If you manage a website, even a small one, security is something you can’t brush aside anymore. Hackers don’t care how big your site is. They just care if it’s vulnerable. And that’s where RunCloud’s built-in firewall and its bundled tools make a big difference. Instead of needing five different tools and a bunch of scripts, RunCloud ties several protection systems together — Firewalld, Fail2ban, basic site authentication, a Web Application Firewall (ModSecurity), and even advanced 6G/7G firewalls for modern threats. Let’s go through what each one does and why it matters in plain English. Firewalld – Your Site’s First Bodyguard Every strong defense starts with a solid firewall. RunCloud uses Firewalld, a flexible Linux firewall system that basically decides …

If you’ve ever had a website slow down the moment traffic picks up, you’ll know how helpless that feels. You open the dashboard, refresh the monitor, maybe even restart the service, and still, it lags. In most of those moments, the problem isn’t that your server is weak. It’s usually that PHP and your FPM pool just aren’t tuned quite right. I’ve spent a lot of long nights inside RunCloud dashboards, and over time I’ve built a habit of adjusting a few key settings whenever I launch or optimize a client’s app. RunCloud is great for this because you don’t have to touch the terminal much; you can change everything straight from the panel. So, instead of throwing more CPU …