https://blog.fortrabbit.com/author/uk en Thu, 07 May 2026 08:40:39 GMT 10 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/minor-platform-updates-2017-06 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/minor-platform-updates-2017-06 Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev The update to the latest PHP versions caused a some downtime yesterday. We have updated our platform yesterday, nothing big, only minor version jumps. Then something went wrong. Here is what happened:

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/deploying-code-with-rsync https://blog.fortrabbit.com/deploying-code-with-rsync Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev Learn how to use rsync from the command line to deploy code changes (to our Universal Apps) incredibly fast. rsync was first released in 1996 but is still a handsome tool every web developer should know about, because it is still one of the best and fastest ways to deploy code without hassle. By fast I mean: easily 10 x faster than your average SFTP upload.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mastering-http-caching https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mastering-http-caching Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev Learn how to use CDNs as an easy-to-use edge cache. Using CDNs has long been something in the domain of the Alexa top 100; something a small(er) website does not need or cannot afford. This has changed over the last years, with a multitude of pay-per-use, non-enterprise vendors on the market CDNs became affordable for everybody. This article intends to show you how to get started with this easy to use caching variant.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-71-released https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-71-released Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog We have released PHP 7.1 for all Universal and Professional Apps. Official release of PHP 7.1 was 1st December 2016. As usual, we waited for a bit to be sure that no major release bugs affect our customers and that at least the important PHP extensions are available.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mysql-backups-for-pro-apps https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mysql-backups-for-pro-apps Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog Now available: Automated backups for Professional Apps. Our recently launched Universal Apps support automatic backups on the Plus plan. We now ported this feature for Professional App MySQL databases as well.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-to-keep-a-secret https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-to-keep-a-secret Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev Passwords in Git is bad, ENV vars considered harmful, now what?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-app-cloud-storage-dropbox https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-app-cloud-storage-dropbox Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog How to enable Dropbox as your App's persistent cloud storage.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-app-cloud-storage-s3 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-app-cloud-storage-s3 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog How to setup Amazon S3 as a cloud storage for your App.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/10-pillars-php-dev https://blog.fortrabbit.com/10-pillars-php-dev Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev Our best practices in PHP application design

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/2014-10-24-changelog https://blog.fortrabbit.com/2014-10-24-changelog Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog https://blog.fortrabbit.com/2014-04-14-changelog https://blog.fortrabbit.com/2014-04-14-changelog Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog https://blog.fortrabbit.com/heartbleed-openssl-vulnerability https://blog.fortrabbit.com/heartbleed-openssl-vulnerability Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog This exploit is a vulnerability in the heartbeat of TLS in the OpenSSL implementation. We're patched up by now.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/2014-03-30-changelog https://blog.fortrabbit.com/2014-03-30-changelog Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog https://blog.fortrabbit.com/2014-03-13-changelog https://blog.fortrabbit.com/2014-03-13-changelog Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-5-5-and-improved-deployment https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-5-5-and-improved-deployment Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog PHP 5.5 is finally here. This and some other news.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-year-cleanup-maintenance https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-year-cleanup-maintenance Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog Announcing upcoming maintenance work.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/use-codio-with-fortrabbit https://blog.fortrabbit.com/use-codio-with-fortrabbit Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev How to integrate the web IDE codio here on fortrabbit.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/integrating-codeship-with-fortrabbit https://blog.fortrabbit.com/integrating-codeship-with-fortrabbit Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev Learn how to do continuous integration with Codehip on fortrabbit.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-we-estimate-hosting-recources https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-we-estimate-hosting-recources Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev opinion We've recently upgraded our fortrabbit.com website, including a complete overhaul of our pricing visualization. The visualization is one thing, the other is our Map your App decision-helper: One of the major problems all hosting providers have to solve (or should at least try) is to make it transparent to the customer what kind of resources she needs. One of the major problems all hosting providers have to solve is to make it transparent to the customer what kind of resources she needs. Our Map your App helps.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/worker-addon-released https://blog.fortrabbit.com/worker-addon-released Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz changelog We have a new Add-On: Workers! Learn about it and what you can do with it.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/xsl-supported-welcome-symphony-cms https://blog.fortrabbit.com/xsl-supported-welcome-symphony-cms Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz chronicles Welcome Symphony CMS, we now support XSL.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/ssh-upgrade-php-cli-and-git https://blog.fortrabbit.com/ssh-upgrade-php-cli-and-git Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz chronicles As many of you requested: PHP and Git on the shell are here!

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/video-install-fuelphp-on-fortrabbit-with-git-and-phpstorm https://blog.fortrabbit.com/video-install-fuelphp-on-fortrabbit-with-git-and-phpstorm Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev This video show you how to install FuelPHP on fortrabbit with Git and PhpStorm.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/multi-stage-deployment-for-website-development https://blog.fortrabbit.com/multi-stage-deployment-for-website-development Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev How to setup a production/development work-flow for website development.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/handle-your-dependencies-with-php-composer https://blog.fortrabbit.com/handle-your-dependencies-with-php-composer Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev How to handle your dependencies with PHP Composer.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-writable-storage-in-modern-hosting https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-writable-storage-in-modern-hosting Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz opinion New-school cloud or legacy LAMP style — what's state of the art in PHP hosting?

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