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What is WP Cloud?

Dan Knauss

September 29, 2022

WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind WP.com, Pressable, and WordPress VIP with GridPane soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane.

Sites hacked with fake CloudFlare DDoS alerts infected with RATs

Dan Knauss

August 22, 2022

NotesSecurity

Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are new to me — apparently, you can get one on a Windows machine as a malware payload from fake CloudFlare DDoS alert pages on hacked WordPress sites. Ben Martin at Sucuri explains "a recent surge…

Cloudways and Cloudflare Partner with New Enterprise-Level Integration

Dan Knauss

March 22, 2022

HostingSecurity

Cloudways' customers will soon have access to enterprise class performance and security.

StackPath has acquired MaxCDN. If you use…

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2016

Security

StackPath has acquired MaxCDN. If you use MaxCDN, it doesn't seem you will be effected in the short term, though based on what I'm reading today, a move upmarket might be in the works down the road. StackPath was started by…

WP Engine breach was very likely via Linode

Brian Krogsgard

January 6, 2016

You could say that Linode has been a bit of a pain in WP Engine's ass lately. Linode is one of their service providers (they were their only/primary one for a long time, I believe), which basically means WP Engine…