I spent three days last quarter unfucking a multi-tenant agency infrastructure where a single compromised staging site wiped the entire shared object storage bucket. 1.2 terabytes of client media. Poof. Gone in four seconds because someone passed s3:* on resource:...
Running WordPress in production at high scale usually hits a wall at the storage layer. Standard stateful setups rely on local disks or shared network file systems, both of which collapse when traffic spikes force rapid horizontal auto-scaling. A true...
I once audited a multi-tenant WordPress platform hosting 450 client sites on a single high-density cluster. Every single tenant shared a single set of AWS IAM access keys with wildcard privileges on a global bucket. One compromised plugin on a...
During our last production audit of an enterprise cluster, we caught three application nodes choking on disk I/O during a traffic spike. The nodes were pinned waiting for filesystem sync across a shared NFS mount. It failed instantly. That legacy...