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News, release announcements, and development updates from the web-cp project.
Why Your Shared Hosting Email Keeps Landing in Spam — SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the New Sender Rules
If you run a shared hosting platform, there is a support ticket you have learned to dread: "my email isn't being delivered." It arrives constantly, it is maddening to diagnose, and for years the…
Read more →Hosting Risky Niches Without the Hostage Situation: DMCA Abuse, Cloudflare Bans, and How Operators Actually Defend Their Stack
There is a category of website that pays its hosting bill on time, generates real traffic, complies with the laws of the jurisdictions it operates in, and still wakes up one morning to find its…
Read more →PHP 8.1 Has Been End of Life for Five Months — What That Means for Shared Hosting Providers Still Carrying It
PHP 8.1 reached its end-of-life date on 31 December 2025.
Read more →PHP 8.4 in Shared Hosting Environments — What Actually Changed, What Breaks, and How to Run Multiple Versions Cleanly
PHP 8.4 was released in November 2024.
Read more →Why Shared Hosting Providers Should (or Shouldn't) Accept iGaming Tenants
Why Shared Hosting Providers Should (or Shouldn't) Accept iGaming TenantsAsk ten shared hosting providers whether they accept online casino clients and at least eight will say no. The reasons are…
Read more →Debian 13 Trixie — What Actually Changed and Why It Matters for Sysadmins in 2026
The articleDebian 13, codename Trixie, is the most significant release the project has shipped in roughly a decade. The version number itself does not communicate this.
Read more →: DNSSEC, Zone Hardening and DNS Hijacking Prevention in Web-CP-Managed Environments
DNS is the infrastructure layer that every other service depends on. A web server can be hardened to a high standard; a mail stack can be fully authenticated; a database can be access-controlled and…
Read more →Rate Limiting, Throttling and Tenant Isolation in Web-CP — Protecting Multi-Tenant Environments at the Apache Layer
One of the core challenges of multi-tenant shared hosting is resource competition. A single customer running an inefficient application, generating excessive traffic, or experiencing abnormal request…
Read more →Managing Risk-Sensitive Sites with Web-CP. Risk Scoring, CAPTCHA, and Bot Defense in Practice
Operators of high-risk websites — online gambling, adult content, crypto on-ramps, file-sharing portals, fintech, betting affiliates, dating, and large user-generated platforms — share a common…
Read more →Building Anti-Abuse Systems for High-Risk Hosting Environments. A Technical Perspective with Web-CP
Modern hosting environments increasingly face a difficult balancing act: enabling innovation while maintaining strict compliance with legal and ethical standards. Platforms that support “risky” or…
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