Server provisioning, hardening, monitoring, and automation for self-hosted infrastructure — practical write-ups from a single-operator setup.
Three-layer WordPress server monitoring: a self-healing cron healthcheck that auto-restarts services, a diagnostic status dashboard, and an external Telegram.
Automated WordPress server maintenance with cron: nightly cloud backups, MariaDB database optimization, 5-phase cache warming, plugin distribution across.
Two-layer WordPress VPS security: Nginx blocks wp-login brute force and scanner probes before PHP runs, fail2ban bans repeat offenders at the kernel level.
I moved my WordPress and WooCommerce sites from managed hosting to a Hetzner VPS. Walkthrough of provisioning, SSH hardening, and firewall on Debian 13.