fortrabbit blog

fortrabbit uses AWS, about EU data sovereignty and privacy trends.

Teach your AI coding buddy how to manage fortrabbit apps.

Smoother flows, smarter deployments, and better docs.

Components auto-adjust plans based on usage.

Artificial Intelligence is a good spammer.

It's trivial and non-critical.

New features just landed

fortrabbit co-founder Frank on a podcast (1h).

Got pwned? Regain control.

How we manage ambition with limited resources.

A new hosting experience at your fingertips.

Farewell sharp rectangles, hello soft corners.

Coupled websites with PHP and JS.

Decoupled websites with PHP and JS.

Mixed feelings about Google Chrome.

Good luck if you still create websites for a living.

More DNS providers now support direct bare domain to host routing.

UX and web dev challenges.

High-impact low effort vulnerability.

Changelog on new versions.

It's complicated. The relation between open source and web hosting from our point of view

Reflecting on our decision to do a big rewrite.

How to not get an interview here.

Looking for a billing provider.

How we are evaluating an infrastructure provider for our new platform

Next level collaboration features for the new platform.

How we use client feedback to shape our service.

Verbs first for interfaces with more natural language.

Why we plan to drop a signature feature of the Pro Stack.

Is something missing to bring together JS and PHP?

So many options - React, Svelte, Vue, Nuxt, htmx, Interia, Livewire. What to choose for our new web properties?

Fail early they say. Don't throw hardware on performance problems we say.contributions.

Changelog on new versions.

Update your Craft CMS 4 installation. There is a low-effort high-impact vulnerability out there.

Keyboard shortcuts are my productivity fuel. Navigating inconsistent keyboard shortcut landscapes across different programs feels like an obstacle course. A significant number of interactions remain universal across software. Why then, must we relearn basic actions like "insert link" with every new tool?

Details on recent rocky updates

Changelog on new versions.

An insight into product development at fortrabbit

FYI: Remaining Apps are going to be migrated to MySQL 8

What we are up to now.

Changelog on new versions.

Client information for the end of life of PHP 7.4.

Everything you always wanted to know about updating to Craft 4 - but were afraid to ask.

Basic WAF, Craft Copy for Nitro, Craft Copy for Craft CMS 4

Changelog on new versions.

What you might want to know about the upcoming EOL of PHP 7.3.

What we learned helping clients improving Craft CMS performance

Changelog on new versions.

A field guide on image transformation and optimization providers

About things that are usually not visible.

Changelog on new versions.

Finally HTTP/2 is here, as well as some other updates

Let's Encrypt will change its root certificates. Learn how this might affect you as a fortrabbit client.

Our command line tool to help with Craft CMS deployment on fortrabbit is now production grade ready.

What you might want to know about the upcoming EOL of PHP 7.2.

We are finally making MySQL 8 available. What clients need to know about the roll-out.

The Privacy Shield is no longer valid. How to proceed?

How to check your website and how to clean up.

How we prepared for the virus and what you can do.

Changelog on new versions.

How our new invoice numbers are structured and what went wrong when we rolled it out.

Patches for all PHP versions planned.

Informations on upcoming PHP 7.1 switch off here.

Some smaller internal improvements mostly on imageMagick ahead.

Some details on recent platform problems.

Some internal changes ahead

The backstory of recent issues related to image transformations.

What else you need to know about the upcoming EOL of the two PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0.

PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 deadlines: Why is so much old PHP around? What we will do!

Some details on our open source CSS framework.

Props to the OSS communities and highlighting some of our open source contributions.

GDPR is here. Wat is changing for our clients, what not, why and when.

The bizarre beauty of brutalist Facebook reaction bots.

An opinionated field guide on Email as a Service providers.

Successful communication in customer support chat channels.

Why to use a service for transactional e-mails.

An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly video services.

An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly CDN services.

An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly domain hosting services.

Our real-live practices on auto-generated client e-mail communication.

You can now transfer Apps to your clients!

More powerful plans, same price level.

We are manually moving many Old Apps to Universal Apps to avoid downtime and data loss for stragglers.

See all platform changes with new Universal Stack.

Optimized for CMS driven websites - made for your needs: Backups, Git, SFTP, HTTPS & team collaboration.

Quicker boarding, App access links and more.

What took us so long to come up with a Drupal 8 install guide.

A new Hobby line, migration info for Old App owners.

Choose a framework or CMS to get started more quickly.

Better Windows support and smoother boarding.

A more helpful UI + forwarding naked domains.

Where we are, what we are up to.

Free SSL certificates for custom domains via Let's Encrypt are here now.

Thoughts on flat file CMS and static site generators, mostly PHP-related.

Learn how to enhance your workflows with this new feature.

How we tried to test the speed benefits of the new internet protocol.

A new integrated S3 compatible cloud storage is here.

Insights why we will not offer an Add-On program soon and what we have instead

New data center location, new currency

Insights on how we deal with bounced payments

Trends, pivots & troubles in PaaS hosting 2015

What's going on in e-commerce?

Scalable, extensible and with even more features

HTTP/2 expectations and pitfalls

Introducing the New Apps in BETA.

More Account security settings.

CSS, JS and Images, how to generate and to deploy.

What our users are saying and what we think it means.

Value-based VS cost-based pricing for a hosting service.

A stubborn analysis of hosting solutions for developers.

.env import and domain DNS checks!

Where we are heading to.

How hustling with accounting keeps us away from developing our service.

Discussing usability, culture and security.

We are listening. Feedback is welcome.

Helping existing users boarding the new dashboard.

That's one small step for mankind, a giant leap for us.

Tinkering with static site generation.

Learn what is going to change with the new dashboard.

What to expect from our new dashboard.

Finally we have a dedicated downtime communication channel.

Price reductions for: Memcache, MySQL and Workers.

The SMTP Wrapper and the ReSync Tool will go away.

Just a fancy info-graphic to say happy birthday to PHP.

A state of the PHP cloud hosting scene overview.

Enhancing our platform with professional & reliable developer to developer support.

Breaking news, fortrabbit releases a brand new stack.

Yep, we are going to replace our freemium with a free trial model.

What's currently happening here and what's not.

Claim an extra credit for an even better test drive of our platform.

Introducing a more fair and more fun freemium model.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

Is freemium the right business model for our service or shall we switch to a free trial model?

What we have learned on the Laracon conference 2013 in Amsterdam.

Results and learnings from our latest questionnaire among our users with 327 answers.

What's more important in hosting? Performance or convenience?

fortrabbit under attack.

Behind the scenes when something goes wrong.

Flat, unlimited and forever it shall be.

Abot a new security feature.

Have you seen our new PHP settings page?

Shutting down an old fortrabbit service.

Modularize everything!

New features in the dashboard.

IaaS, PaaS, bare metal, shared hosting, managed hosting — Quo vadis?

By 2009, computers will disappear.

We had the honor to present fortrabbit at the Berlin PHP usergroup.

This video shows you how easy it is to set up Symfony on fortrabbit.

The cloud: economically attractive, but what the about ecological impact?

What the hosting- and the meat-market have in common.

This videos shows you how to set up SlimPHP on fortrabbit with Git and Composer

This video shows you how to run Laravel on fortrabbit

This video shows you a simple example with PHPStorm and fortrabbit

fortrabbit PHP platform launched

Some links on newish PHP.

Bootstrapping in Berlin.

The private BETA for for our upcoming platform.

Analysing the answers of our questionnaire.

Asking developers about their preferences.

Musings about the comon www. subdomain.

About the the new fortrabbit knowledge base.

Web IDEs everywhere! Are they any good? What's the buzz?

Is there such actually free web hosting?

How bound are you to your hosting provider? Does this really matter?

Putting the pieces together: our PHP platform is shaping. We are currently running lot's of tests and we are looking forward to start the private BETA soon. But there always should be some time for details. Have a look at our custom handmade error pages:

What PHP cloud platforms are currently actually out there?

tl;dr We used to bring modern cloud technologies such as Git code management and consumption based billing to a standardized Hosting environment. Now we go the other way around and bring some essential standards to the cloud._

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