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Security guides and tools: hardening cPanel, DirectAdmin and Linux servers, firewalls, malware scanning, CVE fixes and incident response.

WordPress Version Audit: Find Every WordPress Site and Its Version

Free bash script that finds every WordPress install on cPanel, DirectAdmin or plain servers and flags core versions below 7.0.3 (CVE-2026-64638).

October 6, 2026

Imunify360 False Positives: Find the Rule ID and Fix It

Fix Imunify360 false positives: identify the layer, find the rule ID, disable a ModSecurity rule per domain, handle the 2026 WordPress WAF and report it.

October 6, 2026

CSF Commands Cheat Sheet: Allow, Deny, Ports and Tempbans

CSF commands for 2026: allow, deny and unblock IPs, temporary LFD bans, csf.allow vs csf.ignore, port lists and restarts, plus which CSF fork you are running.

October 6, 2026

Imunify360 Without CSF: Remove CSF and Use Imunify as the Firewall

Run Imunify360 as the only firewall: back up and migrate CSF, disable it, recreate ports, DoS and SMTP blocking, and handle Security Advisor warnings.

October 6, 2026

Open Port Checker: Test TCP Ports on Any Public Server

Check whether TCP ports are open on a public server: up to 10 ports per test, presets for web, mail and control panels, open, closed or filtered results and the SMTP greeting.

October 6, 2026

ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID on cPanel: Wrong Certificate Served

Fix ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID on cPanel: find which certificate each IP and port serves, then fix DNS, AutoSSL coverage, panel ports, mail SNI or the proxy.

October 6, 2026

Let’s Encrypt Changes 2025 to 2028: What Hosting Admins Must Do

Let's Encrypt changes from 2025 to 2028: no expiry emails, no OCSP, no clientAuth EKU, Gen Y intermediates, 64- then 45-day certificates, and what cPanel and DirectAdmin admins must do.

October 6, 2026

200-Day SSL Certificates and DCV Reuse: What It Means for AutoSSL

The CA/B Forum schedule: 200-day certificates and DCV reuse from March 2026, then 100 and 47 days, retired email validation, DNSSEC checks, and what it means for AutoSSL and ACME.

October 6, 2026

Free website test

Is your website set up right?

Check SSL, security headers, redirects, robots.txt, sitemap, llms.txt and security.txt in one test. It takes about 30 seconds.