Hosting
You know the drill: hosting life means sifting through 404 logs like a digital archaeologist. This week’s find? Thousands of bots clawing at my server for phpinfo.php in every directory they could dream up—most of which don’t even exist. My usual move? Redirect those suckers straight to an FBI hate crime database download. It’s my little “get lost” postcard—funny, sure, but that’s just the warm-up.
Read more: Hacking phpinfo()? More Like a Free Ticket to the FBI’s Inbox
I had an interesting interaction this week that I thought might make a good article. It all started with a bounced email.
Anyone paying attention to my AdminExile graph on the homepage will notice that for the past few days there is a ~200 attempt spike in the attempts to access /administrator on this site.
It's been a long time coming. Some of my customers are seeing growth rates that will soon outpace the ability to do any more vertical scaling of their websites. My own site was feeling the strain of several hundred thousand websites receiving XML update files daily. It was long past time to provide a solution for my customers (and my own sites) that could scale with the expected growth.
It finally happened. Although I've been running AdminExile with Fail2Ban for a long time, nobody has asked how to do it. Certainly, there are some admins out there who didn't need help. Someone finally asked, and that prompted me to write this document.
There is an excellent article on Forbes titled "US Businesses Can't Hide From GDPR" and that led me to the question - How many companies are unaware of their exposure?
All RicheyWeb servers now offer protocol upgrade to HTTP/2!
When you're a service provider, the place to experiment with code modifications is not on your customer's service. It's something to be done in a controlled environment where you can learn the maximum amount about the changes you're making while keeping the service you're being paid for up and running.