Wednesday morning. 6:43 AM. I'm scrolling Hacker News while my instant noodles steep (yes, I eat instant noodles for breakfast — judge me later). A post with...
AMD just announced a CPU with 208 megabytes of cache. Two hundred and eight. I had to read the spec sheet three times because my brain kept autocorrecting it to...
GitHub Apparently Cannot Hit Three Nines of Uptime — So I Built a Git Failover Strategy and Here Is Exactly How You Can Too Last Tuesday, around 2:30 PM East...
Ben Zimmermann was poking around vuejs.org last October when he found something that should not have been there: an Algolia API key with full admin permissions ...
If you are running FortiGate firewalls in your network right now, stop reading this on your phone and go sit at your desk. This is one of those articles. Senti...
Every time I recommend shared hosting in a tech forum, someone shows up to tell me I am an idiot. "Just get a $5 VPS," they say, like managing a Linux server is...
I have been managing servers for about nine years now, and in that time I have watched smart people waste extraordinary amounts of money on performance optimiza...
November 29, 2024. Black Friday. The biggest sales day of the year. And my client's e-commerce site was dead. Not "slow." Not "glitchy." Dead. 502 Bad Gateway....
Last November, our main client's website crashed during Black Friday. Not a little hiccup — a full-blown, 502-error, customers-screaming-on-Twitter meltdown. ...
At 2:47 AM on a Tuesday, my phone started buzzing. Not the gentle buzz of a text message — the angry, repeated vibration of monitoring alerts going nuclear. O...
My first e-commerce store crashed on Black Friday 2023. Not "ran a bit slow" crashed — full-on 503 error, cart abandoned, $12,000 in estimated lost sales, cra...
When my startup hit 50,000 monthly active users last summer, our $40/month VPS started choking. Page loads crept up to 4 seconds. Error rates spiked. I knew it ...
I have a confession: I've migrated my WordPress site seventeen times in the last three years. My developer friends think I have a problem. My therapist agrees. ...
Two years ago, I moved seven websites to Hostinger on a dare. A developer friend bet me $50 that cheap hosting would come back to bite me within six months. I'm...
Three years ago, I launched a WordPress blog on Bluehost because every "how to start a blog" article on the internet told me to. It was fine — until it wasn't...
Three AM on a Saturday. My phone buzzes. It's an uptime alert — my client's e-commerce store just went down during a flash sale. 2,300 people trying to buy di...