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Website and hosting security guides

Reduce risk without slowing your team down: certificates, access control, third-party scripts and automation limits.

Good security is a set of small, boring habits. These guides cover certificate renewal, restricting staging sites to your team, auditing the scripts your shop loads from third parties and setting clear limits for automated assistants.

15 articles

An event log and a magnifying glass highlight the rule to investigate.
Security · 2 min

Find the Cloudflare rule blocking a legitimate request

Smiley Hoster Team · October 16, 2026
A central vault is surrounded by inventory, delivery, rotation and revocation steps.
Security · 7 min

Move infrastructure secrets into Vault and rehearse credential rotation

Smiley Hoster Team · October 14, 2026
Linux, web and container event streams converge on a central SIEM correlation card.
Security · 7 min

Build a focused Wazuh SIEM for Linux, Nginx, Docker and application logs

Smiley Hoster Team · October 14, 2026
A crossed-out public port 22 contrasts with an identity-approved administration path.
Security · 6 min

Move SSH administration behind identity checks and close public port 22

Smiley Hoster Team · October 14, 2026
A four-stage pipeline connects source code, build, verification and release.
Security · 7 min

Secure a CI/CD supply chain from pull request to verified image

Smiley Hoster Team · October 13, 2026
A timeline connects event capture, alerting, evidence preservation and investigation.
Security · 7 min

Detect Linux compromise with auditd and Falco while preserving evidence

Smiley Hoster Team · October 13, 2026
Four cards show Kubernetes RBAC, pod, network and secret security controls.
Security · 8 min

Harden a production Kubernetes namespace without breaking traffic

Smiley Hoster Team · October 13, 2026
An IP exception review sheet lists its owner, scope and review date.
Security · 2 min

Review an IP Allow rule before unblocking a service

Smiley Hoster Team · October 11, 2026
A hostname-and-path funnel directs an exact match into a WAF block.
Security · 2 min

Create a Cloudflare WAF rule for one application path

Smiley Hoster Team · October 9, 2026
Three locked blocks represent the browser, Cloudflare edge and verified origin.
Security · 2 min

Enable Full (strict) after checking your origin server

Smiley Hoster Team · October 7, 2026
Three numbered cards show Valid, Expired, Revoked.
Security · 2 min

Check that your TLS monitor detects invalid certificates

Smiley Hoster Team · September 27, 2026
A doorway admits the team while another identity remains outside.
Security · 5 min

Restrict a staging website to your team with Cloudflare Access

Smiley Hoster Team · September 24, 2026
A central shield separates a diagnostic console from servers, with a controlled path for changes.
Security · 4 min

Set boundaries for an infrastructure assistant

Smiley Hoster Team · September 22, 2026
A storefront browser connected to three cards labelled Script, Owner and Review.
Security · 2 min

Audit the third-party scripts on your online store

Smiley Hoster Team · September 22, 2026
Get SSL renewal ready for 45-day certificates
Security · 2 min

Get SSL renewal ready for 45-day certificates

Smiley Hoster Team · September 21, 2026
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