https://blog.fortrabbit.com/tag/chronicles en Thu, 07 May 2026 08:40:39 GMT 10 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-agent-skills https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-agent-skills Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/our-new-env-var-edit-experience https://blog.fortrabbit.com/our-new-env-var-edit-experience Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:38:48 GMT Erin Strand chronicles Building a fairly simple looking feature. Editing ENV vars should be easy, right? Here's how we iterated to make it more powerful and developer-friendly, tackling devilish details.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/vibe-coding-an-rss-feed https://blog.fortrabbit.com/vibe-coding-an-rss-feed Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/frank-at-saas-unbound https://blog.fortrabbit.com/frank-at-saas-unbound Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:45:09 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/small-team-big-ideas https://blog.fortrabbit.com/small-team-big-ideas Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:14:11 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles How we manage ambition with limited resources. Dear diary, here is a brain dump on motivation, project management and business philosophy.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-platform-beta https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-platform-beta Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:24:14 GMT Frank Lämmer changelog chronicles A new hosting experience at your fingertips. Welcome to the public BETA of our new platform.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/yes-we-rewrite https://blog.fortrabbit.com/yes-we-rewrite Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:25:35 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-we-hire https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-we-hire Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:53:08 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/billing-research https://blog.fortrabbit.com/billing-research Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:31:03 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/infra-research-2024 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/infra-research-2024 Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:26:27 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/hosting-panel-with-social-network https://blog.fortrabbit.com/hosting-panel-with-social-network Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:32:51 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/post-mortem-september-2023-maintenance https://blog.fortrabbit.com/post-mortem-september-2023-maintenance Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:14:11 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/why-gui-not-cli https://blog.fortrabbit.com/why-gui-not-cli Mon, 28 Aug 2023 09:36:38 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles An insight into product development at fortrabbit

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mission-statement-2023 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mission-statement-2023 Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-a-recent-security-patch https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-a-recent-security-patch Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles About things that are usually not visible. This is the story of a small security update we recently deployed to our Dashboard.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/seomatic-exploit https://blog.fortrabbit.com/seomatic-exploit Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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!

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/covid-19-info https://blog.fortrabbit.com/covid-19-info Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/the-story-of-our-new-invoice-numbers https://blog.fortrabbit.com/the-story-of-our-new-invoice-numbers Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/post-mortem-under-the-hood-2019-06 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/post-mortem-under-the-hood-2019-06 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/imagemagick-issues https://blog.fortrabbit.com/imagemagick-issues Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/fortrabbit-is-gdpr-ready https://blog.fortrabbit.com/fortrabbit-is-gdpr-ready Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/favorite-facebook-bot-designs https://blog.fortrabbit.com/favorite-facebook-bot-designs Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> 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 is now an official Hosting Partner for Craft CMS. 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/how-we-do-transactional-mail https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-we-do-transactional-mail Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles webdev opinion 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).

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/universal-pricing-v2 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/universal-pricing-v2 Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles changelog 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:

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/540-days-for-drupal8-install-guide https://blog.fortrabbit.com/540-days-for-drupal8-install-guide Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/sneak-peek https://blog.fortrabbit.com/sneak-peek Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles A new Hobby line, migration info for Old App owners. What we are working on and how we'll proceed with the Old Apps.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-password-authentication https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-password-authentication Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mission-statement-2016 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mission-statement-2016 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Where we are, what we are up to. 4 years of fortrabbit cloud hosting already. What's going on?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/remote-ssh-execution-released https://blog.fortrabbit.com/remote-ssh-execution-released Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer changelog chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/bounced-payment https://blog.fortrabbit.com/bounced-payment Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles 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.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-2fa https://blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-2fa Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles changelog More Account security settings.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/small-improvements https://blog.fortrabbit.com/small-improvements Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles .env import and domain DNS checks!

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/roadmap-to-hack-app https://blog.fortrabbit.com/roadmap-to-hack-app Mon, 20 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Where we are heading to.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-dashboard-supervision https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-dashboard-supervision Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles We are listening. Feedback is welcome.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/migration-help https://blog.fortrabbit.com/migration-help Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Helping existing users boarding the new dashboard.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-blog-layout https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-blog-layout Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Tinkering with static site generation.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-dashboard-migration-guide https://blog.fortrabbit.com/new-dashboard-migration-guide Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Learn what is going to change with the new dashboard.

]]> 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 Poodle is already patched — no further action required.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mission-statement-the-new-dashboard https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mission-statement-the-new-dashboard Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles What to expect from our new dashboard.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/our-new-status-page https://blog.fortrabbit.com/our-new-status-page Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Finally we have a dedicated downtime communication channel.

]]> 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 A client interview from the real world client.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/add-ons-markdown https://blog.fortrabbit.com/add-ons-markdown Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Price reductions for: Memcache, MySQL and Workers.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/sunsetting-a-few-features https://blog.fortrabbit.com/sunsetting-a-few-features Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles The SMTP Wrapper and the ReSync Tool will go away.

]]> 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 We now have the New Relic demon running.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/support-as-a-service https://blog.fortrabbit.com/support-as-a-service Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Enhancing our platform with professional & reliable developer to developer support.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/sunsetting-freemium https://blog.fortrabbit.com/sunsetting-freemium Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Yep, we are going to replace our freemium with a free trial model.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/status-update https://blog.fortrabbit.com/status-update Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles What's currently happening here and what's not.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/celebrating-one-year-of-fortrabbit https://blog.fortrabbit.com/celebrating-one-year-of-fortrabbit Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/freemium-or-free-trial https://blog.fortrabbit.com/freemium-or-free-trial Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles Is freemium the right business model for our service or shall we switch to a free trial model?

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