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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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 […]

Top 10K · #4,894 English 4 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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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

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WordPresspastebin.comphpMyAdminLaravel NewsBloggerWordPress.comphpBBWP Engine®DrupalPHP

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Hardened PHP

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  1. 01
    PHP php.net Top 1K English

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  2. 02
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  3. 03
    WP Engine® wpengine.com Top 10K English

    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.

  4. 04
    phpBB phpbb.com Top 10K English

    open-source Internet forum package written in PHP

  5. 05
    WordPress.com wordpress.com Top 100 English

    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.

  6. 06
    Blogger blogger.com Top 1K English

    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.

  7. 07
    Laravel News laravel-news.com Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

    phpMyAdmin

    database administration tool

  9. 09
    pastebin.com Top 10K English

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    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.

  10. 10
    getcomposer.org Top 10K English

    Composer

    A Dependency Manager for PHP

  11. 11
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

  12. 12
    ModSecurity modsecurity.org Top 10K English

    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.

  13. 13
    int08h.com Top 10K English

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  14. 14
    Aruba aruba.it Top 10K English

    Home | Aruba.it

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  15. 15
    Dinahosting dinahosting.com Top 10K English

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    Buy quality Domains and Hosting or select high performance Dedicated Servers and VPS. Leading independent provider with best 24/7 support

  16. 16
    Hosting a2hosting.com Top 10K English

    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.

  17. 17
    Loka loka.my English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    Malaysian travel and location intelligence platform

  18. 18
    Linkmake linkmake.in Top 10K English

    Linkmake

    Make your link safe using Link Protector

  19. 19
    Laravel laravel.com Top 10K English

    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.

  20. 20
    Can I use... caniuse.com Top 10K English

    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.

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
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

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