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⚠️ Official AlexHost Update - Ongoing DDoS Attack Since Saturday, August 22, AlexHost has been experiencing a large-scale DDoS attack affecting parts of our network infrastructure and causing service disruptions for some customers. Our technical teams are actively mitigating the attack together with our upstream providers and Anti-DDoS partners, while services are being restored progressively. There is currently no indication of a data breach or unauthorized access. This is an availability and connectivity issue. Individuals claiming responsibility for the attack have demanded a ransom. AlexHost will not pay or negotiate with attackers. Our resources will be invested in protecting our customers, strengthening our infrastructure, and improving mitigation capacity - not in rewarding those attempting to disrupt our services. All actions taken by AlexHost remain strictly within the law and established cybersecurity practices.

⚠️ If anyone contacts you offering to stop the attack or restore your services in exchange for payment, do not pay, do not share credentials, and report the message to our official support team.

Our priority remains clear: protect our customers, restore services, and strengthen our network. Thank you for your patience and continued trust. — AlexHost Team

💻 The hardest thing to buy right now isn't GPUs. It's memory. The industry already has a name for it: RAMageddon. Ask the big datacenters what's blocking them — they don't say power, or space, or chips. They say RAM. Micron admits it can fill less than half of the datacenter demand it's asked for. Memory is roughly a quarter of what an AI server rack costs to build, and the hyperscalers are buying anyway. Their 2026 spending is on track to be double what they planned back in January.

Everyone else pays for that: ▎A DDR4 chip that sold for $16 in April went past $42 in early August — an all-time high ▎A 64GB DDR5 server module went from $255 in Q3 last year to above $900 by Q1 ▎The three big makers are pushing capital spending from $43B in 2024 to a projected $146B in 2027

So server prices are climbing everywhere. We're not raising ours. 🔴 That's the whole idea of AlexHost. Running since 2008, through more than one cycle like this. The infrastructure under you is supposed to be the stable part.

🧠 Renting the server is the fast part. Learning to live on it takes a year - and that year is barely written down. Linux documentation comes in two useless kinds: man pages for people who already know, and "what is an operating system" for people who don't. The person who rented a VPS yesterday sits exactly between them. So we wrote the in-between part, in the order you'll need it:

🐧 How to Choose Your Perfect Linux Distro — one guide says apt, your server says dnf, and nobody explains why 🔗 https://alexhost.com/info/how-to-choose-your-perfect-linux-distro/ 🔌 SSH, RDP, VNC — three ways in, and the familiar one is often the wrong one 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/how-to-access-a-remote-computer-or-server-ssh-rdp-vnc-and-when-to-use-each/ ⌨️Your First Week on a Linux Server — 35 commands, because the four you know won't get you through it 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/your-first-week-on-a-linux-server-35-essential-commands/ 💻 Using tmux — the connection drops and takes the running process with it 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/using-tmux-a-terminal-multiplexer/

🌟 Everything else we've written — Linux, networking, security, web: 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/

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🇧🇬 BULGARIA ▎CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 (28 cores / 56 threads) ▎RAM: 64GB DDR4 ▎Storage: 1TB SSD ▎Network: 1 Gbps shared, 1 IPv4

€180 → €144 per cycle 🔗 alexhost.com/dedicated-servers/dedicated-hosting-in-bulgaria/

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENGLAND ▎CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (16 cores / 32 threads) ▎RAM: 128GB ▎Storage: 2x 2TB NVMe ▎Network: 1 Gbps shared, 1 IPv4

€260 → €208 per cycle 🔗alexhost.com/dedicated-servers/dedicated-server-in-england/ Code: EURODEDI

🇧🇬 Bulgaria: +10 dedicated servers We're growing — and this month Bulgaria is getting the biggest share of it. Ten new dedicated servers are racked and live. The location has been running close to full for a while, and the clients already there made it clear they wanted more room.

▎2× Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 v4 ▎64 GB DDR4 ▎1 TB SSD ▎1 Gbps shared ▎1 IPv4 + IPv6 support

Available now: 🔗 https://alexhost.com/dedicated-servers/dedicated-hosting-in-bulgaria/

🛠 Last Friday was SysAdmin Appreciation Day — so here's some news about ours. You can now officially put our engineers to work on your server — even on unmanaged VPS, dedicated, or colocation. Any admin task, on demand:

▎Scheduled (24h in advance) — €20/hour ▎Instant — we start right away — €100/hour ▎Nights & weekends (booked in advance) — €100/hour

Estimate before you pay, written report after, unused hours back to your balance. 💻 And a gift to go with it: free website migration — up to 5 domains and 20 GB.

Nothing else changes: standard support stays free, your plan prices stay the same. But tasks we sometimes did as informal favors now have a price — and in return, a guarantee, a timeline, and the same rules for everyone.

🔗 https://alexhost.com/server-administration/

🤝 Nobody thanks you for the outage that didn't happen.

That's the whole job. You get noticed when something breaks — never when it doesn't. The patch you pushed on Saturday. The backup you restored before anyone asked. The alert at 02:14 that everyone else slept through. 99.9% uptime isn't a number on a status page. It's somebody's Tuesday. Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. We've been on your side of the pager since 2008 — we know what that week costs.

Marking the day - 15% off all new services CODE: SYSADMIN Through August 7 👉 https://alexhost.com

🧠 Attackers got the same AI upgrade you did. They're just using it more. The easier AI gets, the faster they move: bulk scans, fresh CVEs turned into working exploits within hours, phishing without the usual tells. And filtering got sharper too — DPI increasingly flags VPNs and proxies by their fingerprints. Default settings alone won't cut it. Lock down your perimeter, keep your traffic under control. 4 guides on that.

🔥 What Is a Firewall — how it works, and which type fits your setup 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/what-is-a-firewall-how-it-works-why-it-matters-and-which-type-fits-your-setup/ ⚡ What Is XDP — dropping packets before the network stack ever sees them 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/what-is-xdp-and-how-can-it-help-build-anti-ddos-protection/ 💻 Install 3x-ui on a VPS — and pick the right anti-censorship config 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/how-to-install-3x-ui-on-a-vps-and-choose-the-right-anti-censorship-configuration/ 🔍 How to Check a Server for Malware — what to look for, and which detection approach fits your setup 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/how-to-check-a-server-for-malware-what-to-look-for-and-which-detection-approach-fits-your-setup/ One honest note before you start: read the malware one first. A firewall protects a clean server — if something is already inside, it just keeps it company.

🌟 Everything else we've written — Linux, networking, security, web: 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/

⚠️ WordPress: critical wp2shell vulnerability — attacks in progress A wp2shell chain was found in WordPress Core (CVE-2026-63030 + CVE-2026-60137). Disclosed July 17, 2026; active exploitation confirmed. Unauthenticated attackers can get remote code execution — no login, no plugins required. Who's affected

▎Full RCE: 6.9.0–6.9.4, 7.0.0–7.0.1 ▎SQLi only: 6.8.0–6.8.5 (no RCE chain) ▎version.php may show just 7.0 — same vulnerable branch

What to do

▎Update to 7.0.2, 6.9.5, or 6.8.6 ▎Check version manually on every site — auto-updates may lag ▎Can't update yet? Block both at nginx/WAF:

/wp-json/batch/v1
?rest_route=/batch/v1

Signs of compromise

▎New admin user named wp2_… / w2s_… in the database — check even if logs look clean ▎HTTP 207 (sometimes 200) on batch — strongest signal, especially unusually large responses ▎UA wp2shell / rezwp2shell — common in PoCs, but attackers often spoof normal browsers ▎GET /wp-json/wp/v2/users?context=edit — admin enumeration ▎POST /wp-admin/update.php?action=upload-plugin — backdoor upload ▎Unknown plugins (e.g. fake "CMSmap")

🔑 Found traces? Rotate admin/DB passwords — the SQLi pulls password hashes for offline cracking. Also rotate wp-config.php salts to kill any hijacked sessions. Both CVEs hit CISA's KEV catalog on July 21. Public exploits are out.

💡Idea Board — a new section in your client area We added a place where you can influence what we build next.

What you can do now: ↳ submit an idea to improve the service ↳ vote for other clients' ideas ↳ discuss them in the comments ↳ track the status of each: new → planned → done / declined

Where to find it: client area → the lightbulb icon in the header, or go straight to : 🔗 https://bill.alexhost.com/?cmd=ideas Come in and tell us what's missing.

🔒 Sign in with Telegram or a passkey Getting into your billing account should take a couple of seconds, not a password-reset quest. So we added two more sign-in methods:

📱 Telegram Click the Telegram icon on the login page, confirm the request in the app, and you're in. Nothing to type.

🔑 Passkey Save a key to Google Password Manager, Windows Hello, Face ID, Touch ID, or an external security key. After that, signing in is your face or your fingerprint.

How to turn them on: 🔗https://alexhost.com/faq/how-to-use-the-new-sign-in-methods-in-alexhost-billing/

🧠 The AI boom made everyone an expert. Most of them are copying each other's guides. We got tired of it. So we started running the tools ourselves — on real servers, until they break — and writing down what happened.

First up — self-hosting AI agents, in the order you'll need it: 🐧 Best Linux Distros for AI in 2026 — 4 picks by use case 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/best-linux-distros-for-ai-in-2026-4-practical-picks-by-use-case/ 🦙 Self-host Ollama on an LLM server — and take back control over what the model will and won't answer 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/self-host-ollama-on-an-llm-server-and-take-control-over-ai-censorship/ 🦀 ZeroClaw quickstart — a lightweight agent runtime, one Rust binary 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/how-to-install-zeroclaw-beginner-friendly-quickstart-for-a-lightweight-openclaw-alternative/ ⚡ Hermes Agent — from install to first steps 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/hermes-agent-quickstart-from-install-to-first-steps/

One honest note before you start: most of this runs fine on a VPS. You don't need a GPU server until you're serving a model to more than yourself. 🌟 Everything else we've written — Linux, networking, security, web: 🔗 https://alexhost.com/faq/ #guide

🏢 Sign in with Google

Our team is always working to make your time in the billing panel smoother — less friction, fewer steps, more comfort. That's the whole point: your account should be easy to get into and easy to manage. So we reworked the billing panel to make things more accessible, and added the option to sign in with Google. One click, no extra password — just a faster, more comfortable way in.

🔗 https://bill.alexhost.com/login/

⚙️ Instant server activation — now at AlexHost We've launched a new option: dedicated servers with instant activation.

▎No more waiting for engineers to assemble and configure the hardware — the server is deployed automatically and ready to use within minutes of payment. ▎No provisioning queue, full root access from the first boot, and a pre-installed OS of your choice.

💻 The first configuration is available now in different locations, and we'll be adding more servers that can be obtained instantly — with no wait for manual setup — in the near future! Deploy your server in minutes: 🔗 https://alexhost.com/dedicated-servers/instant-deployment/

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is back!

We went through a serious disruption - and came out stronger🦾 The location is fully restored, all clients migrated, and we've added more hardware. Netherlands is live again, with spare capacity ready to go. Celebrating the comeback - 15% off Netherlands VPS CODE: NLBACK Through July 14

👉 https://alexhost.com/vps/vps-europe/vps-netherlands/

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is back!

We went through a serious disruption - and came out stronger🦾 The location is fully restored, all clients migrated, and we've added more hardware. Netherlands is live again, with spare capacity ready to go. Celebrating the comeback - 15% off Netherlands VPS

CODE: NLBACK Through July 14 👉 https://alexhost.com/vps/vps-europe/vps-netherlands/

🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day, USA!

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence — and 13 colonies became a new nation: the United States. Today marks a truly historic milestone: 250 years of independence — the Semiquincentennial. Here's to two and a half centuries of freedom, innovation, and progress.

Happy 4th of July to all our American clients, partners, and friends!

🔥 AlexHost Summer Sale This is not a one-time discount. It applies to every billing cycle.The discounted price stays active for as long as you keep the server. Valid until July 13.

Promo codes 🔥 SUMMERLLM25 - 25% OFF LLM servers 🔥 SUMMEREU20 - 20% OFF dedicated servers in Bulgaria and the UK 🔥 SUMMERMD15 - 15% OFF dedicated servers in Moldova

All three discounts are recurring. They apply to new dedicated server orders and continue working for every following billing period.

🔁 SUMMERSTAY15 - 15% OFF the renewal of any server: shared, VPS, or dedicated. This is a one-time discount for already active services and is applied directly to the invoice.

How to get a renewal discount : 🔗https://alexhost.com/info/alexhost-summer-sale-up-to-25-off-recurring/

🔥 One free month of ISPmanager - on every VPS

A control panel makes life on a VPS much easier: sites, domains, databases and email in a single interface, without the command line. Right now ISPmanager is free for the first month on any AlexHost VPS. That's the full panel — managing sites and domains, mail accounts, databases, file manager, backups and SSL.

To get the 30 days, add the promo code ISPFREE at checkout. Offer runs until August 1. 🔗 https://alexhost.com/info/alexhost-offers-1-month-of-ispmanager-free-on-all-vps/

🚨 Update on our Netherlands servers — what happened during the June outage, how your data stayed safe, and what comes next. If you're reading this - our servers are already back online. Here's the full story:

On June 2nd, our entire Netherlands infrastructure went offline.Turns out MIRHosting — the company through which we were colocated at nLighten datacenter — had power cut to all equipment from all their clients, with zero explanation or official statement. Our CEO Alexandru Scutaru and CTO Eugeniu Croitorov flew out to the Netherlands immediately to handle it on-site. Meanwhile, our Moldova team kept things running — answering tickets, live chat, processing refunds, and setting up temporary replacement servers. We always knew your data was safe and intact — it was just locked inside the datacenter, which is why we couldn't provide backups during the outage.

✅ Today, June 15th — we got our servers back. They're now live in a new datacenter under a direct contract. We're truly sorry this happened. Here's what comes next:

▎All affected clients get a free extension period on their servers, just open a ticket and we will do it for you. ▎Those clients who had a replacement server in Moldova will have a 7 day period when both servers will be active so they can sync the data at their own pace.

⚖️ Want compensation? You can join our lawsuit — open a ticket and submit the following:

1. ID / Identity document Passport or national ID copy 2. Proof of relationship with the company -Contract/agreement -Invoices or payment receipts -Email or chat correspondence -Account/registration details (must match the ID) 3. Proof of financial loss -Bank statements confirming transactions -Calculation of damages (what was lost and why) -Receipts or payment orders Open a ticket and our team will guide you from there. We've learned hard lessons from this and we're taking full responsibility.