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Testing Craft CMS sites with Pest, from the first assertion to a suite that runs on every deploy — for developers who never wrote a test.

How to move an app from MySQL 5.6 to MySQL 8 on fortrabbit, including the platform-side migration workflow added later.

Composer 2 lands on fortrabbit and makes git deployments considerably faster. What to expect, and how to fix a build that breaks.

JSON columns let MySQL hold data that does not fit a strict schema. How to declare, query and cast them from a Laravel application.

Craft Copy, an open-source command line tool that syncs code, assets and the database between a local Craft CMS and fortrabbit.

Upper is an open-source Craft CMS plugin that wires a pull CDN — Cloudflare, Fastly, KeyCDN — into the CMS as an edge cache.

Ultimately, you are responsible for your code and as well for the 3rd party code you rely on.

fortrabbit becomes one of the first official Craft CMS hosting partners, after three years of hosting Craft projects on the platform.

The Worker component moves long-running background tasks out of the web request, so customer-facing responses stay fast.

Content management systems went quiet in the PHP conversation. Are they ready for the cloud, and what would that even require?

Which PHP versions fortrabbit supports and for how long, from starting out on 5.4 in 2013 through the moves to 5.6 and 7.0.

The Blackfire PHP profiler becomes available on fortrabbit, and how a sales pitch from SensioLabs turned into an actual integration.

SSL v3 is switched off across the platform in response to the POODLE vulnerability. No action is needed on the client side.

An interview with freelance developer Lee Tengum about building offload.io, one of the projects hosted on fortrabbit.

New Relic support lands on fortrabbit under a bring-your-own-license model, with the daemon running on the platform side.

A case study of an agency site hit by a sudden traffic peak, what broke, and how the hosting setup was adjusted while it was happening.

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The fortrabbit roadmap for 2013, written by the person who joined to sit between the technical and the product side of the company.

Going generally available without a public beta period: the case for launching a hosting service early and iterating in the open.

A manifest for what a PHP platform as a service should do, written in 2012 when none of the existing ones came close to it.