Hey folks, usually, you will find me writing about WordPress database crashes or fixing WooCommerce caching issues here on CrushEdge. But lately, when the four kids are finally asleep and the house is quiet, I have been tinkering with local AI image models. It reminds me a lot of the old 486 PC days. Back then, you would spend three…

Part 2 of a real-world WordPress VPS compromise investigation By SepedaTua — CrushEdge.com In Part 1, I stopped the server and started looking at the filesystem instead of immediately trying to get the websites back online. The first confirmed webshell was bf6f03.php. Then I found something more interesting. The attacker had apparently decided that naming a file shell.php was too…

We have all been there. You set up a cool automated workflow—maybe an image captioning AI on a remote RunPod GPU server, a sync script for backups, or a quick data fetcher—and suddenly you realize: “Wait, I need this thing to run continuously every couple of minutes.” Just recently, I was working on a project where I needed to sync…

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….

If you’ve been trying to train a custom FLUX.1-dev LoRA on a cloud GPU like RunPod, you’ve probably realized two things: the results are insanely good, but setting up the environment can feel like walking through a minefield of VRAM bottlenecks and cryptic YAML errors. I spent the better part of a weekend tweaking configs on an NVIDIA A40 (48GB…