated cores: sizing the server, installing it with Nextcloud All-in-One, and what people get wrong afterwards.
7 min read
Red Water Hosting is building VPS Manager, a WHMCS-oriented layer for managing VPS infrastructure, inventory and customer service assignments.
2 min read