https://blog.fortrabbit.com/author/os en Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:39:21 GMT 10 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/craft-cms-pestphp-testing https://blog.fortrabbit.com/craft-cms-pestphp-testing Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark webdev 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. Testing a Craft CMS website might be less difficult than you think. Level up and follow us along as we learn about frontend testing Craft CMS websites.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mysql-8-upgrade-plan https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mysql-8-upgrade-plan Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark changelog How to move an app from MySQL 5.6 to MySQL 8 on fortrabbit, including the platform-side migration workflow added later. This article guides with upgrading an App on fortrabbit to the newer version of MySQL 8.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/composer-2-availability https://blog.fortrabbit.com/composer-2-availability Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark changelog Composer 2 lands on fortrabbit and makes git deployments considerably faster. What to expect, and how to fix a build that breaks. What you need to know and how to troubleshoot issues.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mysql-json-column-with-laravel https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mysql-json-column-with-laravel Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark webdev JSON columns let MySQL hold data that does not fit a strict schema. How to declare, query and cast them from a Laravel application. Learn about JSON columns in MySQL and how to use them in Laravel.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-craft-copy https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-craft-copy Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark webdev Craft Copy, an open-source command line tool that syncs code, assets and the database between a local Craft CMS and fortrabbit. So we said to do more open source on fortrabbit. TADA - here (if you haven't seen already) is Craft Copy. Deployment tools for Craft Apps on fortrabbit.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-upper https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-upper Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark webdev Upper is an open-source Craft CMS plugin that wires a pull CDN — Cloudflare, Fastly, KeyCDN — into the CMS as an edge cache. So we said to do more open source on fortrabbit. TADA - here is Upper, a Craft CMS plugin to integrate CDN edge caches.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/app-security https://blog.fortrabbit.com/app-security Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark webdev Ultimately, you are responsible for your code and as well for the 3rd party code you rely on. « Application security encompasses measures taken to improve the security of an application often by finding, fixing and preventing security vulnerabilities. » (Wikipedia)

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/craft-hosting-partner https://blog.fortrabbit.com/craft-hosting-partner Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark chronicles fortrabbit becomes one of the first official Craft CMS hosting partners, after three years of hosting Craft projects on the platform. Last week Pixel & Tonic — the company behind Craft CMS — announced their official hosting partners. We are one of only two and that thrills us!

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-worker-released https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-worker-released Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark changelog The Worker component moves long-running background tasks out of the web request, so customer-facing responses stay fast. The New Apps are getting more feature complete today. We are pleased to announce the all new Worker Component. Read on to learn more about it and how it differs from our Workers for Old Apps.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cms-quo-vadis https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cms-quo-vadis Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark opinion Content management systems went quiet in the PHP conversation. Are they ready for the cloud, and what would that even require?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-upgrade-path-5-4-5-6-7-0 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-upgrade-path-5-4-5-6-7-0 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark changelog 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/blackfire-profiler-on-fortrabbit https://blog.fortrabbit.com/blackfire-profiler-on-fortrabbit Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark changelog The Blackfire PHP profiler becomes available on fortrabbit, and how a sales pitch from SensioLabs turned into an actual integration.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/ssl-v3-disabled-poodle-vulnerability https://blog.fortrabbit.com/ssl-v3-disabled-poodle-vulnerability Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark chronicles SSL v3 is switched off across the platform in response to the POODLE vulnerability. No action is needed on the client side.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/lee-tengum-about-offload-io https://blog.fortrabbit.com/lee-tengum-about-offload-io Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark chronicles An interview with freelance developer Lee Tengum about building offload.io, one of the projects hosted on fortrabbit.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-relic-byol https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-relic-byol Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark chronicles changelog New Relic support lands on fortrabbit under a bring-your-own-license model, with the daemon running on the platform side.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/case-study-sudden-traffic-peak https://blog.fortrabbit.com/case-study-sudden-traffic-peak Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:07:19 GMT Oliver Stark opinion 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/1000-developers https://blog.fortrabbit.com/1000-developers Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark chronicles Our first 4 digits number! Thank you for your interest in our service!

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/fortrabbit-phpipeline-2013 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/fortrabbit-phpipeline-2013 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark chronicles The fortrabbit roadmap for 2013, written by the person who joined to sit between the technical and the product side of the company.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/release-early-release-often https://blog.fortrabbit.com/release-early-release-often Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark opinion Going generally available without a public beta period: the case for launching a hosting service early and iterating in the open.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/looking-for-the-perfect-php-hosting-platform https://blog.fortrabbit.com/looking-for-the-perfect-php-hosting-platform Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark opinion 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.

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