#CustomBuild
Two Critical PHP RCE Flaws (php2shell): Patch Today
CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are PHP RCE vulnerabilities with a CVSS score of 9.2 and public exploits already available. They affect every machine using PHP to handle web requests. The patched versions are 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35. This note covers version checks, updates on Debian, RHEL, DirectAdmin, Docker, and Windows, and temporary settings while waiting for patches.
Per-User Redis on DirectAdmin Without Buying pro_pack
How to set up per-user Redis object cache on DirectAdmin shared hosting with a systemd template + unix socket + cgroup limit, using a custom provisioning script instead of the DA panel that requires a pro_pack license, with connection recipes for WordPress, Flarum, and Laravel
Tuning ModSecurity on DirectAdmin for Shared Hosting
The 4 additions I made beyond DA defaults — exclusions before CRS, a 1-hit credscan ban, a fix for the incorrect MODSEC_LOG path shipped by DA, and a self-heal cron to recover from rebuild overwrites
DirectAdmin from CentOS 7 to Debian 12 on Proxmox (Series Index)
Notes on migrating a DirectAdmin shared host from CentOS 7 (EOL) to Debian 12 on Proxmox, serving 80+ customers, split into 5 parts with an overview of the process and links to every part
Moving DA from CentOS 7 to Debian 12, Part 4 — Cutover and 17 Issues
The actual cutover, where the near-0 downtime plan fell apart because of the DA Legacy license and slow qcow2 reads, ended with 1 hour of downtime and 17 issues in quick succession after the switch — critical web stack outages, medium issues affecting subsets of services, and minor debugging notes.
DA Migration Part 3 — DirectAdmin + CustomBuild on Debian 12
Installing DirectAdmin through setup.sh, then assembling a stack with multiple PHP versions, MariaDB, ModSecurity, and rspamd using CustomBuild on a staging VM behind NAT, including pitfalls I ran into myself.