7 min
Set up the Plesk Firewall extension without locking yourself out
Enable the Plesk Firewall extension, open the right ports, write custom allow/deny rules by IP and country, and use the 60-second rollback so a bad rule never strands you.
2026-07-08
7 min
Configure Plesk Fail2Ban jails to stop brute-force attacks
Enable Plesk's Fail2Ban, tune the default jails, whitelist your own IPs, and fix the silent failures where bans show in the panel but never reach iptables.
2026-06-08
9 min
R1Soft port reference and firewall rules for SBM and agents
Every port R1Soft Server Backup Manager and its agents need, the direction each connection runs, and copy-paste firewall rules for firewalld, CSF, UFW, and AWS security groups.
2026-05-18
8 min
Install ConfigServer CSF on cPanel and tune the defaults
Install ConfigServer Security & Firewall on cPanel/WHM in under 10 minutes — including the csf.conf defaults every host should change before leaving TESTING mode.
2026-05-18