Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Hardened PHP
The 20 closest web security information alternatives to Hardened PHP, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Hardened PHP? The closest matches are PHP, Drupal and WP Engine®. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- Sites searched
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- Vector
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About Hardened PHP
Hardened PHP hardened-php.net
Hardened PHP - Hardened-PHP
PHP is far and away the most popular backend programming language today, with more than 80 websites worldwide taking advantage of PHP solutions. All of the most popular CMS platforms – including WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal (just to name a few) leverage this technology. It’s flexibility and versatility make it a powerhouse programming language, but […]
Summary by Claude
A blog-style site with articles on securing PHP installations, such as editing php.ini and applying patches to harden servers against exploits. The domain once hosted the Hardened-PHP project (Suhosin) and now appears to be a repurposed content site.
- Who it’s for
- PHP developers and server administrators
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Hardened PHP’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Hardened PHP
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PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
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Trusted Website Hosting Platform | WP Engine®
WP Engine® is a leading website hosting platform, trusted by over 5M websites. Learn more about our 24/7 support and security solutions.
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open-source Internet forum package written in PHP
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WordPress.com: Everything You Need to Build Your Website
Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.
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Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.
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Laravel News: Tutorials, Packages & Framework News
Laravel News is the official blog of Laravel. Every day bringing you the latest news, tutorials, and packages for the framework.
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phpMyAdmin
database administration tool
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Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
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Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
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Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
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ModSecurity Project – Open-Source Web Application Firewall
Protect your websites and apps with ModSecurity, the OWASP-backed open-source WAF trusted to stop threats. Upgrade your security today.
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int08h
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Home | Aruba.it
Italian registrar and Web hosting company
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Dinahosting - Domains and Hosting with the best 24/7 support
Buy quality Domains and Hosting or select high performance Dedicated Servers and VPS. Leading independent provider with best 24/7 support
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Web Hosting Built to Grow With You | hosting.com
Web hosting that takes you from idea to website to a lasting business. Fast and secure, with free migration, real experts 24/7 and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
Malaysian travel and location intelligence platform
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Linkmake
Make your link safe using Link Protector
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Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents
Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.
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Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
"Can I use" provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to hardened-php.net’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Hardened PHP uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Hardened PHP is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Hardened PHP adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on hardened-php.net 17/20
- Cloudflare · not on hardened-php.net 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on hardened-php.net 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on hardened-php.net 7/20
- jQuery 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on hardened-php.net 4/20
- PHP 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on hardened-php.net 4/20
- nginx 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on hardened-php.net 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on hardened-php.net 4/20
- Fastly · not on hardened-php.net 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on hardened-php.net 3/20
- WordPress 3/20
- SendGrid · not on hardened-php.net 3/20
- Matomo · not on hardened-php.net 2/20