Plausible vs Umami vs Matomo: Self-Hosted Analytics on a VPS in 2026
Self-hosted analytics finally hit a tipping point in 2026. Between Google Analytics 4 fatigue, the post-April Core Update push toward verifiable first-party dat...
Self-hosted analytics finally hit a tipping point in 2026. Between Google Analytics 4 fatigue, the post-April Core Update push toward verifiable first-party dat...
Why Your Choice of VPS Control Panel Actually Matters When I migrated the first three of my seven aggregator sites from Hostinger shared to VPS last year, the ...
Fly.io vs Railway vs Render 2026: Which PaaS Actually Holds Up in Production? I've deployed Laravel backends, Next.js frontends, and Node.js microservices acr...
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....
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 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...