Plex Is Being Exploited. The Fix Shipped Eleven Weeks Earlier.

A media server is the most forgivable thing to expose to the internet. It is also, this month, the most expensive. On 20 October 2026 CISA added four Plex Media Server vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue at once. Chained, they let an attacker with no credentials obtain an admin token and execute code as the Plex process. The researcher who found them scores the chain 9.8. ...

2026-10-27 · 7 min · 1466 words

Where You Can Actually Run a Blockchain Node in 2026

Search for how to run an Ethereum or Bitcoin node and you get a hundred tutorials that start with “rent a VPS”. Not one of them checks whether that VPS provider allows it. Then the server disappears, usually with no warning, and the tutorial’s comment section fills up with people who lost a synced chain. ...

2026-10-26 · 8 min · 1666 words

Self-Hosted Analytics in 20 Minutes, and the Traffic It Will Never Show You

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2026-10-26 · 8 min · 1583 words

Best Backup Storage for Self-Hosters in 2026: the price nobody shows you

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2026-10-26 · 8 min · 1504 words

acme.sh on a Server Where certbot Will Not Install

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2026-10-25 · 6 min · 1207 words

Hetzner Cloud Review 2026: Four Years, Three Servers, and Every Bill Explained

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2026-10-25 · 7 min · 1433 words

The One-Hour Audit for a Server You Inherited

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2026-10-25 · 6 min · 1125 words

Deploy From GitHub Actions Without Giving CI a Shell on Your Server

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2026-10-19 · 6 min · 1250 words

Caddy and Docker in Production: the Whole Config Behind This Site

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2026-10-19 · 6 min · 1229 words

Best VPS for Self-Hosting in 2026: Hetzner vs DigitalOcean vs Vultr

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2026-10-19 · 9 min · 1813 words
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