Systems Engineering Archives - Jeremy Mark Ciaramella

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AlmaLinux 8.10 -> 9.8 cPanel ELevate Incident Review and Recovery How-To

September 6, 2026 - By Jeremy Ciaramella

rocky8.usd21.org | DigitalOcean | cPanel & WHM | ELevate v83 | MySQL Community 8.0.46 Purpose: developer-facing postmortem, reproducible diagnostics, successful recovery steps, and proposed preflight improvements for cPanel ELevate and Leapp. Download Word Doc – rocky8_elevate_incident_review Download PDF – rocky8_elevate_incident_review Executive finding: The distribution conversion itself ultimately succeeded. The incident…

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Spiritual Articles - Systems Engineering

God’s Firewall – Prayer

May 15, 2026 - By Jeremy Ciaramella

“May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.” – Psalms 20:1 God spared us – we locked down our WHM infrastructure behind a VPN-only setup – we doged a bullet. https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/etr-cve-2026-41940-cpanel-whm-authentication-bypass/ There’s talk of sobering devastation, lawsuits, and…

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