A DevOps Thanksgiving
As everyone heads home for turkey and pie, someone is still on call watching graphs, pipelines, and pagers. This light-hearted Thanksgiving poem tips its hat to the DevOps and SRE folks who ride out Black Friday and Cyber Monday so the rest of the world can shop in peace.
Debian: The Quiet Giant of the Linux World
If you’ve used Linux in the last 20 years, there’s a good chance you’ve met Debian—even if you didn’t realize it. This is the story of how a college student’s manifesto became one of the most quietly influential projects in the open-source world.
How to Add a Redirect in Nginx on a Plesk Server
Learn how to set up fast, server-level redirects on a Plesk server using Nginx “Additional nginx directives,” including full-domain redirects to acme.com, single-URL redirects, and common gotchas to avoid.
Domain Registration Explained: What It Means for Business Owners, Developers, and Network Engineers
When domain registration works, nobody thinks about it. When it fails, websites vanish, email stops, and trust evaporates. This article explains what a domain really is, why it matters, and how business owners, developers, and network engineers each see the same name from very different layers of the stack.
CloudFront Flat-Rate Plans: When AWS Bundles Are Actually a Good Deal
AWS finally did something nice with CloudFront pricing: flat-rate plans that bundle CDN, WAF, DNS, logging, and S3 credits into one predictable monthly bill. In this article we break down what each plan really includes, where the fine print bites, and how to decide if flat-rate actually saves money for your site.
Fixing “400 Bad Request – Request Header Or Cookie Too Large” on WordPress Sites (Plesk + Nginx)
Seeing “400 Bad Request – Request Header Or Cookie Too Large” on your WordPress site running on Plesk with Nginx? This guide explains what the error really means, how oversized cookies trigger it, how to fix the root cause in WordPress, and when it makes sense to adjust Nginx header limits.
Installing Strapi on a Plesk Server (Ubuntu 24.04) with NVM, PM2, and Nginx
Strapi is a popular open-source headless CMS that lets you model content, manage it through a web admin, and expose it over APIs. In this guide we show how to run Strapi on a Plesk server (Ubuntu 24.04) using NVM, PM2, and Nginx, and how to configure ports so you can host multiple Strapi instances on the same box.
Database Migrations in WordPress, Drupal, and Laravel: Same Problem, Different Worlds
Database migrations mean very different things in WordPress, Drupal, and Laravel. In this article we compare how each platform handles schema changes, configuration, and environment moves—and what that means for your deployment workflow.
WordPress Database Migrations: Strategies, Tools & Anti-Patterns
WordPress hides most of the database work… until you move a site, add custom tables, or keep multiple environments in sync. This article walks through how WordPress handles schema changes, what you can control as a developer, the tools that help, and the migration anti-patterns to avoid.
Stop Using Network Solutions for DNS (Seriously)
Network Solutions may have history, but as a DNS provider it’s stuck in the past. From a slow, clunky control panel and upsell-heavy “Premium DNS” to missing Anycast by default, broken apex/CNAME patterns, weak automation, and ticket-driven IPv6, we treat seeing Network Solutions in the NS records as a sign: it’s time to move.
A DevOps Thanksgiving
As everyone heads home for turkey and pie, someone is still on call watching graphs, pipelines, and pagers. This light-hearted Thanksgiving poem tips its hat to the DevOps and SRE folks who ride out Black Friday and Cyber Monday so the rest of the world can shop in peace.
Debian: The Quiet Giant of the Linux World
If you’ve used Linux in the last 20 years, there’s a good chance you’ve met Debian—even if you didn’t realize it. This is the story of how a college student’s manifesto became one of the most quietly influential projects in the open-source world.
How to Add a Redirect in Nginx on a Plesk Server
Learn how to set up fast, server-level redirects on a Plesk server using Nginx “Additional nginx directives,” including full-domain redirects to acme.com, single-URL redirects, and common gotchas to avoid.
Domain Registration Explained: What It Means for Business Owners, Developers, and Network Engineers
When domain registration works, nobody thinks about it. When it fails, websites vanish, email stops, and trust evaporates. This article explains what a domain really is, why it matters, and how business owners, developers, and network engineers each see the same name from very different layers of the stack.
CloudFront Flat-Rate Plans: When AWS Bundles Are Actually a Good Deal
AWS finally did something nice with CloudFront pricing: flat-rate plans that bundle CDN, WAF, DNS, logging, and S3 credits into one predictable monthly bill. In this article we break down what each plan really includes, where the fine print bites, and how to decide if flat-rate actually saves money for your site.
Fixing “400 Bad Request – Request Header Or Cookie Too Large” on WordPress Sites (Plesk + Nginx)
Seeing “400 Bad Request – Request Header Or Cookie Too Large” on your WordPress site running on Plesk with Nginx? This guide explains what the error really means, how oversized cookies trigger it, how to fix the root cause in WordPress, and when it makes sense to adjust Nginx header limits.
Installing Strapi on a Plesk Server (Ubuntu 24.04) with NVM, PM2, and Nginx
Strapi is a popular open-source headless CMS that lets you model content, manage it through a web admin, and expose it over APIs. In this guide we show how to run Strapi on a Plesk server (Ubuntu 24.04) using NVM, PM2, and Nginx, and how to configure ports so you can host multiple Strapi instances on the same box.
Database Migrations in WordPress, Drupal, and Laravel: Same Problem, Different Worlds
Database migrations mean very different things in WordPress, Drupal, and Laravel. In this article we compare how each platform handles schema changes, configuration, and environment moves—and what that means for your deployment workflow.
WordPress Database Migrations: Strategies, Tools & Anti-Patterns
WordPress hides most of the database work… until you move a site, add custom tables, or keep multiple environments in sync. This article walks through how WordPress handles schema changes, what you can control as a developer, the tools that help, and the migration anti-patterns to avoid.
Stop Using Network Solutions for DNS (Seriously)
Network Solutions may have history, but as a DNS provider it’s stuck in the past. From a slow, clunky control panel and upsell-heavy “Premium DNS” to missing Anycast by default, broken apex/CNAME patterns, weak automation, and ticket-driven IPv6, we treat seeing Network Solutions in the NS records as a sign: it’s time to move.
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