Locked Out of a Windows VM After a Cloud-Admin Restart — Cloudbase-Init and the Password Nobody SetA presales war story about an Administrator password that changed with "SYSTEM" as the subject, the OpenStack service almost nobody remembers is still installed, and the one log line I now read before15h ago · 14 min readquabin.hashnode.dev
Webmail Returns 502 Only When People Are Actually Using It — The One Proxy Flag cPanel ForgotA presales war story about a webmail login page that worked for one tester and failed for forty staff, the Apache error almost nobody reads, and the single ProxyPass flag I now check on every cPanel s1d ago · 12 min readquabin.hashnode.dev
"We've Been Hacked" — No, That Is Cloudflare: Reading Edge Traffic Before You Blame the VMA presales war story about a firewall full of "abnormal sessions", a team ready to block their own origin IP, and the three questions I now ask in Cloudflare before anyone calls a server compromised. 12d ago · 11 min readquabin.hashnode.dev
The Root Password Changed at 10:17 and Nobody Logged In — The VM Console Path Your Firewall Never SeesA presales war story about a Linux VM whose root password changed with no login in any log — the swapped guest-tools agent behind it, the password stealer that came with it, and the checks I now run b3d ago · 14 min readquabin.hashnode.dev
Mail Stopped Both Ways — "451 Temporary Local Problem" and the One DNS Resolver Nobody CheckedA presales war story about a cPanel server that could neither send nor receive mail — no blacklist, no full disk, no broken config — and the single DNS line I now check before I open any mail log. The4d ago · 11 min readquabin.hashnode.dev
