8 min
Fix 502 Bad Gateway on Plesk — nginx, Apache, and PHP-FPM
Diagnose 502 Bad Gateway errors on Plesk from the nginx proxy error log — refused upstreams, saturated PHP-FPM pools, oversized headers, and Apache restarts.
2026-10-09
5 min
EasyApache 4 25.82: cPanel patches ea-libxml2, ea-nginx, ea-ruby27-ruby
EasyApache 4 build 25.82 patches eight libxml2 CVEs, two Ruby resolv CVEs, and bumps ea-nginx to 1.31.5. Here's what's affected and how to update.
2026-09-13
7 min
Enable Nginx reverse-proxy caching on cPanel with EA-Nginx
Put cPanel's built-in EA-Nginx in front of Apache as a caching reverse proxy — install it from WHM, control per-user caching, and clear the cache without breaking logged-in WordPress users.
2026-06-16
9 min
PHP handlers in Plesk: FPM by nginx, FPM by Apache, FastCGI, and CGI
Plesk gives you five PHP handlers per domain — and the choice between nginx-only FPM and Apache-fronted FPM is the one most admins get wrong. Here is the trade-off, with memory math and recommendations.
2026-05-18
5 min
Migrate from Nginx or Apache to LiteSpeed Web Server
Drop-in LSWS migration from Apache plus rewriting Nginx vhosts to LiteSpeed config, with cache validation and rollback steps.
2026-05-16
3 min
NGINX Rift (CVE-2026-42945) — what hosting operators need to do
An 18-year-old heap overflow in NGINX's rewrite module — CVSS 9.2, unauthenticated, exploitable from the internet. Here's the patched versions, the config workaround, and how it affects Plesk and cPanel stacks.
2026-05-15