Long-form pieces on infrastructure, performance, and the hosting industry — from the engineers actually building the platform. No SEO listicles. No AI-generated filler.
A months-long evaluation of Debian, Rocky, and FreeBSD as our base layer — and the surprising winner. Includes the boot-time benchmarks and security trade-off analysis.
The morning after a TikTok went viral, their site held 80,000 concurrent visitors on a $19/month plan. We dig into what happened and why it didn't bring them down.
Composer dependency confusion is real. We walk through the actual attack vectors, what we do at the platform layer, and what you should do in your composer.json.
$1.99 introductory rates that 5x at renewal. "Unlimited" plans that throttle silently. We break down the playbook the big hosts use and why we don't.
A complete walk-through of putting Cloudflare in front of your HostingDon site, including the real IP whitelisting trick most guides miss and the pitfalls of "Full (strict)" SSL.
A long-form love letter to Nginx (and a clear-eyed analysis of where Caddy genuinely beats it). Includes our internal benchmarks at 100k req/s.
There's no such thing as unlimited storage, bandwidth, or compute. Here's what hosts actually mean when they say "unlimited" — and what to look for instead.
A 3-hour outage in our backup verification job, not the backup system itself. We share the full timeline, what we learned, and the four follow-ups we shipped this week.
Sarah Tate's $4k/month AWS bill turned into $400/month on us — without losing the things she actually used. Trade-offs included.
The best of our writing, plus a handful of links worth your time. No marketing fluff. ~12,000 readers, mostly developers and ops folks.
