Proxmox published advisory PSA-2026-00043-1 on 1 September 2026, and the way it came to light says as much as the flaw itself: not through internal testing, but through independent reports of servers being encrypted and held for ransom. A vulnerability of this severity, discovered because people were already being breached, is precisely the situation where […]
What is root access? On a server, it has nothing to do with rooting a phone. Root access is full administrative control over every part of an operating system, the ability to install anything, configure anything, and see everything running on the machine. On shared or managed hosting, this level of access is deliberately withheld. […]
Setting up a self hosted mail server is the easy part. Postfix and Dovecot install in minutes. The hard part starts after, when your first email leaves your server and Gmail decides whether it belongs in the inbox or the spam folder. That decision, made silently and automatically, is where most self-hosted email projects actually […]
A server fails at two in the morning. The question that matters most in that moment was never answered in the moment. Someone answered it weeks earlier, when they decided how much data the business could afford to lose and how long it could survive being down. RPO and RTO are the two numbers that […]
The NIS2 Directive in the EU is the most significant expansion of European cybersecurity law in a decade, and as of July 2026 it is finally reaching the point where it changes what organisations must actually do. It replaces an earlier directive from 2016, widens the range of sectors covered, and, for the first time, […]
The provisioning email arrives. You have an IP address, a root password, and a freshly installed operating system sitting on enterprise hardware in a data centre. What happens next determines whether that server becomes a reliable production asset or a liability. Knowing how to setup a dedicated server correctly in the first hour matters far […]
Ubuntu Server is the most widely deployed Linux distribution for dedicated server hosting, and for good reason. It combines a familiar package ecosystem, strong community support, long-term release cycles designed for production stability, and a security model that suits the demands of internet-facing infrastructure. For most teams deploying a dedicated server for the first time, […]
Owning a dedicated server means owning the entire attack surface. There is no shared hosting provider abstracting away the firewall configuration. There is no cloud platform managing patch cycles on your behalf. Every exposed port, every outdated package, every misconfigured permission is your responsibility. This is not a reason to avoid dedicated infrastructure. It is […]
In 2024, Microsoft’s own security researchers documented ransomware operators actively exploiting a hypervisor vulnerability, CVE-2024-37085, to gain full administrative control over ESXi hosts and mass-encrypt every virtual machine running on them. Critically, the businesses affected had no way to patch this themselves. That is because the vulnerability lived in infrastructure they did not control. This […]
Every e-commerce platform that processes card payments needs PCI compliant hosting, and most discover too late that the phrase means something specific and demanding: genuine, physical network segmentation, not a checkbox a shared hosting provider ticks on a signup form. PCI-DSS compliance is not optional for any business handling cardholder data, and the infrastructure underneath […]