fortrabbit blog — Frank Lämmer

Us against them as a spectator from the sidelines

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

fortrabbit uses AWS, about EU data sovereignty and privacy trends. We are a German company running on American infrastructure, serving a global customer base. That is hard to defend these days. Caught between geopolitical fault lines.

fortrabbit agent skills — early preview

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Teach your AI coding buddy how to manage fortrabbit apps. We just published a first preview of fortrabbit agent skills — a set of plain-text instruction files that teach AI coding assistants like Claude how to deploy code to fortrabbit, sync databases, and work through common platform tasks. It's an early release. How we got there.

Platform updates, April 2026

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Smoother flows, smarter deployments, and better docs. Here is a batch of quality of live improvements across the dashboard and docs, bringing us closer to general availability.

Autoscaling now available

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Components auto-adjust plans based on usage. Autoscaling for MySQL, web storage, and traffic is now available. Plans scale up when usage increases and down again when usage drops.

Cold outreach

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:01:03 GMT

Artificial Intelligence is a good spammer. My inbox is full of unsolicited business proposals. The senders know my name, my mail, my company, and often specific details about our company, despite most of this information never being publicly listed. AI meets leaked customer data.

Vibe coding an RSS feed - how hard can it be?

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

It's trivial and non-critical. Let's try lazy slopping a trivial feature into existing by providing some fuzzy prompts. What can possibly go wrong?

Essential metrics are here

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:26:54 GMT

New features just landed Essential metrics help you track usage data for web storage, MySQL storage, and traffic.

Frank at SaaS Unbound Podcast

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:45:09 GMT

fortrabbit co-founder Frank on a podcast (1h). I recently invited myself and talked for an hour with Anna Nadeina about bootstrapping hustles. Thanks for having me.

How to detect and fix a hacked PHP website

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:27:09 GMT

Got pwned? Regain control. Regain control and kick evildoers out. Actionable tips for web developers on how to clean a compromised website. This is the human-to-human edition.

Small team, big ideas

Frank Lämmer — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:14:11 GMT

How we manage ambition with limited resources. Dear diary, here is a brain dump on motivation, project management and business philosophy.

New platform public BETA

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:24:14 GMT

A new hosting experience at your fingertips. Welcome to the public BETA of our new platform.

Goodbye and hello

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:10:14 GMT

Farewell sharp rectangles, hello soft corners. We are getting closer to releasing our new platform. This is a little farewell to the old, and a quiet hello to what comes next.

Modern PHP monoliths

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:17:01 GMT

Coupled websites with PHP and JS. Web pages are so yesterday. Single-page apps are the shit. Users want interactive experiences. But you don't have to get headless right away. This is an introduction to coupled systems with PHP and JavaScript.

Headless PHP

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:16:08 GMT

Decoupled websites with PHP and JS. Decopuled systems. Frontend in JavaScript. Backend in PHP. Why. How. If.

Chromopoly

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:44:24 GMT

Mixed feelings about Google Chrome. The Google Chrome team is pushing the web forward. I am worried about competition, privacy and the future of web standards. No revealing news here, just my personal view based on vague pre-assumptions.

Building websites in the age of AI

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:03:31 GMT

Good luck if you still create websites for a living. Not too long ago, building a website meant crafting mockups in Photoshop, hand-coding HTML and PHP, wrangling CSS. Then came page builders, no-code and low-code tools. Now, with the rise of AI, the ground is shifting again. What does it possible mean for us? This is my unprofessional opinion.

Growing ANAME / ALIAS support

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:54:40 GMT

More DNS providers now support direct bare domain to host routing. Standard DNS doesn't allow CNAME records at the apex domain. Fortunately, more DNS providers are offering ANAME/ALIAS records as a solution.

Vertical browser tab challenges

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:48:22 GMT

UX and web dev challenges. Vertical browser tabs will add more complexity to web development if they ever become mainstream.

Craft CMS CVE 2025-32432

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 07 May 2025 09:24:51 GMT

High-impact low effort vulnerability. Update and check your Craft CMS installation. There is a high-impact vulnerability out there (again).

PHP 8.4

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:04:25 GMT

Changelog on new versions. We are preparing to roll out PHP 8.4 to our platform. Here is a list with lots of numbers and dots.

Web hosting and open source

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:46:16 GMT

It's complicated. The relation between open source and web hosting from our point of view This is not about WordPress founder Matt, who is angry about the web hosting service WP-Engine. It's a much smaller story, it's ours.

Yes, we rewrite

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:25:35 GMT

Reflecting on our decision to do a big rewrite. We decided to rewrite our entire hosting platform. Here is more on the process and how we are doing so far.

How we hire

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:53:08 GMT

How to not get an interview here. Hiring as a small company is challenging. Currently we have one open position, remote. Finding the right person is hard. How we look at candidates.

Billing provider research

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:31:03 GMT

Looking for a billing provider. Our journey to find a billing service provider to handle products, prices, payment methods, customers and invoices, programmatically by API.

Looking for the perfect infra provider

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:26:27 GMT

How we are evaluating an infrastructure provider for our new platform Our hosting service is running on AWS for more than a decade. The new platform - in the making - is offering us a chance to switch the infrastructure vendor. This documents our journey.

A web hosting control panel with a social network you say?

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:32:51 GMT

Next level collaboration features for the new platform. We are integrating a mini social network into our hosting dashboard. Why we are even building a custom hosting control panel? There are Plesk and cPanel already.

Support driven development

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:11:39 GMT

How we use client feedback to shape our service. How we use client feedback to shape and extend our service offering.

Action-oriented UX

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Verbs first for interfaces with more natural language. This is usability experience concept. Verb first interfaces to be closer to natural language and human thinking.

On horizontal scaling

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Why we plan to drop a signature feature of the Pro Stack. Some clients asked us why we don't plan to provide horizontal scaling for the new platform in the making any more. Let me try to explain.

PHP & JS?

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Is something missing to bring together JS and PHP? Is something missing to bring together JS and PHP?

How we chose our new frontend stack

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

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

On technical limits

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Fail early they say. Don't throw hardware on performance problems we say.contributions. Allow me to go a bit deeper on fortrabbit resource limitations and how they are usually helpful.

PHP 8.3

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:36:54 GMT

Changelog on new versions. We are preparing to roll out PHP 8.3 to our platform. Here is a list with lots of numbers and dots.

Craft CMS CVE-2023-41892

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Update your Craft CMS 4 installation. There is a low-effort high-impact vulnerability out there. Update your Craft CMS 4 installation, if you have not for a while. There is a low-effort high-impact vulnerability out there.

The tyranny of inconsistent keyboard shortcuts

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT

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? A rant about how difficult it is to adapt keyboard shortcuts across multiple programs as a human.

Post mortem September maintenance

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:14:11 GMT

Details on recent rocky updates We recently rolled out a BIG internal update. It was kinda rocky and we still have to deal with aftermath. Here are some technical details, as well as some personal reflections.

September 2023 updates

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Changelog on new versions. We are preparing to roll out some minor version updates. Here is a list with lots of numbers and dots.

Why a GUI and not a CLI

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 09:36:38 GMT

An insight into product development at fortrabbit

MySQL 8 upgrades

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:02:19 GMT

FYI: Remaining Apps are going to be migrated to MySQL 8 This article informs our clients about a long running maintenance project to move remaining Apps from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0

Mission statement 2023

Frank Lämmer — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

What we are up to now. 10 years of fortrabbit cloud hosting. We haven't been doing much blogging lately. And you haven't seen many big new features landing here either. What's going on? Here is an update from the rabbitverse.

PHP 8.2

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Changelog on new versions. We are preparing to roll out PHP 8.2 to our platform. Here is a list with lots of numbers and dots.

PHP 7.4 support to end some day

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Client information for the end of life of PHP 7.4. Same procedure as every year. PHP 7.4 will reach its end of life soon. This means that no security patches will be applied any more. This is information for PHP developers and fortrabbit clients.

Opinionated Craft CMS 4 upgrade guide

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Everything you always wanted to know about updating to Craft 4 - but were afraid to ask. Upgrading to a new major version of Craft CMS is a bigger undertaking as you may think. This article aims to dive a bit deeper than the official docs. Here is what you need to know before getting started and some of our opinionated practices.

New features at fortrabbit

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Basic WAF, Craft Copy for Nitro, Craft Copy for Craft CMS 4 Time flies by. We keep maintaining and improving our service. Here is a recap of recent updates.

PHP 8.1

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Changelog on new versions. We are preparing to roll out PHP 8.1 to our platform. Here is a list with lots of numbers and dots.

PHP 7.3 support to end soon

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:03:34 GMT

What you might want to know about the upcoming EOL of PHP 7.3. Time flies by. Here is yet another PHP version that will soon get no more security updates, so we will need to stop supporting it as well: PHP 7.3. Here is what our clients need to know about upcoming changes.

Things to know about fast Craft CMS websites

Frank Lämmer — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

What we learned helping clients improving Craft CMS performance Here's what we've learned helping clients to increase performance of their Craft CMS websites.

PHP 8.0.12

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Changelog on new versions. We are preparing to roll out PHP 8.0.12 to our platform. Here is a list with lots of numbers and dots.

Image processing services intro

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

A field guide on image transformation and optimization providers Learn about image processing service providers here. What are they? What problem do they solve? What options and alternatives are available?

About a recent security patch

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

About things that are usually not visible. This is the story of a small security update we recently deployed to our Dashboard.

PHP 8

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Changelog on new versions. We are preparing to roll out PHP 8 to our platform. Here is a list with lots of numbers and dots.

Meanwhile at fortrabbit

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Finally HTTP/2 is here, as well as some other updates Here is a combined update from the home office working task force, announcing upcoming and recent changes. You care about detail? We do too!

Let's Encrypt root certificate change

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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

Craft Copy 1.0 released

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Our command line tool to help with Craft CMS deployment on fortrabbit is now production grade ready. We are pleased to announce that Craft Copy has now reached version 1.0.0. Craft Copy is an open source command line interface to sync your local Craft with fortrabbit in more convenient and sophisticated ways.

PHP 7.2 support to end soon

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT

What you might want to know about the upcoming EOL of PHP 7.2. Time flies by. Here is yet another PHP version that will soon get no more security updates, so we will need to stop supporting it as well: PHP 7.2. Here is what our clients need to know about upcoming changes.

MySQL 8 is now available for Pro Apps

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

We are finally making MySQL 8 available. What clients need to know about the roll-out. This has been a long requested feature. Now, we can finally announce it. Starting today, all newly created Pro Apps will run on MySQL version 8. Here is what else you might want to know.

Privacy Shield considered obsolete, possible impacts on our hosting platform

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

The Privacy Shield is no longer valid. How to proceed? The European Court of Justice (EUCJ) invalidated the Privacy Shield agreement recently. This is what clients may want to know.

Craft CMS SEOmatic exploit info

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

How to check your website and how to clean up. The Craft CMS plugin SEOmatic has had a critical security vulnerability. This is how to check if your installation is affected and maybe even hacked already. TLDR; Update Craft CMS and plugins now!

Covid-19 info for clients

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

How we prepared for the virus and what you can do. What we are doing to keep your business online and how you can help.

PHP 7.4 and other updates

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Changelog on new versions. We are currently preparing a small update. PHP 7.4 and some extensions. Here is a list with lots of numbers and dots.

The story of our new invoice number format

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

How our new invoice numbers are structured and what went wrong when we rolled it out. We have just changed our invoice number format. This is why we changed it and about the issues during roll out.

Patch updates ahead

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Patches for all PHP versions planned. We are currently preparing a patch version update. Here is what you need to know.

PHP 7.1 is slowly fading out

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Informations on upcoming PHP 7.1 switch off here. The official security support for PHP 7.1 is ending in December 2019. Bring your Apps up-to-date now. Here are the basic and some advanced steps you — dear fortrabbit client — might need to do.

imageMagick patch 2

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Some smaller internal improvements mostly on imageMagick ahead. We are currently preparing for a smaller platform update. Mainly, this is about releasing a new patch, improving imageMagick performance - general stability and security improvements included.

Post mortem for `Under the hood updates`

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Some details on recent platform problems. We recently rolled out a BIG internal update and it didn't work out exactly as planned. Here is what went wrong.

Under the hood updates

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Some internal changes ahead We are currently preparing a big internal update. You will not find new features (PHP7.4 and HTTP/2 not yet) but it includes many bigger under the hood changes, further improving platform stability and security.

ImageMagick issues

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

The backstory of recent issues related to image transformations. During the last week we have had some trouble with ImageMagick. Sorry for the inconvenience. This article provides some background about what happened.

PHP 5.6 & PHP 7.0 EOL FAQ

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

What else you need to know about the upcoming EOL of the two PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0. The end is near. At least for PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0. Here are most facts for fortrabbit clients on the upcoming updates.

On upcoming PHP deadlines

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT

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

Hello Teutonic CSS

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Some details on our open source CSS framework. So we said to do more open source on fortrabbit. TADA - here is my first big open source publication. A CSS framework.

Yes, we love open source

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Props to the OSS communities and highlighting some of our open source contributions. fortrabbit wouldn't be possible without great open source projects. So we are thinking about ways to give back.

fortrabbit is GDPR ready

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT

GDPR is here. Wat is changing for our clients, what not, why and when. Comply by the end of May. The General Data Protection Regulation is coming. This post reflects when, why, what and what not is changing for our clients.

My favorite Facebook bot designs

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

The bizarre beauty of brutalist Facebook reaction bots. As a hosting provider we fight against all kind of frauds, hacks, scams and phishings. This is my favorite, mostly harmless service misuse.

Market overview: Email services for business and private

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT

An opinionated field guide on Email as a Service providers. We evangelize the idea of decoupled hosting. This post gives you an overview about cool "Email as a Service" providers.

How to get good support

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Successful communication in customer support chat channels. Customer service is crucial, especially for hosting. Help us helping you! Get better answers faster. Learn how to ask.

Transactional e-mails market overview

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Why to use a service for transactional e-mails. This field guide helps understanding commercial services for transactional e-mails. What are they good for anyways?

Market overview: video hosting for business

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT

An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly video services. We evangelize the idea of decoupled hosting. This post gives you an overview about cool video encoding and hosting services you can usefor your business.

Market overview: CDN services

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT

An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly CDN services. We evangelize the idea of decoupled hosting. This post gives you an overview about cool content delivery services.

Market overview: Domain services for developers

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly domain hosting services. Your application is running on a cloud service (like this one here). You now ask where the developer-friendly domain registration service is?

How we do transactional e-mails

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Our real-live practices on auto-generated client e-mail communication. Sending triggered standardized e-mails to clients is part of almost every web application. To get this right is crucial for business. This is about our own 'worst' practices — a nerdy article covering communication, design and web tech (PHP related).

Introducing the 'client invite'

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT

You can now transfer Apps to your clients! NEED: You are developing a website. You want your client to pay for the hosting.

Universal App pricing V2 is here

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT

More powerful plans, same price level. The Universal Stack was launched 5 months ago. We are now implementing a frequent feedback: Meet our new more powerful Universal Stack plans:

Old App migration program

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

We are manually moving many Old Apps to Universal Apps to avoid downtime and data loss for stragglers. Our Old App infrastructure is going to be shut down in less than two weeks — by the end of March 2017. Most clients have already moved their Apps. But a high number of Old App is still running and this is worrying us. To avoid data loss, downtime and frustration we decided to do help out with an unusual step:

Universal Stack changelog

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT

See all platform changes with new Universal Stack. This is nuts and bolts for our existing clients on changes with the latest platform update. TL;DR: No action required from your side. All platform updates are opt-in. Your Apps, plans, settings and pricing will stay exactly the same.

Universal Stack launched

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Optimized for CMS driven websites - made for your needs: Backups, Git, SFTP, HTTPS & team collaboration. It's been a long time. The rabbits crew is back with yet another major release. The all new all great 'U-new-versal' Stack is available now — ready to blow your mind.

Dashboard improvements

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Quicker boarding, App access links and more. On our quest to eliminate obstacles we have just optimized the boarding flow. This is new:

Our Drupal 8 install guide took 540 days

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

What took us so long to come up with a Drupal 8 install guide. Why it took us such a crazy long time to write an install guide for Drupal 8.

Sneak peek

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A new Hobby line, migration info for Old App owners. What we are working on and how we'll proceed with the Old Apps.

The new stack chooser

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Choose a framework or CMS to get started more quickly. Simply select your stack when creating a new App — get started more quickly. We now help out by setting basic configs like root path, environment variables and App secrets for you.

Introducing password authentication + dynamic help

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Better Windows support and smoother boarding. Boarding just got better. This new release makes it easier to get started with fortrabbit for new and novice users.

Introducing a better domain handling

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A more helpful UI + forwarding naked domains. Setting up domains for your fortrabbit Apps just became easier. We have vastly improved handling for naked domains.

Mission statement 2016

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Where we are, what we are up to. 4 years of fortrabbit cloud hosting already. What's going on?

TLS free launched

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Free SSL certificates for custom domains via Let's Encrypt are here now. SSL certificates for your custom domains by Let's Encrypt — free and with zero config.

File-based CMS overview

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Thoughts on flat file CMS and static site generators, mostly PHP-related. Let's have a look at different types of database-less CMS — the candidates, the pros, the cons and what you need to consider when it comes to deployment & hosting.

Remote SSH execution is here

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how to enhance your workflows with this new feature. We regularly get support requests on how to use Laravel Artisan commands — especially for database migration. That just became a lot easier.

HTTP/2 reality check

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT

How we tried to test the speed benefits of the new internet protocol. We have recently launched our Object Storage — an integrated S3-compatible asset storage. One of the features is HTTP/2 support. So we were curious to see the performance improvements: How much faster is it actually? TLDR: It depends. And it turned out that testing is never easy.

Object Storage launched

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A new integrated S3 compatible cloud storage is here. fortrabbit now offers a new Object Storage Component which allows you to store uploads, runtime data and static assets. This milestone marks our New Apps as fully feature complete as announced back in August.

Why we don't do Add-Ons

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Insights why we will not offer an Add-On program soon and what we have instead We have long thought about bringing Add-Ons to fortrabbit to make the service offering more versatile. Now, after lots' of research and discussions, we can finally conclude: We won't do it — for now. Here is why and what instead.

fortrabbit just launched in the US

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT

New data center location, new currency Hoooooooooray! The new data center location in US-EAST-1 is now available for New Apps. And you can pay in USD directly.

That bounced payment

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Insights on how we deal with bounced payments Things will go wrong — they say. That other day I had to deal with this complicated support ticket. I'd like to share the conversation and some thoughts on billing & accounting for startups here with you.

Is PaaS dead?

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Trends, pivots & troubles in PaaS hosting 2015 A few years ago tech press and analysts praised the public PaaS model. What's going on now?

E-commerce in 2016

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

What's going on in e-commerce? We are constantly on the lookout for new software. This is a brief look on current developments in the e-commerce section.

Announcing GA for New Apps

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Scalable, extensible and with even more features

httpSpeedy?

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT

HTTP/2 expectations and pitfalls

New Apps are here

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Introducing the New Apps in BETA.

Introducing 2FA

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT

More Account security settings.

I love assets

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 18 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT

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

Survey results

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 12 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT

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

About PaaS pricing

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 08 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT

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

PHP Hosting Possibilities

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT

A stubborn analysis of hosting solutions for developers.

Small Dashboard improvements

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT

.env import and domain DNS checks!

Roadmap to Hack App

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Where we are heading to.

Battling with billing

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT

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

On password security

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Discussing usability, culture and security.

New dashboard supervision

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT

We are listening. Feedback is welcome.

Migration help

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Helping existing users boarding the new dashboard.

The new Dashboard is here

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:00:00 GMT

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

A new blog layout, a new engine

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Tinkering with static site generation.

New dashboard migration guide

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Learn what is going to change with the new dashboard.

New dashboard mission statement

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT

What to expect from our new dashboard.

New status page

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Finally we have a dedicated downtime communication channel.

Add-Ons markdown

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Price reductions for: Memcache, MySQL and Workers.

Sunsetting a few features

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT

The SMTP Wrapper and the ReSync Tool will go away.

20 years Pretty Home Pages

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 28 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT

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

Cloudscapes revisited

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT

A state of the PHP cloud hosting scene overview.

Support as a Service

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT

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

First fortran PaaS

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Breaking news, fortrabbit releases a brand new stack.

Sunsetting freemium

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

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

Status update

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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

New boarding bonus

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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

New tasklist

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Introducing a more fair and more fun freemium model.

Celebrating one year of fortrabbit

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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

Freemium or free trial?

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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

Laracon observations

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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

User survey results

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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

Performance / convenience

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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

Damn, we got pwned

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

fortrabbit under attack.

Hiccups

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Behind the scenes when something goes wrong.

Free web hosting

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Flat, unlimited and forever it shall be.

New write protection

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Abot a new security feature.

Optional PHP extensions

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Have you seen our new PHP settings page?

Goodbye WebRechnung

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Shutting down an old fortrabbit service.

Decoupled hosting

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Modularize everything!

App collaboration & owner transfer

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT

New features in the dashboard.

Where to host my website now?

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

The Roadmap

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By 2009, computers will disappear.

Bephpug

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Symfony2 on fortrabbit

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Green cloud?

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

The meat market

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Slim PHP on fortrabbit

Frank Lämmer — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Install Laravel on fortrabbit with Git

Frank Lämmer — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This video shows you how to run Laravel on fortrabbit

Hello world with PHPStorm

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This video shows you a simple example with PHPStorm and fortrabbit

Take off

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

fortrabbit PHP platform launched

PHP renaissance collection

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Some links on newish PHP.

Freemium VS Bootstrapped

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Bootstrapping in Berlin.

BETA begins

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The private BETA for for our upcoming platform.

BETA survey results

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Analysing the answers of our questionnaire.

A Coders Survey

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Asking developers about their preferences.

www

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Musings about the comon www. subdomain.

Support pages are on now

Frank Lämmer — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

About the the new fortrabbit knowledge base.

Online text editors

Frank Lämmer — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

The freemium hosting business model

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Is there such actually free web hosting?

Vendor locked-in buzz

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Custom HTTP Error Pages (Sneek Peek)

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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: As Murphy knew: Things will go wrong. Let's be prepared for that moment. Our error pages offer some help in a dark hour. Nice looking 404, 403, 500 … pages for the rest of us.

Cloudscapes - Comparing PHP Cloud Hosting Platforms

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

What PHP cloud platforms are currently actually out there?

What happened to our old WebHosting?

Frank Lämmer — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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._ You might know that we are already running a WebHosting platform on our own servers in a data center in Berlin. What is the connection to our new upcoming PHP cloud platform?

New fortrabbit.com teaser page

Frank Lämmer — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Help us build the perfect platform for you — answer 20 questions.

Hello world!

Frank Lämmer — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The obvious first post claiming we are here to take over the world.