# VPSNine Blog

News and notes from VPSNine. Feed: https://vpsnine.com/blog/feed.xml

- [PHP2Shell: patch PHP on your server today](https://vpsnine.com/blog/php2shell-patch-php-today.md) (2026-10-21): Two critical PHP bugs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, were fixed on 21 October. What's affected, what we changed, and where the step-by-step guide is.
- [Web scraping on a VPS with rotating proxies](https://vpsnine.com/blog/web-scraping-on-a-vps-with-rotating-proxies.md) (2026-10-18): Run a Scrapy crawler on a Linux VPS on a schedule, send its requests through rotating proxies, and keep it polite enough that nobody needs to block it.
- [Buying a VPS with Bitcoin: from wallet to server](https://vpsnine.com/blog/buying-a-vps-with-bitcoin.md) (2026-10-16): How paying for a VPS with Bitcoin works, step by step, the mistakes that cause underpayments, what Bitcoin does and doesn't hide, and how refunds come back.
- [One-click apps and six Linux distributions](https://vpsnine.com/blog/one-click-apps-and-six-linux-distributions.md) (2026-10-16): How VPSNine's one-click apps and its six Linux distributions in ten versions work, from when the app catalog was first built, and what's still unproven.
- [How we keep your VPS isolated](https://vpsnine.com/blog/how-we-keep-your-vps-isolated.md) (2026-10-09): The firewall that sits in front of every VPSNine server, what it stops your neighbours from doing, and what we still have to test.
- [Inside the VPSNine panel](https://vpsnine.com/blog/inside-the-vpsnine-panel.md) (2026-10-09): The account side of my.vpsnine.com is built. Sign-up, two-factor, SSH keys, API tokens, sessions and an activity log, and why it looks like a terminal.
- [VPSNine is coming back](https://vpsnine.com/blog/vpsnine-is-coming-back.md) (2026-10-09): VPSNine sold Linux VPS from 2011. After a few quiet years it is relaunching on new NVMe hardware, operated by Tekari. Here is what is planned.
- [What "59 seconds" means](https://vpsnine.com/blog/what-59-seconds-means.md) (2026-10-09): The old site promised a server in 59 seconds. For the relaunch it is our target from paid order to SSH-ready, and this is how we will measure it.
- [Why there's a vps9 CLI](https://vpsnine.com/blog/why-there-is-a-vps9-cli.md) (2026-10-09): We built a command-line tool alongside the panel, on the same public API. What it does, why the API came first, and where to get it.
- [Why we're building our own control panel](https://vpsnine.com/blog/why-we-are-building-our-own-panel.md) (2026-10-09): VPSNine is writing its own billing, control panel, API and CLI instead of buying them. What that gets you, what it costs us, and where it stands.