Part 1 of a real-world WordPress VPS compromise investigation By SepedaTua — CrushEdge.com My server had been compromised. I didn’t know how badly at first. I had several websites running on the same VPS, and I was already seeing enough strange files and behavior that I knew this wasn’t something I wanted to “fix quickly” and hope for the best….
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You set up a LEMP stack on Ubuntu 20.04, followed the tutorial, and now things are… not quite right. PHP doesn’t seem to work properly. Or WordPress installs fine, but you can’t upload files larger than 2MB. And every guide you find suggests editing some random php.ini or .htaccess and ends up breaking things. Let’s clean this up step by…
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When a Linux server suddenly reports 99% disk usage, it’s tempting to start deleting old home directories, backups, or log files. I almost went down that road too. In my case, this happened on a Virtualmin server hosting multiple WordPress websites. At first glance, /home looked like the biggest directory, so I checked whether an old user directory could be…
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If you’re running a Debian VPS with Virtualmin and MariaDB, sooner or later you’ll run into the same problem I did: your root partition is almost full, but MariaDB needs even more space to rebuild a huge table. In my case, I needed to add a generated column and a unique index to an 11 GB InnoDB table. Unfortunately, MariaDB…
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TL;DR — Toshiba TV IR Remote is a purpose-built Android app that turns any phone with a hardware IR blaster into a full working remote for a Toshiba 23PB201EJ. It ships with the complete CT-90326/CT-90327 LIRC codeset baked in, but the real story is what happens when those codes don’t work out of the box — a four-stage sweep and…
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FamilyChat is a stripped-down, child-friendly Android messenger that pairs devices with a QR code (no email, no phone number, no account), works offline, and squeezes in just enough features to actually replace the chaotic family group chat. Push-to-talk voice, pinch-to-zoom photos, reply-to-any-message, parent-only delete, and a big red “reset everything” button if things ever get weird.
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